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Hugh Laurie Biography

Hugh Laurie is one of the most popular and richest TV Actor who was born on June 11, 1959 in Oxford, England, United Kingdom. He is best known for his role as Dr. Gregory House, the main character on House M.D. He was also cast in Tomorrowland, a 2015 film. He began to star in Hulu’s Catch-22 in 2019. He was previously a part of the BBC miniseries The Night Manager.

In the 1995 edition of Sense and Sensibility, he starred alongside He starred with Kate Winslet in the 1995 version of Sense and Sensibility..

James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (/ˈ l ɒr i / ; born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian and author. Laurie 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.

Like his father, Laurie rowed at school and university. In 1977, he was a member of the junior coxed pair that won the British national title before representing Britain’s Youth Team at the 1977 Junior World Rowing Championships. In 1980, Laurie and his rowing partner, J.S. Palmer, were runners-up in the Silver Goblets coxless pairs for Eton Vikings rowing club. He also achieved a Blue while taking part in the 1980 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. Cambridge lost that year by five feet. During this time, Laurie was training for up to eight hours a day and was on course to become an Olympic-standard rower. He is a member of the Leander Club, one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world, and was a member of the Hermes Club and Hawks’ Club.

He married Jo Green in 1989. Together they had a daughter and two boys.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Fry and Laurie worked together on various projects throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Among them were the Blackadder series, written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis, starring Rowan Atkinson, with Laurie in various roles, including Prince George and Lieutenant George. Other projects followed, of which one was their BBC sketch comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie; another project was Jeeves and Wooster, an adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse’s stories, in which Laurie played Jeeves’s employer, the amiable twit Bertie Wooster. He and Fry participated in charity stage events, such as Hysteria! 1, 2 & 3 and Amnesty International’s The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball, Comic Relief TV shows and the variety show Fry and Laurie Host a Christmas Night with the Stars. They collaborated again on the film Peter’s Friends (1992) and came together for a retrospective show in 2010 titled Fry and Laurie Reunited.

Hugh Laurie Net Worth

Hugh Laurie is one of the richest Tv Actor from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hugh Laurie's net worth $45 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

During his time at Cambridge Footlights, he became acquainted with He became involved with stars Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry, during his time in Cambridge Footlights. stars and Stephen Fry.

Despite his American accent, he was actually born and raised in England.

James Hugh Calum Laurie was born on 11 June 1959 in the Blackbird Leys area of Oxford, the youngest of four children of Patricia (née Laidlaw) and William George Ranald Mundell “Ran” Laurie, who was a physician and winner of an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs (rowing) at the 1948 London Games. He has an older brother, Charles Alexander Lyon Mundell Laurie, and two older sisters, Susan and Janet. He had a strained relationship with his mother, whom he noted as “Presbyterian by character, by mood”. He later said, “I was frustration to her. She didn’t like me.” His mother died from motor neurone disease in 1989, at the age of 73. According to Laurie, she endured the disease for two years and suffered “painful, plodding paralysis” while being cared for by Laurie’s father, whom he has called “the sweetest man in the whole world”.

In 1980–81, his final year at university, besides rowing, Laurie was president of the Footlights, with Thompson as vice-president. They took their annual revue, The Cellar Tapes, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won the first Perrier Comedy Award. The revue was written principally by Laurie and Fry, and the cast also included Thompson, Tony Slattery, Paul Shearer and Penny Dwyer. He states that he did not graduate from Cambridge. The Perrier Award led to a West End transfer for The Cellar Tapes and a television version of the revue, broadcast in May 1982. It resulted in Laurie, Fry and Thompson being selected, along with Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane and Siobhan Redmond to write and appear in a new sketch comedy show for Granada Television, Alfresco, which ran for two series.

Laurie first gained recognition for his work as one half of the comedy double act Fry and Laurie with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he met through their mutual friend Emma Thompson whilst attending Cambridge University, where Laurie was president of the Footlights. The two men acted together in a number of projects during the 1980s and 1990s, including the sketch comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie and the P. G. Wodehouse adaptation Jeeves and Wooster. Laurie’s other roles during this time include the period comedy series Blackadder (in which Fry also appeared) and the films Sense and Sensibility, 101 Dalmatians, The Borrowers, and Stuart Little.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Laurie was brought up in Oxford and attended the Dragon School from ages seven to 13, later stating, “I was, in truth, a horrible child. Not much given to things of a ‘bookey’ nature, I spent a large part of my youth smoking Number Six and cheating in French vocabulary tests.” He went on to Eton College, which he described as “the most private of private schools”. He arrived at Selwyn College, Cambridge in 1978, which he says he attended “as a result of family tradition” since his father went there. Laurie notes that his father was a successful rower at Cambridge and that he was “trying to follow in [his] father’s footsteps”. He studied archaeology and anthropology, specialising in social anthropology, and graduated with third-class honours.

Laurie appeared in the music videos for the 1986 single “Experiment IV” by Kate Bush, and the 1992 Annie Lennox single “Walking on Broken Glass” in British Regency period costume alongside John Malkovich. Laurie appeared in the Spice Girls’ film Spice World (1997) and had a brief guest-starring role on Friends in “The One with Ross’s Wedding” (1998).

Who is Hugh Laurie Dating?

According to our records, Hugh Laurie married to Jo Green . As of December 1, 2023, Hugh Laurie’s is not dating anyone.

Laurie starred in the Thames Television film Letters from a Bomber Pilot (1985) directed by David Hodgson. This was a serious acting role, the film being dramatised from the letters home of Pilot Officer J.R.A. “Bob” Hodgson, a pilot in RAF Bomber Command, who was killed in action in 1943.

Facts & Trivia

Hugh Ranked on the list of most popular TV Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Hugh Laurie celebrates birthday on June 11 of every year.

Laurie married theatre administrator Jo Green on 16 June 1989 in the Camden area of London. Laurie’s eldest son Charlie played a small role as baby William in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, during a sketch entitled “Special Squad”. His daughter Rebecca had a role in the film Wit as five-year-old Vivian Bearing. Stephen Fry, Laurie’s best friend and long-time comedy partner, was the best man at his wedding and is the godfather of his children.

What does Hugh Laurie do now?

He’s currently seen on the HBO space comedy, Avenue 5, from the creator of Veep. Next, Hugh Laurie stars in The Personal History of David Copperfield, which should come out later this year. He’s also a celebrated author and blues musician.

Is Hugh Laurie still married?

How many languages does Hugh Laurie speak?

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Are Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry still friends?

Fry and Laurie have remained close friends throughout their careers. Laurie frequently thanks Fry when accepting awards, including at the 2007 Golden Globes when he referred to his former comedy partner, in the old A Bit of Fry and Laurie style, as “… m’colleague Stephen Fry”.

Why did House get Cancelled?

Long story short, because of money. According to this article Universal TV wanted to produce a new season but Fox network was spending $5 million per episode and wanted a cut in the show’s license before renewing. They couldn’t agree on an amount. “Universal came off as aggressive,” one exec says.

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