
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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Known For
Acting History
2025
Finding Father Christmas as Self
2025This Ordinary Thing as Voice
2025China's Wild Secrets as Narrated
2025The Celebrity Traitors as Self - Contestant
2025The Castle, Rebuilding History as Narrator
2025Too Much as Simon Remen
2025A Friend of Dorothy as Dickie
2025Time Travel Is Dangerous! as Narrator (voice)
2025Lubach as Self
2025Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future as Self
2024Doctor Who at the Proms as C (archive footage)
2024Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as Supervisor (voice)
2024About a Hero
2024Black Samphire as Mari's Boss
2024This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) as Self
2024We Are Home as Self - narrator (voice)
2024The Big Fat Quiz of Telly as Self
2024Treasure as Edek
2024We Work for the Dead as Pruitt (voice)
2024Jeopardy! Australia as Host
2024Bottom: Exposed as Narrator (voice)
2024U.Me: The Musical as Narrator
2024Jeopardy! as Self - Presenter
2023The Dinosaur Hour as Self
2023Everything Now as Dr Nell
2023The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
2023The Inventor as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
2023Red, White & Royal Blue as King James III
2023Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self - Contributor
2023The Big Fat Quiz of Sport as Self
2023Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis
2023Dinosaur with Stephen Fry
2023John Craxton: A Life of Gifts as John Craxton (Voice)
2023Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life as Self
2023Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator
2022A Year on Planet Earth as Self - Presenter
2022Mr Bear's Christmas as Narrator
2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
2022David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
2022Stuff the British Stole as Self
2022In Conversation with Alan Yentob as Self
2022Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – writer and comedian
2022Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self - Writer and Comedian
2022Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Writer and broadcaster
2022The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros as Self (archive footage)
2022The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
2022The Sandman as Gilbert
2022George Michael: Portrait of an Artist as Self
2022Heartstopper as Headmaster Barnes (voice)
2022The Dropout as Ian Gibbons
2022Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History as Self - Narrator
2022Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
2021Hating Peter Tatchell as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
2021It's Always Something as Narrator
2021Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films as Narrator
2021Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
2021Night of the Living Dread as Meditation Guru (voice)
2021The Picture of Dorian Gray as The Interviewer
2021It's a Sin as Arthur Garrison
2021Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean as Narrator
2020Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
2020London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year as Narrator (voice)
2020Fear of Dancing as Self - Actor & Writer
2020What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? as Self
2020Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Self
2019Harley Quinn as Brainiac (voice)
2019The Morning Show as Leonard Cromwell
2019Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive as Self
2019Dancing with the Birds as Narrator
2019Tomorrow as Chris
2019Greed as Self
2019Missing Link as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
2019Almost Human as Narrator
2019Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Self
2019Sex Education as NSQC Quizmaster
2018Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self
2018The Big Narstie Show as Self
2018The Con Is On as Sidney
2018M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity as M. C. Escher (voice)
2018Pocoyo's Easter Picnic
2018Duck Duck Goose as Frazier (voice)
2018Apple & Onion as William Steakspeare (voice)
2018Apple & Onion as Onion's Dad (voice)
2017And the Winner Isn't as Self
2017All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction
2017Queer as Art as Self
201750 Years Legal as Self
2017Britain's Great Gay Buildings
2017Battle of Soho as Self
2017Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song as Self
2016Santa Forgot as Narrator
2016The Great Indoors as Roland
2016The Killing$ of Tony Blair as Self
2016Love & Friendship as Mr. Johnson
2016Alice Through the Looking Glass as Cheshire Cat (voice)
2016Pocoyo's Halloween as Narrator
2016The Man Who Knew Infinity as Sir Francis Spring
2016A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats as Self
2016The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On as Self
2015A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry as Self
2015Rocky Horror Show Live as Narrator
2015The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show as Uncle Duke (voice)
2015Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review as Narrator
2015Danger Mouse as Colonel K (voice)
2015Stephen Fry in Central America as Self - Presenter
2015Do I Sound Gay? as Self
2014A Life on Screen as Self
2014Marked as Father Christmas
2014The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Master of Laketown
2014Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) as Self
2014Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me as Self
2014The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill as Self
2014That Sugar Film as The Sugar Family Sketch
2014Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled as Self
2014Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest
2014Tiny Giants 3D as Narrator
2014A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell as Self - Darts Fan
2014Lily's Driftwood Bay as Lord Stag (voice)
2014Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Winston Churchill (voice)
2014Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk as Narrator
2014Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
2014Hidden Kingdoms as Narrator
2013Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
2013The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as The Master of Laketown
2013Yonderland as Cuddly Dick
2013Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was as Narrator
2013Stephen Fry: Out There as Self
2013Super Clyde as Randolph
2013Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan as Self
2013Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues
2013The Look of Love as Barrister
2013The Lonely Dodo as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
2013Frost on Sketch Shows as Self
2013The Last Leg as Self
2013Stephen Fry's Key to the City as Self - Presenter
2012Doors Open as Professor Robert Gissing
2012Special Report – The Voice of Darts as Self (archive footage)
2012Gadget Man as Presenter
2012Cicada Princess as Narrator (voice)
2012Wagner & Me as Self
2012A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman as Oscar Wilde (voice)
2012Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets as Self
2012Twelfth Night as Malvolio
2012Veep as Nikolai Genidze
2012Just a Minute as Self
2012The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff as Skulkingworm
2012The Story of Musicals as Self
2012Jools Holland: My Life in Music as Self
2011The Borrowers as Professor Mildeye
2011Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Mycroft Holmes
2011Holy Flying Circus as God
2011Fry's Planet Word
2011Making Qi as Self
2011The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
2011The Jonathan Ross Show as Self - Guest
2011Wogan on Wodehouse as Self
2011Ocean Giants as Narrater
2011Ocean Giants as Narrator
2011Botham: The Legend of '81 as Self
2011Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry as Self
2011March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
2011Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins as The Narrator
2010Lost Connection as Dad
2010Wagner and Me as Star
2010Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
2010The Great American Oil Spill as Self
2010Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House as Stephen Fry
2010Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat (voice)
2009Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News as Self
2009House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
2009Last Chance to See as Self
2009Last Chance to See as Self - Presenter
2009Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits as Self - Narrator (voice)
2009Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self – Narrator (voice)
2009Country Tracks as Self
2009Chris Moyles' Quiz Night as Self
2008Blackadder Rides Again as Self
2008Pocoyo & the Space Circus as Narrator
2008Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
2008Stephen Fry in America as Self - Host
2008Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
2008Happy Birthday to GNU as Self
2008Last of the Dambusters as Narrator
2008Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo as Narrator
2008Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest as Narrator
2008The Machine That Made Us as Self - Presenter
2008Tales of the Riverbank as Owl (voice)
2007St Trinian's as Stephen Fry
2007Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self
2007Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self - Presenter
2007Eichmann as Minister Tormer
2007Stephen Fry: Guilty as Self
2007Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
2007Kingdom as Peter Kingdom
2007Shrink Rap as Self
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007Snow White: The Sequel as The Narrator (voice)
2006Legends as Self (uncredited)
2006Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
2006The Secret Show
2006The One Show as Self - Guest
2006The Story of Light Entertainment as Self - Narrator
2006Stormbreaker as Smithers
2006Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot as Self
2006Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration as Self
2006V for Vendetta as Deitrich
2006The Transporters as Narrator
2005Ashes Fever as Self
2005Dirty Tricks as Owl (voice)
2005Bones as Gordon Wyatt
2005Don'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
2005Extras as Stephen Fry
2005A Cock and Bull Story as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
2005Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
2005Nigella as Self
2005Pocoyo as Narrator
2005Meet Pocoyo! as Narrator
2005The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Narrator / The Guide (voice)
2005Doctor Who as C
2005American Dad! as John Michael Heaton (voice)
2005American Dad! as Mr. Cavendish (voice)
2005Missing
2005MirrorMask as Librarian
200529 Minutes of Fame as Self - Panelist
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
2005Tom Brown's Schooldays as Dr. Thomas Arnold
2005Pocoyo & Friends as Narrator
2004A Bear Named Winnie as Protheroe
2004Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self
2004Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2004The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Maurice Woodruff
2004Supergrass: A Home Movie as Self (archive footage)
2004The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope as Narrator
2004Tooth as Pedro
2003Absolute Power as Charles Prentiss
2003Bright Young Things as Chauffeur
2003QI as Self - Presenter
2003The Biggest Nose in Borneo as Narrator
2003Le Divorce as Piers Janely
2003Fortysomething as Derek
2003Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self
2002Top Gear as Self
2002The Making of Gosford Park as Self
2002Thunderpants as Sir Anthony Silk
2002Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time as The Minister of Chance
2002Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Andre Breton
2001Paddington Bear: The Early Years
2001Gosford Park as Inspector Thompson
200124 as Alastair Davies
2001Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
2001The Discovery of Heaven as Onno Quist
2001Four Play as Nigel Steele
2001Funny Old World 2 as Narrator (voice)
2001Funny Old World 3 as Narrator (voice)
2001Funny Old World 5 as Narrator (voice)
2001Funny Old World 4 as Narrator (voice)
2001Baddiel's Syndrome as The Psychiatrist
2001In Search of the Prisoner as Self
2001Funny Old World as Narrator (voice)
2000Sabotage!! as Wellington
2000Relative Values as Frederick Crestwell
2000Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration as Self
2000Best as Frazer Crane
2000Click as Self
2000Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Dr. Peter Robinson
2000Gormenghast
2000Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
2000Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
2000The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' as Self
1999The Tichborne Claimant as Hawkins
1999The Magician's House as Jasper the Owl (voice)
1999Watership Down as Cowslip (voice)
1999Blackadder: Back & Forth as Melchett
1999Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over as Self - Panellist
1999Geri as Self
1999A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest
1998Stanley Baxter in Person as Self
1998A Civil Action as Pinder
1998Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? as Self - Contestant
1998So Graham Norton as Self
1998In the Red as Controller, Radio 2
1998Parkinson as Self
1997Spice World as Judge
1997Simply Wilde as Self
1997Oscar as Self
1997An Audience with Elton John as Self
1997Wilde as Oscar Wilde
1996Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self
1996Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self - Panellist
1996The Wind in the Willows as The Judge
1995The Thin Blue Line as Blaster Sump
1995Kulturzeit as self
1995The Steal as Wimborne
1995Cold Comfort Farm as Mybug
1994I.Q. as James Moreland
1994Room 101 as Self
1994An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
1993Shooting Stars as Self
1993Camp Christmas as Santa Claus
1993Stalag Luft as Wing Commander James Forrester
1992Common Pursuit
1992Peter's Friends as Peter Morton
1990Have I Got News for You as Self
1990Rita Rudner
1990Jeeves and Wooster as Jeeves
1990Old Flames as Daniel Davenport
1989The Simpsons as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
1989Anything More Would Be Greedy
1989Saturday Night Clive
1989A Bit of Fry & Laurie
1989Employees From Hell
1989The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball as Self
1988Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Lords Melchett / Frondo
1988This Is David Lander
1988This Morning as Self
1988Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
1988A Fish Called Wanda as Hutchison
1988A Handful of Dust as Reggie
1988Comic Relief
1988Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as King Charles I
1987The New Statesman as Piers Lonsdale
1987The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2
1987Filthy Rich & Catflap as P'Farty
1987The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball as Self
1986The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live as Self
1986Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
1986Saturday Live
1986Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986The Dangerous Brothers
1985The Good Father as Creighton
1985Happy Families as Doctor De Quincy
1985Screen Two as Humphrey Taylor
1983Natural World as Narrator
1983The Crystal Cube as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
1983Blackadder as Lord Melchett
1983Blackadder as General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
1983Blackadder as The Duke of Wellington
1983Alfresco as Various
1982The Young Ones as Lord Snot
1982Countdown
1982There's Nothing to Worry About! as Various
1982The Cellar Tapes as various
1982Wogan as Self
1981Chariots of Fire as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
1978An Audience with... as Self
1976The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
1949The BAFTA Awards as Host
1944Golden 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)








