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 · This Ordinary Thing as Voice
- 2025 · The Celebrity Traitors as Self - Contestant
- 2025 · Too Much as Simon Remen
- 2025 · A Friend of Dorothy as Dickie
- 2025 · Time Travel Is Dangerous! as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as Supervisor (voice)
- 2024 · About a Hero as
- 2024 · Black Samphire as Mari's Boss
- 2024 · This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers) as Self
- 2024 · Treasure as Edek
- 2024 · We Work for the Dead as Pruitt (voice)
- 2024 · U.Me: The Musical as Narrator
- 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 · 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 · 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 · Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
- 2021 · The Picture of Dorian Gray as The Interviewer
- 2021 · It's a Sin as Arthur Garrison
- 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 · 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 · Queer as Art as Self
- 2017 · 50 Years Legal as Self
- 2017 · Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song 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 · The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On as Self
- 2015 · The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show as Uncle Duke (voice)
- 2015 · Danger Mouse as Colonel K (voice)
- 2015 · Do I Sound Gay? as Self
- 2014 · Marked as Father Christmas
- 2014 · The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Master of Laketown
- 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)
- 2013 · Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin as
- 2013 · The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as The Master of Laketown
- 2013 · Yonderland as Cuddly Dick
- 2013 · Super Clyde as Randolph
- 2013 · The Look of Love as Barrister
- 2013 · The Last Leg as Self
- 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 · Veep as Nikolai Genidze
- 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 · Ocean Giants as Narrater
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat (voice)
- 2009 · Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News as Self
- 2007 · St Trinian's as Stephen Fry
- 2007 · Eichmann as Minister Tormer
- 2007 · Kingdom as Peter Kingdom
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · Snow White: The Sequel as The Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Legends as Self (uncredited)
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · Stormbreaker as Smithers
- 2006 · V for Vendetta as Deitrich
- 2005 · Ashes Fever as Self
- 2005 · Bones as Dr. 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 · 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 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 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 · Thunderpants as Sir Anthony Silk
- 2002 · Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time as The Minister of Chance
- 2001 · 24 as Alastair Davies
- 2001 · The Discovery of Heaven as Onno Quist
- 2000 · Sabotage!! as Wellington
- 2000 · Relative Values as Frederick Crestwell
- 2000 · Best as Frazer Crane
- 2000 · Click as Self
- 2000 · Longitude as Sir Kenelm Digby
- 2000 · A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' as Self
- 1999 · A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest as
- 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 · 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
- 1993 · Shooting Stars as Self
- 1993 · Stalag Luft as Wing Commander James Forrester
- 1992 · Common Pursuit as
- 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)
- 1988 · Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Self
- 1988 · A Fish Called Wanda as Hutchison
- 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
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Now & Then as TG
- 1993 · Camp Christmas as Santa Claus
- 1992 · Peter's Friends as Peter Morton
- 1989 · A Bit of Fry & Laurie as
- 1988 · A Handful of Dust as Reggie
- 1987 · The New Statesman as Piers Lonsdale
- 1985 · The Good Father as Creighton
- 1981 · Chariots of Fire as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
- Future · Frank and Percy as
- 2013 · Frost on Sketch Shows as Self
- 2012 · Shakespeare's Sonnets as
- 2011 · Botham: The Legend of '81 as Self
- 2010 · Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
- 2009 · House of Boys as Dr. Marsh
- 2009 · Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened as Self – Narrator (voice)
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2008 · Tales of the Riverbank as Owl (voice)
- 2002 · Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali as Andre Breton
- 2001 · Gosford Park as Inspector Thompson
- 2001 · Four Play as Nigel Steele
- 1999 · Watership Down as Cowslip (voice)
- 1999 · Blackadder: Back & Forth as Melchett
- 1997 · Simply Wilde as Self
- 1989 · Employees From Hell as
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Lords Melchett / Frondo
- 1982 · Countdown as
- 1976 · The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
- 1949 · The BAFTA Awards as Host
- Future · Touché as Narrator (voice)
- 2025 · Lubach as Self
- 2024 · Doctor Who at the Proms as C (archive footage)
- 2024 · The Big Fat Quiz of Telly as Self
- 2024 · Jeopardy! Australia as Host
- 2024 · Jeopardy! as Self - Presenter
- 2023 · Everything Now as Dr Nell
- 2023 · The Big Fat Quiz of Sport as Self
- 2023 · Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis as
- 2022 · A Year on Planet Earth as Self - Presenter
- 2022 · David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
- 2022 · Stuff the British Stole as Self
- 2021 · It's Always Something as Narrator
- 2020 · Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World as Self
- 2020 · Fear of Dancing as Self - Actor & Writer
- 2020 · What's the Matter with Tony Slattery? as Self
- 2019 · Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive as Self
- 2018 · Pocoyo's Easter Picnic as
- 2016 · Santa Forgot as Narrator
- 2016 · The Great Indoors as Roland
- 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
- 2014 · A Life on Screen as Self
- 2014 · Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) 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 · Hidden Kingdoms as Narrator
- 2013 · Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan as Self
- 2012 · Gadget Man as Presenter
- 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
- 2010 · Lost Connection as Dad
- 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 · Pocoyo & the Space Circus as Narrator
- 2008 · Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
- 2007 · Shrink Rap as Self
- 2006 · The Secret Show as
- 2006 · The Story of Light Entertainment as Self - Narrator
- 2006 · The Transporters as Narrator
- 2005 · Dirty Tricks as Owl (voice)
- 2005 · A Cock and Bull Story as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
- 2005 · Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
- 2005 · Nigella as Self
- 2005 · Missing as
- 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
- 2004 · The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope as Narrator
- 2004 · Tooth as Pedro
- 2003 · Absolute Power as Charles Prentiss
- 2003 · Fortysomething as Derek
- 2003 · Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind as Self
- 2001 · Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
- 2001 · Baddiel's Syndrome as The Psychiatrist
- 2000 · Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Dr. Peter Robinson
- 2000 · Gormenghast as
- 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)
- 1998 · Stanley Baxter in Person as Self
- 1998 · In the Red as Controller, Radio 2
- 1997 · Spice World as Judge
- 1990 · Rita Rudner as
- 1989 · Anything More Would Be Greedy as
- 1989 · Saturday Night Clive as
- 1989 · The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball as Self
- 1988 · This Is David Lander as
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1988 · Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as King Charles I
- 1988 · Comic Relief as
- 1987 · The Laughing Prisoner as No. 2
- 1987 · Filthy Rich & Catflap as P'Farty
- 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 · Saturday Live as
- 1986 · The Dangerous Brothers as
- 1985 · Happy Families as Doctor De Quincy
- 1983 · The Crystal Cube as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
- 1983 · Alfresco as Various
- 1982 · There's Nothing to Worry About! as Various
- Future · Le peuple miniature as
- 2024 · We Are Home as Self - narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Bottom: Exposed as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · The Dinosaur Hour as Self
- 2023 · Dinosaur with Stephen Fry as
- 2023 · John Craxton: A Life of Gifts as John Craxton (Voice)
- 2023 · Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life as Self
- 2023 · Mind Games - The Experiment as Narrator
- 2022 · Mr Bear's Christmas as Narrator
- 2022 · In Conversation with Alan Yentob as Self
- 2020 · London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Churchill and the Movie Mogul as Self
- 2018 · M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity as M. C. Escher (voice)
- 2017 · Britain's Great Gay Buildings as
- 2016 · Pocoyo's Halloween as Narrator
- 2015 · Stephen Fry in Central America as Self - Presenter
- 2014 · Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest as
- 2013 · Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was as Narrator
- 2013 · Stephen Fry: Out There as Self
- 2013 · Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues as
- 2012 · Special Report – The Voice of Darts as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 · Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets as Self
- 2012 · Twelfth Night as Malvolio
- 2012 · Jools Holland: My Life in Music as Self
- 2011 · Fry's Planet Word as
- 2011 · Ocean Giants as Narrator
- 2011 · Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry as Self
- 2011 · March of the Dinosaurs as Narrator (UK)
- 2010 · Wagner and Me as Star
- 2008 · Stephen Fry in America as Self - Host
- 2008 · Happy Birthday to GNU as Self
- 2008 · Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo as Narrator
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: HIV & Me as Self - Presenter
- 2006 · Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive as
- 2005 · Meet Pocoyo! as Narrator
- 2005 · 29 Minutes of Fame as Self - Panelist
- 2004 · Supergrass: A Home Movie as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · The Biggest Nose in Borneo as Narrator
- 2000 · Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration 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
- 1986 · Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger as
- 1982 · The Cellar Tapes as various
- Future · Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts as Self - Host
- 2025 · China's Wild Secrets as Narrated
- 2025 · The Castle, Rebuilding History as Narrator
- 2025 · Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future as Self
- 2022 · George Michael: Portrait of an Artist as Self
- 2021 · Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films as Narrator
- 2021 · Night of the Living Dread as Meditation Guru (voice)
- 2021 · Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean as Narrator
- 2020 · Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley 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
- 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 · The Lonely Dodo as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
- 2013 · Stephen Fry's Key to the City as Self - Presenter
- 2012 · Cicada Princess as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Wagner & Me as Self
- 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 · Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House as Stephen Fry
- 2009 · Last Chance to See as Self
- 2009 · Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 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: HIV & Me as Self
- 2006 · Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot as Self
- 2006 · Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration as Self
- Future · Black Samphire as
- 2007 · Stephen Fry: Guilty as Self
- 2005 · Pocoyo & Friends as Narrator
- 2001 · Paddington Bear: The Early Years as
- 2001 · In Search of the Prisoner as Self
- 2001 · Funny Old World 4 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 5 as Narrator (voice)
- Future · This Is Soho as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 2 as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Funny Old World 3 as Narrator (voice)