Hugh Laurie

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James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (born June 11, 1959), known professionally as Hugh Laurie, is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian, and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever, he joined the Cambridge Footlights, a university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship, which later ended yet they remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team.

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2026
Dig
TV show Neville
2025
Behind the Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions
TV show Self
2024
In the Know
TV show Self
2023
All the Light We Cannot See
TV show Etienne LeBlanc
2023
The Canterville Ghost
Movie Grim Reaper / Gardener / Swordsman / Monster / Old Duke (voice)
2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
Movie Self - Contributor
2022
The Amazing Maurice
Movie Maurice (voice)
2022
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
TV show Dr. James Nicholson
2020
Roadkill
TV show Peter Laurence
2020
Tehran
TV show Eric Peterson
2020
Avenue 5
TV show Ryan Clark
2019
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Movie Mr. Dick
2019
Catch-22
TV show Major de Coverley
2018
Holmes & Watson
Movie Mycroft Holmes (uncredited)
2016
Chance
TV show Eldon Chance
2016
The Night Manager
TV show Richard Roper