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In his autobiographical writings and elsewhere, Fry has claimed relationship to the Fry family that founded the eponymous chocolate company, John Fry (one of the signatories to the death warrant for Charles I), and the cricketer C. The Fry family originates around the Shillingstone and Blandford areas of Dorset in the early 1800s, Samuel Fry settled in Surrey, with his descendants residing in Middlesex. His paternal grandmother had roots in Cheshire and Kent. He has an older brother, Roger, and a younger sister, Joanna. Stephen John Fry was born on 24 August 1957 in the Hampstead area of London, the son of Marianne Eve Fry ( née Neumann) and physicist and inventor Alan John Fry (1930–2019).
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Early lifeįry at rehearsals for student production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Norfolk College of Arts and Technology, 1975
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He is also known for his voice-over work he read all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the UK audiobook recordings, narrated the video game series LittleBigPlanet and Birds of Steel, lent his voice to an animated series of explanations of the laws of cricket, and narrated a series of animations about humanism for Humanists UK. Fry is also a prolific writer, contributing to newspapers and magazines and having written four novels and three autobiographies: Moab Is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles, and More Fool Me. He has received two Tony Award nominations including for Best Book of a Musical for Me and My Girl in 1987 and for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Twelfth Night in 2014.
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īesides working in television, Fry is also known for his work in theatre. He appears frequently on other panel games, such as Just a Minute and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. He was the longtime host of the BBC television quiz show QI, with his tenure lasting from 2003 to 2016, during which he was nominated for six British Academy Television Awards. He has also written and presented several documentary series, including the Emmy Award-winning Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, which saw him explore his bipolar disorder, and the travel series Stephen Fry in America. Gordon Wyatt on the American crime series Bones. His television roles include Lord Melchett in the BBC television comedy series Blackadder and the title character in the television series Kingdom and Absolute Power, as well as a recurring guest role as Dr. He has also made appearances in the films Chariots of Fire (1981), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), V for Vendetta (2005), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) and The Hobbit film series. Johnson in Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship (2016). įry's film acting roles include playing his idol Oscar Wilde in the film Wilde (1997), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Inspector Thompson in Robert Altman's murder mystery Gosford Park (2001) and Mr. Since 2011, he has served as president of the mental health charity Mind. He also starred in the sketch series Alfresco (1983–1984) alongside Laurie, Emma Thompson, and Robbie Coltrane, and in Blackadder (1986–1999) alongside Rowan Atkinson. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993). Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director and writer.