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Hugh Laurie

Hugh Laurie TV Listings

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USAFri, Aug 29, 11:00 PMHouseBuy
FOXTue, Sep 2, 8:00 PMHouseBuy
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USASat, Sep 6, 9:00 AMHouse MarathonBuy
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Hugh Laurie Biography

Hugh Laurie TCA Awards - Cocktail Reception Ritz Carlton Pasadena , California United States July 23, 2006 Photo by Jesse Grant/WireImage.com To license this image (9581835), contact WireImage.com
  • Birth Name: James Hugh Calum Laurie
  • Birth Place: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/11/1959, Gemini
  • Profession: Actor; writer; director
Despite being highly intelligent and Cambridge-educated, actor, author and wit Laurie made his name in his native England playing a series of dimwits on the TV series Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster. His turn as a surly doctor on House, however, is what made him a star stateside. With fierce blue eyes, scruffy facial hair and an acid tongue, Laurie finds the humor — as well as the pathos — in this pill-popping egotist, and has even managed to become an unlikely fortysomething sex symbol, earning two Golden Globes, a SAG Award and an Emmy nod in the process. Off-screen, Laurie is much more stable than his small-screen alter ego, making his home in London with his wife and three children.
Hugh Laurie Fast Facts:
  • Represented Cambridge as an oarsman in the University Boat Race of 1980 against Oxford.
  • Member of the Cambridge Footlights Revue theatre group with Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry; president in 1981.
  • Dated Emma Thompson while at Cambridge and later appeared in Sense and Sensibility with her.
  • British TV debut was Footlights special The Cellar Tapes, which won the Perrier "Pick of the Fringe" Award at the Edinburgh Festival of 1981.
  • Starred in numerous British comedy series, often with college friend Stephen Fry: A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder, and Jeeves and Wooster.
  • Has played keyboards in the group Poor White Trash and the Little Big Horns since the '90s.
  • First novel, The Gun Seller, was published in both the UK and the U.S. to critical acclaim and adapted into a screenplay for MGM.
  • Appeared in Annie Lennox's "Walking on Broken Glass" video, opposite John Malkovich.
  • Named one of TV's Sexiest Men by TV GUIDE in 2005.
  • Named an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in December 2006.
    Hugh Laurie Relationships:
  • Bill - Son
  • Charlie - Son
  • Jo Green - Wife
  • Patricia Laurie - Mother
  • Rebecca - Daughter
  • W.G.R.M. Laurie - Father
  • Emma Thompson - Ex-significant Other

    • Hugh Laurie Awards:
  • 2008 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 2006 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Winner
  • 2007 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Winner
  • 2005 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 2007 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 2008 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee

  • College:
  • Attended Eton College, Berkshire, England; University of Cambridge, Selwyn College, Cambridge, England (BS in Anthropology)
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