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Hugh Laurie

1959-06-11

The Biography

James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (known professionally as Hugh Laurie; born 11 June 1959) 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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Movies

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Tomorrowland

6.283 average rating
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Monsters vs Aliens

6.223 average rating
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Sense and Sensibility

7.423 average rating
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101 Dalmatians

5.933 average rating
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Stuart Little

6.067 average rating
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The Canterville Ghost

6.6 average rating
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The Man in the Iron Mask

6.643 average rating
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Street Kings

6.636 average rating
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Holmes & Watson

4.281 average rating
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Hop

5.8 average rating
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The Borrowers

6.001 average rating
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The Amazing Maurice

6.746 average rating
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Stuart Little 2

5.766 average rating
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Arthur Christmas

6.769 average rating
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Valiant

5.529 average rating
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Flight of the Phoenix

6 average rating
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Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

5.232 average rating
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The Personal History of David Copperfield

6.446 average rating
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Spice World

4.856 average rating
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Peter's Friends

6.505 average rating