Stephen Fry
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-08-24 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Hampstead, London, England, UK
Stephen Fry
Biography
Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster.
As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, starred as the title character Peter Kingdom in the ITV series Kingdom, and is the host of the quiz show QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 U.S. states in six episodes. Fry has a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones.
Apart from his work in television, Fry has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and two volumes of autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles. He also appears frequently on BBC Radio 4, starring in the comedy series Absolute Power, being a frequent guest on panel games such as Just a Minute, and acting as chairman for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, where he was one of a trio of hosts who succeeded the late Humphrey Lyttelton. Fry is also known in the UK for his audiobook recordings, including as reader for all seven Harry Potter novels.
Known For
Acting
Now & Then
as TG
Touché
as Narrator (voice)
This Is Soho
as Narrator (voice)
(2025)
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
as Narrator
(2025)
(2025)
(2025)
The Castle, Rebuilding History
as Narrator
(2024)
Treasure
as Edek
(2024)
We Work for the Dead
as Pruitt (voice)
(2024)
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
as Self
(2024)
Doctor Who at the Proms
as C (archive footage)
(2024)
U.Me: The Musical
as Narrator
(2024)
(2024)
(2024)
Stephen Fry Into Ukraine
as Self
(2024)
Bottom: Exposed
as Narrator (voice)
(2024)
Black Samphire
as Mari's Boss
(2024)
We Are Home
as Self - narrator (voice)
(2023)
Red, White & Royal Blue
as King James III
(2023)
The Canterville Ghost
as Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
(2023)
(2023)
The Inventor
as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
(2023)
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
as Self – Contributor
(2023)
Mind Games - The Experiment
as Narrator
(2023)
(2023)
The Big Fat Quiz Of Sport
as Self
(2023)
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts
as John Craxton (Voice)
(2022)
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
(2022)
(2022)
The Fringe, Fame and Me
as Self
(2022)
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History
as Self - Narrator
(2022)
(2022)
The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
(2022)
Mr Bear's Christmas
as Narrator
(2021)
Hating Peter Tatchell
as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
(2021)
Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean
as Narrator
(2021)
It's Always Something
as Narrator
(2021)
Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne
as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
(2021)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as The Interviewer
(2021)
(2021)
Night of the Living Dread
as Meditation Guru (voice)
(2020)
What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?
as Himself
(2020)
Fear of Dancing
as Self - Actor & Writer
(2020)
(2020)
(2019)
Missing Link
as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
(2019)
Dancing with the Birds
as Narrator
(2019)
Greed
as Self
(2019)
Tomorrow
as Chris
(2019)
Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive
as Himself
(2019)
Almost Human
as Narrator
(2019)
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
as Himself
(2018)
Duck Duck Goose
as Frazier (voice)
(2018)
The Con Is On
as Sidney
(2018)
(2018)
(2018)
M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
as M. C. Escher (voice)
(2017)
And the Winner Isn't
as Self
(2017)
(2017)
50 Years Legal
as Self
(2017)
Queer as Art
as Self
(2017)
(2017)
Battle of Soho
as Himself
(2016)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Cheshire Cat (voice)
(2016)
The Man Who Knew Infinity
as Sir Francis Spring
(2016)
Love & Friendship
as Mr. Johnson
(2016)
(2016)
(2016)
Santa Forgot
as Narrator
(2016)
Pocoyo's Halloween
as Narrator
(2016)
The Killing$ of Tony Blair
as Self
(2015)
Rocky Horror Show Live
as Narrator
(2015)
Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review
as Narrator
(2015)
(2015)
Do I Sound Gay?
as Self
(2014)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
as Master of Laketown
(2014)
That Sugar Film
as The Sugar Family Sketch
(2014)
A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell
as Self - Darts Fan
(2014)
(2014)
Tiny Giants 3D
as Narrator
(2014)
Marked
as Father Christmas
(2014)
Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk
as Narrator
(2014)
(2014)
(2014)
(2013)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
as The Master of Laketown
(2013)
The Look of Love
as Barrister
(2013)
Super Clyde
as Randolph
(2013)
Stephen Fry's Key to the City
as Self - Presenter
(2013)
Frost on Sketch Shows
as Self
(2013)
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was
as Narrator
(2013)
(2013)
(2013)
The Lonely Dodo
as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
(2012)
Special Report – The Voice of Darts
as Self (archive footage)
(2012)
Twelfth Night
as Malvolio
(2012)
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
as Oscar Wilde (voice)
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
Doors Open
as Professor Robert Gissing
(2012)
Wagner & Me
as Himself
(2012)
Cicada Princess
as Narrator (voice)
(2012)
(2011)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
as Mycroft Holmes
(2011)
The Borrowers
as Professor Mildeye
(2011)
Making Qi
as Self
(2011)
Holy Flying Circus
as God
(2011)
Botham: The Legend of '81
as Self
(2011)
March of the Dinosaurs
as Narrator (UK)
(2011)
Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins
as The Narrator
(2011)
Wogan on Wodehouse
as Self
(2011)
Ocean Giants
as Narrater
(2010)
Alice in Wonderland
as Cheshire Cat (voice)
(2010)
Fry and Laurie Reunited
as Self
(2010)
Lost Connection
as Dad
(2010)
Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House
as Stephen Fry
(2010)
The Great American Oil Spill
as Self
(2009)
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
as Self – Narrator (voice)
(2009)
(2009)
House of Boys
as Dr. Marsh
(2009)
Last Chance to See
as Himself
(2009)
Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2008)
Tales of the Riverbank
as Owl (voice)
(2008)
Pocoyo & the Space Circus
as Narrator
(2008)
The Machine That Made Us
as Himself - Presenter
(2008)
(2008)
(2008)
Last of the Dambusters
as Narrator
(2008)
Blackadder Rides Again
as Self
(2008)
Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo
as Narrator
(2008)
Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest
as Narrator
(2008)
Happy Birthday to GNU
as Himself
(2007)
St Trinian's
as Stephen Fry
(2007)
Eichmann
as Minister Tormer
(2007)
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
as Self
(2007)
Snow White: The Sequel
as The Narrator (voice)
(2007)
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me
as Self
(2007)
Stephen Fry: Guilty
as Self
(2006)
V for Vendetta
as Deitrich
(2006)
Stormbreaker
as Smithers
(2006)
(2006)
The Transporters
as Narrator
(2006)
(2005)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Narrator / The Guide (voice)
(2005)
MirrorMask
as Librarian
(2005)
Tom Brown's Schooldays
as Dr. Thomas Arnold
(2005)
A Cock and Bull Story
as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
(2005)
(2005)
Ashes Fever
as Self
(2005)
Meet Pocoyo!
as Narrator
(2005)
(2005)
Pocoyo & Friends
as Narrator
(2004)
A Bear Named Winnie
as Protheroe
(2004)
Tooth
as Pedro
(2004)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Maurice Woodruff
(2004)
(2004)
Supergrass: A Home Movie
as Self (archive footage)
(2004)
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope
as Narrator
(2003)
Bright Young Things
as Chauffeur
(2003)
Le Divorce
as Piers Janely
(2003)
(2003)
The Biggest Nose in Borneo
as Narrator
(2002)
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
as Self
(2002)
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
as Andre Breton
(2002)
Thunderpants
as Sir Anthony Silk
(2002)
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
as The Minister of Chance
(2001)
Gosford Park
as Inspector Thompson
(2001)
The Discovery of Heaven
as Onno Quist
(2001)
(2001)
Four Play
as Nigel Steele
(2001)
(2001)
Funny Old World
as Narrator (voice)
(2001)
In Search of the Prisoner
as Self
(2001)
Funny Old World 4
as Narrator (voice)
(2001)
Funny Old World 5
as Narrator (voice)
(2001)
Funny Old World 3
as Narrator (voice)
(2001)
Funny Old World 2
as Narrator (voice)
(2000)
Sabotage!!
as Wellington
(2000)
Longitude
as Sir Kenelm Digby
(2000)
(2000)
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Dr. Peter Robinson
(2000)
Relative Values
as Frederick Crestwell
(2000)
(2000)
Best
as Frazer Crane
(1999)
(1999)
Blackadder: Back & Forth
as Melchett
(1999)
Geri
as Self
(1998)
A Civil Action
as Pinder
(1998)
The Tichborne Claimant
as Hawkins
(1998)
Stanley Baxter in Person
as Self
(1997)
Wilde
as Oscar Wilde
(1997)
Oscar
as Self
(1997)
Spice World
as Judge
(1997)
Simply Wilde
as Self
(1997)
An Audience with Elton John
as Self
(1996)
The Wind in the Willows
as The Judge
(1995)
Cold Comfort Farm
as Mybug
(1995)
The Steal
as Wimborne
(1994)
I.Q.
as James Moreland
(1994)
(1993)
Camp Christmas
as Santa Claus
(1993)
Stalag Luft
as Wing Commander James Forrester
(1992)
Peter's Friends
as Peter Morton
(1992)
(1990)
Old Flames
as Daniel Davenport
(1989)
(1989)
(1988)
A Fish Called Wanda
as Hutchison
(1988)
A Handful of Dust
as Reggie
(1988)
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Lords Melchett / Frondo
(1988)
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
as King Charles I
(1987)
(1987)
The Laughing Prisoner
as No. 2
(1986)
(1986)
(1985)
The Good Father
as Creighton
(1982)
The Cellar Tapes
as various
(1981)
Chariots of Fire
as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
Crew
The Liar
Executive Producer, Novel
The Eden Express
Executive Producer
Black Samphire
Executive Producer
(2023)
The Canterville Ghost
Executive Producer
(2021)
Firebird
Thanks
(2019)
Mankind
Executive Producer
(2019)
Ponyboi
Executive Producer
(2018)
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
Executive Producer
(2017)
The Hippopotamus
Novel
(2016)
Tickled
Executive Producer
(2015)
Nightstand
Executive Producer
(2012)
Walking the Dogs
Executive Producer
(2012)
Doors Open
Executive Producer
(2011)
Hugh Laurie: Down by the River
Executive Producer
(2011)
Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans Blues
Executive Producer
(2008)
Me and My Girl
Additional Writing
(2007)
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me
Writer
(2006)
The Magic Flute
Writer, Lyricist, Dialogue
(2003)
Bright Young Things
Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer
(2001)
Lucky Break
Book
(1995)
Sense and Sensibility
Thanks
(1987)
The Laughing Prisoner
Writer
(1982)
The Cellar Tapes
Writer