Stephen Fry
Born 1957
Known for V for Vendetta, Alice in Wonderland, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Biography
Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, starred as the title character Peter Kingdom in the ITV series Kingdom, and is the host of the quiz show QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 U.S. states in six episodes. Fry has a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones. Apart from his work in television, Fry has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and two volumes of autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles. He also appears frequently on BBC Radio 4, starring in the comedy series Absolute Power, being a frequent guest on panel games such as Just a Minute, and acting as chairman for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, where he was one of a trio of hosts who succeeded the late Humphrey Lyttelton. Fry is also known in the UK for his audiobook recordings, including as reader for all seven Harry Potter novels.
Movie Credits
Mind Games - The Experiment (2023)
The Canterville Ghost (2023)
The Inventor (2023)
Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis (2023)
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History (2022)
Almost Human (2019)
Dancing with the Birds (2019)
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry (2015)
Pocoyo's Halloween (2015)
Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me (2014)
Tiny Giants 3D (2014)
Holy Flying Circus (2011)
March of the Dinosaurs (2011)
Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House (2010)
Wagner & Me (2010)
Last Chance to See (2009)
Tales of the Riverbank (2008)
The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
Wilde (1997)
Stalag Luft (1993)
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future (2025)
Treasure (2024)
We Work for the Dead (2024)
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count (2022)
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats (2016)
The Killing$ of Tony Blair (2016)
That Sugar Film (2014)
Doors Open (2012)
The Borrowers (2011)
Thunderpants (2002)
Sabotage!! (2000)
Peter's Friends (1992)
A Friend of Dorothy (2025)
Time Travel Is Dangerous! (2025)
Bottom: Exposed (2024)
The Fringe, Fame and Me (2022)
Hating Peter Tatchell (2021)
Blackadder Rides Again (2008)
A Bear Named Winnie (2004)
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope (2004)
Tooth (2004)
Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999)
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988)
Hexed (2026)
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World (2020)
Missing Link (2019)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017)
House of Boys (2009)
Eichmann (2007)
V for Vendetta (2006)
Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)
Stormbreaker (2006)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
Four Play (2001)
Relative Values (2000)
The Three Urns (2026)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)
Duck Duck Goose (2018)
M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity (2018)
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill (2014)
MirrorMask (2005)
The Steal (1995)
Finding Father Christmas (2025)
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012)
Botham: The Legend of '81 (2011)
The Wind in the Willows (1996)
I.Q. (1994)
This Ordinary Thing (2025)
The Big Fat Quiz of Sport (2023)
The Con Is On (2018)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Twelfth Night (2013)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)
Greed (2019)
Love & Friendship (2016)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
