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 - Contestant
- 2025 · Too Much as Simon Remen
- 2025 · Lubach as Self
- 2024 · Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as Supervisor (voice)
- 2024 · Black Samphire as Mari's Boss
- 2024 · Treasure as Edek
- 2024 · Bottom: Exposed as Narrator (voice)
- 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
- 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 · 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 · Greed as Self
- 2019 · Missing Link as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
- 2019 · Sex Education as NSQC Quizmaster
- 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)
- 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 · 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 · The Last Leg as Self
- 2012 · Gadget Man as Presenter
- 2012 · Veep as Nikolai Genidze
- 2012 · Just a Minute as Self
- 2012 · The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff as Skulkingworm
- 2012 · The Story of Musicals as Self
- 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
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrater
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat (voice)
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Self - Presenter
- 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 · 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 · Stormbreaker as Smithers
- 2006 · V for Vendetta as Deitrich
- 2006 · The Transporters as Narrator
- 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 · Missing as
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 2004 · Tooth as Pedro
- 2003 · Absolute Power as Charles Prentiss
- 2003 · QI as Self - Presenter
- 2003 · Fortysomething as Derek
- 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 · Gormenghast as
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 1999 · Watership Down as Cowslip (voice)
- 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 · Simply Wilde 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
- 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 · A Bit of Fry & Laurie as
- 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 · Comic Relief as
- 1987 · The New Statesman as Piers Lonsdale
- 1987 · Filthy Rich & Catflap as P'Farty
- 1986 · Saturday Live as
- 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 · 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
- Future · Touché as Narrator (voice)
- 2025 · This Ordinary Thing as Self (voice)
- 2025 · A Friend of Dorothy as Dickie
- 2024 · Jeopardy! Australia as Host
- 2024 · Jeopardy! as Self - Presenter
- 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 · Hating Peter Tatchell as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
- 2019 · Dancing with the Birds as Narrator
- 2018 · Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self
- 2018 · M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity as M. C. Escher (voice)
- 2016 · Santa Forgot as Narrator
- 2015 · Stephen Fry in Central America as Self - Presenter
- 2014 · That Sugar Film as The Sugar Family Sketch
- 2013 · Super Clyde as Randolph
- 2013 · Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan as Self
- 2013 · The Look of Love as Barrister
- 2011 · The Borrowers as Professor Mildeye
- 2011 · Fry's Planet Word as
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrator
- 2008 · Stephen Fry in America as Self - Host
- 2008 · Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
- 2006 · The Story of Light Entertainment as Self - Narrator
- 2005 · MirrorMask as Librarian
- 2004 · A Bear Named Winnie as Protheroe
- 2004 · The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Maurice Woodruff
- 2003 · Bright Young Things as Chauffeur
- 2003 · Le Divorce as Piers Janely
- 2002 · The Making of Gosford Park as Self
- 2001 · Baddiel's Syndrome as The Psychiatrist
- 2000 · The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything as
- 1999 · The Magician's House as Jasper the Owl (voice)
- 1999 · Geri as Self
- 1997 · Spice World as Judge
- 1996 · The Wind in the Willows as The Judge
- 1995 · Cold Comfort Farm as Mybug
- 1992 · Common Pursuit as
- 1982 · Countdown as
- Future · Red, White & Royal Wedding as King James III
- 2025 · Christmas Karma as Radio Presenter (Voice)
- 2025 · Time Travel Is Dangerous! as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Doctor Who at the Proms as C (archive footage)
- 2024 · About a Hero as
- 2024 · The Big Fat Quiz of Telly as Self
- 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 · Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life as Self
- 2020 · London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · The Big Night In as Lord Melchett
- 2017 · And the Winner Isn't as Self
- 2017 · Britain's Great Gay Buildings as
- 2015 · Rocky Horror Show Live as Narrator
- 2015 · Do I Sound Gay? as Self
- 2014 · Marked as Father Christmas
- 2014 · Tiny Giants 3D as Narrator
- 2012 · Doors Open as Professor Robert Gissing
- 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 · Holy Flying Circus as God
- 2011 · Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry as Self
- 2011 · March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
- 2009 · House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
- 2009 · Country Tracks as Self
- Future · Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts as Self - Host
- 2025 · Finding Father Christmas as Self
- 2025 · Recall Me Maybe as Kevin
- 2025 · The Castle, Rebuilding History as Narrator
- 2024 · We Work for the Dead as Pruitt (voice)
- 2023 · The Big Fat Quiz of Sport as Self
- 2023 · Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator
- 2022 · Mr Bear's Christmas as Narrator
- 2022 · David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
- 2022 · The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
- 2022 · George Michael: Portrait of an Artist as Self
- 2021 · Night of the Living Dread as Meditation Guru (voice)
- 2020 · What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? as Self
- 2019 · Tomorrow as Chris
- 2019 · Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Self
- 2016 · Pocoyo's Halloween as Narrator
- 2014 · A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell as Self - Darts Fan
- 2014 · Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk as Narrator
- 2012 · Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets as Self
- 2011 · Making Qi as Self
- 2011 · Botham: The Legend of '81 as Self
- 2010 · Wagner and Me as Star
- 2010 · Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
- 2010 · The Great American Oil Spill as Self
- 2009 · Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2005 · Dirty Tricks as Owl (voice)
- 2005 · 29 Minutes of Fame as Self - Panelist
- 2004 · The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope as Narrator
- 2002 · Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Andre Breton
- 2001 · Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
- 2000 · Sabotage!! as Wellington
- 2000 · Best as Frazer Crane
- 1999 · Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over as Self - Panellist
- Future · Frank and Percy as
- Future · Black Samphire as
- 2025 · China's Wild Secrets as Narrated
- 2024 · This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) as Self
- 2024 · We Are Home as Self - narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films as Narrator
- 2021 · The Picture of Dorian Gray as The Interviewer
- 2021 · Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean as Narrator
- 2020 · Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
- 2018 · Pocoyo's Easter Picnic as
- 2017 · All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction as
- 2017 · Queer as Art as Self
- 2016 · The Killing$ of Tony Blair as Self
- 2016 · The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On as Self
- 2014 · Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me as Self
- 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 · The Lonely Dodo as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
- 2012 · Special Report – The Voice of Darts as Self (archive footage)
- 2011 · Wogan on Wodehouse as Self
- 2011 · Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins as The Narrator
- 2010 · The Bible: A History as
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Self
- 2009 · Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self – Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Happy Birthday to GNU as Self
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: Guilty as Self
- 2007 · Snow White: The Sequel as The Narrator (voice)
- 2005 · Meet Pocoyo! as Narrator
- 2004 · Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self
- 2001 · Funny Old World 5 as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Dr. Peter Robinson
- 1999 · A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest as
- Future · Le peuple miniature as
- Future · Now & Then as TG
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
- 2005 · Pocoyo & Friends as Narrator
- 2003 · Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self
- 2001 · Paddington Bear: The Early Years as
- 2001 · Funny Old World 3 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 4 as Narrator (voice)
- 1986 · Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger as
- 1985 · Happy Families as Dr. De Quincy
- Future · This Is Soho as Narrator (voice)
- 2026 · The Three Urns as Bookseller
- 2026 · Joke as
- 2025 · Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future as Self
- 2024 · U.Me: The Musical as Narrator
- 2023 · Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis as
- 2023 · John Craxton: A Life of Gifts as John Craxton (Voice)
- 2021 · It's Always Something as Narrator
- 2021 · Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
- 2020 · Fear of Dancing as Self - Actor & Writer
- 2020 · Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Self
- 2019 · Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive as Self
- 2019 · Almost Human as Narrator
- 2017 · 50 Years Legal as Self
- 2017 · Battle of Soho as Self
- 2017 · Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song as Self
- 2016 · A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats 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 · Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest as
- 2014 · Our Gay Wedding: The Musical as
- 2013 · Frost on Sketch Shows as Self
- 2013 · Stephen Fry's Key to the City as Self - Presenter
- 2012 · Jools Holland: My Life in Music as Self
- 2010 · Lost Connection as Dad
- 2010 · Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House as Stephen Fry
- 2008 · Blackadder Rides Again as Self
- 2008 · Pocoyo & the Space Circus as Narrator (English)
- 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 - Presenter
- 2006 · Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive as
- 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 · 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 · Tom Brown's Schooldays as Dr. Thomas Arnold
- 2004 · Supergrass: A Home Movie as Self (archive footage)
- 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
- 2001 · Four Play as Nigel Steele
- 2001 · Funny Old World as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 2 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · In Search of the Prisoner as Self
- 2000 · Relative Values as Frederick Crestwell
- 2000 · Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration as Self
- 2000 · A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' as Self
- 1999 · The Tichborne Claimant as Hawkins
- 1999 · Blackadder: Back & Forth as Melchett
- 1998 · Stanley Baxter in Person as Self
- 1997 · Oscar as Self
- 1997 · An Audience with Elton John as Self
- 1995 · The Steal as Wimborne
- 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
- 1990 · Old Flames as Daniel Davenport
- 1989 · Anything More Would Be Greedy as
- 1989 · Saturday Night Clive as
- 1989 · The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball as Self
- 1989 · Employees From Hell as
- 1989 · Colleagues From Hell as
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Lords Melchett / Frondo
- 1988 · A Handful of Dust as Reggie
- 1988 · Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as King Charles I
- 1987 · The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2
- 1987 · The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball as Self
- 1986 · Omnibus Presents Comic Relief as
- 1986 · The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live as Self
- 1986 · The Dangerous Brothers as
- 1985 · The Good Father as Creighton
- 1983 · The Crystal Cube as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
- 1982 · There's Nothing to Worry About! as Various
- 1982 · The Cellar Tapes as various
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee