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Hugh Laurie
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James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (known professionally as Hugh Laurie) is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian, and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever, he joined the Cambridge Footlights, a university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship, which later ended yet they remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team.
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James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (known professionally as Hugh Laurie) is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian, and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever, he joined the Cambridge Footlights, a university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship, which later ended yet they remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team.
Known For
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Saturday Night Live
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Graham Norton Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Wogan
The Simpsons
American Idol
Parkinson
Blackadder
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Family Guy
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Spooks
Veep
The Jay Leno Show
Tracey Takes On...
In the Know
Happy Families
Comic Relief
Catch-22
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Spice World
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
Despicable Me 4
Sense and Sensibility
The Man in the Iron Mask
Tehran
Hop
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
Valiant
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
101 Dalmatians
The Lenny Henry Show
Stuart Little
Stuart Little 2
Street Kings
Stuart Little: The Animated Series
Tomorrowland
All the Light We Cannot See
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Shrek's Thrilling Tales
Peter's Friends
Monsters vs Aliens
Friends
Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
Mrs. Capper's Birthday
The Young Visiters
Jools Holland: My Life in Music
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
Arthur Christmas
The Cellar Tapes
The Night Manager
Chance
Roadkill
Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter
Avenue 5
The Amazing Maurice
House
Production Credits
The Cellar Tapes
The Night Manager
House
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Chance
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