Hugh Laurie
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Hugh Laurie OBE |
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Laurie in 2009
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James Hugh Calum Laurie 11 June 1959 Oxford, England |
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| Nationality | English | ||
| Education |
Dragon School Eton College |
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| Alma mater | Selwyn College, Cambridge | ||
| Occupation | Actor, writer, director, musician, singer, comedian, author | ||
| Years active | 1981–present | ||
| Spouse(s) | Jo Green (m. 1989) | ||
| Children | 3 | ||
| Website | hughlaurieblues |
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James Hugh Calum Laurie OBE (/ˌhjuː ˈlɒri/; born 11 June 1959), is an English actor, writer, director, musician, singer and comedian. He first became known as one-half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Blackadder, and Jeeves and Wooster in the 1980s and 1990s.
From 2004 to 2012, he played Dr. Gregory House, the title character of House, for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Laurie 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 in House. In 2016 Laurie appeared in the BBC miniseries The Night Manager, and received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Laurie was born in Oxford. The youngest of four children, he has an older brother named Charles Alexander Lyon Mundell Laurie and two older sisters named Susan and Janet. He had a strained relationship with his mother, Patricia (née Laidlaw). He notes that his mother "was Presbyterian by character, by mood" and that he was "a frustration to her... she didn't like me". His father, William George Ranald Mundell Laurie, was a doctor who also won an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs (rowing) at the 1948 London Games.
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