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
- 2026 · Joke as
- 2025 · Finding Father Christmas as Self
- 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 · Time Travel Is Dangerous! as Narrator (voice)
- 2025 · Lubach as Self
- 2024 · Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as Supervisor (voice)
- 2024 · Jeopardy! Australia as Host
- 2024 · Jeopardy! as Self - Presenter
- 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
- 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 · Hating Peter Tatchell as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
- 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 · Almost Human as Narrator
- 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 · Queer as Art as Self
- 2016 · Santa Forgot as Narrator
- 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 · Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan as Self
- 2013 · The Look of Love as Barrister
- 2013 · The Last Leg as Self
- 2012 · Gadget Man as Presenter
- 2012 · Twelfth Night as Malvolio
- 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 · 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)
- 2010 · In Confidence as
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Self - Presenter
- 2009 · Country Tracks as Self
- 2009 · The Meaning of Life as Self
- 2009 · Chris Moyles' Quiz Night as Self
- 2008 · Stephen Fry in America as Self - Host
- 2007 · St Trinian's as Stephen Fry
- 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 · Dirty Tricks as Owl (voice)
- 2005 · Bones as Gordon Wyatt
- 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 · 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 · The Funny Blokes of British Comedy as General Sir Anthony Melchett (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2005 · American Dad! as John Michael Heaton (voice)
- 2005 · American Dad! as Mr. Cavendish (voice)
- 2005 · Missing as
- 2005 · MirrorMask as Librarian
- 2005 · 29 Minutes of Fame as Self - Panelist
- 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 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 · Thunderpants as Sir Anthony Silk
- 2001 · Gosford Park as Inspector Thompson
- 2001 · 24 as Alastair Davies
- 2001 · Baddiel's Syndrome as The Psychiatrist
- 2000 · Click as Self
- 2000 · Gormenghast as Professor Bellgrove
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 2000 · The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything as
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 1999 · The Magician's House as Jasper the Owl (voice)
- 1999 · Watership Down as Cowslip (voice)
- 1999 · Blackadder: Back & Forth as Melchett
- 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
- 1995 · The Thin Blue Line as Blaster Sump
- 1995 · Kulturzeit as self
- 1995 · Cold Comfort Farm as Mybug
- 1994 · I.Q. as James Morland
- 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 · Comic Relief as
- 1987 · The New Statesman as Piers Lonsdale
- 1987 · The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2
- 1987 · Filthy Rich & Catflap as P'Farty
- 1986 · Omnibus Presents Comic Relief as
- 1986 · Saturday Live as
- 1986 · The Dangerous Brothers as
- 1986 · Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger as
- 1985 · The Good Father as Creighton
- 1985 · Happy Families as Doctor De Quincy
- 1985 · Screen Two as Humphrey Taylor
- 1985 · Screen Two as Daniel Davenport
- 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
- 1967 · Omnibus as
- 1949 · The BAFTA Awards as Host
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Red, White & Royal Wedding as King James III
- 2025 · China's Wild Secrets as Narrated
- 2025 · A Friend of Dorothy as Dickie
- 2025 · Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future as Self
- 2024 · Doctor Who at the Proms as C (archive footage)
- 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 · Treasure as Edek
- 2024 · Bottom: Exposed as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self - Contributor
- 2023 · The Big Fat Quiz of Sport as Self
- 2023 · Dinosaur with Stephen Fry as
- 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
- 2020 · Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
- 2020 · London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · The Big Night In as Lord Melchett
- 2019 · Dancing with the Birds as Narrator
- 2019 · Tomorrow as Chris
- 2018 · M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity as M. C. Escher (voice)
- 2017 · And the Winner Isn't as Self
- 2017 · Britain's Great Gay Buildings as
- 2017 · Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song as Self
- 2016 · Wild Africa / Tiny Giants as Narrator (Tiny Giants)
- 2016 · Pocoyo's Halloween as Narrator
- 2016 · The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On as Self
- 2015 · Rocky Horror Show Live as Narrator
- 2015 · Stephen Fry in Central America as Self - Presenter
- 2015 · Do I Sound Gay? as Self
- 2014 · Marked as Father Christmas
- 2014 · That Sugar Film as The Sugar Family Sketch
- 2014 · Tiny Giants 3D as Narrator
- 2013 · Stephen Fry: Out There as Self
- 2013 · Super Clyde as Randolph
- 2013 · The Lonely Dodo as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
- 2012 · Doors Open as Professor Robert Gissing
- 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 · Jools Holland: My Life in Music as Self
- 2011 · Holy Flying Circus as God
- 2011 · Fry's Planet Word as
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrater
- 2011 · March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
- 2010 · Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
- 2010 · The Bible: A History as
- 2009 · House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
- 2009 · Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self – Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Blackadder Rides Again as Self
- 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
- 2008 · Tales of the Riverbank as Owl (voice)
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self - Presenter
- 2007 · Eichmann as Minister Tormer
- 2007 · Snow White: The Sequel as The Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive as
- 2006 · Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot as Self
- 2006 · 'V for Vendetta' Unmasked as Deitrich
- 2006 · The Transporters as Narrator
- 2005 · Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
- 2005 · Tom Brown's Schooldays as Dr. Thomas Arnold
- 2003 · The Biggest Nose in Borneo as Narrator
- 2002 · The Making of Gosford Park as Self
- 2002 · Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time as The Minister of Chance
- 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 · 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
- 1999 · The Tichborne Claimant as Hawkins
- 1999 · Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over as Self - Panellist
- 1999 · Geri as Self
- 1996 · The Wind in the Willows as The Judge
- 1995 · The Steal as Wimborne
- 1994 · An Audience with Bob Monkhouse as
- 1994 · The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller as Self
- 1993 · Stalag Luft as Wing Commander James Forrester
- 1992 · Common Pursuit as
- 1990 · Old Flames as Daniel Davenport
- 1989 · The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball as Self
- 1989 · Employees From Hell as
- 1988 · A Handful of Dust as Reggie
- 1988 · Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute as Self
- 1988 · Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as King Charles I
- 1985 · Happy Families as Dr. De Quincy
- Future · Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts as Self - Host
- 1982 · The Cellar Tapes as various
- Future · Now & Then as TG
- 2026 · 100 Questions with Tom Simons as Self
- 2025 · The Castle, Rebuilding History as Narrator
- 2024 · Black Samphire as Mari's Boss
- 2024 · We Work for the Dead as Pruitt (voice)
- 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
- 2021 · Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean as Narrator
- 2020 · Fear of Dancing as Self - Actor & Writer
- 2020 · Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley as Self
- 2019 · Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Self
- 2018 · Pocoyo's Easter Picnic as
- 2017 · 50 Years Legal 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 · Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk as Narrator
- 2013 · Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was as Narrator
- 2013 · Frost on Sketch Shows as Self
- 2012 · Cicada Princess as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Wagner & Me as Self
- 2011 · Making Qi as Self
- 2011 · Wogan on Wodehouse as Self
- 2011 · Botham: The Legend of '81 as Self
- 2010 · Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House as Stephen Fry
- 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 · Happy Birthday to GNU as Self
- 2008 · Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest as Narrator
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
- 2004 · The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope as Narrator
- 2003 · Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self
- 2002 · Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Andre Breton
- 2000 · Sabotage!! as Wellington
- 1997 · Simply Wilde as Self
- 1997 · Oscar as Self
- 1997 · An Audience with Elton John as Self
- 1987 · The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball as Self
- 1986 · The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live as Self
- Future · Touché as Narrator (voice)
- Future · Frank and Percy as
- 2025 · Recall Me Maybe as Kevin
- 2024 · U.Me: The Musical as Narrator
- 2022 · Mr Bear's Christmas as Narrator
- 2021 · Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films as Narrator
- 2021 · Night of the Living Dread as Meditation Guru (voice)
- 2021 · The Picture of Dorian Gray as The Interviewer
- 2020 · What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? as Self
- 2019 · Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive as Self
- 2017 · All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction as
- 2017 · Battle of Soho as Self
- 2016 · The Killing$ of Tony Blair as Self
- 2016 · A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats as Self
- 2014 · Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me as Self
- 2014 · The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill as Self
- 2014 · A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell as Self - Darts Fan
- 2014 · Le peuple miniature as
- 2014 · Our Gay Wedding: The Musical as
- 2013 · Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin as
- 2013 · Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues as
- 2013 · Stephen Fry's Key to the City as Self - Presenter
- 2012 · Special Report – The Voice of Darts as Self (archive footage)
- 2011 · Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins as The Narrator
- 2010 · Lost Connection as Dad
- 2010 · Wagner and Me as Star
- 2010 · The Great American Oil Spill as Self
- 2008 · Last of the Dambusters as Narrator
- 2008 · Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo as Narrator
- 2008 · The Machine That Made Us as Self - Presenter
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: Guilty as Self
- 2006 · Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration 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)
- 2001 · Paddington Bear: The Early Years as
- 2001 · In Search of the Prisoner as Self
- 2001 · Funny Old World 2 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 5 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 4 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 3 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' as Self
- 1999 · A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest as
- 1998 · Stanley Baxter in Person as Self
- 1993 · Camp Christmas as Santa Claus
- 1989 · Colleagues From Hell as
- Future · Black Samphire as
- Future · This Is Soho as Narrator (voice)