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Stephen Fry

Born: 1957-08-24 in Hampstead, London, England, UK

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2026

Hexed as Elias Quire (voice)
100 Questions with Tom Simons as Self
The Three Urns as Bookseller
Joke
Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard as Self
Touché as Narrator (voice)
Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen as Narrator (voice)

2025

Lubach as Self
Too Much as Simon Remen
The Celebrity Traitors as Self - Contestant
Christmas Karma as Radio Presenter (Voice)
A Friend of Dorothy as Dickie
The Assembly as Self
This Ordinary Thing as Self (voice)
Finding Father Christmas as Self
Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke as Self
Time Travel Is Dangerous! as Narrator (voice)
China's Wild Secrets as Narrated
The Castle, Rebuilding History as Narrator
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future as Self
Recall Me Maybe as Kevin

2024

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as Supervisor (voice)
Jeopardy! as Self - Presenter
Treasure as Edek
Doctor Who at the Proms as C (archive footage)
Bottom: Exposed as Narrator (voice)
Black Samphire as Mari's Boss
Jeopardy! Australia as Host
About a Hero
We Work for the Dead as Pruitt (voice)
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly as Self
This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) as Self
We Are Home as Self - narrator (voice)
U.Me: The Musical as Narrator

2023

Red, White & Royal Blue as King James III
Everything Now as Dr Nell
The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
The Inventor as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self - Contributor
Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator
Dinosaur with Stephen Fry
The Dinosaur Hour as Self
George Michael: Portrait of an Artist as Self
Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis
The Big Fat Quiz of Sport as Self
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts as John Craxton (Voice)

2022

The Sandman as Gilbert
Heartstopper as Headmaster Barnes (voice)
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – writer and comedian
The Dropout as Ian Gibbons
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
A Year on Planet Earth as Self - Presenter
Stuff the British Stole as Self
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History as Self - Narrator
In Conversation with Alan Yentob as Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life as Self
The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
Mr Bear's Christmas as Narrator

2021

It's a Sin as Arthur Garrison
Firebird ... (Thanks)
Hating Peter Tatchell as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
The Picture of Dorian Gray as The Interviewer
Night of the Living Dread as Meditation Guru (voice)
Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean as Narrator
It's Always Something as Narrator
Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films as Narrator

2020

The Big Night In as Lord Melchett
London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year as Narrator (voice)
What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? as Self
Fear of Dancing as Self - Actor & Writer
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Self

2019

Sex Education as NSQC Quizmaster
The Morning Show as Leonard Cromwell
Harley Quinn as Brainiac (voice)
Missing Link as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
Greed as Self
Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Self
Dancing with the Birds as Narrator
Mankind ... (Executive Producer)
Ponyboi ... (Executive Producer)
Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive as Self
Tomorrow as Chris
Almost Human as Narrator

2018

Apple & Onion as William Steakspeare (voice)
Duck Duck Goose as Frazier (voice)
The Big Narstie Show as Self
The Con Is On as Sidney
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) ... (Executive Producer)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self
M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity as M. C. Escher (voice)
Pocoyo's Easter Picnic

2017

And the Winner Isn't as Self
The Hippopotamus ... (Novel)
Britain's Great Gay Buildings
Queer as Art as Self
Battle of Soho as Self
Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song as Self
50 Years Legal as Self
All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction

2016

Alice Through the Looking Glass as Cheshire Cat (voice)
The Great Indoors as Roland
The Man Who Knew Infinity as Sir Francis Spring
Love & Friendship as Mr. Johnson
Tickled ... (Executive Producer)
Santa Forgot as Narrator
The Killing$ of Tony Blair as Self
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On as Self
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats as Self
Pocoyo's Halloween as Narrator
Wild Africa / Tiny Giants as Narrator (Tiny Giants)

2015

The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show as Uncle Duke (voice)
Danger Mouse as Colonel K (voice)
Stephen Fry in Central America as Self - Presenter
Rocky Horror Show Live as Narrator
Do I Sound Gay? as Self
Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review as Narrator
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry as Self
Nightstand ... (Executive Producer)

2014

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Winston Churchill (voice)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Master of Laketown
Lily's Driftwood Bay as Lord Stag (voice)
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled as Self
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) as Self
A Life on Screen as Self
Hidden Kingdoms as Narrator
That Sugar Film as The Sugar Family Sketch
Tiny Giants 3D as Narrator
Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me as Self
Marked as Father Christmas
A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell as Self - Darts Fan
Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk as Narrator
Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest
Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
Le peuple miniature
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill as Self

2013

The Last Leg as Self
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as The Master of Laketown
Yonderland as Cuddly Dick
Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan as Self
The Look of Love as Barrister
Stephen Fry: Out There as Self
The Lonely Dodo as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
Super Clyde as Randolph
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was as Narrator
Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues
Frost on Sketch Shows as Self
Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
Stephen Fry's Key to the City as Self - Presenter

2012

Veep as Nikolai Genidze
Playhouse Presents as The European
Gadget Man as Presenter
The Story of Musicals as Self
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff as Skulkingworm
Just a Minute as Self
Wagner & Me as Self
Twelfth Night as Malvolio
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman as Oscar Wilde (voice)
Doors Open as Professor Robert Gissing
Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets as Self
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Special Report – The Voice of Darts as Self (archive footage)
Jools Holland: My Life in Music as Self
Walking the Dogs ... (Executive Producer)
Cicada Princess as Narrator (voice)

2011

The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Mycroft Holmes
Ocean Giants as Narrator
Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry as Self
The Borrowers as Professor Mildeye
March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
Fry's Planet Word
Holy Flying Circus as God
Ocean Giants as Narrater
Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins as The Narrator
Making Qi as Self
Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans Blues ... (Executive Producer)
Hugh Laurie: Down by the River ... (Executive Producer)
Wogan on Wodehouse as Self
Botham: The Legend of '81 as Self

2010

Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat (voice)
In Confidence
The Bible: A History
Wagner and Me as Star
Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House as Stephen Fry
Lost Connection as Dad
The Great American Oil Spill as Self

2009

Country Tracks as Self
The Meaning of Life as Self
Chris Moyles' Quiz Night as Self
QI XL as Self - Presenter (2009 - 2015)
Last Chance to See as Self - Presenter
House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News as Self
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self – Narrator (voice)
Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits as Self - Narrator (voice)
Last Chance to See as Self

2008

Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
Tales of the Riverbank as Owl (voice)
Stephen Fry in America as Self - Host
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
Pocoyo & the Space Circus as Narrator (English)
Blackadder Rides Again as Self
Me and My Girl ... (Additional Writing)
The Machine That Made Us as Self - Presenter
Happy Birthday to GNU as Self
Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo as Narrator
Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest as Narrator
Last of the Dambusters as Narrator

2007

The Graham Norton Show as Self
Kingdom as Peter Kingdom
St Trinian's as Stephen Fry
Shrink Rap as Self
Eichmann as Minister Tormer
J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life as Self
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self - Presenter
Snow White: The Sequel as The Narrator (voice)
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self
Stephen Fry: Guilty as Self

2006

The One Show as Self - Guest
V for Vendetta as Deitrich
Legends as Self (uncredited)
The Secret Show
Stormbreaker as Smithers
The Magic Flute ... (Writer)
The Story of Light Entertainment as Self - Narrator
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
V for Vendetta: Unmasked as Deitrich
The Transporters as Narrator
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration as Self
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot as Self

2005

Bones as Gordon Wyatt
Doctor Who as C
American Dad! as John Michael Heaton (voice)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
Pocoyo as Narrator
Extras as Stephen Fry
Missing
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Narrator / The Guide (voice)
MirrorMask as Librarian
Nigella as Self
A Cock and Bull Story as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy as General Sir Anthony Melchett (archive footage) (uncredited)
29 Minutes of Fame as Self - Panelist
Dirty Tricks as Owl (voice)
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
Tom Brown's Schooldays as Dr. Thomas Arnold
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
Ashes Fever as Self
Pocoyo & Friends as Narrator
Meet Pocoyo! as Narrator

2004

Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Maurice Woodruff
Tooth as Pedro
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self
A Bear Named Winnie as Protheroe
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope as Narrator
Supergrass: A Home Movie as Self (archive footage)

2003

QI as Self - Presenter
Celebrity Mastermind
Absolute Power as Charles Prentiss
Le Divorce as Piers Janely
Fortysomething as Derek
Bright Young Things as Chauffeur
The Biggest Nose in Borneo as Narrator
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self

2002

Top Gear as Self
Thunderpants as Sir Anthony Silk
The Making of Gosford Park as Self
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Andre Breton
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time as The Minister of Chance

2001

24 as Alastair Davies
Gosford Park as Inspector Thompson
Baddiel's Syndrome as The Psychiatrist
Lucky Break ... (Book)
The Discovery of Heaven as Onno Quist
Four Play as Nigel Steele
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and Me as Narrator of the Audiobooks
Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
Paddington Bear: The Early Years
Funny Old World 3 as Narrator (voice)
In Search of the Prisoner as Self
Funny Old World 2 as Narrator (voice)
Funny Old World 4 as Narrator (voice)
Funny Old World as Narrator (voice)
Funny Old World 5 as Narrator (voice)

2000

Click as Self
Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
Gormenghast as Professor Bellgrove
Relative Values as Frederick Crestwell
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration as Self
Best as Frazer Crane
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Dr. Peter Robinson
A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' as Self
Sabotage!! as Wellington

1999

Watership Down as Cowslip (voice)
The Magician's House as Jasper the Owl (voice)
Blackadder: Back & Forth as Melchett
Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over as Self - Panellist
Geri as Self
The Tichborne Claimant as Hawkins
A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest

1998

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? as Self - Contestant
Parkinson as Self
So Graham Norton as Self
A Civil Action as Pinder
In the Red as Controller, Radio 2
Stanley Baxter in Person as Self

1997

Wilde as Oscar Wilde
Spice World as Judge
Simply Wilde as Self
An Audience with Elton John as Self
Oscar as Self

1996

1995

Kulturzeit as self
Sense and Sensibility ... (Thanks)
The Thin Blue Line as Blaster Sump
Cold Comfort Farm as Mybug
The Steal as Wimborne

1994

Room 101 as Self
I.Q. as James Morland
The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller as Self
An Audience with Bob Monkhouse

1993

Shooting Stars as Self
Camp Christmas as Santa Claus
Stalag Luft as Wing Commander James Forrester

1992

Peter's Friends as Peter Morton
Common Pursuit

1990

Have I Got News for You as Self
Jeeves and Wooster as Jeeves
Rita Rudner
Old Flames as Daniel Davenport

1989

The Simpsons as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Saturday Night Clive
Anything More Would Be Greedy as Julian Holmes-Coppitt
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball as Self
Employees From Hell
Colleagues From Hell

1988

Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
A Fish Called Wanda as Hutchison
Comic Relief
This Morning as Self
This Is David Lander
A Handful of Dust as Reggie
Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Lords Melchett / Frondo
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as King Charles I
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute as Self

1987

The New Statesman as Piers Lonsdale
Filthy Rich & Catflap as P'Farty
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball as Self
The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2

1986

1985

Screen Two as Humphrey Taylor
Happy Families as Doctor De Quincy
The Good Father as Creighton
Happy Families as Dr. De Quincy

1983

Natural World as Narrator
Blackadder as Lord Melchett
Alfresco as Various
The Crystal Cube as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles

1982

Wogan as Self
The Young Ones as Lord Snot
Countdown
There's Nothing to Worry About! as Various
The Cellar Tapes as various

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

1967

Omnibus

1949

The BAFTA Awards as Host

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee