STEPHEN FRY

Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
Gender: Male
Known for: Acting
Birthday: August 24, 1957
Place of Birth: Hampstead, London, England, UK

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.

Filmography

Starring

2025·
China's Wild Secrets
Narrated
2025·
The Celebrity Traitors
Self - Contestant
2025·
Lubach
Self
2025·
Too Much
Simon Remen
2024·
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
Supervisor (voice)
TBA·
Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts
Self - Host
2025·
Finding Father Christmas
Self
2025·
This Ordinary Thing
Voice
2025·
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
Narrator (voice)
2024·
Jeopardy! Australia
Host
2024·
Jeopardy!
Self - Presenter
2024·
Bottom: Exposed
Narrator (voice)
2024·
Black Samphire
Mari's Boss
2024·
We Are Home
Self - narrator (voice)
2024·
Treasure
Edek
2023·
Dinosaur with Stephen Fry
2023·
The Dinosaur Hour
Self
2023·
Everything Now
Dr Nell
2023·
The Inventor
Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
2022·
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Writer and broadcaster, Self - Writer and Comedian, Self – writer and comedian
2022·
Stuff the British Stole
Self
2022·
A Year on Planet Earth
Self - Presenter
2022·
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
Self
2022·
The Dropout
Ian Gibbons
2022·
Heartstopper
Headmaster Barnes (voice)
2022·
The Sandman
Gilbert
2022·
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History
Self - Narrator
2022·
George Michael: Portrait of an Artist
Self
2022·
Mr Bear's Christmas
Narrator
2022·
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Self
2022·
The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
Self (archive footage)
2020·
London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year
Narrator (voice)
2020·
What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?
Self
2020·
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
Self
2019·
Harley Quinn
Brainiac (voice)
2019·
Sex Education
NSQC Quizmaster
2019·
The Morning Show
Leonard Cromwell
2019·
Dancing with the Birds
Narrator
2019·
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Self
2019·
Almost Human
Narrator
2019·
Greed
Self
2019·
Missing Link
Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
2019·
Tomorrow
Chris
2018·
The Big Narstie Show
Self
2018·
Apple & Onion
Onion's Dad (voice), William Steakspeare (voice)
2018·
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Self
2018·
Duck Duck Goose
Frazier (voice)
2018·
The Con Is On
Sidney
2017·
Britain's Great Gay Buildings
2017·
Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song
Self
2017·
50 Years Legal
Self
2017·
And the Winner Isn't
Self
2017·
Queer as Art
Self
2017·
Battle of Soho
Self
2016·
The Great Indoors
Roland
2016·
The Killing$ of Tony Blair
Self
2016·
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
Self
2016·
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
Self
2016·
Santa Forgot
Narrator
2016·
Pocoyo's Halloween
Narrator
2016·
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Sir Francis Spring
2016·
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Cheshire Cat (voice)
2016·
Love & Friendship
Mr. Johnson
2015·
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
Uncle Duke ​(voice)
2015·
Danger Mouse
Colonel K (voice)
2015·
Do I Sound Gay?
Self
2015·
Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review
Narrator
2015·
Rocky Horror Show Live
Narrator
2015·
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
Self
2014·
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
Self
2014·
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Winston Churchill (voice)
2014·
A Life on Screen
Self
2014·
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Self
2014·
Hidden Kingdoms
Narrator
2014·
Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk
Narrator
2014·
Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
2014·
Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest
2014·
Tiny Giants 3D
Narrator
2014·
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Master of Laketown
2013·
Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan
Self
2013·
The Last Leg
Self
2013·
Yonderland
Cuddly Dick
2013·
Stephen Fry: Out There
Self
2012·
The Story of Musicals
Self
2012·
Veep
Nikolai Genidze
2012·
Just a Minute
Self
2012·
Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets
Self
2012·
Twelfth Night
Malvolio
2011·
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self - Guest, Self
2011·
Wogan on Wodehouse
Self
2011·
Making Qi
Self
2010·
Wagner and Me
Star
2010·
Fry and Laurie Reunited
Self
2009·
Country Tracks
Self
2009·
Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits
Self - Narrator (voice)
2009·
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Self – Narrator (voice)
2009·
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
Self
2008·
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
Self
2008·
Happy Birthday to GNU
Self
2008·
Last of the Dambusters
Narrator
2008·
Pocoyo & the Space Circus
Narrator
2007·
Shrink Rap
Self
2007·
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me
Self - Presenter, Self
2007·
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007·
Snow White: The Sequel
The Narrator (voice)
2007·
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Self
2006·
Legends
Self (uncredited)
2005·
Dirty Tricks
Owl (voice)
2005·
29 Minutes of Fame
Self - Panelist
2005·
American Dad!
Mr. Cavendish (voice), John Michael Heaton (voice)
2005·
Bones
Dr. Gordon Wyatt
2005·
Doctor Who
C
2005·
Nigella
Self
2005·
Extras
Stephen Fry
2005·
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Self
2005·
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Narrator / The Guide (voice)
2004·
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope
Narrator
2004·
A Bear Named Winnie
Protheroe
2004·
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Maurice Woodruff
2003·
Fortysomething
Derek
2003·
QI
Self - Presenter
2003·
Le Divorce
Piers Janely
2003·
Bright Young Things
Chauffeur
2003·
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
Self
2002·
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
Andre Breton
2001·
24
Alastair Davies
2001·
In Search of the Prisoner
Self
2001·
Paddington Bear: The Early Years
2001·
Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making
Self
2001·
Funny Old World 5
Narrator (voice)
2001·
Funny Old World 4
Narrator (voice)
2001·
Funny Old World 3
Narrator (voice)
2001·
Funny Old World 2
Narrator (voice)
2001·
Funny Old World
Narrator (voice)
2000·
Longitude
Sir Kenelm Digby, Sir Kenelm Digby
2000·
Click
Self
2000·
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000·
Best
Frazer Crane
2000·
A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'
Self
2000·
Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration
Self
1999·
Watership Down
Cowslip (voice)
1999·
Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over
Self - Panellist
1999·
Geri
Self
1999·
The Tichborne Claimant
Hawkins
1999·
A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest
1999·
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Melchett
1998·
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Self - Contestant
1998·
Parkinson
Self
1998·
In the Red
Controller, Radio 2
1998·
Stanley Baxter in Person
Self
1997·
Spice World
Judge
1997·
An Audience with Elton John
Self
1996·
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self - Panellist, Self
1995·
Kulturzeit
self
1995·
The Steal
Wimborne
1992·
Common Pursuit
1990·
Have I Got News for You
Self
1990·
Rita Rudner
1990·
Old Flames
Daniel Davenport
1988·
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Self
1987·
Filthy Rich & Catflap
P'Farty
1987·
The New Statesman
Piers Lonsdale
1987·
The Laughing Prisoner
No. 2
1986·
The Dangerous Brothers
1986·
Saturday Live
1986·
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Self
1986·
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1985·
Screen Two
Humphrey Taylor
1983·
The Crystal Cube
Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
1983·
Blackadder
The Duke of Wellington, General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, Lord Melchett
1982·
Wogan
Self
1982·
The Young Ones
Lord Snot
1978·
An Audience with...
Self
1944·
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
TBA·
Frank and Percy
TBA·
This Is Soho
Narrator (voice)
2025·
The Castle, Rebuilding History
Narrator
2025·
A Friend of Dorothy
Dickie
TBA·
Touché
Narrator (voice)
2025·
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
Self
2024·
U.Me: The Musical
Narrator
2024·
About a Hero
2024·
Doctor Who at the Proms
C (archive footage)
2024·
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
Self
2023·
The Big Fat Quiz of Sport
Self
TBA·
Black Samphire
2024·
This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)
Self
2023·
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts
John Craxton (Voice)
2021·
It's a Sin
Arthur Garrison
2021·
Hating Peter Tatchell
Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
2021·
Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne
Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
2021·
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Interviewer
TBA·
Now & Then
TG
2021·
Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean
Narrator
2020·
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
Self
2019·
Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive
Self
2018·
Pocoyo's Easter Picnic
2018·
M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
M. C. Escher (voice)
2015·
Stephen Fry in Central America
Self - Presenter
2014·
Lily's Driftwood Bay
Lord Stag (voice)
2014·
Marked
Father Christmas
2013·
Super Clyde
Randolph
2012·
Gadget Man
Presenter
2012·
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
Skulkingworm
2012·
Shakespeare's Sonnets
2011·
Ocean Giants
Narrator, Narrater
2011·
Fry's Planet Word
2011·
Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry
Self
2010·
The Great American Oil Spill
Self
2009·
Last Chance to See
Self - Presenter, Self
2009·
Chris Moyles' Quiz Night
Self
2008·
Stephen Fry in America
Self - Host
2008·
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Self
2007·
Kingdom
Peter Kingdom
2007·
Stephen Fry: Guilty
Self
2006·
The Secret Show
2006·
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
2006·
The Story of Light Entertainment
Self - Narrator
2006·
The One Show
Self - Guest
2006·
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration
Self
2006·
The Transporters
Narrator
2005·
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
2005·
Missing
2005·
Pocoyo
Narrator
2005·
Ashes Fever
Self
2005·
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'
Self
2004·
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
2004·
Supergrass: A Home Movie
Self (archive footage)
2003·
Absolute Power
Charles Prentiss
2003·
The Biggest Nose in Borneo
Narrator
2002·
Top Gear
Self
2002·
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
The Minister of Chance
2002·
The Making of Gosford Park
Self
2001·
Baddiel's Syndrome
The Psychiatrist
2000·
Gormenghast
1999·
The Magician's House
Jasper the Owl (voice)
1998·
So Graham Norton
Self
1997·
Simply Wilde
Self
1995·
The Thin Blue Line
Blaster Sump
1994·
Room 101
Self
1993·
Shooting Stars
Self
1993·
Camp Christmas
Santa Claus
1990·
Jeeves and Wooster
Jeeves
1989·
Anything More Would Be Greedy
1989·
Saturday Night Clive
1989·
The Simpsons
Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
1989·
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
1989·
Employees From Hell
1988·
Comic Relief
1988·
This Is David Lander
1988·
This Morning
Self
1986·
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
1985·
Happy Families
Doctor De Quincy
1983·
Natural World
Narrator
1983·
Alfresco
Various
1982·
There's Nothing to Worry About!
Various
1982·
Countdown
1976·
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Self
1949·
The BAFTA Awards
Host
TBA·
Le peuple miniature
2024·
We Work for the Dead
Pruitt (voice)
2023·
The Canterville Ghost
Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
2023·
Red, White & Royal Blue
King James III
2023·
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
Self - Contributor
2023·
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
Self
2023·
Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis
2023·
Mind Games - The Experiment
Narrator
2022·
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Self
2022·
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
2022·
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
2021·
Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films
Narrator
2021·
Night of the Living Dread
Meditation Guru (voice)
2021·
It's Always Something
Narrator
2020·
Fear of Dancing
Self - Actor & Writer
2017·
All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction
2014·
That Sugar Film
The Sugar Family Sketch
2014·
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
Self
2014·
A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell
Self - Darts Fan
2014·
Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me
Self
2013·
The Lonely Dodo
Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
2013·
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was
Narrator
2013·
Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues
2013·
Stephen Fry's Key to the City
Self - Presenter
2013·
The Look of Love
Barrister
2013·
Frost on Sketch Shows
Self
2013·
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Master of Laketown
2013·
Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
2012·
Special Report – The Voice of Darts
Self (archive footage)
2012·
Cicada Princess
Narrator (voice)
2012·
Jools Holland: My Life in Music
Self
2012·
Wagner & Me
Self
2012·
Doors Open
Professor Robert Gissing
2012·
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
Oscar Wilde (voice)
2011·
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Mycroft Holmes
2011·
Botham: The Legend of '81
Self
2011·
Holy Flying Circus
God
2011·
Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins
The Narrator
2011·
The Borrowers
Professor Mildeye
2011·
March of the Dinosaurs
Narrator (UK)
2010·
Lost Connection
Dad
2010·
Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House
Stephen Fry
2010·
Alice in Wonderland
Cheshire Cat (voice)
2009·
House of Boys
Dr. Marsh
2008·
Blackadder Rides Again
Self
2008·
The Machine That Made Us
Self - Presenter
2008·
Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo
Narrator
2008·
Tales of the Riverbank
Owl (voice)
2008·
Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest
Narrator
2007·
Eichmann
Minister Tormer
2007·
St Trinian's
Stephen Fry
2006·
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
Self
2006·
Stormbreaker
Smithers
2006·
V for Vendetta
Deitrich
2005·
Pocoyo & Friends
Narrator
2005·
Meet Pocoyo!
Narrator
2005·
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Dr. Thomas Arnold
2005·
MirrorMask
Librarian
2005·
A Cock and Bull Story
Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
2004·
Tooth
Pedro
2004·
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Self
2002·
Thunderpants
Sir Anthony Silk
2001·
Four Play
Nigel Steele
2001·
Gosford Park
Inspector Thompson
2001·
The Discovery of Heaven
Onno Quist
2000·
Sabotage!!
Wellington
2000·
Relative Values
Frederick Crestwell
2000·
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Dr. Peter Robinson
1998·
A Civil Action
Pinder
1997·
Oscar
Self
1997·
Wilde
Oscar Wilde
1996·
The Wind in the Willows
The Judge
1995·
Cold Comfort Farm
Mybug
1994·
An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
1994·
I.Q.
James Moreland
1993·
Stalag Luft
Wing Commander James Forrester
1992·
Peter's Friends
Peter Morton
1989·
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
Self
1988·
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
King Charles I
1988·
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Lords Melchett / Frondo
1988·
A Handful of Dust
Reggie
1988·
A Fish Called Wanda
Hutchison
1987·
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
Self
1985·
The Good Father
Creighton
1982·
The Cellar Tapes
various
1981·
Chariots of Fire
Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)

Production

2024·
Jeopardy!
Executive Producer
TBA·
Black Samphire
Executive Producer
TBA·
The Eden Express
Executive Producer
TBA·
The Liar
Executive Producer, Novel
2023·
The Canterville Ghost
Executive Producer
2021·
Firebird
Thanks
2019·
Ponyboi
Executive Producer
2019·
Mankind
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
2013·
Stephen Fry: Out There
Presenter, Writer
2012·
Doors Open
Executive Producer
2012·
Walking the Dogs
Executive Producer
2011·
Fry's Planet Word
Creator, Writer
2011·
Hugh Laurie: Down by the River
Executive Producer
2011·
Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans Blues
Executive Producer
2008·
Stephen Fry in America
Writer
2008·
Me and My Girl
Additional Writing
2007·
Kingdom
Executive Producer
2007·
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me
Writer, Writer
2006·
The Magic Flute
Dialogue, Lyricist, Writer
2003·
Bright Young Things
Executive Producer, Screenplay, Director
2001·
Lucky Break
Book
1996·
Wildlife SOS
Creator
1995·
Sense and Sensibility
Thanks
1989·
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Creator, Writer
1987·
The Laughing Prisoner
Writer
1983·
The Crystal Cube
Creator, Writer
1983·
Alfresco
Writer
1982·
There's Nothing to Worry About!
Creator, Writer
1982·
The Cellar Tapes
Writer