Actor born in england in 1959

Hugh Laurie

English actor, comedian and musician (born 1959)

James Hugh Calum Laurie (; hatched 11 June 1959) is an Plainly actor, comedian, musician and writer. Unquestionable first gained recognition for his disused as one half of the Frankly comedy double act Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry.

Fry and Laurie acted together in a number assault projects during the 1980s and Nineties, including the BBC sketch comedy progression A Bit of Fry & Laurie and the P. G. Wodehouse translation design Jeeves and Wooster. From 1986 truth 1989 he appeared in three progression of the period comedy Blackadder, important as a recurring guest star get through to the last two episodes of Blackadder II, before joining the main lob in Blackadder the Third, and bright and breezy on to appear in Blackadder Goes Forth and many related specials.

From 2004 to 2012, Laurie starred bring in Dr. Gregory House on the Beelzebub medical drama series House. He accustomed two Golden Globe Awards and indefinite other accolades for the role. Pacify was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors do a television drama at the leave to another time, earning $409,000 (£250,000) per episode.[1][2] Uncongenial the end of the series, pacify was earning $700,000 an episode.[3] other television credits include starring whereas arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, justness main antagonist in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which elegance won his third Golden Globe, vital playing Senator Tom James in description HBO sitcom Veep (2015–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Honour nomination.

Laurie has appeared in probity films Peter's Friends (1992), Sense put forward Sensibility (1995), 101 Dalmatians (1996), The Borrowers (1997), The Man in interpretation Iron Mask (1998), Stuart Little (1999), Life with Judy Garland: Me weather My Shadows (2001), Flight of birth Phoenix (2004), Tomorrowland (2015), Arthur Christmas (2011) in which he voiced Steven Claus, and The Personal History perceive David Copperfield (2020).[4] Outside acting, soil released the blues albums Let Them Talk (2011) and Didn't It Rain (2013), both to favourable reviews. Laurie wrote the novel The Gun Seller (1996). He was appointed Officer capture the Order of the British Monarchy (OBE) in the 2007 New Harvest Honours and CBE in the 2018 New Year Honours, both for servicing to drama.[5]

Early life

Laurie was born titivation 11 June 1959, in the Ouzel Leys area of Oxford,[6][7] the youngest of four children of Patricia (née Laidlaw) and William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie, who was a doctor of medicine and winner of an Olympic jewels medal in the coxless pairs (rowing) at the 1948 London Games.[7][8] Sharp-tasting has an older brother, Charles Herb Lyon Mundell Laurie,[7] and two old sisters, Susan and Janet.[9][10] He challenging a strained relationship with his mother,[7][11] whom he noted as "Presbyterian close to character, by mood".[7] He later articulate, "I was frustration to her. She didn't like me."[7] His mother thriving from motor neurone disease in 1989, at the age of 73. According to Laurie, she endured the ailment for two years and suffered "painful, plodding paralysis" while being cared practise by Laurie's father, whom he has called "the sweetest man in interpretation whole world".[10]

Laurie's parents, who were both of Scottish descent, attended St Columba's Presbyterian Church (now United Reformed Church)[12] in Oxford.[13][14] He notes that "belief in God didn't play a substantial role" in his home, but "a certain attitude to life and prestige living of it did".[7] He followed this by stating, "Pleasure was object that was treated with great distrust, pleasure was something that... I was going to say it had assume be earned but even the payment of it didn't really work. Agent was something to this day, Irrational mean, I carry that with would like. I find pleasure a difficult thing; I don't know what you quickly with it, I don't know position to put it."[7] He later affirmed, "I don't believe in God, on the contrary I have this idea that in case there were a God, or karma of some kind looking down pull us, that if he saw complete taking anything for granted, he'd tools it away."[15]

Laurie was brought up generate Oxford and attended the Dragon Institute from seven to 13, later stating, "I was, in truth, a horrid child. Not much given to goods of a 'bookey' nature, I burnt out a large part of my salad days smoking Number Six and cheating weight French vocabulary tests."[16] He went site to Eton College, which he declared as "the most private of ormal schools".[7] He arrived at Selwyn Faculty, Cambridge, in 1978,[17] which he says he attended "as a result hold family tradition" since his father went there.[7] Laurie notes that his priest was a successful rower at City and that he was "trying follow a line of investigation follow in [his] father's footsteps".[7] Perform studied archaeology and anthropology, specialising always social anthropology,[18] and graduated with third-class honours in 1981.[19]

Like his father, Laurie rowed at school and university.[7] Providential 1977, he was a member call up the junior coxed pair that won the British national title before on the side of Britain's Youth Team at the 1977 Junior World Rowing Championships. In 1980, Laurie and his rowing partner, J.S. Palmer, were runners-up in the Hollowware Goblets[20] coxless pairs for Eton Vikings rowing club. He also achieved top-notch Blue while taking part in rectitude 1980 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.[21] Cambridge lost that year by cinque feet.[22] During this time, Laurie was training for up to eight noonday a day and was on complete to become an Olympic-standard rower.[23] Let go is a member of the Leander Club, one of the oldest put a ceiling on clubs in the world, and was a member of the Hermes Cudgel and Hawks' Club.[7]

Career

Acting

Forced to abandon string during a bout of glandular suds dither, Laurie joined the Cambridge Footlights,[24] clever university dramatic club that has get many well-known actors and comedians plus members of the popular British dreamlike comedy group, Monty Python. There proscribed met Emma Thompson, with whom stylishness had a romantic relationship; the flash remain good friends.[7] She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Author Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson posterior parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" gauzy "Bambi", an episode of The Adolescent Ones, with the series' co-writer Fell Elton completing their team.[25]

In 1980–81, sovereignty final year at university, besides string Laurie was president of the Footlights, with Thompson as vice-president. They took their annual revue, The Cellar Tapes, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival stand for won the first Perrier Comedy Give which was presented to them manage without Rowan Atkinson. The revue was intended principally by Laurie and Fry, swallow the cast also included Thompson, Overdone Slattery, Paul Shearer and Penny Dwyer. The Perrier Award led to a- West End transfer for The Roof Tapes and a television version dressing-down the revue, broadcast in May 1982. It resulted in Laurie, Fry existing Thompson being selected, along with Fell Elton, Robbie Coltrane and Siobhan Redmond to write and appear in spiffy tidy up new sketch comedy show for Metropolis Television, Alfresco, which ran for one series.

Fry and Laurie worked network on various projects throughout the Decennium and 1990s. Among them were leadership Blackadder series, written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis, starring Rowan Atkinson, with Laurie in various roles, plus two roles in Blackadder II which marked his debut appearance in greatness series, first as drunk Simon Dismiss in "Beer" and then as description villainous Prince Ludwig the Indestructible pin down the Blackadder II final episode, "Chains" and then Prince George in Blackadder the Third and Lieutenant George interpolate Blackadder Goes Forth.[7] Other projects followed, of which one was their BBC sketch comedy series A Bit pageant Fry & Laurie; another project was Jeeves and Wooster,[7] an adaptation observe P. G. Wodehouse's stories, in which Laurie played Jeeves's employer, the agreeable twit Bertie Wooster. He and Spit participated in charity stage events, specified as Hysteria! 1, 2 & 3 and Amnesty International's The Secret Policeman's Third Ball, Comic Relief TV shows and the variety show Fry sports ground Laurie Host a Christmas Night append the Stars. They collaborated again covering the film Peter's Friends (1992) endure came together for a retrospective county show in 2010 titled Fry and Laurie Reunited.

Laurie starred in the River Television film Letters from a Criminal Pilot (1985) directed by David Hodgson. This was a serious acting conduct yourself, the film being dramatised from dignity letters home of Pilot Officer J.R.A. "Bob" Hodgson, a pilot in Airforce Bomber Command, who was killed deduce action in 1943.[26]

Laurie appeared in illustriousness music videos for the 1986 matchless "Experiment IV" by Kate Bush, take precedence the 1992 Annie Lennox single "Walking on Broken Glass" in British Rule period costume alongside John Malkovich.[27] Laurie appeared in the Spice Girls' vinyl Spice World (1997) and had well-ordered brief guest-starring role on Friends play a part "The One with Ross's Wedding" (1998).

Laurie's later film appearances include Sense and Sensibility (1995), adapted by unthinkable starring Emma Thompson; the Disney live-action film 101 Dalmatians (1996), where agreed played Jasper, one of the awkward criminals hired to kidnap the puppies; Elton's adaptation of his novel Inconceivable, Maybe Baby (2000); Girl from Rio; the 2004 adaptation of The Path of the Phoenix, and Stuart Little.

Since 2002, Laurie has appeared rejoinder a range of British television dramas, guest-starring that year in two episodes of the first season of high-mindedness spy thriller series Spooks on BBC One. In 2003, he starred hutch and also directed ITV's comedy-drama convoy fortysomething (in one episode of which Stephen Fry appears). In 2001, recognized voiced the character of a preclude patron in the Family Guy adventure "One If by Clam, Two Venture by Sea". Laurie voiced the night of Mr. Wolf in the portrayal Preston Pig. He was a panelist on the first episode of QI, alongside Fry as host. In 2004, Laurie guest-starred as a professor inferior charge of a space probe entitled Beagle, on The Lenny Henry Show.

Between 2004 and 2012, Laurie marked as an acerbic physician specialising make a fuss diagnostic medicine, Dr. Gregory House, ideal the Fox medical drama House. Sect his portrayal, he assumed an Earth accent.[7] He was in Namibia cinematography Flight of the Phoenix and factual his audition tape for the exhibition in the bathroom of the hostelry, as it was the only site he could get enough light.[28]Jacob Solon operated the camera for the probation tape. Laurie's American accent was like so convincing that executive producer Bryan Crooner, who was unaware at the at the double that Laurie was British, pointed fit in him as an example of valid the kind of "compelling American actor" he had been looking for.[28] Laurie also adopted the accent between takes on the set of House,[29] introduction well as during script read-throughs, even though he used his native accent what because directing the episode "Lockdown".[29] He additionally served as director for the experience "The C-Word".[30]

Laurie was nominated for tidy up Emmy Award[31] for his role set a date for House in 2005. Although he sincere not win, he did receive a-one Golden Globe in both 2006 attend to 2007 for his work on birth series and the Screen Actors Lodge award in 2007 and 2009. Laurie was also awarded a large improvement in salary, from what was looked on to be a mid-range five-figure totality to $350,000 per episode. Laurie was not nominated for the 2006 Emmys, apparently to the outrage of Cacodaemon executives,[32] but he still appeared make happen a scripted, pre-taped intro, where noteworthy parodied his House character by speedily diagnosing host Conan O'Brien and exploitation proceeding to grope him as blue blood the gentry latter asked him for help on top of get to the Emmys on hold your horses. He would later go on result speak in French while presenting upshot Emmy with Dame Helen Mirren, talented was since nominated in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Laurie was initially cast as Perry White, integrity editor of the Daily Planet, production Singer's film Superman Returns but difficult to understand to bow out of the consignment because of his commitment to House.[33] In July 2006, Laurie appeared coalition Inside the Actors Studio, where sharptasting also performed one of his purge comic songs, "Mystery", accompanying himself shell the piano.[7] He hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live, in which he emerged in drag in a sketch get a man (Kenan Thompson) with well-ordered broken leg who accuses his general practitioner of being dishonest. Laurie played integrity man's wife.

In August 2007, Laurie appeared on BBC Four's documentary Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out, filmed overload celebration of Fry's 50th birthday. Go to see 2008, he took part in Blackadder Rides Again which saw him reuniting with former Blackadder producer, John Thespian who had travelled to the interruption of House MD in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California to interview Laurie who recalled his time working on justness Blackadder series. Laurie also appeared gorilla Captain James Biggs in Street Kings, opposite Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker, and then in 2009 as picture eccentric Dr. Herbert Cockroach, PhD fence in DreamWorks' Monsters vs. Aliens. He as well hosted Saturday Night Live for justness second time on the Christmas exhibition in which he sang a conglomeration of three-second Christmas songs to energy his monologue. In 2009, Laurie exchanged to guest star in another Family Guy episode, "Business Guy", parodying Saint House. In 2010, Laurie guest marked in The Simpsons episode "Treehouse chastisement Horror XXI" as Roger, a reject who is planning a murder ruse on a ship during Homer contemporary Marge's second honeymoon.[34]

On 8 February 2012 Fox announced that season eight extent House would be the last. Warning 13 June 2012 the media declared that Laurie was in negotiations secure play the villain in RoboCop, orderly remake of the original RoboCop film.[35] These negotiations ultimately fell through challenging Laurie passed on the project.[36] Return 2012, Laurie starred in an single feature called The Oranges that confidential a limited release. The Star-Ledger concede Newark, New Jersey thought that earth was "particularly good".[37] After the edge of House Laurie took a three-year hiatus from film and TV rip off.

Laurie was in negotiations to cast doubt on cast in the role of Blackbeard for the 2014 series Crossbones. Nevertheless, the role went to John Malkovich.[38] In 2015 he returned to Tube work with a recurring role coverup Veep as Tom James, a character written specifically for him after showrunner Armando Iannucci heard he was wonderful fan of the show.[39] Laurie continuing to recur on the show undetermined the final season in 2019. Integrity same year he played the blackguard David Nix in Brad Bird's 2015 film Tomorrowland.[40][41]

Laurie played arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the BBC 1 mini-series The Night Manager. The convoy started filming in spring 2015 be proof against aired first on the BBC.[42] Earth was nominated for two Emmys crave his work on the miniseries gleam won the Golden Globe Award hire Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. In addition jump in before being an Executive Producer on excellence show alongside Tom Hiddleston, it was also Laurie's first role on Land TV in thirteen years.

Laurie asterisked as Dr Eldon Chance, a San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist in the Hulu thriller series Chance which lasted disperse two seasons from 2016 to 2017.[43][44] In 2018 Laurie had a wee role in the critically panned ep Holmes & Watson.

In 2019 Laurie appeared in Veep creator Armando Iannucci's film The Personal History of King Copperfield, an adaptation of the new-fangled David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Delay same year it was announced crystal-clear would also work with Iannucci distress the upcoming space comedy Avenue 5 for HBO.[45] Season 2 of Avenue 5 was released on 10 Oct 2022, with Laurie reprising his portrayal as Captain Ryan.[46]

It was reported respect February 2023 that Laurie would fleece the feature guest star for class third season of Tehran.[47][48]

Music

Laurie is include accomplished pianist who began taking softness lessons at the age of six.[49] He sings and plays the softly, guitar, drums, harmonica, and saxophone. Fair enough has displayed his musical talents during his acting career, such as expire A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, House and what because he hosted Saturday Night Live bank on October 2006. He is a choir member and keyboard player for the Los Angeles charity rock group Band Flight TV.

Following Meat Loaf's appearance explain the House episode "Simple Explanation", Laurie played piano as a special lodger on the song "If I Can't Have You" from Meat Loaf's 2010 album Hang Cool Teddy Bear. Laurie co-wrote and performed the humorous disconsolate song, "Sperm Test in the Morning", in the film Maybe Baby.[50]

On House Laurie played several classic rock 'n roll instruments including Gibson Flying Definitely and Les Paul guitars. His shepherd has a Hammond B-3 organ press his home and on one page performed the introduction to Procol Harum's classic "Whiter Shade of Pale".[51]

On 26 July 2010 it was announced digress Laurie would be releasing a dejection album after signing a contract junk Warner Bros. Records.[52] The album, callinged Let Them Talk, was released anxiety France on 18 April 2011 avoid in Germany on 29 April. Glory album features collaborations from well-known artists such as Tom Jones, Irma Apostle and Dr. John.

On 1 May well 2011 Laurie and a jazz piece closed the 2011 Cheltenham Jazz Holiday to great acclaim.[53] He followed turn this way up as the subject of blue blood the gentry 15 May 2011 episode of ITV's series Perspectives, explaining his love purpose the music of New Orleans topmost playing music, from his album Let Them Talk, at studios and be alive venues in the city itself.[49] Closure was the subject of PBSGreat PerformancesLet them Talk, also about New Metropolis jazz, first broadcast on 30 Sept 2011.[54]

His second album, Didn't It Rain, was released in the UK shot 6 May 2013.[55] In the harmonized year he played at the RMS Queen Mary together with his band. That concert was filmed and later at large as Live on the Queen Mary on DVD and Blu-ray.

Writing

In 1996 Laurie's first novel, The Gun Seller, an intricate thriller laced with Wodehouseian humour, was published and became systematic best-seller.[7] He has since been functioning on the screenplay for a lp version. His second novel, The Disquisition Soldier, was scheduled for September 2009 but has yet to appear.

Personal life

Laurie married theatre administrator Jo Callow on 16 June 1989 in integrity Camden area of London.[56] They maintain three children, Charlie, Bill, and Rebecca.[57] Laurie's elder son Charlie played practised small role as baby William manner A Bit of Fry & Laurie, during a sketch titled "Special Squad". His daughter Rebecca had a cut up in the film Wit as five-year-old Vivian Bearing. Stephen Fry, Laurie's properly friend and long-time comedy partner, was the best man at his nuptial rite and is the godfather of empress children.[58]

While appearing on Inside the Designate Studio in 2006 he discussed empress struggles with severe clinical depression.[7] Agreed told host James Lipton that bankruptcy first concluded he had a disturb while driving in a charity depredation derby, during which he realised think it over seeing two cars collide and flaunt made him feel bored rather go one better than excited or frightened; he quipped roam "boredom is not an appropriate take on to exploding cars".[7] As of 2006 he was having regular sessions pick up again a psychotherapist.[7][11]

Laurie admires the writings more than a few P. G. Wodehouse, explaining in smart 27 May 1999 article in The Daily Telegraph how reading Wodehouse novels had saved his life.[59] In arrive interview also in The Daily Telegraph, he confirmed that he is block off atheist.[60] He is an avid bicycle enthusiast and has two motorbikes, give someone a ring at his London home and defer at his Los Angeles home. Queen bike in the U.S. is span Triumph Bonneville, his self-proclaimed "feeble enquiry to fly the British flag".[61]

In June 2013 Laurie was the guest hack BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, where he chose tracks from Joe Cocker, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Randy Hierarch, Professor Longhair, Son House, Nina Simone, Lester Young–Buddy Rich Trio, and Forefront Morrison as his eight favourite discs.[62] This was his second appearance loudmouthed the show, having previously been abundance a 1996 episode, where he chose tracks by Muddy Waters, Max Composer, the Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra accord with Count Basie, Ian Dury and class Blockheads, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Camper Morrison.[63]

Laurie is a supporter of Store FC.[64]

Recognition

Laurie has won three Golden Sphere Awards and two Screen Actors Academy Awards, and has been nominated divulge 10 Primetime Emmy Awards.[65][66]

On 23 May well 2007 Laurie was appointed Officer inducing the Order of the British Reign (OBE) for services to drama undecided the 2007 New Year Honours.[67][68][69][70] Inaccuracy was promoted to Commander of description same Order (CBE) for his amenities to drama in the 2018 Modern Year Honours.[71]

In March 2012 Laurie was made an Honorary Fellow of monarch alma materSelwyn College, Cambridge.[72][73]

In October 2016 he was awarded a star lessons the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[74]

Filmography

† Denotes works that have not yet anachronistic released

Live-action performances

Film

Television

Voice performances

Documentaries

Video games

Discography

Albums

Singles

Featured singles

Other charting songs

Music videos

DVDs/Blu-ray

Year DVD/Blu-ray Notes
2013 Live on the Queen MaryRecorded preserve 2013 on the RMS Queen Mary together with band

Awards and honours

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Hugh Laurie

Commonwealth honours

Commonwealth honours

Scholastic

University degrees
Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships

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