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



