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
- 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)
- 2021 · It's a Sin as Arthur Garrison
- 2019 · Harley Quinn as Brainiac (voice)
- 2019 · The Morning Show as Leonard Cromwell
- 2019 · Sex Education as NSQC Quizmaster
- 2018 · Apple & Onion as William Steakspeare (voice)
- 2018 · Apple & Onion as Onion's Dad (voice)
- 2016 · The Great Indoors as Roland
- 2016 · Alice Through the Looking Glass as Cheshire Cat (voice)
- 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 · Lily's Driftwood Bay as Lord Stag (voice)
- 2014 · Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Winston Churchill (voice)
- 2013 · The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as The Master of Laketown
- 2013 · Yonderland as Cuddly Dick
- 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)
- 2009 · Chris Moyles' Quiz Night as Self
- 2007 · St Trinian's as Stephen Fry
- 2007 · Eichmann as Minister Tormer
- 2007 · Kingdom as Peter Kingdom
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Legends as Self (uncredited)
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · V for Vendetta as Deitrich
- 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 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 2004 · Tooth as Pedro
- 2003 · QI as Self - Presenter
- 2002 · Top Gear as Self
- 2002 · Thunderpants as Sir Anthony Silk
- 2001 · Gosford Park as Inspector Thompson
- 2001 · 24 as Alastair Davies
- 2000 · Click as Self
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 1999 · Watership Down as Cowslip (voice)
- 1998 · Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? as Self - Contestant
- 1998 · So Graham Norton as Self
- 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
- 1994 · I.Q. as James Moreland
- 1994 · Room 101 as Self
- 1993 · Shooting Stars as Self
- 1992 · Common Pursuit as
- 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
- 1987 · The New Statesman as Piers Lonsdale
- 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
- 1976 · The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
- 1949 · The BAFTA Awards as Host
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Touché as Narrator (voice)
- 2025 · Christmas Karma as Radio Presenter (Voice)
- 2025 · The Celebrity Traitors as Self - Contestant
- 2024 · Black Samphire as Mari's Boss
- 2024 · Bottom: Exposed as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · Everything Now as Dr Nell
- 2023 · The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
- 2023 · Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self - Contributor
- 2019 · Missing Link as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
- 2018 · The Big Narstie Show as Self
- 2018 · The Con Is On as Sidney
- 2016 · Love & Friendship as Mr. Johnson
- 2016 · The Man Who Knew Infinity as Sir Francis Spring
- 2014 · A Life on Screen as Self
- 2014 · Marked as Father Christmas
- 2014 · Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) as Self
- 2012 · Gadget Man as Presenter
- 2012 · The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff as Skulkingworm
- 2012 · The Story of Musicals as Self
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrater
- 2008 · Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
- 2007 · Shrink Rap as Self
- 2006 · The Secret Show as
- 2006 · Stormbreaker as Smithers
- 2006 · The Transporters as Narrator
- 2005 · A Cock and Bull Story as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
- 2005 · Nigella as Self
- 2005 · Missing as
- 2003 · Fortysomething as Derek
- 2001 · Baddiel's Syndrome as The Psychiatrist
- 2000 · Relative Values as Frederick Crestwell
- 2000 · Gormenghast as
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 1998 · A Civil Action as Pinder
- 1998 · In the Red as Controller, Radio 2
- 1997 · Spice World as Judge
- 1997 · Simply Wilde as Self
- 1990 · Rita Rudner as
- 1988 · A Fish Called Wanda as Hutchison
- 1988 · Comic Relief as
- 1987 · Filthy Rich & Catflap as P'Farty
- 1986 · Saturday Live as
- 1985 · Happy Families as Doctor De Quincy
- 1983 · Alfresco as Various
- 1982 · Countdown as
- 1981 · Chariots of Fire as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
- Future · Red, White & Royal Wedding as King James III
- 2025 · This Ordinary Thing as Self (voice)
- 2024 · Doctor Who at the Proms as C (archive footage)
- 2024 · We Work for the Dead as Pruitt (voice)
- 2024 · Jeopardy! Australia as Host
- 2024 · Jeopardy! as Self - Presenter
- 2023 · The Dinosaur Hour as Self
- 2023 · Dinosaur with Stephen Fry as
- 2022 · Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2022 · David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
- 2022 · The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
- 2021 · The Picture of Dorian Gray as The Interviewer
- 2020 · The Big Night In as Lord Melchett
- 2018 · Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self
- 2018 · M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity as M. C. Escher (voice)
- 2017 · Britain's Great Gay Buildings as
- 2014 · Tiny Giants 3D as Narrator
- 2013 · Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan as Self
- 2012 · Doors Open as Professor Robert Gissing
- 2012 · Special Report – The Voice of Darts as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Cicada Princess as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Wagner & Me as Self
- 2012 · A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman as Oscar Wilde (voice)
- 2012 · Shakespeare's Sonnets as
- 2012 · Twelfth Night as Malvolio
- 2011 · The Borrowers as Professor Mildeye
- 2011 · Fry's Planet Word as
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrator
- 2010 · Wagner and Me as Star
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self - Presenter
- 2007 · Snow White: The Sequel as The Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive as
- 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 · Tom Brown's Schooldays as Dr. Thomas Arnold
- 2004 · A Bear Named Winnie as Protheroe
- 2003 · Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self
- 2002 · The Making of Gosford Park as Self
- 2001 · The Discovery of Heaven as Onno Quist
- 1999 · The Tichborne Claimant as Hawkins
- 1996 · The Wind in the Willows as The Judge
- 1990 · Old Flames as Daniel Davenport
- 1989 · Anything More Would Be Greedy as
- 1989 · The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball as Self
- 1988 · This Is David Lander as
- 1988 · Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as King Charles I
- 1983 · The Crystal Cube as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
- Future · Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts as Self - Host
- 2025 · Finding Father Christmas as Self
- 2024 · About a Hero as
- 2024 · This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) as Self
- 2024 · We Are Home as Self - narrator (voice)
- 2024 · The Big Fat Quiz of Telly as Self
- 2024 · U.Me: The Musical as Narrator
- 2022 · Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life as Self
- 2022 · George Michael: Portrait of an Artist as Self
- 2020 · Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
- 2020 · London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive as Self
- 2019 · Dancing with the Birds as Narrator
- 2019 · Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Self
- 2017 · Queer as Art as Self
- 2016 · A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats as Self
- 2015 · Rocky Horror Show Live as Narrator
- 2015 · Do I Sound Gay? as Self
- 2013 · Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was as Narrator
- 2011 · Holy Flying Circus as God
- 2011 · Making Qi as Self
- 2011 · March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
- 2010 · Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
- 2009 · Country Tracks as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder Rides Again as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
- 2005 · Dirty Tricks as Owl (voice)
- 2005 · Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
- 2005 · 29 Minutes of Fame as Self - Panelist
- 2004 · Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self
- 2000 · Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration as Self
- 1999 · Geri as Self
- Future · Frank and Percy as
- 2005 · Meet Pocoyo! as Narrator
- 2005 · Pocoyo & Friends as Narrator
- 2003 · The Biggest Nose in Borneo as Narrator
- 2002 · Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time as The Minister of Chance
- 2001 · Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
- 2000 · Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Dr. Peter Robinson
- 1997 · An Audience with Elton John as Self
- 1986 · The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live as Self
- Future · Black Samphire as
- 1986 · Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger as
- 1985 · The Good Father as Creighton
- 1982 · The Cellar Tapes as various
- Future · This Is Soho as Narrator (voice)
- 2025 · Recall Me Maybe as Kevin
- 2025 · The Castle, Rebuilding History as Narrator
- 2023 · The Big Fat Quiz of Sport as Self
- 2023 · Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis as
- 2023 · Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator
- 2021 · It's Always Something as Narrator
- 2021 · Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
- 2021 · Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean as Narrator
- 2020 · What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? as Self
- 2020 · Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Self
- 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 · 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
- 2014 · The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill as Self
- 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 · The Lonely Dodo as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
- 2012 · Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets as Self
- 2012 · Jools Holland: My Life in Music as Self
- 2011 · Botham: The Legend of '81 as Self
- 2010 · The Bible: A History as
- 2009 · Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News as Self
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Self
- 2009 · Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self – Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Pocoyo & the Space Circus as Narrator (English)
- 2008 · Happy Birthday to GNU as Self
- 2004 · The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope as Narrator
- 2002 · Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Andre Breton
- 2001 · Funny Old World 2 as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Sabotage!! as Wellington
- 1999 · Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over as Self - Panellist
- 1999 · A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest as
- 1995 · The Steal as Wimborne
- 1989 · Employees From Hell as
- Future · Now & Then as TG
- 2026 · The Three Urns as Bookseller
- 2026 · Joke as
- 2025 · China's Wild Secrets as Narrated
- 2025 · A Friend of Dorothy as Dickie
- 2025 · Time Travel Is Dangerous! as Narrator (voice)
- 2025 · Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future as Self
- 2023 · John Craxton: A Life of Gifts as John Craxton (Voice)
- 2022 · A Year on Planet Earth as Self - Presenter
- 2022 · Mr Bear's Christmas as Narrator
- 2022 · Stuff the British Stole as Self
- 2022 · In Conversation with Alan Yentob as Self
- 2022 · Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History as Self - Narrator
- 2021 · Hating Peter Tatchell as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
- 2021 · Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films as Narrator
- 2021 · Night of the Living Dread as Meditation Guru (voice)
- 2020 · Fear of Dancing as Self - Actor & Writer
- 2019 · Tomorrow as Chris
- 2019 · Greed as Self
- 2019 · Almost Human as Narrator
- 2018 · Pocoyo's Easter Picnic as
- 2018 · Duck Duck Goose as Frazier (voice)
- 2017 · And the Winner Isn't as Self
- 2017 · All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction as
- 2016 · Santa Forgot as Narrator
- 2015 · Stephen Fry in Central America as Self - Presenter
- 2014 · Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me as Self
- 2014 · That Sugar Film as The Sugar Family Sketch
- 2014 · Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest as
- 2014 · Our Gay Wedding: The Musical as
- 2014 · Hidden Kingdoms as Narrator
- 2013 · Stephen Fry: Out There as Self
- 2013 · Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues as
- 2013 · The Look of Love as Barrister
- 2013 · Frost on Sketch Shows as Self
- 2013 · Stephen Fry's Key to the City as Self - Presenter
- 2012 · Just a Minute as Self
- 2011 · Wogan on Wodehouse as Self
- 2011 · Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry as Self
- 2011 · Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins as The Narrator
- 2010 · Lost Connection as Dad
- 2010 · The Great American Oil Spill as Self
- 2010 · Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House as Stephen Fry
- 2009 · House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Self - Presenter
- 2009 · Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Stephen Fry in America as Self - Host
- 2008 · Last of the Dambusters as Narrator
- 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
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: Guilty as Self
- 2006 · The Story of Light Entertainment as Self - Narrator
- 2006 · Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot as Self
- 2006 · Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration as Self
- 2006 · 'V for Vendetta' Unmasked as Deitrich
- 2005 · Ashes Fever as Self
- 2005 · MirrorMask as Librarian
- 2004 · The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Maurice Woodruff
- 2004 · Supergrass: A Home Movie as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · Absolute Power as Charles Prentiss
- 2003 · Bright Young Things as Chauffeur
- 2003 · Le Divorce as Piers Janely
- 2001 · Paddington Bear: The Early Years as
- 2001 · Four Play as Nigel Steele
- 2001 · Funny Old World as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · In Search of the Prisoner as Self
- 2001 · Funny Old World 3 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 4 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 5 as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Best as Frazer Crane
- 2000 · The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything as
- 2000 · A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' as Self
- 1999 · The Magician's House as Jasper the Owl (voice)
- 1999 · Blackadder: Back & Forth as Melchett
- 1998 · Stanley Baxter in Person as Self
- 1997 · Oscar as Self
- 1995 · Cold Comfort Farm as Mybug
- 1994 · An Audience with Bob Monkhouse as
- 1994 · The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller as Self
- 1993 · Camp Christmas as Santa Claus
- 1993 · Stalag Luft as Wing Commander James Forrester
- 1992 · Peter's Friends as Peter Morton
- 1989 · Saturday Night Clive as
- 1989 · Colleagues From Hell as
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Lords Melchett / Frondo
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1988 · A Handful of Dust as Reggie
- 1987 · The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2
- 1987 · The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball as Self
- 1986 · Omnibus Presents Comic Relief as
- 1986 · The Dangerous Brothers as
- 1985 · Happy Families as Dr. De Quincy
- 1982 · There's Nothing to Worry About! as Various
- Future · Le peuple miniature as