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 Writer, actor, comedian, doer of good works, excellent good friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk house when not traveling. Famous for his public declaration of celibacy in the "Tatler" back in the 1980s, Emma Thompson has characterised her friend as "90 percent gay, 10 percent other."Stephen Fry was born in Hampstead, London, to Marianne Eve (Newman) and Alan Fry, a physicist and inventor. His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants, while his father's family was of English background. He grew up in Norfolk and attended Uppingham School and Stout's Hill. After his notorious three months in Pucklechurch prison for credit card fraud, he attended Queens College, Cambridge in 1979, finishing with a 2:1 in English in 1981/2. While at Cambridge, he was a member of the Cherubs drinking club, and Footlights with Thompson, Tony Slattery, Martin Bergman, and Hugh Laurie (to whom he was introduced by E.T.). His prolific writing partnership with Laurie began in 1981 with resulting Footlights revues for (among others) Mayweek, Edinburgh Festival, and a three month tour of Australia. In 1984, Fry was engaged to do the rewrite of the Noel Gay musical "Me and My Girl," which made him a millionaire before the age of 30. It also earned him a nomination for a Tony award in 1987. (Sidenote: It was upon SF's suggestion that Emma Thompson landed a leading role in the London cast of this show.) Throughout the 1980s, Fry did a huge amount of television and radio work, as well as writing for newspapers (e.g. a weekly column in the "Daily Telegraph") and magazines (e.g. articles for "Arena"). He is probably best known for his television roles in Blackadder II (1986) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990).His support of the Terence Higgins Trust through events such as the first "Hysteria" benefit, as well as numerous other charity efforts, are probably those works of which he is most proud. Fry's acting career has not been limited to films and television. He had successful runs in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On," Simon Gray's "The Common Pursuit" with John Sessions, Rik Mayall, John Gordon Sinclair, and others. Michael Frayn's "Look Look" and Gray's "Cell Mates" were less successful for both Fry and their playwrights, the latter not helped by his walking out of the play after only a couple of weeks. Fry has published four novels as well as a collection of his radio and journalistic miscellanea. He has recorded audiotapes of his novels (an unabridged version of "The Liar" was released in 1995), as well as many other works for both adults and children.
Bio:
Writer, actor, comedian, doer of good works, excellent good friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk house when not traveling. Famous for his public declaration of celibacy in the "Tatler" back in the 1980s, Emma Thompson has characterised her friend as "90 percent gay, 10 percent other."Stephen Fry was born in Hampstead, London, to Marianne Eve (Newman) and Alan Fry, a physicist and inventor. His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants, while his father's family was of English background. He grew up in Norfolk and attended Uppingham School and Stout's Hill. After his notorious three months in Pucklechurch prison for credit card fraud, he attended Queens College, Cambridge in 1979, finishing with a 2:1 in English in 1981/2. While at Cambridge, he was a member of the Cherubs drinking club, and Footlights with Thompson, Tony Slattery, Martin Bergman, and Hugh Laurie (to whom he was introduced by E.T.). His prolific writing partnership with Laurie began in 1981 with resulting Footlights revues for (among others) Mayweek, Edinburgh Festival, and a three month tour of Australia. In 1984, Fry was engaged to do the rewrite of the Noel Gay musical "Me and My Girl," which made him a millionaire before the age of 30. It also earned him a nomination for a Tony award in 1987. (Sidenote: It was upon SF's suggestion that Emma Thompson landed a leading role in the London cast of this show.) Throughout the 1980s, Fry did a huge amount of television and radio work, as well as writing for newspapers (e.g. a weekly column in the "Daily Telegraph") and magazines (e.g. articles for "Arena"). He is probably best known for his television roles in Blackadder II (1986) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990).His support of the Terence Higgins Trust through events such as the first "Hysteria" benefit, as well as numerous other charity efforts, are probably those works of which he is most proud. Fry's acting career has not been limited to films and television. He had successful runs in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On," Simon Gray's "The Common Pursuit" with John Sessions, Rik Mayall, John Gordon Sinclair, and others. Michael Frayn's "Look Look" and Gray's "Cell Mates" were less successful for both Fry and their playwrights, the latter not helped by his walking out of the play after only a couple of weeks. Fry has published four novels as well as a collection of his radio and journalistic miscellanea. He has recorded audiotapes of his novels (an unabridged version of "The Liar" was released in 1995), as well as many other works for both adults and children.
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He has been very open about the fact that he suffers from bipolar disorder.In the 1980s he shared a house in London with Hugh Laurie. They needed some plastering doing. The plasterers turned out to be Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson who were inspired by Fry and Laurie to have a go at comedy.When in London, Fry drives his own black cab for ease of transportation.His very recognisable crooked nose is a result of breaking it when he fell over in the school playground at the age of six.He has openly discussed his struggles with depression and attempted suicide.He has been described as "deeply dippy for all things digital", claims to have owned the second Apple Macintosh sold in the UK (after friend Douglas Adams) and to have never encountered a smartphone that he has not bought.He was a regular guest on the BBC quiz Have I Got News for You (1990) for many years but he now allegedly refuses to appear as a protest against the sacking of his friend and the former host Angus Deayton.A book has recently been published in the U.K. entitled 'Tish and Pish: How to Be of a Speakingness Like Stephen Fry' (author: Stewart Ferris). It's a humorous tribute to Stephen's wonderful use of the English language.He flies his own classic biplane.Speaks rudimentary German, French and Latin.With Nick Green, co-founded the Bear Rescue Foundation, a charitable trust to rescue and nurture distressed bears.He's regarded in the UK as 'Britain's Favourite Teddy Bear' and is a keen teddy bear collector himself.He was a close friend of author and fellow Cambridge graduate Douglas Adams. He claims to know why Adams chose the number '42' as the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything in his novel 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'. However, he refuses at length to disclose the reason, or will act as if the microphone magically malfunctions, as if the Universe itself is stopping him from making the revelation. After Adams' untimely death in 2001, he was cast as the Narrator in the film version, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), inheriting the role from the late Peter Jones.He is the godfather of Hugh Laurie and Jo Green's three children.He narrated the audio-book versions (British releases) of the wildly popular Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.He claims the UK record for saying 'fuck' on television most times in one live broadcast.He is a cricket fan, Sherlockian, and a charter member of the Groucho Club (Soho).He blacked out his website as part of Internet Blackout Week NZ to protest against the controversial New Zealand 'Section 92A' law which has ISPs disconnect users accused of copyright infringement.He served as best man at friend Hugh Laurie and Jo Green's wedding in 1989.Despite his fame and charitable efforts, Stephen Fry has been very open and honest about the details of his less than respectable past which includes a brief stint in jail for credit card fraud and 15 years addicted to 'snorting coke' (cocaine). In his recent autobiography he provides a list of places whose owners he offers his deepest apologies to for indulging in his illegal drug habit on the premises, a few of the places on this list were: Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, The Houses of Parliament, BBC HQ, ITV HQ and several military bases and headquarters.He was one of the guests at King Charles III' and Camilla Queen Consort' wedding.He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights and in 1981, along with Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer, and Paul Shearer, became the first winner of The Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh fringe festival.Fry fervently supports the return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece.He was good friends with Carrie Fisher.He was nominated for Broadway's 1987 Tony Award as one of several writers, including the deceased L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber as well as collaborator Mike Ockrent, as Best Book (Musical) for "Me and My Girl.".His favorite actresses are Luise Rainer, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep and Sally Field.His maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Surany, now in Slovakia. His father's family is English.He won the 1998 Sidewise Award for Alternate History for his novel Making History.In February 2008, he began providing Stephen Fry's Podgrams: free podcasts about his adventures, available via his official website.He has a very wide taste in music, with particular favorites being Richard Wagner, Led Zeppelin and ABBA. He is a big fan of the British comedy rock band The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (best known for their 1968 hit "I'm the Urban Spaceman") and participated in their 40th anniversary reunion show at the Astoria in London on January 28, 2006, along with Adrian Edmondson, Paul Merton and Phill Jupitus. He is also a fan of the progressive rock band Jethro Tull.He was ranked #44 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".He hosted the 2001 and 2002 British Academy Awards (BAFTAS), which have been their 2 most successful years.In the Independent on Sunday 2006 Pink List -- a list of the most influential gay men and women -- he came no. 23, down from 21.He is the son of Marianne Fry and physicist/inventor Alan Fry.He was made the rector of Dundee University and hon. doctorate from that institution (July 1995).He is a snooker fan and attends the final in Crucible Theatre in Sheffield every year.He was a friend of the actor John Mills.He played the Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde in both Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times (1993) and Wilde (1997).He is a Macintosh fanatic, Usenet lurker, Internet/WWW enthusiast.He has an older brother, Roger, and 7-year younger sister, Jo Foster (his agent).Politically, he is staunchly liberal and anti-Brexit.He is related to English sportsman, politician and polymath C. B. Fry.He is very fond of vintage British TV themes.On an episode of QI, a panelist, with reference to the topic at hand, he questioned Jo Brand about her previous work as a psychiatric nurse, asking "If someone had said to you they were God, what would you have done?" Jo Brand laughed and said "I probably would have punched him to the floor!" At which point Fry quipped "What a loss to the profession you were!".He mentioned on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001) (on a night when Tom Cruise was another guest) that he was offered a role in Valkyrie (2008).He recorded an 'outro' for popular You-Tube vlogger, Charlie Mcdonnell. (aka. Charlieissocoollike).In 2019, he expressed his opposition to the petition organized by Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, which had been supported by fellow prog-rock legend Peter Gabriel, opposing Israel hosting the Eurovision Song Contest due to the conflict with Palestine. Fry signed a rival petition which accused Waters' petition of attacking the "spirit of togetherness".He took part in a special celebrity edition of Blankety Blank on The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday: Live. He won against contestant Chantelle Houghton.He smoked a pipe.He supports Norwich City Football Club, regularly attending games (as his schedule allows) and is on the board of directors. |
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Stephen Fry |
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| Biography: |
Writer, actor, comedian, doer of good works, excellent good friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk house when not traveling. Famous for his public declaration of celibacy in the \"Tatler\" back in the 1980 |
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He has been very open about the fact that he suffers from bipolar disorder.In the 1980s he shared a house in London with Hugh Laurie. They needed some plastering doing. The plasterers turned out to be Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson who were inspired by Fry and Laurie to have a go at comedy.When in London, Fry drives his own black cab for ease of transportation.His very recognisable crooked nose is a result of breaking it when he fell over in the school playground at the age of six.He has openly discussed his struggles with depression and attempted suicide.He has been described as "deeply dippy for all things digital", claims to have owned the second Apple Macintosh sold in the UK (after friend Douglas Adams) and to have never encountered a smartphone that he has not bought.He was a regular guest on the BBC quiz Have I Got News for You (1990) for many years but he now allegedly refuses to appear as a protest against the sacking of his friend and the former host Angus Deayton.A book has recently been published in the U.K. entitled 'Tish and Pish: How to Be of a Speakingness Like Stephen Fry' (author: Stewart Ferris). It's a humorous tribute to Stephen's wonderful use of the English language.He flies his own classic biplane.Speaks rudimentary German, French and Latin.With Nick Green, co-founded the Bear Rescue Foundation, a charitable trust to rescue and nurture distressed bears.He's regarded in the UK as 'Britain's Favourite Teddy Bear' and is a keen teddy bear collector himself.He was a close friend of author and fellow Cambridge graduate Douglas Adams. He claims to know why Adams chose the number '42' as the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything in his novel 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'. However, he refuses at length to disclose the reason, or will act as if the microphone magically malfunctions, as if the Universe itself is stopping him from making the revelation. After Adams' untimely death in 2001, he was cast as the Narrator in the film version, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), inheriting the role from the late Peter Jones.He is the godfather of Hugh Laurie and Jo Green's three children.He narrated the audio-book versions (British releases) of the wildly popular Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.He claims the UK record for saying 'fuck' on television most times in one live broadcast.He is a cricket fan, Sherlockian, and a charter member of the Groucho Club (Soho).He blacked out his website as part of Internet Blackout Week NZ to protest against the controversial New Zealand 'Section 92A' law which has ISPs disconnect users accused of copyright infringement.He served as best man at friend Hugh Laurie and Jo Green's wedding in 1989.Despite his fame and charitable efforts, Stephen Fry has been very open and honest about the details of his less than respectable past which includes a brief stint in jail for credit card fraud and 15 years addicted to 'snorting coke' (cocaine). In his recent autobiography he provides a list of places whose owners he offers his deepest apologies to for indulging in his illegal drug habit on the premises, a few of the places on this list were: Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, The Houses of Parliament, BBC HQ, ITV HQ and several military bases and headquarters.He was one of the guests at King Charles III' and Camilla Queen Consort' wedding.He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights and in 1981, along with Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer, and Paul Shearer, became the first winner of The Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh fringe festival.Fry fervently supports the return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece.He was good friends with Carrie Fisher.He was nominated for Broadway's 1987 Tony Award as one of several writers, including the deceased L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber as well as collaborator Mike Ockrent, as Best Book (Musical) for "Me and My Girl.".His favorite actresses are Luise Rainer, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep and Sally Field.His maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Surany, now in Slovakia. His father's family is English.He won the 1998 Sidewise Award for Alternate History for his novel Making History.In February 2008, he began providing Stephen Fry's Podgrams: free podcasts about his adventures, available via his official website.He has a very wide taste in music, with particular favorites being Richard Wagner, Led Zeppelin and ABBA. He is a big fan of the British comedy rock band The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (best known for their 1968 hit "I'm the Urban Spaceman") and participated in their 40th anniversary reunion show at the Astoria in London on January 28, 2006, along with Adrian Edmondson, Paul Merton and Phill Jupitus. He is also a fan of the progressive rock band Jethro Tull.He was ranked #44 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".He hosted the 2001 and 2002 British Academy Awards (BAFTAS), which have been their 2 most successful years.In the Independent on Sunday 2006 Pink List -- a list of the most influential gay men and women -- he came no. 23, down from 21.He is the son of Marianne Fry and physicist/inventor Alan Fry.He was made the rector of Dundee University and hon. doctorate from that institution (July 1995).He is a snooker fan and attends the final in Crucible Theatre in Sheffield every year.He was a friend of the actor John Mills.He played the Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde in both Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times (1993) and Wilde (1997).He is a Macintosh fanatic, Usenet lurker, Internet/WWW enthusiast.He has an older brother, Roger, and 7-year younger sister, Jo Foster (his agent).Politically, he is staunchly liberal and anti-Brexit.He is related to English sportsman, politician and polymath C. B. Fry.He is very fond of vintage British TV themes.On an episode of QI, a panelist, with reference to the topic at hand, he questioned Jo Brand about her previous work as a psychiatric nurse, asking "If someone had said to you they were God, what would you have done?" Jo Brand laughed and said "I probably would have punched him to the floor!" At which point Fry quipped "What a loss to the profession you were!".He mentioned on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001) (on a night when Tom Cruise was another guest) that he was offered a role in Valkyrie (2008).He recorded an 'outro' for popular You-Tube vlogger, Charlie Mcdonnell. (aka. Charlieissocoollike).In 2019, he expressed his opposition to the petition organized by Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, which had been supported by fellow prog-rock legend Peter Gabriel, opposing Israel hosting the Eurovision Song Contest due to the conflict with Palestine. Fry signed a rival petition which accused Waters' petition of attacking the "spirit of togetherness".He took part in a special celebrity edition of Blankety Blank on The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday: Live. He won against contestant Chantelle Houghton.He smoked a pipe.He supports Norwich City Football Club, regularly attending games (as his schedule allows) and is on the board of directors. |
| Trademarks: |
His tall stature
Often works with Hugh Laurie
Crooked nose
His sonorous voice and received pronunciation |
| Quotes: |
The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.
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How can one not be fond of something that the "Daily Mail" despises?
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It is quite difficult to feel that I am placed somewhere between Alan Bennett and the Queen Mother, a sort of public kitten.
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On being gay: "My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.'"
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common. |
| Job title: |
Actor,Writer,Producer |
| Others works: |
(1992) Book: Wrote "Paperweight".
(1984) Playwright: "Me and My Girl".
(1985-88) Radio: Appeared on the BBC R4 series "Loose Ends".
(1984) Stage: Appeared in a production of "Forty Years On".
Audio book: Narrate |
| Spouse: |
Elliot G. Spencer (January 17, 2015 - present) |
| Parents: |
Marianne Fry
Alan Fry |
| Relatives: |
Roger (Sibling)
Jo Foster (Sibling) |
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