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