Hugh Laurie
Acting
🎂 1959-06-11
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.
Cast credits(164)
Self
2005
Self
2015
Self
2010
Self
2014
Self - Guest
2007
Self
2007
Roger (voice)
1989
Gregory House
2004
Bar Patron (voice)
1999
Dr. Gregory House (voice)
1999
Self - Guest
1988
Self
2003
Self
1981
Self
2009
1971
Gentleman on the Plane
1994
Self
2002
1996
Self
1992
Self
2005
Self
2003
Tom James
2012
Eric Peterson
2020
Self
1998
The Prince Regent
1983
Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh
1983
Simon Partridge
1983
Prince Ludwig
1983
Etienne LeBlanc
2023
Self - Host
1975
Waiter
1987
Richard Roper
2016
Mr. Abercrombie (voice)
1996
Mr. Frederick Little (voice)
2003
Jools Siviter
2002
Self
1993
Major de Coverley
2019
Ryan Clark
2020
Lord Monty
1982
1988
Self
1997
Dr. James Nicholson
2022
Self
1982
Self
1976
N'Bend
1987
Jerry Bryce
1991
Eldon Chance
2016
1989
Paul Slippery
2003
1984
Bertie Wooster
1990
Tom
1985
Professor
1987
Mr. Wolf
2000
1986
Leo Hopkins
1993
Self
2024
David Nix
2015
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)
2009
1986
Johnny Town-Mouse (voice)
1992
Himself
2011
2011
Sir Michael Jaffa
1995
Squire Trelawney (voice)
1993
Felix Carmichael
Peter Laurence
2020
King's Advisor
1998
Mr. Little
1999
Grim Reaper / Gardener / Swordsman / Monster / Old Duke (voice)
2023
Jasper
1996
Mr. Palmer
1995
Admissions Officer
1983
Various
1983
Max Belhaven / Various Roles
1983
Captain James Biggs
2008
E.B.'s Dad (voice)
2011
2004
Maurice (voice)
2022
Mr. Little
2002
Jim
1985
2000
Himself
2014
Steve (voice)
2011
1988
Narrator
2003
Mr. Little (voice)
2005
Gutsy (voice)
2005
Ian
2004
Officer Steady
1997
2005
Poirot
1997
Vincente Minnelli
2001
Mycroft Holmes (uncredited)
2018
Roger Charleston
1992
Mr. Dick
2019
2000
Various
1982
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)
2012
1986
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)
2009
David Walling
2011
Self
2012
Mr. Watts
2012
Sam Bell
2000
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)
2012
Michael
1985
Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)
2009
George
1999
Raymond
2001
Self
2008
Baron Hector Hulot
1998
Self
2013
Self
2001
Tarquin (voice)
1997
Self
1987
various
1982
Self
1989
1992
Peeps
1996
Narrator (voice)
2001
Princes Regent / Pigmot
1988
Self
2007
1986
Howard Caprice
1987
Peeps
1995
Self
1986
Self
2008
Owl (voice)
1992
Self
2008
2013
Self – Contributor
2023
Lord Bernard Clark
2003
Self
2015
Self
2004
John Malkovich
2000
2000
2009
Doctor
2005
Archie (voice)
2001
Roundhead with Cromwell (uncredited)
1988
Self
2011
Self
2010
Geoffrey the Seagull (voice)
1999
Himself
2013
Teddy
2002
Cenzo (voice)
2000
Colin
1989
Assistant
1987
2011
Squire Trelawney
1997
Self
2008
Toad
1996
Self
1999
Uncle
1995
1989
Narrator (voice)
2004
Toad
1995
2013
Squire Trelawney (voice)
1993
Bobby McMichael
1985
Owl / Mice (voice)
1991
Self
2012
Lab Assistant 2
1986