Hugh Laurie
Despite being highly intelligent and Cambridge-educated, actor, author and wit Laurie made his name in his native England playing a series of dimwits on the TV series Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster...
read more...
|
BirthDate BirthPlace |
06/10/1959
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
Title |
|---|
| British TV debut was Footlights special The Cellar Tapes, which won the Perrier "Pick of the Fringe" Award at the Edinburgh Festival of 1981. |
| Has played keyboards in the group Poor White Trash and the Little Big Horns since the '90s. |
| Named one of TV's Sexiest Men by TV GUIDE in 2005. |
| Appeared in Annie Lennox's "Walking on Broken Glass" video, opposite John Malkovich. |
| Represented Cambridge as an oarsman in the University Boat Race of 1980 against Oxford. |
| Starred in numerous British comedy series, often with college friend Stephen Fry: A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder, and Jeeves and Wooster. |
| First novel, The Gun Seller, was published in both the UK and the U.S. to critical acclaim and adapted into a screenplay for MGM. |
| Member of the Cambridge Footlights Revue theatre group with Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry; president in 1981. |
| Dated Emma Thompson while at Cambridge and later appeared in Sense and Sensibility with her. |
