Stephen Fry

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1957-08-24

Place of Birth

Hampstead, London, England, UK

Stephen Fry

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.

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Acting History

2025
Finding Father Christmas as Self
2025
This Ordinary Thing as Voice
2025
China's Wild Secrets as Narrated
2025
The Celebrity Traitors as Self - Contestant
2025
The Castle, Rebuilding History as Narrator
2025
Too Much as Simon Remen
2025
A Friend of Dorothy as Dickie
2025
Time Travel Is Dangerous! as Narrator (voice)
2025
Lubach as Self
2025
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future as Self
2024
Doctor Who at the Proms as C (archive footage)
2024
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as Supervisor (voice)
2024
About a Hero
2024
Black Samphire as Mari's Boss
2024
This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) as Self
2024
We Are Home as Self - narrator (voice)
2024
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly as Self
2024
Treasure as Edek
2024
We Work for the Dead as Pruitt (voice)
2024
Jeopardy! Australia as Host
2024
Bottom: Exposed as Narrator (voice)
2024
U.Me: The Musical as Narrator
2024
Jeopardy! as Self - Presenter
2023
The Dinosaur Hour as Self
2023
Everything Now as Dr Nell
2023
The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
2023
The Inventor as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
2023
Red, White & Royal Blue as King James III
2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self - Contributor
2023
The Big Fat Quiz of Sport as Self
2023
Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis
2023
Dinosaur with Stephen Fry
2023
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts as John Craxton (Voice)
2023
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life as Self
2023
Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator
2022
A Year on Planet Earth as Self - Presenter
2022
Mr Bear's Christmas as Narrator
2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
2022
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
2022
Stuff the British Stole as Self
2022
In Conversation with Alan Yentob as Self
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – writer and comedian
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self - Writer and Comedian
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Writer and broadcaster
2022
The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
2022
The Sandman as Gilbert
2022
George Michael: Portrait of an Artist as Self
2022
Heartstopper as Headmaster Barnes (voice)
2022
The Dropout as Ian Gibbons
2022
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History as Self - Narrator
2022
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
2021
Hating Peter Tatchell as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
2021
It's Always Something as Narrator
2021
Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films as Narrator
2021
Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
2021
Night of the Living Dread as Meditation Guru (voice)
2021
The Picture of Dorian Gray as The Interviewer
2021
It's a Sin as Arthur Garrison
2021
Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean as Narrator
2020
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
2020
London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year as Narrator (voice)
2020
Fear of Dancing as Self - Actor & Writer
2020
What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? as Self
2020
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Self
2019
Harley Quinn as Brainiac (voice)
2019
The Morning Show as Leonard Cromwell
2019
Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive as Self
2019
Dancing with the Birds as Narrator
2019
Tomorrow as Chris
2019
Greed as Self
2019
Missing Link as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
2019
Almost Human as Narrator
2019
Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Self
2019
Sex Education as NSQC Quizmaster
2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self
2018
The Big Narstie Show as Self
2018
The Con Is On as Sidney
2018
M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity as M. C. Escher (voice)
2018
Pocoyo's Easter Picnic
2018
Duck Duck Goose as Frazier (voice)
2018
Apple & Onion as William Steakspeare (voice)
2018
Apple & Onion as Onion's Dad (voice)
2017
And the Winner Isn't as Self
2017
All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction
2017
Queer as Art as Self
2017
50 Years Legal as Self
2017
Britain's Great Gay Buildings
2017
Battle of Soho as Self
2017
Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song as Self
2016
Santa Forgot as Narrator
2016
The Great Indoors as Roland
2016
The Killing$ of Tony Blair as Self
2016
Love & Friendship as Mr. Johnson
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass as Cheshire Cat (voice)
2016
Pocoyo's Halloween as Narrator
2016
The Man Who Knew Infinity as Sir Francis Spring
2016
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats as Self
2016
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On as Self
2015
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry as Self
2015
Rocky Horror Show Live as Narrator
2015
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show as Uncle Duke ​(voice)
2015
Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review as Narrator
2015
Danger Mouse as Colonel K (voice)
2015
Stephen Fry in Central America as Self - Presenter
2015
Do I Sound Gay? as Self
2014
A Life on Screen as Self
2014
Marked as Father Christmas
2014
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Master of Laketown
2014
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) as Self
2014
Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me as Self
2014
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill as Self
2014
That Sugar Film as The Sugar Family Sketch
2014
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled as Self
2014
Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest
2014
Tiny Giants 3D as Narrator
2014
A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell as Self - Darts Fan
2014
Lily's Driftwood Bay as Lord Stag (voice)
2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Winston Churchill (voice)
2014
Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk as Narrator
2014
Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
2014
Hidden Kingdoms as Narrator
2013
Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
2013
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as The Master of Laketown
2013
Yonderland as Cuddly Dick
2013
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was as Narrator
2013
Stephen Fry: Out There as Self
2013
Super Clyde as Randolph
2013
Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan as Self
2013
Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues
2013
The Look of Love as Barrister
2013
The Lonely Dodo as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
2013
Frost on Sketch Shows as Self
2013
The Last Leg as Self
2013
Stephen Fry's Key to the City as Self - Presenter
2012
Doors Open as Professor Robert Gissing
2012
Special Report – The Voice of Darts as Self (archive footage)
2012
Gadget Man as Presenter
2012
Cicada Princess as Narrator (voice)
2012
Wagner & Me as Self
2012
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman as Oscar Wilde (voice)
2012
Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012
Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets as Self
2012
Twelfth Night as Malvolio
2012
Veep as Nikolai Genidze
2012
Just a Minute as Self
2012
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff as Skulkingworm
2012
The Story of Musicals as Self
2012
Jools Holland: My Life in Music as Self
2011
The Borrowers as Professor Mildeye
2011
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Mycroft Holmes
2011
Holy Flying Circus as God
2011
Fry's Planet Word
2011
Making Qi as Self
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show as Self - Guest
2011
Wogan on Wodehouse as Self
2011
Ocean Giants as Narrater
2011
Ocean Giants as Narrator
2011
Botham: The Legend of '81 as Self
2011
Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry as Self
2011
March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
2011
Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins as The Narrator
2010
Lost Connection as Dad
2010
Wagner and Me as Star
2010
Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
2010
The Great American Oil Spill as Self
2010
Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House as Stephen Fry
2010
Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat (voice)
2009
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News as Self
2009
House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
2009
Last Chance to See as Self
2009
Last Chance to See as Self - Presenter
2009
Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits as Self - Narrator (voice)
2009
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self – Narrator (voice)
2009
Country Tracks as Self
2009
Chris Moyles' Quiz Night as Self
2008
Blackadder Rides Again as Self
2008
Pocoyo & the Space Circus as Narrator
2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
2008
Stephen Fry in America as Self - Host
2008
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
2008
Happy Birthday to GNU as Self
2008
Last of the Dambusters as Narrator
2008
Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo as Narrator
2008
Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest as Narrator
2008
The Machine That Made Us as Self - Presenter
2008
Tales of the Riverbank as Owl (voice)
2007
St Trinian's as Stephen Fry
2007
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self
2007
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self - Presenter
2007
Eichmann as Minister Tormer
2007
Stephen Fry: Guilty as Self
2007
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
2007
Kingdom as Peter Kingdom
2007
Shrink Rap as Self
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007
Snow White: The Sequel as The Narrator (voice)
2006
Legends as Self (uncredited)
2006
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
2006
The Secret Show
2006
The One Show as Self - Guest
2006
The Story of Light Entertainment as Self - Narrator
2006
Stormbreaker as Smithers
2006
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot as Self
2006
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration as Self
2006
V for Vendetta as Deitrich
2006
The Transporters as Narrator
2005
Ashes Fever as Self
2005
Dirty Tricks as Owl (voice)
2005
Bones as Gordon Wyatt
2005
Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
2005
Extras as Stephen Fry
2005
A Cock and Bull Story as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
2005
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
2005
Nigella as Self
2005
Pocoyo as Narrator
2005
Meet Pocoyo! as Narrator
2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Narrator / The Guide (voice)
2005
Doctor Who as C
2005
American Dad! as John Michael Heaton (voice)
2005
American Dad! as Mr. Cavendish (voice)
2005
Missing
2005
MirrorMask as Librarian
2005
29 Minutes of Fame as Self - Panelist
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
2005
Tom Brown's Schooldays as Dr. Thomas Arnold
2005
Pocoyo & Friends as Narrator
2004
A Bear Named Winnie as Protheroe
2004
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self
2004
Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Maurice Woodruff
2004
Supergrass: A Home Movie as Self (archive footage)
2004
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope as Narrator
2004
Tooth as Pedro
2003
Absolute Power as Charles Prentiss
2003
Bright Young Things as Chauffeur
2003
QI as Self - Presenter
2003
The Biggest Nose in Borneo as Narrator
2003
Le Divorce as Piers Janely
2003
Fortysomething as Derek
2003
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self
2002
Top Gear as Self
2002
The Making of Gosford Park as Self
2002
Thunderpants as Sir Anthony Silk
2002
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time as The Minister of Chance
2002
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Andre Breton
2001
Paddington Bear: The Early Years
2001
Gosford Park as Inspector Thompson
2001
24 as Alastair Davies
2001
Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
2001
The Discovery of Heaven as Onno Quist
2001
Four Play as Nigel Steele
2001
Funny Old World 2 as Narrator (voice)
2001
Funny Old World 3 as Narrator (voice)
2001
Funny Old World 5 as Narrator (voice)
2001
Funny Old World 4 as Narrator (voice)
2001
Baddiel's Syndrome as The Psychiatrist
2001
In Search of the Prisoner as Self
2001
Funny Old World as Narrator (voice)
2000
Sabotage!! as Wellington
2000
Relative Values as Frederick Crestwell
2000
Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration as Self
2000
Best as Frazer Crane
2000
Click as Self
2000
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Dr. Peter Robinson
2000
Gormenghast
2000
Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
2000
Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
2000
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' as Self
1999
The Tichborne Claimant as Hawkins
1999
The Magician's House as Jasper the Owl (voice)
1999
Watership Down as Cowslip (voice)
1999
Blackadder: Back & Forth as Melchett
1999
Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over as Self - Panellist
1999
Geri as Self
1999
A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest
1998
Stanley Baxter in Person as Self
1998
A Civil Action as Pinder
1998
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? as Self - Contestant
1998
So Graham Norton as Self
1998
In the Red as Controller, Radio 2
1998
Parkinson as Self
1997
Spice World as Judge
1997
Simply Wilde as Self
1997
Oscar as Self
1997
An Audience with Elton John as Self
1997
Wilde as Oscar Wilde
1996
Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self
1996
Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self - Panellist
1996
The Wind in the Willows as The Judge
1995
The Thin Blue Line as Blaster Sump
1995
Kulturzeit as self
1995
The Steal as Wimborne
1995
Cold Comfort Farm as Mybug
1994
I.Q. as James Moreland
1994
Room 101 as Self
1994
An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
1993
Shooting Stars as Self
1993
Camp Christmas as Santa Claus
1993
Stalag Luft as Wing Commander James Forrester
1992
Common Pursuit
1992
Peter's Friends as Peter Morton
1990
Have I Got News for You as Self
1990
Rita Rudner
1990
Jeeves and Wooster as Jeeves
1990
Old Flames as Daniel Davenport
1989
The Simpsons as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
1989
Anything More Would Be Greedy
1989
Saturday Night Clive
1989
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
1989
Employees From Hell
1989
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball as Self
1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Lords Melchett / Frondo
1988
This Is David Lander
1988
This Morning as Self
1988
Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
1988
A Fish Called Wanda as Hutchison
1988
A Handful of Dust as Reggie
1988
Comic Relief
1988
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as King Charles I
1987
The New Statesman as Piers Lonsdale
1987
The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2
1987
Filthy Rich & Catflap as P'Farty
1987
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball as Self
1986
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live as Self
1986
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
1986
Saturday Live
1986
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986
The Dangerous Brothers
1985
The Good Father as Creighton
1985
Happy Families as Doctor De Quincy
1985
Screen Two as Humphrey Taylor
1983
Natural World as Narrator
1983
The Crystal Cube as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
1983
Blackadder as Lord Melchett
1983
Blackadder as General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
1983
Blackadder as The Duke of Wellington
1983
Alfresco as Various
1982
The Young Ones as Lord Snot
1982
Countdown
1982
There's Nothing to Worry About! as Various
1982
The Cellar Tapes as various
1982
Wogan as Self
1981
Chariots of Fire as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
1978
An Audience with... as Self
1976
The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
1949
The BAFTA Awards as Host
1944
Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
Now & Then as TG
Le peuple miniature
Touché as Narrator (voice)
Frank and Percy
Black Samphire
Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts as Self - Host
This Is Soho as Narrator (voice)