Stephen Fry
Biography
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
All Movies (237)
- Hexed2026 · as Elias Quire (voice)
- The Three Urns2026 · as Bookseller
- Joke2026
- Finding Father Christmas2025 · as Self
- This Ordinary Thing2025 · as Self (voice)
- Christmas Karma2025 · as Radio Presenter (Voice)
- Recall Me Maybe2025 · as Kevin
- The Castle, Rebuilding History2025 · as Narrator
- A Friend of Dorothy2025 · as Dickie
- Time Travel Is Dangerous!2025 · as Narrator (voice)
- Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future2025 · as Self
- Doctor Who at the Proms2024 · as C (archive footage)
- About a Hero2024
- Black Samphire2024 · as Mari's Boss
- This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)2024 · as Self
- We Are Home2024 · as Self - narrator (voice)
- The Big Fat Quiz of Telly2024 · as Self
- Treasure2024 · as Edek
- We Work for the Dead2024 · as Pruitt (voice)
- Bottom: Exposed2024 · as Narrator (voice)
- U.Me: The Musical2024 · as Narrator
- The Canterville Ghost2023 · as Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
- The Inventor2023 · as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
- Red, White & Royal Blue2023 · as King James III
- Blackadder: A Cunning Story2023 · as Self - Contributor
- George Michael: Portrait of an Artist2023 · as Self
- The Big Fat Quiz of Sport2023 · as Self
- Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis2023
- John Craxton: A Life of Gifts2023 · as John Craxton (Voice)
- Mind Games - The Experiment2023 · as Narrator
- Mr Bear's Christmas2022 · as Narrator
- Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba2022 · as Self
- David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count2022 · as Self
- Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life2022 · as Self
- The Fringe, Fame and Me2022 · as Self
- Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History2022 · as Self - Narrator
- Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts2022 · as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
- Hating Peter Tatchell2021 · as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
- It's Always Something2021 · as Narrator
- Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films2021 · as Narrator
- Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne2021 · as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
- Night of the Living Dread2021 · as Meditation Guru (voice)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray2021 · as The Interviewer
- Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean2021 · as Narrator
- Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World2020 · as Self
- Fear of Dancing2020 · as Self - Actor & Writer
- What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?2020 · as Self
- The Big Night In2020 · as Lord Melchett
- Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley2020 · as Self
- Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive2019 · as Self
- Dancing with the Birds2019 · as Narrator
- Tomorrow2019 · as Chris
- Greed2019 · as Self
- Missing Link2019 · as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
- Almost Human2019 · as Narrator
- Churchill and the Movie Mogul2019 · as Self
- Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood2018 · as Self
- The Con Is On2018 · as Sidney
- M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity2018 · as M. C. Escher (voice)
- Pocoyo's Easter Picnic2018
- Duck Duck Goose2018 · as Frazier (voice)
- And the Winner Isn't2017 · as Self
- All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction2017
- Queer as Art2017 · as Self
- 50 Years Legal2017 · as Self
- Battle of Soho2017 · as Self
- Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song2017 · as Self
- Wild Africa / Tiny Giants2016 · as Narrator (Tiny Giants)
- Santa Forgot2016 · as Narrator
- The Killing$ of Tony Blair2016 · as Self
- Love & Friendship2016 · as Mr. Johnson
- Alice Through the Looking Glass2016 · as Cheshire Cat (voice)
- Pocoyo's Halloween2016 · as Narrator
- The Man Who Knew Infinity2016 · as Sir Francis Spring
- A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats2016 · as Self
- The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On2016 · as Self
- A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry2015 · as Self
- Rocky Horror Show Live2015 · as Narrator
- Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review2015 · as Narrator
- Do I Sound Gay?2015 · as Self
- Marked2014 · as Father Christmas
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies2014 · as Master of Laketown
- Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me2014 · as Self
- The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill2014 · as Self
- That Sugar Film2014 · as The Sugar Family Sketch
- Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest2014
- Tiny Giants 3D2014 · as Narrator
- A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell2014 · as Self - Darts Fan
- Le peuple miniature2014
- Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk2014 · as Narrator
- Our Gay Wedding: The Musical2014
- Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin2013
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug2013 · as The Master of Laketown
- Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was2013 · as Narrator
- Super Clyde2013 · as Randolph
- Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues2013
- The Look of Love2013 · as Barrister
- The Lonely Dodo2013 · as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
- Frost on Sketch Shows2013 · as Self
- Stephen Fry's Key to the City2013 · as Self - Presenter
- Doors Open2012 · as Professor Robert Gissing
- Special Report – The Voice of Darts2012 · as Self (archive footage)
- Cicada Princess2012 · as Narrator (voice)
- A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman2012 · as Oscar Wilde (voice)
- Wagner & Me2012 · as Self
- Shakespeare's Sonnets2012
- Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets2012 · as Self
- Twelfth Night2012 · as Malvolio
- Jools Holland: My Life in Music2012 · as Self
- The Borrowers2011 · as Professor Mildeye
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows2011 · as Mycroft Holmes
- Holy Flying Circus2011 · as God
- Making Qi2011 · as Self
- Wogan on Wodehouse2011 · as Self
- Ocean Giants2011 · as Narrater
- Botham: The Legend of '812011 · as Self
- March of the Dinosaurs2011 · as Narrator (UK)
- Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins2011 · as The Narrator
- Lost Connection2010 · as Dad
- Fry and Laurie Reunited2010 · as Self
- The Great American Oil Spill2010 · as Self
- Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House2010 · as Stephen Fry
- Alice in Wonderland2010 · as Cheshire Cat (voice)
- Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News2009 · as Self
- House of Boys2009 · as Dr. Marsh
- Last Chance to See2009 · as Self
- Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits2009 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened2009 · as Self – Narrator (voice)
- Blackadder Rides Again2008 · as Self
- Pocoyo & the Space Circus2008 · as Narrator (English)
- Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments2008 · as Self
- Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga2008 · as Self
- Happy Birthday to GNU2008 · as Self
- Last of the Dambusters2008 · as Narrator
- Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo2008 · as Narrator
- Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest2008 · as Narrator
- The Machine That Made Us2008 · as Self - Presenter
- Tales of the Riverbank2008 · as Owl (voice)
- J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life2007 · as Self
- St Trinian's2007 · as Stephen Fry
- Stephen Fry: HIV & Me2007 · as Self
- Eichmann2007 · as Minister Tormer
- Stephen Fry: Guilty2007 · as Self
- Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out2007 · as Self
- Snow White: The Sequel2007 · as The Narrator (voice)
- Stormbreaker2006 · as Smithers
- Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot2006 · as Self
- Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration2006 · as Self
- 'V for Vendetta' Unmasked2006 · as Deitrich
- V for Vendetta2006 · as Deitrich
- The Transporters2006 · as Narrator
- Ashes Fever2005 · as Self
- 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 · as Self
- A Cock and Bull Story2005 · as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
- Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'2005 · as Self
- Meet Pocoyo!2005 · as Narrator
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy2005 · as Narrator / The Guide (voice)
- The Funny Blokes of British Comedy2005 · as General Sir Anthony Melchett (archive footage) (uncredited)
- MirrorMask2005 · as Librarian
- Tom Brown's Schooldays2005 · as Dr. Thomas Arnold
- Pocoyo & Friends2005 · as Narrator
- A Bear Named Winnie2004 · as Protheroe
- Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?2004 · as Self
- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers2004 · as Maurice Woodruff
- Supergrass: A Home Movie2004 · as Self (archive footage)
- The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope2004 · as Narrator
- Tooth2004 · as Pedro
- Bright Young Things2003 · as Chauffeur
- The Biggest Nose in Borneo2003 · as Narrator
- Le Divorce2003 · as Piers Janely
- Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind2003 · as Self
- The Making of Gosford Park2002 · as Self
- Thunderpants2002 · as Sir Anthony Silk
- Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time2002 · as The Minister of Chance
- Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali2002 · as Andre Breton
- Paddington Bear: The Early Years2001
- J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and Me2001 · as Narrator of the Audiobooks
- Gosford Park2001 · as Inspector Thompson
- Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making2001 · as Self
- The Discovery of Heaven2001 · as Onno Quist
- Four Play2001 · as Nigel Steele
- Funny Old World2001 · as Narrator (voice)
- Funny Old World 22001 · as Narrator (voice)
- Funny Old World 32001 · as Narrator (voice)
- Funny Old World 52001 · as Narrator (voice)
- Funny Old World 42001 · as Narrator (voice)
- In Search of the Prisoner2001 · as Self
- Sabotage!!2000 · as Wellington
- Relative Values2000 · as Frederick Crestwell
- Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration2000 · as Self
- Best2000 · as Frazer Crane
- Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?2000 · as Dr. Peter Robinson
- Longitude2000 · as Sir Kenelm Digby
- A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'2000 · as Self
- The Tichborne Claimant1999 · as Hawkins
- Blackadder: Back & Forth1999 · as Melchett
- Geri1999 · as Self
- A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest1999
- Stanley Baxter in Person1998 · as Self
- A Civil Action1998 · as Pinder
- Spice World1997 · as Judge
- Simply Wilde1997 · as Self
- Oscar1997 · as Self
- An Audience with Elton John1997 · as Self
- Wilde1997 · as Oscar Wilde
- The Wind in the Willows1996 · as The Judge
- The Steal1995 · as Wimborne
- Cold Comfort Farm1995 · as Mybug
- I.Q.1994 · as James Morland
- An Audience with Bob Monkhouse1994
- Camp Christmas1993 · as Santa Claus
- Stalag Luft1993 · as Wing Commander James Forrester
- Common Pursuit1992
- Peter's Friends1992 · as Peter Morton
- Old Flames1990 · as Daniel Davenport
- The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball1989 · as Self
- Employees From Hell1989
- Colleagues From Hell1989
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol1988 · as Lords Melchett / Frondo
- A Fish Called Wanda1988 · as Hutchison
- A Handful of Dust1988 · as Reggie
- Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute1988 · as Self
- Blackadder: The Cavalier Years1988 · as King Charles I
- The Laughing Prisoner1987 · as No. 2
- The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball1987 · as Self
- The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live1986 · as Self
- Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger1986
- The Good Father1985 · as Creighton
- Happy Families1985 · as Dr. De Quincy
- The Cellar Tapes1982 · as various
- Chariots of Fire1981 · as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
- Now & Then— · as TG
- Black Samphire—
- Touché— · as Narrator (voice)
- This Is Soho— · as Narrator (voice)
- Frank and Percy—
- Red, White & Royal Wedding— · as King James III
All TV Shows (144)
- 100 Questions with Tom Simons2026 · as Self
- China's Wild Secrets2025 · as Narrated
- The Celebrity Traitors2025 · as Self - Contestant
- Too Much2025 · as Simon Remen
- The Assembly2025 · as Self
- Lubach2025 · as Self
- Star Wars: Skeleton Crew2024 · as Supervisor (voice)
- Jeopardy! Australia2024 · as Host
- Jeopardy!2024 · as Self - Presenter
- The Dinosaur Hour2023 · as Self
- Everything Now2023 · as Dr Nell
- Dinosaur with Stephen Fry2023
- A Year on Planet Earth2022 · as Self - Presenter
- Stuff the British Stole2022 · as Self
- In Conversation with Alan Yentob2022 · as Self
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg2022 · as Self – writer and comedian
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg2022 · as Self - Writer and Comedian
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg2022 · as Self – Writer and broadcaster
- The Sandman2022 · as Gilbert
- Heartstopper2022 · as Headmaster Barnes (voice)
- The Dropout2022 · as Ian Gibbons
- It's a Sin2021 · as Arthur Garrison
- London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year2020 · as Narrator (voice)
- Harley Quinn2019 · as Brainiac (voice)
- The Morning Show2019 · as Leonard Cromwell
- Sex Education2019 · as NSQC Quizmaster
- The Big Narstie Show2018 · as Self
- Apple & Onion2018 · as William Steakspeare (voice)
- Apple & Onion2018 · as Onion's Dad (voice)
- Britain's Great Gay Buildings2017
- The Great Indoors2016 · as Roland
- The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show2015 · as Uncle Duke (voice)
- Danger Mouse2015 · as Colonel K (voice)
- Stephen Fry in Central America2015 · as Self - Presenter
- A Life on Screen2014 · as Self
- Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)2014 · as Self
- Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled2014 · as Self
- Lily's Driftwood Bay2014 · as Lord Stag (voice)
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver2014 · as Winston Churchill (voice)
- Hidden Kingdoms2014 · as Narrator
- Yonderland2013 · as Cuddly Dick
- Stephen Fry: Out There2013 · as Self
- Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan2013 · as Self
- The Last Leg2013 · as Self
- Gadget Man2012 · as Presenter
- Veep2012 · as Nikolai Genidze
- Playhouse Presents2012 · as The European
- Just a Minute2012 · as Self
- The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff2012 · as Skulkingworm
- The Story of Musicals2012 · as Self
- Fry's Planet Word2011
- The Jonathan Ross Show2011 · as Self
- The Jonathan Ross Show2011 · as Self - Guest
- Ocean Giants2011 · as Narrator
- Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry2011 · as Self
- Wagner and Me2010 · as Star
- The Bible: A History2010
- In Confidence2010
- Last Chance to See2009 · as Self - Presenter
- Country Tracks2009 · as Self
- The Meaning of Life2009 · as Self
- Chris Moyles' Quiz Night2009 · as Self
- Stephen Fry in America2008 · as Self - Host
- Stephen Fry: HIV & Me2007 · as Self - Presenter
- Kingdom2007 · as Peter Kingdom
- Shrink Rap2007 · as Self
- The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
- Legends2006 · as Self (uncredited)
- Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive2006
- The Secret Show2006
- The One Show2006 · as Self - Guest
- The Story of Light Entertainment2006 · as Self - Narrator
- Dirty Tricks2005 · as Owl (voice)
- Bones2005 · as Gordon Wyatt
- Extras2005 · as Stephen Fry
- Nigella2005 · as Self
- Pocoyo2005 · as Narrator
- Doctor Who2005 · as C
- American Dad!2005 · as John Michael Heaton (voice)
- American Dad!2005 · as Mr. Cavendish (voice)
- Missing2005
- 29 Minutes of Fame2005 · as Self - Panelist
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson2005 · as Self
- Who Do You Think You Are?2004 · as Self
- Celebrity Mastermind2003
- Absolute Power2003 · as Charles Prentiss
- QI2003 · as Self - Presenter
- Fortysomething2003 · as Derek
- Top Gear2002 · as Self
- 242001 · as Alastair Davies
- Baddiel's Syndrome2001 · as The Psychiatrist
- Click2000 · as Self
- Gormenghast2000 · as Professor Bellgrove
- The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything2000
- Longitude2000 · as Sir Kenelm Digby
- The Magician's House1999 · as Jasper the Owl (voice)
- Watership Down1999 · as Cowslip (voice)
- Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over1999 · as Self - Panellist
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?1998 · as Self - Contestant
- So Graham Norton1998 · as Self
- In the Red1998 · as Controller, Radio 2
- Parkinson1998 · as Self
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks1996 · as Self
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks1996 · as Self - Panellist
- The Thin Blue Line1995 · as Blaster Sump
- Kulturzeit1995 · as self
- Room 1011994 · as Self
- The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller1994 · as Self
- Shooting Stars1993 · as Self
- Have I Got News for You1990 · as Self
- Rita Rudner1990
- Jeeves and Wooster1990 · as Jeeves
- The Simpsons1989 · as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
- Anything More Would Be Greedy1989
- Saturday Night Clive1989
- A Bit of Fry & Laurie1989
- This Is David Lander1988
- This Morning1988 · as Self
- Whose Line Is It Anyway?1988 · as Self
- Comic Relief1988
- The New Statesman1987 · as Piers Lonsdale
- Filthy Rich & Catflap1987 · as P'Farty
- Omnibus Presents Comic Relief1986
- Saturday Live1986
- The Dangerous Brothers1986
- Happy Families1985 · as Doctor De Quincy
- Screen Two1985 · as Humphrey Taylor
- Screen Two1985 · as Daniel Davenport
- Natural World1983 · as Narrator
- The Crystal Cube1983 · as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
- Blackadder1983 · as Lord Melchett
- Blackadder1983 · as General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
- Blackadder1983 · as The Duke of Wellington
- Alfresco1983 · as Various
- The Young Ones1982 · as Lord Snot
- Countdown1982
- There's Nothing to Worry About!1982 · as Various
- Wogan1982 · as Self
- An Audience with...1978 · as Self
- The Secret Policeman's Ball1976 · as Self
- Omnibus1967
- The BAFTA Awards1949 · as Host
- Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee
- Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts— · as Self - Host






