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Sir Stephen John Fry is an English actor, comedian, writer, and broadcaster. He began his career on the sketch comedy series Alfresco (1983–1984) and the sitcom Blackadder (1986–1989), before gaining recognition as part of the comedy duo Fry and Laurie alongside Hugh Laurie, appearing together in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993). His later television roles inclu…
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It’s now very technically modernised and quite brilliant: they can supply anything from a pin to an elephant. Not that there’s much demand for elephants these days.
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“I think all of us who have had obvious advantages like private education and Cambridge and all that sort of thing are bound to feel, if not guilty, then at least we owe the world something. I think that”
“It’s now very technically modernised and quite brilliant: they can supply anything from a pin to an elephant. Not that there’s much demand for elephants these days.”
“But we think there is a market out there for a fairytales app that is really well-executed and well-read. I’m very confident that people will be willing to pay if the quality is high enough.”
“He was a wonderful storyteller, particularly the fairy tales. Every story has a moral: compassion, selflessness, generosity. There’s a lot to be learned from it. A lot, without it being thrust down their throats.”
“me leaning on a microphone stand going,”
“Truly this is one of the most exciting days of my life, and I am as proud and pleased as I could be.”
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“I said quite a few things that were angry at this supposed God. I was merely saying things that Bertrand Russell and many finer heads of the mind have said for many thousands of years, going all the way back to the Greeks.”
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“It looks as though a certain cat is out of a certain bag. I”
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (2025).
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Fry was knighted for services to mental health awareness, the environment, and charity
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“Awoken at 4:45 am by an insistent voice ordering all at the hotel to go down to the air raid shelter. So here we are. Someone showed me an app to download: as you can see, agrees with the order to stay sheltered. So here we all are down in the basement of the hotel. Coffee machine. Loungers. People laughing and chattering quite happily. No sound of drones or inbound missiles that I can detect…”
“Boo!!! 👻 Oscar Wilde’s immortal ghost story # thecantervilleghost is coming to UK and Irish cinemas on Fri 22nd September 👻 https:// youtu.be/MiAP7CorKIo”
“Loved that man. Having grown up watching him interview greats, my first appearance was impossibly thrilling for me. The genius of Parky was that unlike most people (and most of his guests, me included) he was always 100% himself. On camera and off. “Authentic” is the word I suppose. For one of the shows I was on with Robin Williams, a genius of unimaginable comic speed and brilliance. Now they’re both gone, damn it # parky”
“I’m as buzzing and happy as a happy bee to be joining the splendid cast of Bleak Expectations as Sir Philip Bin from 8 to 13th August, at the Piccadilly Circus jewel-box that is the Criterion Theatre. Buy your tickets and find out more here bleakexpectations.com”
“Another day, another social media platform. It’s fun to try them out and do one’s best to determine their tone and flavour. How would more experienced skeeters characterise the air in here?”
“Wordle 623 2/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 And a rare two-er to brighten the day…”
“You know you’re in a truly individual country when the glass of grapefruit juice you help yourself to at the hotel breakfast bar turns out to be sauerkraut juice. Its healthful bacteria can fight it out with the kielbasa sausage I added to my confused tummy. Niech żyje Polska!”
“I was stunned when I learned the story of Willem and Frieda, and I hope you’ll manage to catch this film. 2nd March # Channel4”
“Thanks everyone for your kind comments about the # Jeopardy gig. Those who know the show from America will agree I think that it’s stunningly fun and engrossing format. Just hope the UK audience takes to it”
“Fabulous news, peeps. The marvellous Tim Urban of Wait But Why fame has today released his Meisterstück - “What’s Our Problem?” - available Kindle or Highly and hugely recommended”
Portrayed a fictitious King James III in the LGBT romantic comedy Red, White & Royal Blue
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In 2023, during an "alternative Christmas message" broadcast on Channel 4, Fry remarked that he was proud of his Jewish heritage.
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Fry had a recurring role as biochemist Ian Gibbons in the Hulu miniseries The Dropout, which dramatizes the scandal involving biotechnology company Theranos
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (2021).
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Enabled by a 2020 change in citizenship legislation in Austria, Fry acquired Austrian citizenship in 2024, as did all of his siblings, as a descendant of persons who were persecuted by Nazism and who lost their Austrian citizenship as a consequence.
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2019).
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Awarded Richard Dawkins Award (2018).
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On 16 April 2018, Fry released the first episode of a new podcast, "Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins", available on his website and other podcasting platforms.
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Fry released a follow-up to Mythos, titled Heroes
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Fry also released his own audiobook on Audible, titled Mythos, which he both wrote and narrated
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“My five years in the role have been an honour and a privilege beyond almost anything I can remember. I wish I could take credit for ushering the club up from League One to the Premiership during that time on the Board. Actually, I”
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Fry had a lead role in the American sitcom The Great Indoors
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“has done more to damage the Britain I love than any single person”
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Fry made a live audio recording of the winning short story of the annual RA & Pin Drop Short Story Award, Ms
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Began starring alongside Kiefer Sutherland and William Devane in 24: Live Another Day as British Prime Minister Alastair Davies
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Hosted an Intelligence Squared debate "Verdi vs
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“huge number of pills and a huge [amount] of vodka”
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Appeared as a guest panellist in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show Wordaholics
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Fry played Malvolio in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare's Globe
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Portrayed Professor Mildeye in the BBC adaptation of Mary Norton's 1952 novel The Borrowers
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Fry appeared on Kate Bush's album 50 Words for Snow, featuring on the title track where he recites a list of surreal words to describe snow
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Fry took part in a Christmas series of short films called Little Crackers
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Fry became an investor in Pushnote, a UK tech startup
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Having learned some Irish for the role, he filmed a cameo role in Ros na Rún, an Irish-language soap opera broadcast in Ireland, Scotland, and the US
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Was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (Hon FRCPsych)
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At London's Cock Tavern Theatre, directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher
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Fry provided the voice of St Peter for Liberace, Live From Heaven by Julian Woolford at London's Leicester Square Theatre
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In February 2008, he launched his private podcast series, Stephen Fry's Podgrams (defunct), and a forum, including discussions on depression and activities in which he is involved.
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Fry's narration for Bond's Paddington Bear story More About Paddington (1959) saw him receive the Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title from the Audio Publishers Association in the U
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Presented a documentary on the subject of HIV and AIDS, HIV and Me
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Fry wrote a Christmas pantomime, Cinderella, which ran at London's Old Vic Theatre
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Hosted Current Puns, an exploration of wordplay, and Radio 4: This Is Your Life, to celebrate the radio station's 40th anniversary
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“s Old Vic Theatre. In 2007, he hosted Current Puns, an exploration of wordplay, and Radio 4: This Is Your Life, to celebrate the radio station”
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Fry wrote, for director Peter Jackson, a script for a remake of The Dam Busters
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“s film adaptation of The Magic Flute. Fry continued to make regular film appearances, notably in treatments of literary cult classics. He portrayed the clairvoyant Maurice Woodruff in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and served as narrator in the 2005 film version of The Hitchhiker”
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Fry won the Rose d'Or award for "Best Game Show Host" for his work on the series
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The British public ranked Fry number 9 in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars
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Played the role of gadget-master Smithers in Stormbreaker, and in 2007, he appeared as himself, hosting a quiz in St Trinian's
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Appeared in A Cock and Bull Story, based on Tristram Shandy
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Awarded Pipe Smoker of the Year (2004).
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Was the narrator for an adaptation of Vanity Fair on BBC Radio 4
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Fry was the last person to be named Pipe Smoker of the Year before the award was discontinued
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Fry made his directorial début with Bright Young Things, adapted by him from Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies
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Fry began hosting QI (Quite Interesting), a comedy panel game television quiz show
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Played The Minister of Chance in the Doctor Who audio drama Death Comes to Time
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His site, The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry, has existed since 2002 and has attracted many visitors following his first blog in September 2007, which consisted of a 6,500-word "blessay" on smartphones.
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Fry was one of the narrators of A
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Played the detective in Robert Altman's period costume drama, Gosford Park
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Began hosting the BAFTA Film Awards, a role from which he stepped down in 2006
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Fry started using cocaine in his twenties and continued until 2001.
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Fry began starring as Charles Prentiss in the Radio 4 comedy Absolute Power, reprising the role for three further series on radio, and two on television
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In the role of Professor Bellgrove in the BBC serial Gormenghast, which was adapted from the first two novels of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series
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Awarded Sidewise Award for Alternate History for Making History (1998).
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Also had a cameo in the Spice Girls film Spice World
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Fry was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL
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Fry wrote and presented a six-part comedy series entitled Saturday Night Fry
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And 1987, Fry and Laurie performed sketches on the LWT/Channel 4 show Saturday Live
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The BBC commissioned a sketch show that was to become A Bit of Fry & Laurie
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Fry adapted the hugely successful 1930s musical Me and My Girl for the West End, where it ran for eight years and received two Laurence Olivier Awards
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The BBC offered Fry, Laurie, and Thompson their own show, which became The Crystal Cube, a mixture of science fiction and mockumentary that was cancelled after the first episode
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And a third in 1984; it established Fry and Laurie's reputation as a comedy double act
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(subsequently promoted automatically to a Cambridge MA degree)
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Passed two A-levels in English and French, with grades of A and B
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Fry was offered a scholarship at Queens' College, Cambridge, for matriculation in 1978, briefly teaching at Cundall Manor School, a preparatory school in North Yorkshire, before taking his place
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At the early age of 14 and passed all except physics, but was expelled from Uppingham half a term into the sixth form
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Born 1957-08-24.
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