Stephen Fry

At 66 years old, Stephen Fry has this physical status:

Career

Fry's career in television began with the 1982 debut of The Cellar Tapes, Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, and Tony Slattery's 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue. There's Nothing to Worry About! Granada Television, who want to imitate the success of BBC's Not the Nine O'Clock News, has recruited Fry, Laurie, and Thompson to perform alongside Ben Elton in There's Nothing to Worry About! In 1983 and 1984, a second series, renamed Alfresco, was broadcast in 1983 and 1984; it established Fry and Laurie's fame as a comedy double act. The BBC showed Fry, Laurie and Thompson their own programme, The Crystal Cube, which was a mixture of science fiction and mockumentary that was cancelled after the first episode. Undeterred, Fry, Laurie, and Thompson appeared in "Bambi," an episode of The Young Ones from 1984, where they parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge," and Fry appeared in Ben Elton's 1985 Happy Families series. In April 1986, Fry was one of the British comedians to appear in the first live telethon Comic Relief's first live telethon Comic Relief. On the LWT/Channel 4 show Saturday Live, Fry and Laurie performed sketches in 1986 and 1987.

In 1986, The BBC was sent a sketch show that would become A Bit of Fry & Laurie. Following a 1987 pilot, the series spanned four seasons from 1989 to 1995. Fry appeared in Blackadder II as Lord Melchett, and afterwards returned to a starring role in Blackadder Goes Forth as General Melchett. He appeared in Blackadder's Christmas Carol, 1988, as Lord Melchett and Lord Frondo. In Jeeves and Wooster, 23 hour-long adaptations of P. G. Wodehouse's books and short stories between 1990 and 1993, Fry appeared as Jeeves (alongside Hugh Laurie's Bertie Wooster).

In the television version of Absolute Power, previously a radio show on BBC Radio 4, Fry appeared alongside John Bird. Fry appeared in the film Little Crackers, a Christmas collection of short films released in 2010. His short story was based on a tale from his time at school. In 2011, he appeared as the Christian God in the Holy Flying Circus. In January 2016, it was announced that Fry would appear in "Cuddly Dick" in Series 3 of the Sky One family comedies Yonderland. Fry appeared in The Great Indoors, an American sitcom. He portrayed an outdoor magazine publisher who was assisting his best worldly reporter (Joel McHale) in a desk position. After a season, the program was cancelled.

For a skit in which he held a video chat with Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, who made a surprise appearance, he reprised his role as (a descendant of) Lord Melchett for The Big Night In, a 20 April 2020 telethon held during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fry has appeared in a number of BBC adaptations of plays and books, including a 1992 version of Simon Gray's The Common Pursuit, as the Controller of BBC Radio 2's; and a 2000 edition of The BBC Serial Gormenghast, which was based on Mervyn Peake's first two books. In the BBC adaptation of Mary Norton's 1952 novel The Borrowers, Fry portrayed Professor Mildeye.

The first two seasons of the Spanish children's animated series Pocoyo were narrated by Fry. Fry appeared in (and was executive producer for) the legal drama Kingdom, which aired on ITV1. Dr. (later chef) Gordon Wyatt, a recurring guest on Bones' popular American drama, has also appeared as FBI psychiatrist Dr. (later cook) Gordon Wyatt. In 2010, after having learned some Irish words for the role, he filmed a cameo role in Ros na Rn, an Irish-language soap opera broadcast in Ireland, Scotland, and the United States. In 2014, he began starring Kiefer Sutherland and William Devane in 24: Live Another Day as British Prime Minister Alastair Davies.

Fry will guest star in "Spyfall," the two-part first episode of Doctor Who's twelfth series, released on New Year's Day 2020.

Stephen Fry: The Intuitive Depressive's (2004) film was Fry's first documentary film. He appeared on the BBC's genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? in the same year as tracing his maternal family tree to explore his Jewish ancestry. The Story of Light Entertainment, which was on display from July to September 2006, was narrated by Fry. In 2007, he presented a documentary about HIV and AIDS, HIV, and Me.

On May 7, 2008, Fry gave a talk as part of a series of BBC lectures on the future of public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, which he later recorded for a podcast. Stephen Fry in America, a six-part travel series, premiered on BBC One in October 2008 and saw him travel to each of the 50 US states. In the same year, he narrated the nature documentaries Spectacle Bears: Shadow of the Forest for the BBC Natural World series. Mark Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine, a 2009 television series, looked for endangered animals, some of which had been included in Douglas Adams' and Carwardine's 1990 book and radio series of the same name.

Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets was on Channel 4 in August 2011 as one of the 100 Greatest Strands on the Internet. The cigarette lighter, which he described as "fire with a flick of the fingers," was his pick for the best gadget. The nature documentary series Ocean Giants, directed by Fry, premiered in the same month. On BBC HD and BBC Two, Fry's Planet Word, a five-part documentary about language, aired in September 2011. In November 2011, an episode of Living The Life of Fry featuring Fry in an intimate chat with The Rolling Stones' bass player Bill Wyman about his personal and professional life.

In honor of the 2012 British Olympic and Paralympic athletes, Rudyard Kipling's poem "If—" was performed on ITV on October 30, Fry, as well as Michael Caine, Elton John, Richard Branson, and Simon Cowell. In November 2012, Fry hosted Gadget Man, a gadget show that explored the use of various devices in different everyday situations to improve everyone's lives. Fry's Stephen Fry: Out There, a two-part documentary in which he investigates gay attitudes and the lives of gay people in various regions around the globe, premiered in October 2013.

In an episode of Channel 4's Bear's Wild Weekends, Fry joined adventurer Bear Grylls on Christmas Day 2013. Over the course of two days in the Italian Dolomites, Fry scaled down a 2,000-foot waterfall, slept in a First World War trench, and abseiled a majestic cliff face. Fry appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in June 2015. The String Quartet No. 9 was his favorite work. Beethoven's 14th birthday is one of Beethoven's finest works. T. S. Eliot's book choice was Four Quartets, easels, and instructions.

In 2003, Fry hosted QI (Quite Interesting), a comedy panel game television quiz show. QI was created and co-produced by John Lloyd, and it includes permanent panelist Alan Davies. QI has the highest viewing figures for any show on BBC Four and Dave (formerly UKTV G2). In 2006, Fry received the Rose d'Or award for his contribution to the series. After the "M" series, Fry would leave as the host of QI, and Sandi Toksvig took over.

Fry made his film debut in 1985's The Good Father (in which he is knocked out by Kevin Kline, who is posing as an airport security man), and then appeared in Kenneth Branagh's Peter's Friends as the eponymous Peter. He appeared in the 1994 romantic comedy film I.Q. He played James Moreland. Portraying his idol Oscar Wilde (of whom he had been an ardent fan since the age of 13) in the 1997 film Wilde, he portrayed his idol to critical acclaim. It earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Drama. He appeared in the Spice Girls film Spice World in 1997. Fry appeared in David Yates' tiny independent film The Tichborne Claimant, and in 2001, he appeared as the detective in Robert Altman's period costume drama, Gosford Park. He appeared in the Dutch film The Discovery of Heaven, directed by Jeroen Krabbé and based on Harry Mulisch's book.

Fry made his directorial debut with Bright Young Things, which were adapted by him from Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies. He began hosting the BAFTA Film Awards in 2001, a position from which he resigned in 2006. He wrote the English libretto and dialogue for Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of The Magic Flute later this year.

Fry continues to make regular film appearances, particularly in forensic cult films. In 2005, he played Maurice Woodruff in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, and in 2005 appeared in both A Cock and Bull Story, based on Tristram Shandy, and V for Vendetta as a closeted television presenter who defies the fascist state. In the face of BTV's insanity, Fry's "normalcy" was censored, his character is utterly convincing and adds a "completely unexpected dimension to the film, the Wachowskis pointed out. In 2006, he appeared in Stormbreaker as gadget-master Smithers, and in 2007, he appeared as himself hosting a quiz in St Trinian's. A script for a remake of The Dam Busters was written by Fry in 2007, for director Peter Jackson. He appeared in Eichmann (2007), which was also in Eichmann (2007).

Fry was given a role in Valkyrie but was unable to participate. In Wonderland's Tim Burton version of Alice, Fry appeared as the voice of the Cheshire Cat. In the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, directed by Guy Ritchie, he played Mycroft Holmes. In two of Peter Jackson's three film adaptations of J. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second, and the third The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, he portrayed the Master of Lake-town. Fry appeared in The Conviction Is On, a 2018 heist comedy film directed by Karen Cameron, which was formerly titled The Brits Are Coming.

On the BBC Radio 4 programme Loose Ends, Fry brought to the attention of radio listeners with the 1986 birth of his alter-ego Donald Trefusis' "wireless essays." David Lander appeared in four series of the BBC Radio 4 show Delve Special, written by Tony Sarchet, which later became the six-part Channel 4 series This is David Lander. Fry wrote and performed a six-part comedy series called Saturday Night Fry in 1988. Frequent radio shows have devolved, most notable on panel games. Just a minute and I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue. Charles Prentiss appeared in Absolute Power in 2000, reprising the role in three other series on radio and two on television. In 2002, he appeared in the Doctor Who is Dead, the Minister of Chance. In 2002, Fry was one of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, in which he proclaimed Winnie-the-Pooh. Classic FM's The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music, a 20-part, two-hour series, was released as a "witty introduction" to the art form over the past 1,000 years. On BBC Radio 4, he narrated an adaptation of Vanity Fair in 2004.

In 2007, he hosted Current Puns, an exploration of wordplay, and Radio 4: This Is Your Life to commemorate the radio station's 40th anniversary. As part of a series of podcasts launched by ten Downing Street, he interviewed Prime Minister Tony Blair. In February 2008, Fry began hosting podcasts named Stephen Fry's Podgrams, in which he tells his life and recent adventures. He appeared as himself in I Love Stephen Fry, an Afternoon Play for Radio 4 written by former Fry and Laurie script editor Jon Canter in July 2008.

Since August 2008, he has been hosting Fry's English Delight, a BBC Radio 4 show on BBC Radio 4 about the English language. It has been running for ten seasons and 37 episodes as of 2021. Fry was one of a trio of hosts replacing Humphrey Lyttelton on summer's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (the others being Jack Dee and Rob Brydon). He appeared on the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show Wordaholics in 2012. He appeared in We Are The BBC, a video comedy drama produced by the Wireless Theatre Company, written by Susan Casanove in September 2012.

Fry wrote the play Latin!

On April 7, 1988, Frank Fry appeared in Simon Gray's The Common Pursuit for its first performance in the West End, with Rik Mayall, John Sessions, Sarah Berger, Paul Mooney, and John Gordon Sinclair. He appeared in a leading role in Simon Gray's 1995 play Cell Mates, which he completed three days into the West End production, pleading stage fright. In his documentary about bipolar disorder, The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, he later described the event as a hypomanic episode. Cinderella, Fry's Christmas pantomime, appeared at Old Vic Theatre in London in 2007.

Fry is a long-awaited fan of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's anarchic British musical comedy group, especially of its eccentric front man, late Vivian Stanshall. Fry contributed to finance the restoration of Stanshall's Stinkfoot, a Comedian drama written by Vivian and Ki Longfellow-Stanshall for the Bristol-based Old Profanity Showboat in 1988. As part of Bonzos' 2006 reunion concert at the London Astoria, Fry performed several of Stanshall's numbers. On their post-reunion album, Pour l'Amour des Chiens, he recited a recipe for "Salmon Proust," starred a butler in "Hawkeye the Gnu" and starred commercials for the fictitious "Fiasco" stores. Following three one-man shows in Australia, Fry announced a'sort of stand-up' performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London in September 2010.

Live From Heaven, Fry's 2009, he was the voice of St Peter for Liberace, Live From Heaven by Julian Woolford at London's Leicester Square Theatre. In September 2012, Fry returned to Shakespeare's Globe, playing Malvolio in a revival of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which then moved to the West End. He has received rave reviews. On November 10, 2013, the production was brought to Broadway for the Broadway premiere with Opening Night on September 10th. In a Play for the Broadway revival, Fry was nominated for a Tony Award for his best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role category. He lent his voice to the title role in Benjamin Bunyan's operetta at the Welsh National Youth Opera in August 2013.

On the first night of Monty Python's live show Monty Python Live (Mostly), Fry appeared on stage with Monty Python on Monty Python's "First Night." In Fry's "Blackmail" sketch, the special guest appeared. Fry introduced Narrator in The Rocky Horror Show, which was staged at London's Playhouse Theatre and broadcast live as the Rocky Horror Show Live. In Mythos: A Trilogy, a stage version of his book Mythos, performed in the Shaw Festival Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, from May to July 2018. This was a series of three one-man shows (titled Gods, Heroes, and Men), each two hours in length, and several times during the show's run. In August 2019, the production at the Edinburgh International Festival made its European debut. In September 2020, Fry was one of the 100th anniversary of Sir No.l Coward's West End debut with a stage performance titled "A Marvellous Party."

Fry has been the reader for all of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter audiobooks in the United Kingdom. In a 2005 interview with Rowling, he discussed the scheme. He has also read for Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film tie-in edition, as well as recordings of his own books, such as The Stars' Tennis Balls and Moab Is My Washpot, and Michael Bond's A.K.A. Anthony Buckeridge, Eleanor Updale, George Orwell, and Alexander Pushkin were among A. Milne's fans. The Audio Publishers Association in the United States awarded Fry's narration for Bond's Paddington Bear novel More About Paddington (1959), his fifth title. Fry sponsored the children's fairy tale app GivingTales in aid of UNICEF's aid to UNICEF, alongside other British celebrities Sir Roger Moore, Ewan McGregor, Joanna Lumley, Michael Caine, David Wallis, Charlotte Rampling, and Michael Ball.

At a reception held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2015, Fry made a live audio recording of the winning short story of the annual RA & Pin Drop Short Story Award, Ms. Featherstone and the Beast by Bethan Roberts. In February 2017, Audible published Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, a complete collection of Sherlock Holmes tales, all read by Fry, who also wrote an introduction to each book or collection of stories. Fry also published Mythos, a narrated audio book, on Audible in 2017. Heroes, Fry's sequel to Mythos, was published in 2018. It was announced in June 2020 that Fry would read J. K. Rowling's children's book The Ickabog.

Fry is patron of the Listening Books charity. "I'm proud and honoured to be patron of the first audiobook charity to offer downloads to its supporters," Fry said of his patronage, who is eager to hear what this means for all print-impaired people who can now listen on-the-google.

In a variety of video games, including an appearance as Reaver, an amoral supporting character in Lionhead Studio's Fable II and Fable III, as the narrator of the LittleBigPlanet series, Fry's voice has been featured. Philosopher's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire were all narrated by the artist. He also narrates a portion of Bungie's Destiny 2 expansion Warmind as the "Concierge"; an AI that, when approached at certain times, will provide the player with background information on Bray Exoscience.

In 2010, Fry became an investor in Pushnote, a UK tech startup. Pushnote was a browser add-on that enabled users to leave comments on any website they visited, similar to Google Sidewiki. Following Fry's adoration of his then 2 million Twitter followers, the Pushnote launch was announced the following year. The following year, both Pushnote and Sidewiki were discontinued.

Fry has appeared in numerous advertisements, most on television or in voice-over, beginning with an appearance in a 1982 commercial for Whitbread Best Bitter as "Count Ivan Skavar." In his memoirs, Fry says he had never been affected by his salary for this service, which is £25,000. Since being in advertisements for goods and companies such as Marks & Spencer, Twinings, Kenco, Vauxhall Motors, Calpol, Calpol, Heineken, Alliance & Leicester (a series of advertisements that also included Hugh Laurie), After Eight mints, Direct Line insurance (with Paul Merton), Walkers potato crisps (fronting a new flavour), and Sainsbury's supermarket. During his arrival at Heathrow Airport in London, he explains the essence of British culture to immigrants.

Since the publication of his first book, The Liar (1991), Fry has written three more books, some non-fiction books, and three volumes of autobiography. Making History (1996) is part of an alternate universe in which Adolf Hitler's father is made infertile and his replacement proves a more effective Führer. The book was nominated for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. Edward (Ted/Tedward) Wallace and his visit to Lord Logan's country manor in Norfolk are among the Hippopotamus (1994) issues. The Hippopotamus was later turned into a 2017 film. The Count of Monte Cristo, in a modern retelling of The Stars' Tennis Balls (2000), is a modern retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo. Fry's book The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within is a tour of poetry by Fry.

Williver Hendry, editor of A Most Peculiar Friendship, wrote a book review for Tatler, a subject close to his heart as an Oscar Wilde enthusiast. In the Saturday edition of The Guardian, he was once a columnist and The Daily Telegraph columnist. In its first two weeks, his blog attracted more than 300,000 visitors.

Fry launched The Dongle of Donald Trefusis, an audiobook collection based on Donald Trefusis (a fictional character from Fry's novel The Liar and the BBC Radio 4 series Loose Ends), which spanned over 12 episodes in May 2009. It reached No. 1 after its debut. n. 1 on the UK Album Charts. Ultimately, only three episodes were released, but the majority of them were marked with the note 'exact release date pending.' In The Guardian on April 2, 1988, Fry's use of the word "luvvie" (spelled "love" by Fry) is the first recorded use of the word as a humorous synonym for "actor."

For the big screen, Fry was supposed to adapt A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

In 2011, Fry appeared on Kate Bush's album 50 Words for Snow, where he referred to a list of bizarre words to describe snow.

Fry wields a great deal of power thanks to his use of Twitter. He is often asked to support various charities and causes, many times inadvertently causing their websites to crash due to the number of people following his pages; on his website, "four thousand hits a second all diving down the pipeline at the same time for minutes on end." He recommends undercover musicians and writers (who often see significant rises in web hits and sales) to raise concerns of current affairs in media and politics, including the demise of an injunction against The Guardian and public rage over Boyzone columnist Stephen Gately's story.

Fry's Twitter account at one million followers in November 2009. He paid tribute to the million-followers with a 'Step Hen Fry' clone who appeared on MyFace in the year 2034, where MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter have joined to form 'Twit on MyFace.' In November 2010, he welcomed his two-millionth follower with a blog post outlining his views and experiences with Twitter. With a tweet on 11 March 2012, Fry paid tribute to the four-million-follower mark: "Lordy I've breasted the 4 million followers tape." Love you all. Yes, even YOU. But let's not forget to Douglas Adams' Diamond Jubilee" today. He had 12.4 million followers as of June 2021, as of June 2021.

Fry has a history of marginally excluding himself from the social media portal, which started in October 2009 when he was chastised. However, he retracted his announcement that he would be leaving the following day. Following public outrage over a statement taken from an interview, Fry left Twitter for a few days in October 2010. He explained on Twitter that he would have left Twitter to "avoid being sympathised with or told of an article" he "would otherwise never have heard of." The general Fry's on Twitter methods have been criticized in a few quarters. After being mocked for a tweet about Jenny Beavan and her dresses, Fry deleted his Twitter account on February 15, 2016. On an episode of The Rubin Report in April 2016, Fry alluded to this, criticizing groupthink mentality and claiming that returning to Twitter was a "maybe." In August 2016, he took to Twitter for the first time.

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