Stephen Fry

Known For: Acting
Born: August 24, 1957
Place of Birth: Hampstead, London, England, UK

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…

Filmography

Hexed

2026 · Elias Quire (voice)

Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard

2026 · Self

Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen

2026 · Narrator (voice)

100 Questions with Tom Simons

2026 · Self

The Three Urns

2026 · Bookseller

Joke

2026

Finding Father Christmas

2025 · Self

This Ordinary Thing

2025 · Self (voice)

Christmas Karma

2025 · Radio Presenter (Voice)

China's Wild Secrets

2025 · Narrated

The Celebrity Traitors

2025 · Self - Contestant

Recall Me Maybe

2025 · Kevin

The Castle, Rebuilding History

2025 · Narrator

Too Much

2025 · Simon Remen

A Friend of Dorothy

2025 · Dickie

The Assembly

2025 · Self

Time Travel Is Dangerous!

2025 · Narrator (voice)

Lubach

2025 · Self

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future

2025 · Self

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024 · C (archive footage)

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

2024 · Supervisor (voice)

About a Hero

2024

Black Samphire

2024 · Mari's Boss

This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)

2024 · Self

We Are Home

2024 · Self - narrator (voice)

The Big Fat Quiz of Telly

2024 · Self

Treasure

2024 · Edek

We Work for the Dead

2024 · Pruitt (voice)

Jeopardy! Australia

2024 · Host

Bottom: Exposed

2024 · Narrator (voice)

U.Me: The Musical

2024 · Narrator

Jeopardy!

2024 · Self - Presenter, Executive Producer

The Dinosaur Hour

2023 · Self

Everything Now

2023 · Dr Nell

The Canterville Ghost

2023 · Sir Simon de Canterville (voice), Executive Producer

The Inventor

2023 · Leonardo da Vinci (voice)

Red, White & Royal Blue

2023 · King James III

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

2023 · Self - Contributor

George Michael: Portrait of an Artist

2023 · Self

The Big Fat Quiz of Sport

2023 · Self

Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis

2023

Dinosaur with Stephen Fry

2023

John Craxton: A Life of Gifts

2023 · John Craxton (Voice)

Mind Games - The Experiment

2023 · Narrator

A Year on Planet Earth

2022 · Self - Presenter

Mr Bear's Christmas

2022 · Narrator

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

2022 · Self

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

2022 · Self

Stuff the British Stole

2022 · Self

In Conversation with Alan Yentob

2022 · Self

Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life

2022 · Self

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

2022 · Self – writer and comedian, Self - Writer and Comedian, Self – Writer and broadcaster

The Fringe, Fame and Me

2022 · Self

The Sandman

2022 · Gilbert

Heartstopper

2022 · Headmaster Barnes (voice)

The Dropout

2022 · Ian Gibbons

Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History

2022 · Self - Narrator

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

2022 · Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)

Hating Peter Tatchell

2021 · Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)

Firebird

2021 · Thanks

It's Always Something

2021 · Narrator

Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films

2021 · Narrator

Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne

2021 · Self / Sir Fopling Flutter

Night of the Living Dread

2021 · Meditation Guru (voice)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

2021 · The Interviewer

It's a Sin

2021 · Arthur Garrison

Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean

2021 · Narrator

Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World

2020 · Self

London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year

2020 · Narrator (voice)

Fear of Dancing

2020 · Self - Actor & Writer

What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?

2020 · Self

The Big Night In

2020 · Lord Melchett

Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley

2020 · Self

Harley Quinn

2019 · Brainiac (voice)

The Morning Show

2019 · Leonard Cromwell

Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive

2019 · Self

Dancing with the Birds

2019 · Narrator

Tomorrow

2019 · Chris

Greed

2019 · Self

Missing Link

2019 · Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)

Mankind

2019 · Executive Producer

Almost Human

2019 · Narrator

Ponyboi

2019 · Executive Producer

Churchill and the Movie Mogul

2019 · Self

Sex Education

2019 · NSQC Quizmaster

Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)

2018 · Executive Producer

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2018 · Self

The Big Narstie Show

2018 · Self

The Con Is On

2018 · Sidney

M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity

2018 · M. C. Escher (voice)

Pocoyo's Easter Picnic

2018

Duck Duck Goose

2018 · Frazier (voice)

Apple & Onion

2018 · William Steakspeare (voice), Onion's Dad (voice)

And the Winner Isn't

2017 · Self

All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction

2017

Queer as Art

2017 · Self

50 Years Legal

2017 · Self

Britain's Great Gay Buildings

2017

Battle of Soho

2017 · Self

The Hippopotamus

2017 · Novel

Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song

2017 · Self

Wild Africa / Tiny Giants

2016 · Narrator (Tiny Giants)

Santa Forgot

2016 · Narrator

The Great Indoors

2016 · Roland

The Killing$ of Tony Blair

2016 · Self

Love & Friendship

2016 · Mr. Johnson

Tickled

2016 · Executive Producer

Alice Through the Looking Glass

2016 · Cheshire Cat (voice)

Pocoyo's Halloween

2016 · Narrator

The Man Who Knew Infinity

2016 · Sir Francis Spring

A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

2016 · Self

The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On

2016 · Self

A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry

2015 · Self

Rocky Horror Show Live

2015 · Narrator

The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show

2015 · Uncle Duke (voice)

Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review

2015 · Narrator

Danger Mouse

2015 · Colonel K (voice)

Stephen Fry in Central America

2015 · Self - Presenter

Do I Sound Gay?

2015 · Self

Nightstand

2015 · Executive Producer

A Life on Screen

2014 · Self

Marked

2014 · Father Christmas

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014 · Master of Laketown

Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)

2014 · Self

Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me

2014 · Self

The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill

2014 · Self

That Sugar Film

2014 · The Sugar Family Sketch

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

2014 · Self

Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest

2014

Tiny Giants 3D

2014 · Narrator

A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell

A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell

2014 · Self - Darts Fan

Lily's Driftwood Bay

2014 · Lord Stag (voice)

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

2014 · Winston Churchill (voice)

Le peuple miniature

2014

Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk

2014 · Narrator

Our Gay Wedding: The Musical

2014

Hidden Kingdoms

2014 · Narrator

Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin

2013

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013 · The Master of Laketown

Yonderland

2013 · Cuddly Dick

Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was

Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was

2013 · Narrator

Stephen Fry: Out There

2013 · Self, Writer, Presenter

Super Clyde

2013 · Randolph

Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan

2013 · Self

Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues

Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues

2013

The Look of Love

2013 · Barrister

The Lonely Dodo

The Lonely Dodo

2013 · Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog

Frost on Sketch Shows

2013 · Self

The Last Leg

2013 · Self

Stephen Fry's Key to the City

2013 · Self - Presenter

Doors Open

2012 · Professor Robert Gissing, Executive Producer

Special Report – The Voice of Darts

Special Report – The Voice of Darts

2012 · Self (archive footage)

Gadget Man

2012 · Presenter

Cicada Princess

Cicada Princess

2012 · Narrator (voice)

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

2012 · Oscar Wilde (voice)

Wagner & Me

2012 · Self

Shakespeare's Sonnets

2012

Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets

2012 · Self

Walking the Dogs

2012 · Executive Producer

Twelfth Night

2012 · Malvolio

Veep

2012 · Nikolai Genidze

Playhouse Presents

2012 · The European

Just a Minute

2012 · Self

The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

2012 · Skulkingworm

The Story of Musicals

2012 · Self

Jools Holland: My Life in Music

2012 · Self

The Borrowers

2011 · Professor Mildeye

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

2011 · Mycroft Holmes

Holy Flying Circus

2011 · God

Fry's Planet Word

2011 · , Writer, Creator

Making Qi

2011 · Self

Let Them Talk: A Celebration of New Orleans Blues

2011 · Executive Producer

The Jonathan Ross Show

2011 · Self, Self - Guest

Wogan on Wodehouse

2011 · Self

Ocean Giants

2011 · Narrater

Ocean Giants

2011 · Narrator

Botham: The Legend of '81

2011 · Self

Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry

2011 · Self

Hugh Laurie: Down by the River

2011 · Executive Producer

March of the Dinosaurs

2011 · Narrator (UK)

Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins

2011 · The Narrator

Lost Connection

2010 · Dad

Wagner and Me

2010 · Star

Fry and Laurie Reunited

2010 · Self

The Great American Oil Spill

The Great American Oil Spill

2010 · Self

Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House

2010 · Stephen Fry

Alice in Wonderland

2010 · Cheshire Cat (voice)

The Bible: A History

2010

In Confidence

2010

Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News

2009 · Self

House of Boys

2009 · Dr. Marsh

Last Chance to See

2009 · Self

Last Chance to See

2009 · Self - Presenter

Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits

2009 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

2009 · Self – Narrator (voice)

Country Tracks

2009 · Self

The Meaning of Life

2009 · Self

Chris Moyles' Quiz Night

2009 · Self

Blackadder Rides Again

2008 · Self

Pocoyo & the Space Circus

2008 · Narrator (English)

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

2008 · Self

Stephen Fry in America

2008 · Self - Host, Writer

Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga

2008 · Self

Happy Birthday to GNU

Happy Birthday to GNU

2008 · Self

Me and My Girl

2008 · Additional Writing

Last of the Dambusters

2008 · Narrator

Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo

Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo

2008 · Narrator

Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest

2008 · Narrator

The Machine That Made Us

2008 · Self - Presenter

Tales of the Riverbank

2008 · Owl (voice)

J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life

2007 · Self

St Trinian's

2007 · Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry: HIV & Me

2007 · Self, Writer

Stephen Fry: HIV & Me

2007 · Self - Presenter, Writer

Eichmann

2007 · Minister Tormer

Stephen Fry: Guilty

2007 · Self

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

2007 · Self

Kingdom

2007 · Peter Kingdom, Executive Producer

Shrink Rap

2007 · Self

The Graham Norton Show

2007 · Self

Snow White: The Sequel

2007 · The Narrator (voice)

Legends

2006 · Self (uncredited)

Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive

2006

The Secret Show

2006

The Magic Flute

2006 · Writer, Lyricist, Dialogue

The One Show

2006 · Self - Guest

The Story of Light Entertainment

2006 · Self - Narrator

Stormbreaker

2006 · Smithers

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

2006 · Self

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration

2006 · Self

'V for Vendetta' Unmasked

2006 · Deitrich

V for Vendetta

2006 · Deitrich

The Transporters

2006 · Narrator

Ashes Fever

2005 · Self

Dirty Tricks

2005 · Owl (voice)

Bones

2005 · Gordon Wyatt

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'

2005 · Self

Extras

2005 · Stephen Fry

A Cock and Bull Story

2005 · Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

2005 · Self

Nigella

2005 · Self

Meet Pocoyo!

2005 · Narrator

Pocoyo

2005 · Narrator

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2005 · Narrator / The Guide (voice)

Doctor Who

2005 · C

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

2005 · General Sir Anthony Melchett (archive footage) (uncredited)

American Dad!

2005 · John Michael Heaton (voice), Mr. Cavendish (voice)

Missing

2005

MirrorMask

2005 · Librarian

29 Minutes of Fame

29 Minutes of Fame

2005 · Self - Panelist

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

2005 · Self

Tom Brown's Schooldays

2005 · Dr. Thomas Arnold

Pocoyo & Friends

2005 · Narrator

A Bear Named Winnie

2004 · Protheroe

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

2004 · Self

Who Do You Think You Are?

2004 · Self

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

2004 · Maurice Woodruff

Supergrass: A Home Movie

2004 · Self (archive footage)

The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope

The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope

2004 · Narrator

Tooth

2004 · Pedro

Celebrity Mastermind

2003

Absolute Power

2003 · Charles Prentiss

Bright Young Things

2003 · Chauffeur, Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer

QI

2003 · Self - Presenter

The Biggest Nose in Borneo

2003 · Narrator

Le Divorce

2003 · Piers Janely

Fortysomething

2003 · Derek

Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind

2003 · Self

Top Gear

2002 · Self

The Making of Gosford Park

2002 · Self

Thunderpants

2002 · Sir Anthony Silk

Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time

2002 · The Minister of Chance

Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali

2002 · Andre Breton

Paddington Bear: The Early Years

2001

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and Me

2001 · Narrator of the Audiobooks

Gosford Park

2001 · Inspector Thompson

24

2001 · Alastair Davies

Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making

2001 · Self

The Discovery of Heaven

2001 · Onno Quist

Four Play

2001 · Nigel Steele

Lucky Break

2001 · Book

Funny Old World

Funny Old World

2001 · Narrator (voice)

Funny Old World 2

Funny Old World 2

2001 · Narrator (voice)

Funny Old World 3

Funny Old World 3

2001 · Narrator (voice)

Funny Old World 5

Funny Old World 5

2001 · Narrator (voice)

Funny Old World 4

Funny Old World 4

2001 · Narrator (voice)

In Search of the Prisoner

In Search of the Prisoner

2001 · Self

Baddiel's Syndrome

2001 · The Psychiatrist

Sabotage!!

2000 · Wellington

Relative Values

2000 · Frederick Crestwell

Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration

2000 · Self

Best

2000 · Frazer Crane

Click

2000 · Self

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

2000 · Dr. Peter Robinson

Gormenghast

2000 · Professor Bellgrove

Longitude

2000 · Sir Kenelm Digby

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

2000

Longitude

2000 · Sir Kenelm Digby

A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'

2000 · Self

The Tichborne Claimant

1999 · Hawkins

The Magician's House

1999 · Jasper the Owl (voice)

Watership Down

1999 · Cowslip (voice)

Blackadder: Back & Forth

1999 · Melchett

Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over

Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over

1999 · Self - Panellist

Geri

1999 · Self

A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest

A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest

1999

Stanley Baxter in Person

Stanley Baxter in Person

1998 · Self

A Civil Action

1998 · Pinder

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

1998 · Self - Contestant

So Graham Norton

1998 · Self

In the Red

1998 · Controller, Radio 2

Parkinson

1998 · Self

Spice World

1997 · Judge

Simply Wilde

1997 · Self

Oscar

1997 · Self

An Audience with Elton John

1997 · Self

Wilde

1997 · Oscar Wilde

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

1996 · Self, Self - Panellist

The Wind in the Willows

1996 · The Judge

Wildlife SOS

1996 · Creator

Sense and Sensibility

1995 · Thanks

The Thin Blue Line

1995 · Blaster Sump

Kulturzeit

1995 · self

The Steal

1995 · Wimborne

Cold Comfort Farm

1995 · Mybug

I.Q.

1994 · James Morland

Room 101

1994 · Self

An Audience with Bob Monkhouse

1994

The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller

1994 · Self

Shooting Stars

1993 · Self

Camp Christmas

1993 · Santa Claus

Stalag Luft

1993 · Wing Commander James Forrester

Common Pursuit

1992

Peter's Friends

1992 · Peter Morton

Have I Got News for You

1990 · Self

Rita Rudner

1990

Jeeves and Wooster

1990 · Jeeves

Old Flames

1990 · Daniel Davenport

The Simpsons

1989 · Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)

Anything More Would Be Greedy

Anything More Would Be Greedy

1989 · Julian Holmes-Coppitt

Saturday Night Clive

Saturday Night Clive

1989

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

1989 · , Writer, Creator

The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball

1989 · Self

Employees From Hell

1989

Colleagues From Hell

1989

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

1988 · Lords Melchett / Frondo

This Is David Lander

This Is David Lander

1988

This Morning

1988 · Self

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

1988 · Self

A Fish Called Wanda

1988 · Hutchison

A Handful of Dust

1988 · Reggie

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

1988 · Self

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years

1988 · King Charles I

Comic Relief

1988

The New Statesman

1987 · Piers Lonsdale

The Laughing Prisoner

1987 · No. 2, Writer

Filthy Rich & Catflap

1987 · P'Farty

The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball

1987 · Self

The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live

1986 · Self

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

1986

Saturday Live

1986

Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

1986

The Dangerous Brothers

1986

The Good Father

1985 · Creighton

Happy Families

1985 · Dr. De Quincy

Happy Families

1985 · Doctor De Quincy

Screen Two

1985 · Humphrey Taylor, Daniel Davenport

Natural World

1983 · Narrator

The Crystal Cube

1983 · Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles, Writer, Creator

Blackadder

1983 · Lord Melchett, General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, The Duke of Wellington

Alfresco

1983 · Various, Writer

The Young Ones

1982 · Lord Snot

Countdown

1982

There's Nothing to Worry About!

1982 · Various, Writer, Creator

The Cellar Tapes

1982 · various, Writer

Wogan

1982 · Self

Chariots of Fire

1981 · Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)

An Audience with...

1978 · Self

The Secret Policeman's Ball

1976 · Self

Omnibus

1967

The BAFTA Awards

1949 · Host

Golden Globe Awards

1944 · Self - Nominee

Now & Then

— · TG

Black Samphire

— · , Executive Producer

Touché

— · Narrator (voice)

This Is Soho

— · Narrator (voice)

Frank and Percy

Frank and Percy

—

Red, White & Royal Wedding

— · King James III

Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts

— · Self - Host

The Liar

— · Novel, Executive Producer

The Eden Express

The Eden Express

— · Executive Producer

Stephen Fry · Virelixia