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 · Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future as Self
- 2024 · Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as Supervisor (voice)
- 2024 · About a Hero as
- 2024 · The Big Fat Quiz of Telly as Self
- 2024 · We Work for the Dead as Pruitt (voice)
- 2023 · The Canterville Ghost as Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
- 2023 · Red, White & Royal Blue as King James III
- 2023 · Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis as
- 2022 · Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba 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 · Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
- 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 · Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Self
- 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 · Almost Human as Narrator
- 2019 · Sex Education as NSQC Quizmaster
- 2018 · Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood 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 · Queer as Art as Self
- 2017 · 50 Years Legal as Self
- 2017 · Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song as Self
- 2016 · The Killing$ of Tony Blair as Self
- 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
- 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 · 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 · A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell as Self - Darts Fan
- 2014 · Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Winston Churchill (voice)
- 2013 · The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as The Master of Laketown
- 2013 · Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was as Narrator
- 2013 · The Look of Love as Barrister
- 2013 · The Last Leg as Self
- 2012 · A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman as Oscar Wilde (voice)
- 2012 · Veep as Nikolai Genidze
- 2012 · Jools Holland: My Life in Music as Self
- 2011 · Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Mycroft Holmes
- 2011 · Making Qi as Self
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self - Guest
- 2011 · Botham: The Legend of '81 as Self
- 2010 · Lost Connection as Dad
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat (voice)
- 2009 · Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2008 · Tales of the Riverbank as Owl (voice)
- 2007 · St Trinian's as Stephen Fry
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
- 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 · Stormbreaker as Smithers
- 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 · MirrorMask as Librarian
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · A Bear Named Winnie as Protheroe
- 2004 · Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? as Self
- 2004 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 2004 · The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope as Narrator
- 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
- 2002 · Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Andre Breton
- 2001 · 24 as Alastair Davies
- 2001 · Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
- 2001 · The Discovery of Heaven as Onno Quist
- 2000 · Click as Self
- 2000 · Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Dr. Peter Robinson
- 1998 · A Civil Action as Pinder
- 1998 · Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? as Self - Contestant
- 1998 · So Graham Norton as Self
- 1998 · Parkinson 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
- 1995 · The Thin Blue Line as Blaster Sump
- 1995 · Kulturzeit as self
- 1995 · Cold Comfort Farm as Mybug
- 1994 · Room 101 as Self
- 1993 · Shooting Stars as Self
- 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 · Employees From Hell as
- 1988 · Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
- 1988 · A Fish Called Wanda as Hutchison
- 1988 · A Handful of Dust as Reggie
- 1987 · The New Statesman as Piers Lonsdale
- 1986 · Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger as
- 1985 · The Good Father as Creighton
- 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
- 1981 · Chariots of Fire as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1949 · The BAFTA Awards as Host
- Future · Le peuple miniature as
- 2025 · The Celebrity Traitors as Self - Contestant
- 2025 · Lubach as Self
- 2024 · Doctor Who at the Proms as C (archive footage)
- 2024 · This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) as Self
- 2023 · The Inventor as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
- 2023 · John Craxton: A Life of Gifts as John Craxton (Voice)
- 2021 · Hating Peter Tatchell as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
- 2021 · The Picture of Dorian Gray as The Interviewer
- 2021 · Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean as Narrator
- 2020 · Fear of Dancing as Self - Actor & Writer
- 2020 · What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? as Self
- 2019 · Dancing with the Birds as Narrator
- 2018 · The Big Narstie Show as Self
- 2017 · Battle of Soho 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
- 2014 · Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest as
- 2014 · Lily's Driftwood Bay as Lord Stag (voice)
- 2014 · Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk as Narrator
- 2013 · Yonderland as Cuddly Dick
- 2010 · Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
- 2010 · Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House as Stephen Fry
- 2009 · House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
- 2009 · Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self – Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Pocoyo & the Space Circus as Narrator
- 2006 · The Secret Show as
- 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 · Missing as
- 2001 · Paddington Bear: The Early Years as
- 2001 · Gosford Park as Inspector Thompson
- 2000 · Sabotage!! as Wellington
- 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)
- 1995 · The Steal as Wimborne
- 1992 · Peter's Friends as Peter Morton
- 1989 · A Bit of Fry & Laurie as
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Lords Melchett / Frondo
- 1986 · The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live as Self
- 1982 · Countdown as
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Now & Then as TG
- 2025 · Finding Father Christmas as Self
- 2025 · A Friend of Dorothy as Dickie
- 2025 · Time Travel Is Dangerous! as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Treasure as Edek
- 2024 · Bottom: Exposed as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Jeopardy! as Self - Presenter
- 2023 · Everything Now as Dr Nell
- 2023 · Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self - Contributor
- 2023 · The Big Fat Quiz of Sport as Self
- 2022 · A Year on Planet Earth as Self - Presenter
- 2022 · David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
- 2022 · Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History as Self - Narrator
- 2021 · Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films as Narrator
- 2021 · Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
- 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
- 2017 · Britain's Great Gay Buildings as
- 2016 · The Great Indoors as Roland
- 2016 · Love & Friendship as Mr. Johnson
- 2016 · Pocoyo's Halloween as Narrator
- 2015 · Rocky Horror Show Live as Narrator
- 2015 · Do I Sound Gay? as Self
- 2014 · A Life on Screen as Self
- 2014 · Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me as Self
- 2014 · The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill as Self
- 2014 · Tiny Giants 3D as Narrator
- 2013 · Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan as Self
- 2012 · Doors Open as Professor Robert Gissing
- 2012 · Gadget Man as Presenter
- 2012 · Shakespeare's Sonnets as
- 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 · Ocean Giants as Narrater
- 2011 · March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
- 2011 · Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins as The Narrator
- 2010 · The Great American Oil Spill as Self
- 2009 · Country Tracks as Self
- 2009 · Chris Moyles' Quiz Night as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder Rides Again as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
- 2008 · Last of the Dambusters as Narrator
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self
- 2007 · Eichmann as Minister Tormer
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: Guilty as Self
- 2007 · Shrink Rap as Self
- 2006 · The Story of Light Entertainment as Self - Narrator
- 2006 · Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot as Self
- 2005 · A Cock and Bull Story as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
- 2005 · Nigella as Self
- 2005 · Tom Brown's Schooldays as Dr. Thomas Arnold
- 2004 · The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Maurice Woodruff
- 2003 · Absolute Power as Charles Prentiss
- 2003 · The Biggest Nose in Borneo as Narrator
- 2003 · Fortysomething as Derek
- 2003 · Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self
- 2002 · Thunderpants as Sir Anthony Silk
- 2001 · Four Play as Nigel Steele
- 2001 · Funny Old World 2 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 3 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 5 as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Relative Values as Frederick Crestwell
- 2000 · Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration as Self
- 2000 · Best as Frazer Crane
- 2000 · Gormenghast as
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 2000 · The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything as
- 1999 · Blackadder: Back & Forth as Melchett
- 1999 · A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest as
- 1998 · Stanley Baxter in Person as Self
- 1998 · In the Red as Controller, Radio 2
- 1997 · Spice World as Judge
- 1996 · The Wind in the Willows as The Judge
- 1994 · I.Q. as James Moreland
- 1993 · Camp Christmas as Santa Claus
- 1992 · Common Pursuit as
- 1989 · Saturday Night Clive as
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1988 · Comic Relief as
- 1987 · The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2
- 1987 · Filthy Rich & Catflap as P'Farty
- 1986 · Omnibus Presents Comic Relief as
- 1986 · Saturday Live as
- 1985 · Happy Families as Doctor De Quincy
- 1983 · Alfresco as Various
- 1982 · There's Nothing to Worry About! as Various
- 1976 · The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
- Future · Touché as Narrator (voice)
- 2025 · This Ordinary Thing as Voice
- 2025 · The Castle, Rebuilding History as Narrator
- 2024 · Black Samphire as Mari's Boss
- 2023 · The Dinosaur Hour as Self
- 2023 · Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life as Self
- 2023 · Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator
- 2022 · Stuff the British Stole as Self
- 2022 · In Conversation with Alan Yentob as Self
- 2021 · It's Always Something as Narrator
- 2020 · London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Tomorrow as Chris
- 2018 · M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity as M. C. Escher (voice)
- 2014 · Hidden Kingdoms as Narrator
- 2013 · Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin as
- 2013 · Stephen Fry: Out There as Self
- 2013 · Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues as
- 2013 · Frost on Sketch Shows as Self
- 2012 · Twelfth Night as Malvolio
- 2012 · The Story of Musicals as Self
- 2011 · Wogan on Wodehouse as Self
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrator
- 2011 · Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry as Self
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Self - Presenter
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Self
- 2008 · Stephen Fry in America as Self - Host
- 2008 · Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo as Narrator
- 2008 · The Machine That Made Us as Self - Presenter
- 2007 · Snow White: The Sequel as The Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive as
- 2006 · The Transporters as Narrator
- 2005 · Dirty Tricks as Owl (voice)
- 2004 · Tooth as Pedro
- 2001 · Funny Old World 4 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Baddiel's Syndrome as The Psychiatrist
- 1997 · Simply Wilde as Self
- 1997 · Oscar as Self
- 1988 · Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as King Charles I
- 1982 · The Cellar Tapes as various
- Future · Frank and Percy as
- 2025 · China's Wild Secrets as Narrated
- 2024 · We Are Home as Self - narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Jeopardy! Australia as Host
- 2024 · U.Me: The Musical as Narrator
- 2023 · Dinosaur with Stephen Fry as
- 2022 · Mr Bear's Christmas as Narrator
- 2022 · George Michael: Portrait of an Artist as Self
- 2019 · Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Self
- 2016 · Santa Forgot as Narrator
- 2015 · Stephen Fry in Central America as Self - Presenter
- 2014 · Marked as Father Christmas
- 2014 · Our Gay Wedding: The Musical as
- 2013 · Super Clyde as Randolph
- 2013 · The Lonely Dodo as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
- 2013 · Stephen Fry's Key to the City as Self - Presenter
- 2012 · Special Report – The Voice of Darts as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Cicada Princess as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Wagner & Me as Self
- 2012 · Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets as Self
- 2011 · Fry's Planet Word as
- 2010 · Wagner and Me as Star
- 2008 · Happy Birthday to GNU as Self
- 2008 · Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest as Narrator
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self - Presenter
- 2006 · Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration as Self
- 2005 · Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
- 2005 · Meet Pocoyo! as Narrator
- 2005 · 29 Minutes of Fame as Self - Panelist
- 2005 · Pocoyo & Friends as Narrator
- 2004 · Supergrass: A Home Movie as Self (archive footage)
- 2001 · Funny Old World as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · In Search of the Prisoner as Self
- 1999 · The Tichborne Claimant as Hawkins
- 1999 · Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over as Self - Panellist
- 1999 · Geri as Self
- 1994 · An Audience with Bob Monkhouse as
- 1993 · Stalag Luft as Wing Commander James Forrester
- 1990 · Rita Rudner as
- 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
- 1986 · The Dangerous Brothers as
- 1983 · The Crystal Cube as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
- Future · Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts as Self - Host
- 1987 · The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball as Self
- Future · Black Samphire as
- Future · This Is Soho as Narrator (voice)