Stephen Fry

ActorProducerCrewWriterDirector Aug 24 (age 68) Hampstead, London, England, UK 1962–2026 (64 year career)

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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 rol…

Known For

Film

V for Vendetta

Deitrich

Film

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Master of Laketown

Film

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Master of Laketown

Film

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Mycroft Holmes

Film

Alice in Wonderland

Cheshire Cat (voice)

Film

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)

Film

Red, White & Royal Blue

King James III

Film

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Cheshire Cat (voice)

Filmography

Acting (369)

Movies (235)

The Three Urns

2026 Upcoming

as Bookseller

Apr 17

A Friend of Dorothy

2025

as Dickie

6.8

Christmas Karma

2025

as Radio Presenter (Voice)

5.1

Time Travel Is Dangerous!

2025

as Narrator (voice)

5.2

The Castle, Rebuilding History

2025

as Narrator

Finding Father Christmas

2025

as Self

6.6

This Ordinary Thing

2025

as Self (voice)

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future

2025

as Self

8.3

Recall Me Maybe

2025

as Kevin

We Work for the Dead

as Pruitt (voice)

Treasure

as Edek

Bottom: Exposed

as Narrator (voice)

About a Hero

Black Samphire

as Mari's Boss

The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

2024

as Self

This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)

2024

as Self

10.0

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024

as C (archive footage)

7.2

We Are Home

2024

as Self - narrator (voice)

U.Me: The Musical

2024

as Narrator

Red, White & Royal Blue

2023

as King James III

7.9

Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis

2023

7.5

The Big Fat Quiz of Sport

2023

as Self

The Inventor

2023

as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)

6.3

John Craxton: A Life of Gifts

2023

as John Craxton (Voice)

The Canterville Ghost

2023

as Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)

6.7

Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life

2023

as Self

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

2023

as Self - Contributor

7.5

Mind Games - The Experiment

2023

as Narrator

4.4

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

2022

as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)

7.3

Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History

2022

as Self - Narrator

7.1

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

2022

as Self

10.0

The Fringe, Fame and Me

2022

as Self

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

2022

as Self

7.8

Mr Bear's Christmas

2022

as Narrator

The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros

2022

as Self (archive footage)

8.5

George Michael: Portrait of an Artist

2022

as Self

7.0

Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean

2021

as Narrator

Night of the Living Dread

2021

as Meditation Guru (voice)

4.7

The Picture of Dorian Gray

2021

as The Interviewer

3.0

Hating Peter Tatchell

2021

as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)

4.1

It's Always Something

2021

as Narrator

8.0

Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films

2021

as Narrator

Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne

2021

as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter

8.0

The Hobbit: M4 Book edit

2021

as The Master of Lake Town

9.0

Fear of Dancing

2020

as Self - Actor & Writer

8.0

Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley

2020

as Self

Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World

2020

as Self

What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?

2020

as Self

6.5

Missing Link

2019

as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)

6.9

Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive

2019

as Self

Tomorrow

2019

as Chris

Greed

as Self

Almost Human

as Narrator

Dancing with the Birds

2019

as Narrator

7.8

Churchill and the Movie Mogul

as Self

Duck Duck Goose

as Frazier (voice)

Pocoyo's Easter Picnic

2018

The Con Is On

2018

as Sidney

4.0

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2018

as Self

6.0

M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity

2018

as M. C. Escher (voice)

6.9

50 Years Legal

2017

as Self

6.0

All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction

Battle of Soho

as Self

Queer as Art

as Self

And the Winner Isn't

as Self

Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song

2017

as Self

8.0

Alice Through the Looking Glass

2016

as Cheshire Cat (voice)

6.6

A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

2016

as Self

1.0

The Man Who Knew Infinity

2016

as Sir Francis Spring

Love & Friendship

as Mr. Johnson

Pocoyo's Halloween

as Narrator

Santa Forgot

as Narrator

The Killing$ of Tony Blair

2016

as Self

6.8

The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On

2016

as Self

6.3

Wild Africa / Tiny Giants

2016

as Narrator (Tiny Giants)

A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry

2015

as Self

Do I Sound Gay?

2015

as Self

5.5

Rocky Horror Show Live

2015

as Narrator

7.0

Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review

2015

as Narrator

10.0

The Appendices, Part Eleven: The Gathering Storm

2015

as Self

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014

as Master of Laketown

7.3

Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest

2014

Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk

2014

as Narrator

Tiny Giants 3D

2014

as Narrator

7.0

That Sugar Film

2014

as The Sugar Family Sketch

6.8

Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me

as Self

Marked

as Father Christmas

The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill

2014

as Self

6.9

Our Gay Wedding: The Musical

2014

A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell

2014

as Self - Darts Fan

7.0

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013

as The Master of Laketown

7.6

Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was

2013

as Narrator

The Look of Love

as Barrister

Super Clyde

as Randolph

Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues

2013

Frost on Sketch Shows

2013

as Self

8.5

The Lonely Dodo

2013

as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog

8.0

Stephen Fry's Key to the City

2013

as Self - Presenter

Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin

2013

Jools Holland: My Life in Music

2012

as Self

Shakespeare's Sonnets

2012

Special Report – The Voice of Darts

2012

as Self (archive footage)

Wagner & Me

2012

as Self

6.7

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

2012

as Oscar Wilde (voice)

Twelfth Night

as Malvolio

Doors Open

as Professor Robert Gissing

5.2

Cicada Princess

2012

as Narrator (voice)

5.8

Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets

2012

as Self

6.8

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

2011

as Mycroft Holmes

7.1

Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins

as The Narrator

Ocean Giants

as Narrater

Holy Flying Circus

as God

The Borrowers

as Professor Mildeye

March of the Dinosaurs

2011

as Narrator (UK)

5.9

Making Qi

2011

as Self

Wogan on Wodehouse

2011

as Self

Botham: The Legend of '81

2011

as Self

6.0

Alice in Wonderland

2010

as Cheshire Cat (voice)

6.6

Lost Connection

2010

as Dad

6.0

Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House

2010

as Stephen Fry

7.0

The Great American Oil Spill

2010

as Self

5.0

Fry and Laurie Reunited

2010

as Self

6.8

Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits

2009

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

2009

as Self – Narrator (voice)

Last Chance to See

as Self

House of Boys

as Dr. Marsh

Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News

2009

as Self

6.0

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

2008

as Self

4.5

Pocoyo & the Space Circus

2008

as Narrator

5.2

Last of the Dambusters

2008

as Narrator

Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga

2008

as Self

7.8

The Machine That Made Us

2008

as Self - Presenter

7.0

Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo

2008

as Narrator

Tales of the Riverbank

2008

as Owl (voice)

4.6

Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest

2008

as Narrator

Happy Birthday to GNU

2008

as Self

7.5

Blackadder Rides Again

as Self

St Trinian's

as Stephen Fry

Eichmann

as Minister Tormer

Stephen Fry: HIV & Me

2007

as Self

Stephen Fry: Guilty

2007

as Self

8.0

Snow White: The Sequel

2007

as The Narrator (voice)

4.5

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

2007

as Self

V for Vendetta

as Deitrich

Stormbreaker

as Smithers

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

2006

as Self

10.0

The Transporters

2006

as Narrator

'V for Vendetta' Unmasked

2006

as Deitrich

7.3

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration

2006

as Self

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2005

as Narrator / The Guide (voice)

MirrorMask

as Librarian

Ashes Fever

as Self

Pocoyo & Friends

2005

as Narrator

A Cock and Bull Story

2005

as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick

6.1

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

2005

as General Sir Anthony Melchett (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.0

Meet Pocoyo!

2005

as Narrator

Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

2005

as Self

Tom Brown's Schooldays

2005

as Dr. Thomas Arnold

5.4

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

2005

as Self

Tooth

2004

as Pedro

3.8

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

as Maurice Woodruff

A Bear Named Winnie

as Protheroe

Supergrass: A Home Movie

2004

as Self (archive footage)

The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope

2004

as Narrator

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

as Self

Le Divorce

as Piers Janely

Bright Young Things

as Chauffeur

The Biggest Nose in Borneo

2003

as Narrator

Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind

2003

as Self

Thunderpants

2002

as Sir Anthony Silk

3.4

Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time

2002

as The Minister of Chance

8.7

The Making of Gosford Park

2002

as Self

5.0

Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali

2002

as Andre Breton

5.0

The Discovery of Heaven

2001

as Onno Quist

6.3

Gosford Park

2001

as Inspector Thompson

6.8

Paddington Bear: The Early Years

Four Play

as Nigel Steele

Funny Old World 5

as Narrator (voice)

Funny Old World 4

2001

as Narrator (voice)

Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making

2001

as Self

6.0

Funny Old World 2

2001

as Narrator (voice)

Funny Old World 3

2001

as Narrator (voice)

Funny Old World

2001

as Narrator (voice)

In Search of the Prisoner

2001

as Self

Longitude

as Sir Kenelm Digby

Sabotage!!

as Wellington

Relative Values

as Frederick Crestwell

6.0

Best

2000

as Frazer Crane

6.0

Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration

2000

as Self

8.0

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

2000

as Dr. Peter Robinson

6.1

A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'

2000

as Self

A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest

1999

Blackadder: Back & Forth

as Melchett

Geri

as Self

The Tichborne Claimant

as Hawkins

A Civil Action

as Pinder

Stanley Baxter in Person

1998

as Self

Spice World

as Judge

Wilde

as Oscar Wilde

Simply Wilde

as Self

Oscar

1997

as Self

An Audience with Elton John

1997

as Self

The Wind in the Willows

as The Judge

The Steal

as Wimborne

Cold Comfort Farm

as Mybug

I.Q.

as James Moreland

An Audience with Bob Monkhouse

Camp Christmas

as Santa Claus

Stalag Luft

as Wing Commander James Forrester

Common Pursuit

Peter's Friends

as Peter Morton

Old Flames

as Daniel Davenport

Employees From Hell

1989

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

as Self

Colleagues From Hell

A Fish Called Wanda

as Hutchison

A Handful of Dust

as Reggie

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

1988

as Lords Melchett / Frondo

7.6

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

1988

as Self

6.0

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years

1988

as King Charles I

7.2

The Laughing Prisoner

1987

as No. 2

3.0

The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball

1987

as Self

5.0

Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

1986

6.6

The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live

as Self

The Good Father

as Creighton

Happy Families

as Dr. De Quincy

The Cellar Tapes

1982

as various

6.8

Chariots of Fire

1981

as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)

6.8

Le peuple miniature

6.0

Touché

as Narrator (voice)

Red, White & Royal Wedding

as King James III

Now & Then

as TG

Black Samphire

Frank and Percy

This Is Soho

as Narrator (voice)

Television (134)

Lubach

as Self

Too Much

as Simon Remen

The Celebrity Traitors

as Self - Contestant

China's Wild Secrets

as Narrated

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

2024

as Supervisor (voice)

Jeopardy! Australia

as Host

Jeopardy!

as Self - Presenter

Everything Now

as Dr Nell

Dinosaur with Stephen Fry

2023

7.0

The Dinosaur Hour

2023

as Self

The Sandman

2022

as Gilbert

7.9

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

2022

as Self – writer and comedian

2.8

Heartstopper

2022

as Headmaster Barnes (voice)

8.6

The Dropout

2022

as Ian Gibbons

7.3

In Conversation with Alan Yentob

2022

as Self

A Year on Planet Earth

2022

as Self - Presenter

7.3

Stuff the British Stole

as Self

It's a Sin

as Arthur Garrison

London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year

as Narrator (voice)

The Morning Show

as Leonard Cromwell

Sex Education

as NSQC Quizmaster

Harley Quinn

as Brainiac (voice)

Apple & Onion

as Onion's Dad (voice)

6.6

The Big Narstie Show

2018

as Self

4.3

Britain's Great Gay Buildings

The Great Indoors

as Roland

Danger Mouse

as Colonel K (voice)

The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show

2015

as Uncle Duke (voice)

6.1

Stephen Fry in Central America

2015

as Self - Presenter

7.7

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

2014

as Winston Churchill (voice)

7.8

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

as Self

Lily's Driftwood Bay

as Lord Stag (voice)

Hidden Kingdoms

as Narrator

Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)

2014

as Self

A Life on Screen

as Self

The Last Leg

as Self

Yonderland

as Cuddly Dick

Stephen Fry: Out There

2013

as Self

6.1

Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan

2013

as Self

Veep

as Nikolai Genidze

Playhouse Presents

as The European

Gadget Man

as Presenter

The Story of Musicals

2012

as Self

Just a Minute

2012

as Self

9.5

The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

2012

as Skulkingworm

6.9

The Jonathan Ross Show

as Self

Ocean Giants

as Narrator

Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry

2011

as Self

Fry's Planet Word

Wagner and Me

as Star

The Bible: A History

In Confidence

Chris Moyles' Quiz Night

as Self

Last Chance to See

as Self - Presenter

Country Tracks

as Self

Stephen Fry in America

2008

as Self - Host

7.4

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

Kingdom

as Peter Kingdom

Shrink Rap

as Self

Stephen Fry: HIV & Me

2007

as Self - Presenter

The One Show

as Self - Guest

Legends

as Self (uncredited)

The Secret Show

Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive

2006

8.3

The Story of Light Entertainment

as Self - Narrator

Bones

as Gordon Wyatt

American Dad!

as Mr. Cavendish (voice)

7.0

Doctor Who

2005

as C

7.6

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

as Self

Extras

as Stephen Fry

Pocoyo

as Narrator

Missing

Nigella

as Self

Dirty Tricks

as Owl (voice)

29 Minutes of Fame

2005

as Self - Panelist

Who Do You Think You Are?

as Self

as Self - Presenter

Absolute Power

as Charles Prentiss

Fortysomething

as Derek

Top Gear

as Self

as Alastair Davies

Baddiel's Syndrome

as The Psychiatrist

Click

as Self

Gormenghast

Gormenghast

as Professor Bellgrove

6.9

Longitude

2000

as Sir Kenelm Digby

7.0

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

Watership Down

as Cowslip (voice)

The Magician's House

as Jasper the Owl (voice)

5.5

The Magician's House

1999

as Jasper the Owl (voice)

5.5

Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over

1999

as Self - Panellist

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

1998

as Self - Contestant

6.7

Parkinson

1998

as Self

So Graham Norton

1998

as Self

6.3

In the Red

1998

as Controller, Radio 2

5.5

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

as Self

Kulturzeit

as self

The Thin Blue Line

as Blaster Sump

Room 101

as Self

The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller

as Self

Shooting Stars

as Self

Have I Got News for You

as Self

Jeeves and Wooster

as Jeeves

Rita Rudner

The Simpsons

as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)

8.0

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

1989

7.9

Saturday Night Clive

1989

Anything More Would Be Greedy

1989

5.0

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

as Self

This Morning

as Self

Comic Relief

This Is David Lander

The New Statesman

as Piers Lonsdale

Filthy Rich & Catflap

as P'Farty

Saturday Live

The Dangerous Brothers

1986

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

Screen Two

as Humphrey Taylor

Happy Families

as Doctor De Quincy

Blackadder

as Lord Melchett

Blackadder

as Lords Melchett / Frondo

Natural World

as Narrator

The Crystal Cube

as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles

Alfresco

as Various

Wogan

as Self

The Young Ones

as Lord Snot

Countdown

There's Nothing to Worry About!

as Various

An Audience with...

as Self

The Secret Policeman's Ball

as Self

University Challenge

The BAFTA Awards

as Host

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts

as Self - Host

Crew (39)

Movies (28)

The Canterville Ghost

Executive Producer

Firebird

Thanks

Ponyboi

Executive Producer

Mankind

Executive Producer

Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)

Executive Producer

The Hippopotamus

Novel

Tickled

Executive Producer

Nightstand

Executive Producer

Doors Open

Executive Producer

Walking the Dogs

Executive Producer

Hugh Laurie: Down by the River

2011

Executive Producer

8.7

Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans Blues

2011

Executive Producer

5.2

Me and My Girl

2008

Additional Writing

Stephen Fry: HIV & Me

2007

Writer

The Magic Flute

Dialogue

The Magic Flute

Lyricist

The Magic Flute

Writer

Bright Young Things

Director

Bright Young Things

Executive Producer

Bright Young Things

Screenplay

Lucky Break

Book

Sense and Sensibility

1995

Thanks

7.4

The Laughing Prisoner

Writer

The Cellar Tapes

Writer

The Liar

Executive Producer

The Liar

Novel

Black Samphire

Executive Producer

The Eden Express

Executive Producer

Television (11)

Jeopardy!

2024

Executive Producer

7.3

Stephen Fry: Out There

2013

Presenter

6.1

Stephen Fry: Out There

Writer

Fry's Planet Word

Writer

Stephen Fry in America

Writer

Kingdom

Executive Producer

Stephen Fry: HIV & Me

2007

Writer

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

Writer

The Crystal Cube

Writer

Alfresco

Writer

There's Nothing to Worry About!

1982

Writer

5.0