Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE 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 miniseries 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.
Known for
ActingBirthday
June 11, 1959Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
91Place of birth
Oxford, England, UKAlso known as
James Hugh Calum Laurie, ヒュー・ローリー, 휴 로리Cast credits
Street Kings
Captain James BiggsStuart Little
Mr. LittleSense and Sensibility
Mr. PalmerStuart Little 2
Mr. LittleSpice World
Poirot101 Dalmatians
JasperPeter's Friends
Roger CharlestonFlight of the Phoenix
IanB.O.B.'s Big Break
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)The Man in the Iron Mask
King's AdvisorThe Borrowers
Officer SteadyChica de Río
RaymondMaybe Baby
Sam BellValiant
Gutsy (voice)Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
SelfMonsters vs Aliens
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)Cousin Bette
Baron Hector HulotHop
E.B.'s Dad (voice)Arthur Christmas
Steve (voice)The Tale of Jack Frost
Narrator (voice)Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)