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
- 2026 · The Three Urns as Bookseller
- 2025 · This Ordinary Thing as Self (voice)
- 2025 · Christmas Karma as Radio Presenter (Voice)
- 2025 · The Celebrity Traitors as Self - Contestant
- 2025 · Too Much as Simon Remen
- 2025 · The Assembly as Self
- 2025 · Lubach as Self
- 2024 · Doctor Who at the Proms as C (archive footage)
- 2024 · Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as Supervisor (voice)
- 2024 · Treasure as Edek
- 2023 · The Dinosaur Hour as Self
- 2023 · Everything Now as Dr Nell
- 2023 · The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
- 2023 · The Inventor as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
- 2023 · Red, White & Royal Blue as King James III
- 2023 · Dinosaur with Stephen Fry as
- 2022 · A Year on Planet Earth as Self - Presenter
- 2022 · Stuff the British Stole as Self
- 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 · Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History as Self - Narrator
- 2022 · Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · It's a Sin as Arthur Garrison
- 2020 · The Big Night In as Lord Melchett
- 2019 · Harley Quinn as Brainiac (voice)
- 2019 · The Morning Show as Leonard Cromwell
- 2019 · Dancing with the Birds as Narrator
- 2019 · Greed as Self
- 2019 · Missing Link as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
- 2019 · Sex Education as NSQC Quizmaster
- 2018 · Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self
- 2018 · The Big Narstie Show as Self
- 2018 · The Con Is On as Sidney
- 2018 · Duck Duck Goose as Frazier (voice)
- 2018 · Apple & Onion as William Steakspeare (voice)
- 2018 · Apple & Onion as Onion's Dad (voice)
- 2017 · And the Winner Isn't as Self
- 2016 · The Great Indoors as Roland
- 2016 · Love & Friendship as Mr. Johnson
- 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 · A Life on Screen as Self
- 2014 · The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Master of Laketown
- 2014 · Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) as Self
- 2014 · That Sugar Film as The Sugar Family Sketch
- 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)
- 2014 · Hidden Kingdoms as Narrator
- 2013 · The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as The Master of Laketown
- 2013 · Yonderland as Cuddly Dick
- 2013 · Stephen Fry: Out There as Self
- 2013 · Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan as Self
- 2013 · The Look of Love as Barrister
- 2013 · The Last Leg as Self
- 2012 · Doors Open as Professor Robert Gissing
- 2012 · Gadget Man as Presenter
- 2012 · A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman as Oscar Wilde (voice)
- 2012 · Veep as Nikolai Genidze
- 2012 · Playhouse Presents as The European
- 2012 · Just a Minute as Self
- 2012 · The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff as Skulkingworm
- 2012 · The Story of Musicals as Self
- 2011 · The Borrowers as Professor Mildeye
- 2011 · Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Mycroft Holmes
- 2011 · Fry's Planet Word as
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self - Guest
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrator
- 2011 · Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry as Self
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat (voice)
- 2009 · House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Self - Presenter
- 2009 · Country Tracks as Self
- 2009 · Chris Moyles' Quiz Night as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder Rides Again as Self
- 2008 · Stephen Fry in America as Self - Host
- 2008 · Tales of the Riverbank as Owl (voice)
- 2007 · St Trinian's as Stephen Fry
- 2007 · Eichmann as Minister Tormer
- 2007 · Kingdom as Peter Kingdom
- 2007 · Shrink Rap as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Legends as Self (uncredited)
- 2006 · The Secret Show as
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · The Story of Light Entertainment as Self - Narrator
- 2006 · Stormbreaker as Smithers
- 2006 · V for Vendetta as Deitrich
- 2005 · Bones as Gordon Wyatt
- 2005 · Extras as Stephen Fry
- 2005 · A Cock and Bull Story as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
- 2005 · Nigella as Self
- 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 · MirrorMask as Librarian
- 2005 · 29 Minutes of Fame as Self - Panelist
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2005 · Tom Brown's Schooldays as Dr. Thomas Arnold
- 2004 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 2004 · The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Maurice Woodruff
- 2004 · Tooth as Pedro
- 2003 · Absolute Power as Charles Prentiss
- 2003 · Bright Young Things as Chauffeur
- 2003 · QI as Self - Presenter
- 2003 · Le Divorce as Piers Janely
- 2003 · Fortysomething as Derek
- 2002 · Top Gear as Self
- 2002 · The Making of Gosford Park as Self
- 2002 · Thunderpants as Sir Anthony Silk
- 2001 · Gosford Park as Inspector Thompson
- 2001 · 24 as Alastair Davies
- 2001 · Baddiel's Syndrome as The Psychiatrist
- 2000 · Relative Values as Frederick Crestwell
- 2000 · Click as Self
- 2000 · Gormenghast as Professor Bellgrove
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 2000 · The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything as
- 1999 · The Magician's House as Jasper the Owl (voice)
- 1999 · Watership Down as Cowslip (voice)
- 1999 · Blackadder: Back & Forth as Melchett
- 1999 · Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over as Self - Panellist
- 1998 · A Civil Action as Pinder
- 1998 · Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? as Self - Contestant
- 1998 · So Graham Norton as Self
- 1998 · In the Red as Controller, Radio 2
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1997 · Spice World as Judge
- 1997 · Wilde as Oscar Wilde
- 1996 · Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self
- 1996 · Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self - Panellist
- 1996 · The Wind in the Willows as The Judge
- 1995 · The Thin Blue Line as Blaster Sump
- 1995 · Kulturzeit as self
- 1995 · Cold Comfort Farm as Mybug
- 1994 · I.Q. as James Moreland
- 1994 · Room 101 as Self
- 1993 · Shooting Stars as Self
- 1992 · Peter's Friends as Peter Morton
- 1990 · Have I Got News for You as Self
- 1990 · Rita Rudner as
- 1990 · Jeeves and Wooster as Jeeves
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
- 1989 · Anything More Would Be Greedy as
- 1989 · Saturday Night Clive as
- 1989 · A Bit of Fry & Laurie as
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Lords Melchett / Frondo
- 1988 · This Is David Lander as
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1988 · Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
- 1988 · A Fish Called Wanda as Hutchison
- 1988 · A Handful of Dust as Reggie
- 1988 · Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute as Self
- 1988 · Comic Relief as
- 1987 · The New Statesman as Piers Lonsdale
- 1987 · Filthy Rich & Catflap as P'Farty
- 1986 · Omnibus Presents Comic Relief as
- 1986 · Saturday Live as
- 1986 · The Dangerous Brothers as
- 1985 · The Good Father as Creighton
- 1985 · Happy Families as Doctor De Quincy
- 1985 · Screen Two as Humphrey Taylor
- 1983 · Natural World as Narrator
- 1983 · The Crystal Cube as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
- 1983 · Blackadder as Lord Melchett
- 1983 · Blackadder as General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
- 1983 · Blackadder as The Duke of Wellington
- 1983 · Alfresco as Various
- 1982 · The Young Ones as Lord Snot
- 1982 · Countdown as
- 1982 · There's Nothing to Worry About! as Various
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1981 · Chariots of Fire as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
- 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 · Red, White & Royal Wedding as King James III
- 2026 · Joke as
- 2025 · Finding Father Christmas as Self
- 2025 · Time Travel Is Dangerous! as Narrator (voice)
- 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)
- 2024 · Bottom: Exposed as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Jeopardy! as Self - Presenter
- 2023 · Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self - Contributor
- 2023 · Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator
- 2022 · Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2022 · David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
- 2022 · In Conversation with Alan Yentob as Self
- 2022 · Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life as Self
- 2022 · The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
- 2022 · George Michael: Portrait of an Artist as Self
- 2021 · Hating Peter Tatchell as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
- 2021 · It's Always Something as Narrator
- 2021 · The Picture of Dorian Gray as The Interviewer
- 2020 · London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Tomorrow as Chris
- 2019 · Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Self
- 2017 · Queer as Art as Self
- 2017 · Britain's Great Gay Buildings as
- 2016 · A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats as Self
- 2015 · A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry as Self
- 2015 · Rocky Horror Show Live as Narrator
- 2015 · Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review as Narrator
- 2015 · Stephen Fry in Central America as Self - Presenter
- 2015 · Do I Sound Gay? as Self
- 2014 · Marked as Father Christmas
- 2014 · Tiny Giants 3D as Narrator
- 2013 · Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was as Narrator
- 2013 · Super Clyde as Randolph
- 2013 · The Lonely Dodo as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
- 2012 · Wagner & Me as Self
- 2012 · Shakespeare's Sonnets as
- 2012 · Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets as Self
- 2012 · Twelfth Night as Malvolio
- 2011 · Holy Flying Circus as God
- 2011 · Making Qi as Self
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrater
- 2011 · Botham: The Legend of '81 as Self
- 2011 · March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
- 2010 · Wagner and Me as Star
- 2010 · Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
- 2010 · The Bible: A History as
- 2009 · Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self – Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Pocoyo & the Space Circus as Narrator (English)
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self - Presenter
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
- 2007 · Snow White: The Sequel as The Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive as
- 2006 · 'V for Vendetta' Unmasked as Deitrich
- 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 · The Funny Blokes of British Comedy as General Sir Anthony Melchett (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2005 · Missing as
- 2004 · A Bear Named Winnie as Protheroe
- 2004 · Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self
- 2002 · Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time as The Minister of Chance
- 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 · The Discovery of Heaven as Onno Quist
- 2001 · Four Play as Nigel Steele
- 2000 · Sabotage!! as Wellington
- 2000 · Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration as Self
- 2000 · Best as Frazer Crane
- 2000 · Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Dr. Peter Robinson
- 1999 · The Tichborne Claimant as Hawkins
- 1999 · Geri as Self
- 1998 · Stanley Baxter in Person as Self
- 1994 · The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller as Self
- 1993 · Stalag Luft as Wing Commander James Forrester
- 1992 · Common Pursuit as
- Future · Now & Then as TG
- 1997 · Oscar as Self
- 1997 · An Audience with Elton John as Self
- 1995 · The Steal as Wimborne
- 1990 · Old Flames as Daniel Davenport
- 1989 · The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball as Self
- 1989 · Employees From Hell as
- 1988 · Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as King Charles I
- 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
- 1982 · The Cellar Tapes as various
- Future · Frank and Percy as
- 2025 · The Castle, Rebuilding History as Narrator
- 2025 · A Friend of Dorothy as Dickie
- 2025 · Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future as Self
- 2024 · Jeopardy! Australia as Host
- 2024 · U.Me: The Musical as Narrator
- 2023 · The Big Fat Quiz of Sport as Self
- 2023 · Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis as
- 2021 · Night of the Living Dread as Meditation Guru (voice)
- 2020 · Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
- 2020 · Fear of Dancing as Self - Actor & Writer
- 2019 · Almost Human as Narrator
- 2018 · M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity as M. C. Escher (voice)
- 2017 · 50 Years Legal as Self
- 2017 · Battle of Soho as Self
- 2017 · Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song as Self
- 2016 · Santa Forgot as Narrator
- 2016 · The Killing$ of Tony Blair as Self
- 2016 · The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On 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 · Le peuple miniature as
- 2013 · Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin as
- 2013 · Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues as
- 2013 · Frost on Sketch Shows as Self
- 2012 · Special Report – The Voice of Darts as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Jools Holland: My Life in Music as Self
- 2011 · Wogan on Wodehouse 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 · In Confidence as
- 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: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo as Narrator
- 2006 · Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration as Self
- 2006 · The Transporters as Narrator
- 2004 · The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope as Narrator
- 2001 · Funny Old World as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 3 as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' as Self
- 1994 · An Audience with Bob Monkhouse as
- 1993 · Camp Christmas as Santa Claus
- 1987 · The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2
- Future · Touché as Narrator (voice)
- Future · Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts as Self - Host
- 2025 · China's Wild Secrets as Narrated
- 2025 · Recall Me Maybe as Kevin
- 2024 · Black Samphire as Mari's Boss
- 2024 · We Are Home as Self - narrator (voice)
- 2023 · John Craxton: A Life of Gifts as John Craxton (Voice)
- 2022 · Mr Bear's Christmas 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 · 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
- 2019 · Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive as Self
- 2018 · Pocoyo's Easter Picnic as
- 2017 · All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction as
- 2016 · Wild Africa / Tiny Giants as Narrator (Tiny Giants)
- 2016 · Pocoyo's Halloween as Narrator
- 2014 · Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me as Self
- 2014 · Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk as Narrator
- 2014 · Our Gay Wedding: The Musical as
- 2013 · Stephen Fry's Key to the City as Self - Presenter
- 2012 · Cicada Princess as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House as Stephen Fry
- 2008 · Happy Birthday to GNU as Self
- 2008 · Last of the Dambusters as Narrator
- 2008 · Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest as Narrator
- 2008 · The Machine That Made Us as Self - Presenter
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: Guilty as Self
- 2006 · Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot as Self
- 2005 · Ashes Fever as Self
- 2005 · Meet Pocoyo! as Narrator
- 2005 · Pocoyo & Friends as Narrator
- 2004 · Supergrass: A Home Movie as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · The Biggest Nose in Borneo as Narrator
- 2003 · Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self
- 2001 · In Search of the Prisoner as Self
- 2001 · Funny Old World 4 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 2 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 5 as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest as
- 1997 · Simply Wilde as Self
- 1989 · Colleagues From Hell as
- 1985 · Happy Families as Dr. De Quincy
- Future · Black Samphire as
- Future · This Is Soho as Narrator (voice)