Hugh LaurieBorn: 11th June 1959; Oxford, UK
Nationality: British Height: 6ft 2 (1.89 m) Spouse(s): Jo Green (1989 - present) Children: 2 sons; Charlie & Bill and 1 daughter; Rebecca Character in Spooks: Jools Siviter James Hugh Calum Laurie was born in Oxford, the youngest of four children. His father was a doctor and he had a strained relationship with his mother. He was brought up in Oxford and attended the Dragon School from ages 7 to 13 and notes that he: was, in truth, a horrible child. Not much given to things of a bookey nature, I spent a large part of my youth smoking Number Six and cheating in French vocabulary tests. He went onto Eton and then to Cambridge University, attending Selwyn College. He studied for a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology, specialising in Social anthropology
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As a secondary and college student, he was a world-class oarsman and in 1977, he became one half of the national junior champion coxed pair. In the world junior championships held in Finland that year, he and his teammate finished fourth in the world He rowed in the 1980 Cambridge/Oxford boat race. Cambridge lost that year by 5 feet.
Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever (mononucleosis), Hugh joined the Cambridge Footlights, the university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship ( the two remain good friends). It was she who introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. In his last year at Cambridge, Hugh was elected President of the club, with Emma Thompson acting as Vice President. Traditionally, at the end of the year, the Footlights take their act on the road throughout the nation. They collaborated on a sketch called The Cellar Tapes, which they entered in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1981. They were awarded "Pick of the Fringe," enabling Fray and Hugh, along with the other Footlight performers (including Thompson) to go on tour through England and eventually, Australia.
Soon thereafter, Hugh, Fry, Thompson, Robbie Coltrane, and Ben Elton formed the television sketch program Alfresco, eventually leading Hugh to the famous Black Adder series, headed by Rowan Atkinson, and also to the Jeeves and Wooster series with Fry.
It wasn't long after these successes that he began appearing in films. In 1992, he appeared alongside fellow comedians Fry and Thompson, as well as Kenneth Branagh and Rita Rudner in the ensemble comedy Peter's Friends. He subsequently did outstanding work as a character actor in such films as Sense and Sensibility (1995) and 101 Dalmatians (1996). In 1999, he took the lead in the adaptation of E.B. White's Stuart Little, playing the adopted father to a walking, talking, fully dressed mouse, a role he'd reprise in the film's 2002 sequel Stuart Little 2.
In 2001 he guest starred in two episodes of the first series of BBC drama Spooks as MI-6 officer Jools Siviter and he voiced the character of a bar patron in the Family Guy episode "One If by Clam, Two If by Sea”. In 2003, he starred in and also directed ITV's comedy-drama series fortysomething (in one episode of which Stephen Fry appears). Hugh voiced the character of Mr. Wolf in the cartoon Preston Pig. He was a panellist on the first episode of QI, alongside Fry as host.
After a two year absence from the big-screen, Hugh returned to the multiplexes in 2004 with a supporting role in Flight of the Phoenix , a remake of the 1965 James Stewart action-adventure film about a group of plane-crash survivors who attempt to build a new plane from the wreckage. That same year Hugh essayed the titular role as the cynical but trailblazing Dr. Greg House in the primetime Fox drama House . For this role, Hugh assumes an American accent. Hugh was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role in House in 2005. Although he did not win, he did receive a Golden Globe in both 2006 and 2007 for his work on the series and the Screen Actors Guild award in 2007 and 2009.
The final episode of House aired in 2012. Hugh is scheduled to play David Nix, the villain, on Brad Bird's next movie TomorrowLand.
Hugh is also a musician of note, invariably performing as a keyboardist with the rock band Poor White Trash and the Little Big Horns. He currently plays keyboards with Band From TV - a band featuring other television stars who perform to raise money for various charities. He has released two album’s Let Them Talk, released in 2011 and Didn’t it Rain, released in 2013.
He added yet another profession to his lengthy list of accomplishments when, in 1996, he published his first novel, The Gun Seller.
Laurie married theatre administrator Jo Green in June 1989. The couple have three children; Charlie, Bill and Rebecca. On 23 May 2007 Laurie was made an OBE in the 2007 New Year Honours List, for his services to drama and in March 2012 Laurie was made an honorary fellow of his alma mater Selwyn College.
You can find a full filmography for Hugh Laurie at IMDb.
Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever (mononucleosis), Hugh joined the Cambridge Footlights, the university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship ( the two remain good friends). It was she who introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. In his last year at Cambridge, Hugh was elected President of the club, with Emma Thompson acting as Vice President. Traditionally, at the end of the year, the Footlights take their act on the road throughout the nation. They collaborated on a sketch called The Cellar Tapes, which they entered in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1981. They were awarded "Pick of the Fringe," enabling Fray and Hugh, along with the other Footlight performers (including Thompson) to go on tour through England and eventually, Australia.
Soon thereafter, Hugh, Fry, Thompson, Robbie Coltrane, and Ben Elton formed the television sketch program Alfresco, eventually leading Hugh to the famous Black Adder series, headed by Rowan Atkinson, and also to the Jeeves and Wooster series with Fry.
It wasn't long after these successes that he began appearing in films. In 1992, he appeared alongside fellow comedians Fry and Thompson, as well as Kenneth Branagh and Rita Rudner in the ensemble comedy Peter's Friends. He subsequently did outstanding work as a character actor in such films as Sense and Sensibility (1995) and 101 Dalmatians (1996). In 1999, he took the lead in the adaptation of E.B. White's Stuart Little, playing the adopted father to a walking, talking, fully dressed mouse, a role he'd reprise in the film's 2002 sequel Stuart Little 2.
In 2001 he guest starred in two episodes of the first series of BBC drama Spooks as MI-6 officer Jools Siviter and he voiced the character of a bar patron in the Family Guy episode "One If by Clam, Two If by Sea”. In 2003, he starred in and also directed ITV's comedy-drama series fortysomething (in one episode of which Stephen Fry appears). Hugh voiced the character of Mr. Wolf in the cartoon Preston Pig. He was a panellist on the first episode of QI, alongside Fry as host.
After a two year absence from the big-screen, Hugh returned to the multiplexes in 2004 with a supporting role in Flight of the Phoenix , a remake of the 1965 James Stewart action-adventure film about a group of plane-crash survivors who attempt to build a new plane from the wreckage. That same year Hugh essayed the titular role as the cynical but trailblazing Dr. Greg House in the primetime Fox drama House . For this role, Hugh assumes an American accent. Hugh was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role in House in 2005. Although he did not win, he did receive a Golden Globe in both 2006 and 2007 for his work on the series and the Screen Actors Guild award in 2007 and 2009.
The final episode of House aired in 2012. Hugh is scheduled to play David Nix, the villain, on Brad Bird's next movie TomorrowLand.
Hugh is also a musician of note, invariably performing as a keyboardist with the rock band Poor White Trash and the Little Big Horns. He currently plays keyboards with Band From TV - a band featuring other television stars who perform to raise money for various charities. He has released two album’s Let Them Talk, released in 2011 and Didn’t it Rain, released in 2013.
He added yet another profession to his lengthy list of accomplishments when, in 1996, he published his first novel, The Gun Seller.
Laurie married theatre administrator Jo Green in June 1989. The couple have three children; Charlie, Bill and Rebecca. On 23 May 2007 Laurie was made an OBE in the 2007 New Year Honours List, for his services to drama and in March 2012 Laurie was made an honorary fellow of his alma mater Selwyn College.
You can find a full filmography for Hugh Laurie at IMDb.