Hugh Laurie
Acting
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.
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Filmography of
Hugh Laurie
Grim Reaper / Gardener / Swordsman / Monster / Old Duke (voice)
... 2023
Self – Contributor
... 2023
Maurice (voice)
... 2022
... 2019
Mycroft Holmes (uncredited)
... 2018
Himself
... 2015
David Nix
... 2015
... 2013
... 2013
... 2013
... 2013
Mr. Watts
... 2012
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)
... 2012
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)
... 2012
... 2012
... 2012
Himself
... 2012
Steve (voice)
... 2011
David Walling
... 2011
... 2011
... 2011
E.B.'s Dad (voice)
... 2011
... 2010
... 2009
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)
... 2009
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)
... 2009
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)
... 2009
himself
... 2008
... 2008
... 2008
Captain James Biggs
... 2008
... 2007
Mr. Little (voice)
... 2005
Doctor
... 2005
Gutsy (voice)
... 2005
... 2004
... 2004
Narrator (voice)
... 2004
Lord Bernard Clark
... 2003
Teddy
... 2002
Mr. Little
... 2002
Archie (voice)
... 2001
Narrator (voice)
... 2001
... 2001
Raymond
... 2001
John Malkovich
... 2000
Sam Bell
... 2000
Cenzo (voice)
... 2000
... 2000
Mr. Little
... 1999
George
... 1999
Geoffrey the Seagull (voice)
... 1999
Baron Hector Hulot
... 1998
King's Advisor
... 1998
Poirot
... 1997
Officer Steady
... 1997
Tarquin (voice)
... 1997
Squire Trelawney
... 1997
Jasper
... 1996
... 1996
Peeps
... 1996
... 1995
Mr. Palmer
... 1995
Uncle
... 1995
Peeps
... 1995
Squire Trelawney (voice)
... 1993
Roger Charleston
... 1992
Owl (voice)
... 1992
Owl / Mice (voice)
... 1991
Colin
... 1989
... 1989
... 1989
... 1989
Princes Regent / Pigmot
... 1988
Roundhead with Cromwell (uncredited)
... 1988
Assistant
... 1987
Howard Caprice
... 1987
... 1987
Lab Assistant 2
... 1986
Bobby McMichael
... 1985
Michael
... 1985
various
... 1982