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