He was educated at Stout's Hill, Uppingham School and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he gained a 2:1 in English. He sleep in Norfolk and London. He is an onetime comedy collaborator of Hugh Laurie. He wwhen described as existence "a man with a brain the size of Kent" in an interview sustaining Michael Parkinson.

Inside the 2005 poll to find ''The Comedian's Comedian'', he was voted amongst the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

Career highlights

Highlights of Fry's career include:

He mass produced an early televisiin appearance on University Challenge while an undergraduate at Cambridge. In 1984, he rewrote the script of the stage musical comedy, Me and My Girl, which subsequently became the vast West Prevent hit. Very early inside his West End debut (Simon Gray's play Cell Mates), Fry suffered an attack of stage fright so good that he ran away, allowing lone an apology, & turning higher a bit of times late inside Belgium. He famously declared that he practised the celibate lifestyle (which he has since abandoned). He manufactured his debut as a director sustaining Bright Young Items, an adaptation of the novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, in 2003.

List of works

Films (When Director) Bright Young Things (2003)

Novels The Liar (1992) The Hippopotamus (1994) Making History (an example of alternate history) (1997) Winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History ''The Stars' Tennis Balls (as Retaliation: The Novel'' in the United States) (Fry's require on The Count of Monte Cristo story (2000))

More books Paperweight (collection of articles) (1992) Moab is My Washpot: An Autobiography (1997) Rescuing the Spectacled Bear: A Peruvian Diary (2002) ''Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music (2004) The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking The Poet Within (2005)

TV scripts A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1989, 1990) A Bit More Fry and Laurie Fry & Laurie #3 Three Bits of Fry and Laurie Fry & Laurie Bit No. 4 Doctor Who - unnamed episode commissioned for 2006 series

Plays Latin! (or Tobacco and Boys.) (1979, included in Paperweight). Winner of a Fringe 1st at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival.

Screenplays Bright Young Things (2003)

Musicals Me and My Girl'' (adapted Lupino Lane's script) (1983)

Performances

TV programmes Blackadder (Mostly Blackadder II and Blackadder Goes Forth, by owning the cameo inside Blackadder A Third) Whose Line Is It Anyway (the original UK version) A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1986 pilot, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995) Jeeves and Wooster (1990-93) Common Pursuit (1992) Gormenghast (2000) QI (2003-onwards) Absolute Power (2003, 2005) ''Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005)

Films A Fish Called Wanda (cameo, 1988) Peter's Friends (1992) I.Q. (1994) Wilde (1997) Spice World (1997) A Civil Action (1998) Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999) Relative Values'' (2000), based on Noel Coward's play Gosford Park (2001) The Discovery of Heaven Thunderpants (2002) ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Plays The Common Pursuit (1988) Cell Mates, by Simon Gray (1995)

Radio shows Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase: Murray Bost Henson, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Night Fry (1998, BBC Radio 4, 6 episodes) A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1994, BBC Radio Four, deuce half-30 minutes programmes compiled from either either selected previously-seen sketches from a TV series) Absolute Power, BBC Radio Four Regular guest panellist in I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, BBC Radio Four Regular guest panellist in Just a Minute, BBC Radio Four Has the regular slot, A Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music in Classic FM Played a lead, David Lander in Radio Four series Delve Special Vi episode BBC radio series known as Saturday Nighttime Fry

Stephen Fry likewise narrates a UK audio versions of the Harry Potter'' books (this is Jim Dale's job in the US). He besides manufactured the guest appearance within the favorite webcast version of Doctor Who in a story known as Death Comes to Time, in which he plays the Time Lord, the Minister of Risk. He is writing a Eleventh episode of the 2006 series of Doctor Who.

Trivia
''A Stars' Tennis Balls' major characters completely develop list that come anagrams or more elementary mutations of their counterparts in The Count of Monte Cristo: |- style="background: #f0f0f0;" ! Monte Cristo ! Stars' Tennis Balls ! Notes |- | Edmond Dantes || Ned Maddstone || anagram |- | Mercedes || Portia || pun: Mercedes-Benz → Porsche |- | delaware Villefort || Oliver Delft || anagram |- | a Abbe (Faria) || a Infant (Fraser) || unfair anagram |- | Fernand Mondego || Gordon Fendeman || anagram |- | Noirtier || Blackrow || translated literally (calque) |- | Capt. Leclere || Paddy Leclare || homonym |- | Caderousse || Rufus Cade || translation: rousse = red = Rufus |- | Baron Danglars || Barson-Garland || anagram |- | Monte Cristo || Simon Cotter || anagram |}

Too when getting competed in University Challenge whilst at Cambridge, he also appeared in The Young Ones as "Lord Snot", one of the "Footlights College" team against whom The Young Ones come competing within the fictitious edition of University Challenge. He late appeared within the Comic Relief edition of University Challenge as a share of the "Gownies" team of University-graduate comedians, against a (victorious) team of "Townies"; & in another Comic Relief favorite deuce years late when section of a South team world health organization beat the N.

He utilized to exist as the regular panelist in Have I Got News For You, but nowadays garbage to come out on a indicate as a protest against the sacking of Angus Deayton.

Within 2003, he was listed in The Observer'' as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.

When however at boarding school, Fry absconded with the purloined charge card &, after apprehended, spent terzetto months inside prison for fraud.

Inside 2005, Fry was made an honorary fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, from either which he graduated.

Fry typically expresses admiration for triplet more authors; Anthony Buckeridge, Douglas Adams, and P.G. Wodehouse. Their influence is noticeable inside his genre. He hwhen appeared as Jeeves inside television adaptations of Wodehouse's writings, when A Suggestion in the film adaptation of Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and has read Buckeridge's Jennings stories for Radio 4.

Fry was a previous ever human awarded a title of Pipe Smoker of the Year before the awards discontinuance for legal reasons.

He has spoken just about his struggle to keep his homosexualism secret in the period of his teenaged years at public school.

He has paid a high price for his celebrity, his mental wellbeing becoming the stuff of public speculation.

Links
[http://www.stephenfry.com/ Official Stephen Fry Web site] * [http://www.pgwodehousebooks.com/fry.htm Stephen Fry on PG Wodehouse] [http://www.musicomh.com/interviews/stephen-fry.htm Stephen Fry interview] [http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/nationaldoodleday/2005/hall/gallery.cfm?doodle=168 Stephen's doodle] for [http://www.nationaldoodleday.org.uk National Doodle Day 2005] was auctioned in eBay in National Doodle Day, Friday 25 February 2005 to raise funds for [http://www.epilepsy.org.uk Epilepsy Action] and a Neurofibromatosis Association.

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