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