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. His turn as a surly doctor on House, however, is what made him a star stateside. With fierce blue eyes, scruffy facial hair and an acid tongue, Laurie finds the humor — as well as the pathos — in this pill-popping egotist, and has even managed to become an unlikely fortysomething sex symbol, earning two Golden Globes, a SAG Award and an Emmy nod in the process. Off-screen, Laurie is much more stable than his small-screen alter ego, making his home in London with his wife and three children.