Acting · Hampstead, London, England, UK · Born August 24, 1957
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.
MovieHexed
2026
as Elias Quire (voice)
MovieRik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard
2026
as Self
MovieRik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen
2026
as Narrator (voice)
TV100 Questions with Tom Simons
2026
as Self
MovieThe Three Urns
2026
as Bookseller
MovieJoke
2026
MovieFinding Father Christmas
2025
as Self
MovieThis Ordinary Thing
2025
as Self (voice)
MovieChristmas Karma
2025
as Radio Presenter (Voice)
TVChina's Wild Secrets
2025
as Narrated
TVThe Celebrity Traitors
2025
as Self - Contestant
MovieRecall Me Maybe
2025
as Kevin
MovieNot Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke
2025
as Self
MovieThe Castle, Rebuilding History
2025
as Narrator
TVToo Much
2025
as Simon Remen
MovieA Friend of Dorothy
2025
as Dickie
TVThe Assembly
2025
as Self
MovieTime Travel Is Dangerous!
2025
as Narrator (voice)
TVLubach
2025
as Self
MovieDouglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
2025
as Self
MovieDoctor Who at the Proms
2024
as C (archive footage)
TVStar Wars: Skeleton Crew
2024
as Supervisor (voice)
MovieAbout a Hero
2024
MovieBlack Samphire
2024
as Mari's Boss
MovieThis Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)
2024
as Self
MovieWe Are Home
2024
as Self - narrator (voice)
MovieThe Big Fat Quiz of Telly
2024
as Self
MovieTreasure
2024
as Edek
MovieWe Work for the Dead
2024
as Pruitt (voice)
TVJeopardy! Australia
2024
as Host
MovieBottom: Exposed
2024
as Narrator (voice)
MovieU.Me: The Musical
2024
as Narrator
TVJeopardy!
2024
as Self - Presenter
TVThe Dinosaur Hour
2023
as Self
TVEverything Now
2023
as Dr Nell
MovieThe Canterville Ghost
2023
as Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
MovieThe Inventor
2023
as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
MovieRed, White & Royal Blue
2023
as King James III
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
as Self - Contributor
MovieGeorge Michael: Portrait of an Artist
2023
as Self
MovieThe Big Fat Quiz of Sport
2023
as Self
MovieWillem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis
2023
TVDinosaur with Stephen Fry
2023
MovieJohn Craxton: A Life of Gifts
2023
as John Craxton (Voice)
MovieMind Games - The Experiment
2023
as Narrator
TVA Year on Planet Earth
2022
as Self - Presenter
MovieMr Bear's Christmas
2022
as Narrator
MoviePeter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
MovieDavid Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
as Self
TVStuff the British Stole
2022
as Self
TVIn Conversation with Alan Yentob
2022
as Self
MovieMeat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
2022
as Self
TVSunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self – writer and comedian
MovieThe Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
as Self
TVThe Sandman
2022
as Gilbert
TVHeartstopper
2022
as Headmaster Barnes (voice)
TVThe Dropout
2022
as Ian Gibbons
MovieFantastic Beasts: A Natural History
2022
as Self - Narrator
MovieHarry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
as Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
MovieHating Peter Tatchell
2021
as Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
MovieIt's Always Something
2021
as Narrator
MovieListening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films
2021
as Narrator
MovieSparkling: The Story Of Champagne
2021
as Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
MovieNight of the Living Dread
2021
as Meditation Guru (voice)
MovieThe Picture of Dorian Gray
2021
as The Interviewer
TVIt's a Sin
2021
as Arthur Garrison
MovieDancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean
2021
as Narrator
MovieCold War Steve Meets the Outside World
2020
as Self
TVLondon Zoo: An Extraordinary Year
2020
as Narrator (voice)
MovieFear of Dancing
2020
as Self - Actor & Writer
MovieWhat's the Matter with Tony Slattery?
2020
as Self
MovieThe Big Night In
2020
as Lord Melchett
MovieScandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
2020
as Self
MovieDoctor Who: Spyfall
2020
as C
TVHarley Quinn
2019
as Brainiac (voice)
TVThe Morning Show
2019
as Leonard Cromwell
MovieBill Turnbull: Staying Alive
2019
as Self
MovieDancing with the Birds
2019
as Narrator
MovieTomorrow
2019
as Chris
MovieGreed
2019
as Self
MovieMissing Link
2019
as Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
MovieAlmost Human
2019
as Narrator
MovieChurchill and the Movie Mogul
2019
as Self
TVSex Education
2019
as NSQC Quizmaster
MovieScotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
as Self
TVThe Big Narstie Show
2018
as Self
MovieThe Con Is On
2018
as Sidney
MovieM. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
2018
as M. C. Escher (voice)
MoviePocoyo's Easter Picnic
2018
MovieDuck Duck Goose
2018
as Frazier (voice)
TVApple & Onion
2018
as William Steakspeare (voice)
MovieAnd the Winner Isn't
2017
as Self
MovieAll Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction
2017
MovieQueer as Art
2017
as Self
Movie50 Years Legal
2017
as Self
TVBritain's Great Gay Buildings
2017
MovieBattle of Soho
2017
as Self
MovieElton John: The Nation's Favourite Song
2017
as Self
MovieWild Africa / Tiny Giants
2016
as Narrator (Tiny Giants)
MovieSanta Forgot
2016
as Narrator
TVThe Great Indoors
2016
as Roland
MovieThe Killing$ of Tony Blair
2016
as Self
MovieLove & Friendship
2016
as Mr. Johnson
MovieAlice Through the Looking Glass
2016
as Cheshire Cat (voice)
MoviePocoyo's Halloween
2016
as Narrator
MovieThe Man Who Knew Infinity
2016
as Sir Francis Spring
MovieA Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
2016
as Self
MovieThe Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
2016
as Self
MovieA Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
2015
as Self
MovieRocky Horror Show Live
2015
as Narrator
TVThe Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
2015
as Uncle Duke (voice)
MovieWimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review
2015
as Narrator
TVDanger Mouse
2015
as Colonel K (voice)
TVStephen Fry in Central America
2015
as Self - Presenter
MovieDo I Sound Gay?
2015
as Self
TVA Life on Screen
2014
as Self
Marked
2014
as Father Christmas
MovieThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
as Master of Laketown
TVMonty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
2014
as Self
MovieStephen Fry Live: More Fool Me
2014
as Self
MovieThe Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
2014
as Self
MovieThat Sugar Film
2014
as The Sugar Family Sketch
TVAlan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014
as Self
MovieMargery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest
2014
MovieTiny Giants 3D
2014
as Narrator
A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell
2014
as Self - Darts Fan
TVLily's Driftwood Bay
2014
as Lord Stag (voice)
TVLast Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as Winston Churchill (voice)
MovieLe peuple miniature
2014
MovieMahout: The Great Elephant Walk
2014
as Narrator
MovieOur Gay Wedding: The Musical
2014
TVHidden Kingdoms
2014
as Narrator
MovieRussia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
2013
MovieThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2013
as The Master of Laketown
TVYonderland
2013
as Cuddly Dick
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was
2013
as Narrator
TVStephen Fry: Out There
2013
as Self
MovieSuper Clyde
2013
as Randolph
TVAlleen Elvis blijft bestaan
2013
as Self
Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues
2013
MovieThe Look of Love
2013
as Barrister
The Lonely Dodo
2013
as Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
MovieFrost on Sketch Shows
2013
as Self
TVThe Last Leg
2013
as Self
MovieStephen Fry's Key to the City
2013
as Self - Presenter
MovieDoors Open
2012
as Professor Robert Gissing
Special Report – The Voice of Darts
2012
as Self (archive footage)
TVGadget Man
2012
as Presenter
Cicada Princess
2012
as Narrator (voice)
MovieA Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
2012
as Oscar Wilde (voice)
MovieWagner & Me
2012
as Self
MovieShakespeare's Sonnets
2012
MovieStephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets
2012
as Self
MovieTwelfth Night
2012
as Malvolio
TVVeep
2012
as Nikolai Genidze
TVPlayhouse Presents
2012
as The European
TVJust a Minute
2012
as Self
TVThe Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2012
as Skulkingworm
TVThe Story of Musicals
2012
as Self
MovieJools Holland: My Life in Music
2012
as Self
MovieThe Borrowers
2011
as Professor Mildeye
MovieSherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2011
as Mycroft Holmes
MovieHoly Flying Circus
2011
as God
TVFry's Planet Word
2011
MovieMaking Qi
2011
as Self
TVThe Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self
MovieWogan on Wodehouse
2011
as Self
MovieOcean Giants
2011
as Narrater
TVOcean Giants
2011
as Narrator
MovieBotham: The Legend of '81
2011
as Self
TVHorrible Histories with Stephen Fry
2011
as Self
MovieMarch of the Dinosaurs
2011
as Narrator (UK)
MovieBenjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins
2011
as The Narrator
MovieLost Connection
2010
as Dad
TVWagner and Me
2010
as Star
MovieFry and Laurie Reunited
2010
as Self
The Great American Oil Spill
2010
as Self
MovieStephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House
2010
as Stephen Fry
MovieAlice in Wonderland
2010
as Cheshire Cat (voice)
TVThe Bible: A History
2010
In Confidence
2010
MovieNot Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
2009
as Self
MovieHouse of Boys
2009
as Dr. Marsh
MovieLast Chance to See
2009
as Self
TVLast Chance to See
2009
as Self - Presenter
MovieFawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits
2009
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieFawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
as Self – Narrator (voice)
TVCountry Tracks
2009
as Self
TVThe Meaning of Life
2009
as Self
TVChris Moyles' Quiz Night
2009
as Self
MovieBlackadder Rides Again
2008
as Self
MoviePocoyo & the Space Circus
2008
as Narrator (English)
MovieBlackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
as Self
TVStephen Fry in America
2008
as Self - Host
MovieBlackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
2008
as Self
Happy Birthday to GNU
2008
as Self
MovieLast of the Dambusters
2008
as Narrator
Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo
2008
as Narrator
MovieSpectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest
2008
as Narrator
MovieThe Machine That Made Us
2008
as Self - Presenter
MovieTales of the Riverbank
2008
as Owl (voice)
MovieJ.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life
2007
as Self
MovieSt Trinian's
2007
as Stephen Fry
MovieStephen Fry: HIV & Me
2007
as Self
TVStephen Fry: HIV & Me
2007
as Self - Presenter
MovieEichmann
2007
as Minister Tormer
MovieStephen Fry: Guilty
2007
as Self
MovieStephen Fry: 50 Not Out
2007
as Self
TVKingdom
2007
as Peter Kingdom
TVShrink Rap
2007
as Self
TVThe Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
MovieSnow White: The Sequel
2007
as The Narrator (voice)
TVLegends
2006
as Self (uncredited)
TVStephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
2006
TVThe Secret Show
2006
TVThe One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
TVThe Story of Light Entertainment
2006
as Self - Narrator
MovieStormbreaker
2006
as Smithers
MovieGuy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
2006
as Self
MovieBonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - 40th Anniversary Celebration
2006
as Self
Movie'V for Vendetta' Unmasked
2006
as Deitrich
MovieV for Vendetta
2006
as Deitrich
MovieThe Transporters
2006
as Narrator
MovieAshes Fever
2005
as Self
Dirty Tricks
2005
as Owl (voice)
TVBones
2005
as Gordon Wyatt
MovieDon'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
TVExtras
2005
as Stephen Fry
MovieA Cock and Bull Story
2005
as Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
MovieInside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
2005
as Self
TVNigella
2005
as Self
MovieMeet Pocoyo!
2005
as Narrator
TVPocoyo
2005
as Narrator
MovieThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
as Narrator / The Guide (voice)
TVDoctor Who
2005
as C
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
as General Sir Anthony Melchett (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVAmerican Dad!
2005
as John Michael Heaton (voice)
Missing
2005
MovieMirrorMask
2005
as Librarian
29 Minutes of Fame
2005
as Self - Panelist
TVThe Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
MovieTom Brown's Schooldays
2005
as Dr. Thomas Arnold
MoviePocoyo & Friends
2005
as Narrator
MovieA Bear Named Winnie
2004
as Protheroe
MovieRemember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004
as Self
TVWho Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self
MovieThe Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
as Maurice Woodruff
MovieSupergrass: A Home Movie
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope
2004
as Narrator
MovieTooth
2004
as Pedro
TVCelebrity Mastermind
2003
TVAbsolute Power
2003
as Charles Prentiss
MovieBright Young Things
2003
as Chauffeur
TVQI
2003
as Self - Presenter
MovieThe Biggest Nose in Borneo
2003
as Narrator
MovieLe Divorce
2003
as Piers Janely
TVFortysomething
2003
as Derek
MovieVivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
2003
as Self
TVTop Gear
2002
as Self
MovieThe Making of Gosford Park
2002
as Self
MovieThunderpants
2002
as Sir Anthony Silk
MovieDoctor Who: Death Comes to Time
2002
as The Minister of Chance
MovieSurrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
2002
as Andre Breton
MoviePaddington Bear: The Early Years
2001
MovieJ.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and Me
2001
as Narrator of the Audiobooks
MovieGosford Park
2001
as Inspector Thompson
TV24
2001
as Alastair Davies
MovieBaldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making
2001
as Self
MovieThe Discovery of Heaven
2001
as Onno Quist
MovieFour Play
2001
as Nigel Steele
Funny Old World
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Funny Old World 2
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Funny Old World 3
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Funny Old World 4
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Funny Old World 5
2001
as Narrator (voice)
In Search of the Prisoner
2001
as Self
TVBaddiel's Syndrome
2001
as The Psychiatrist
MovieSabotage!!
2000
as Wellington
MovieRelative Values
2000
as Frederick Crestwell
MovieElizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration
2000
as Self
MovieBest
2000
as Frazer Crane
TVClick
2000
as Self
MovieWhatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000
as Dr. Peter Robinson
TVGormenghast
2000
as Professor Bellgrove
MovieLongitude
2000
as Sir Kenelm Digby
TVThe Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
2000
TVLongitude
2000
as Sir Kenelm Digby
MovieA Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'
2000
as Self
MovieThe Tichborne Claimant
1999
as Hawkins
TVThe Magician's House
1999
as Jasper the Owl (voice)
TVWatership Down
1999
as Cowslip (voice)
MovieBlackadder: Back & Forth
1999
as Melchett
Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over
1999
as Self - Panellist
MovieGeri
1999
as Self
A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest
1999
Stanley Baxter in Person
1998
as Self
MovieA Civil Action
1998
as Pinder
TVWho Wants to Be a Millionaire?
1998
as Self - Contestant
TVSo Graham Norton
1998
as Self
TVIn the Red
1998
as Controller, Radio 2
TVParkinson
1998
as Self
MovieSpice World
1997
as Judge
MovieSimply Wilde
1997
as Self
MovieOscar
1997
as Self
MovieAn Audience with Elton John
1997
as Self
MovieWilde
1997
as Oscar Wilde
TVNever Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
as Self
MovieThe Wind in the Willows
1996
as The Judge
TVThe Thin Blue Line
1995
as Blaster Sump
TVKulturzeit
1995
as self
MovieThe Steal
1995
as Wimborne
MovieCold Comfort Farm
1995
as Mybug
MovieI.Q.
1994
as James Morland
TVRoom 101
1994
as Self
MovieAn Audience with Bob Monkhouse
1994
TVThe Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller
1994
as Self
TVShooting Stars
1993
as Self
MovieCamp Christmas
1993
as Santa Claus
MovieStalag Luft
1993
as Wing Commander James Forrester
MovieCommon Pursuit
1992
MoviePeter's Friends
1992
as Peter Morton
TVHave I Got News for You
1990
as Self
TVRita Rudner
1990
TVJeeves and Wooster
1990
as Jeeves
MovieOld Flames
1990
as Daniel Davenport
TVThe Simpsons
1989
as Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice)
Anything More Would Be Greedy
1989
as Julian Holmes-Coppitt
Saturday Night Clive
1989
TVA Bit of Fry & Laurie
1989
MovieThe Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1989
as Self
MovieEmployees From Hell
1989
MovieColleagues From Hell
1989
MovieBlackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
as Lords Melchett / Frondo
This Is David Lander
1988
TVThis Morning
1988
as Self
TVWhose Line Is It Anyway?
1988
as Self
MovieA Fish Called Wanda
1988
as Hutchison
MovieA Handful of Dust
1988
as Reggie
MovieNelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
1988
as Self
MovieBlackadder: The Cavalier Years
1988
as King Charles I
Comic Relief
1988
TVThe New Statesman
1987
as Piers Lonsdale
MovieThe Laughing Prisoner
1987
as No. 2
TVFilthy Rich & Catflap
1987
as P'Farty
MovieThe Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
1987
as Self
MovieThe Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
1986
as Self
TVOmnibus Presents Comic Relief
1986
TVSaturday Live
1986
MovieDangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986
TVThe Dangerous Brothers
1986
MovieThe Good Father
1985
as Creighton
MovieHappy Families
1985
as Dr. De Quincy
TVHappy Families
1985
as Doctor De Quincy
TVScreen Two
1985
as Humphrey Taylor
TVNatural World
1983
as Narrator
TVThe Crystal Cube
1983
as Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles
TVBlackadder
1983
as Lord Melchett
TVAlfresco
1983
as Various
TVThe Young Ones
1982
as Lord Snot
TVCountdown
1982
TVThere's Nothing to Worry About!
1982
as Various
MovieThe Cellar Tapes
1982
as various
TVWogan
1982
as Self
MovieChariots of Fire
1981
as Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
TVAn Audience with...
1978
as Self
TVThe Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
as Self
TVOmnibus
1967
TVThe BAFTA Awards
1949
as Host
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
MovieNow & Then
as TG
Black Samphire
Touché
as Narrator (voice)
This Is Soho
as Narrator (voice)
Frank and Percy
MovieRed, White & Royal Wedding
as King James III
TVStephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts
as Self - Host
