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[76] In October 2013, Fry presented Stephen Fry: Out There, a two-part documentary in which he explores attitudes to homosexuality and the lives of gay people in different parts of the globe. What is Stephen Fry's explanation for those phenomena, and is it actually any more satisfying of an answer? When interviewed in 2015 by the Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne, Fry was asked what he would say if he came face-to-face with God, to which he replied: "Bone cancer in children: what's that about? He was brilliant. Is there anything this guy can't do?! On 13 July 2010, he was made an honorary fellow of Cardiff University,[167] and on 28 January 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Sussex, for his work campaigning for people suffering from mental health problems, bipolar disorder and HIV. Fry is also a prolific writer, contributing to newspapers and magazines and has written four novels and three autobiographies: Moab Is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me. [114] On 17 September 2015, Fry shared the role of the Narrator in The Rocky Horror Show which was staged at London's Playhouse Theatre and broadcast as the Rocky Horror Show Live. 4 people found this helpful. [51][52] From 2007 to 2009, Fry played the lead role in (and was executive producer for) the legal drama Kingdom, which ran for three series on ITV1. [197] On 16 April 2018, Fry released the first episode of a new podcast "Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins" available on his website and other podcasting platforms[198] The first episode of the second series was released on 13 January 2020 and continued to be released over the course of nine weeks. [121] In February 2017, Audible released Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, a complete collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, all read by Fry, who also narrated an introduction for each novel or collection of stories. [94] In 2002, Fry was one of the narrators of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, in which he voiced Winnie-the-Pooh. [124], Fry is the patron of the audiobook charity Listening Books. Stephen Fry is to reprise his role on US drama Bones, it has been announced. [14] His paternal grandmother, Ella Fry (ne Pring), had roots in Cheshire and Kent. [206], Fry was an active supporter of the Labour Party for many years and appeared in a party political broadcast on its behalf with Hugh Laurie and Michelle Collins in November 1993. Bones. His blog attracted more than 300,000 visitors in its first two weeks. [107], Fry is a long-standing fan of the anarchic British musical comedy group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and particularly of its eccentric front man, the late Vivian Stanshall. He attended the then-Prince's wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005. Nombre de Publicacin. 19812016 (semi-retired) His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants, while his father's family was of English background. [120], In 2015, Fry made a live audio recording of the winning short story of the annual RA & Pin Drop Short Story Award, Ms. Featherstone and the Beast by Bethan Roberts, at a ceremony held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In April 1986, Fry was among the British comedians who appeared in the first live telethon Comic Relief. [160] He left Twitter again in November 2022,[161] joining Mastodon that same month. Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director and writer. Audible Release Date: 10 November 2020. A. Milne, Anthony Buckeridge, Eleanor Updale, George Orwell, and Alexander Pushkin. Excellent appearances by Ryan O'Neill as Max Brennan and Stephen Fry as Booth's therapist. [91] He portrayed the Master of Lake-town in two of Peter Jackson's three film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: the second The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,[92] and the third The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. [199], Fry struggled to keep his homosexuality secret during his teenage years at public school, and by his own account did not engage in sexual activity for 16 years until the mid-1990s. He said that he took a "huge number of pills and a huge [amount] of vodka" and had to be brought back to the UK to be "looked after". Stephen Fry - Bones Fox Following his comedy BFF Hugh Laurie (more on him in a bit), Stephen Fry enjoyed Stateside success as Dr Gordon Wyatt - who was also training as a culinary chef - in. Portraying his idol Oscar Wilde (of whom he had been an ardent admirer since the age of 13) in the 1997 film Wilde, he fulfilled the role to critical acclaim. [178][179] The weekend programming proved such a ratings hit for BBC Four that it was repeated on BBC Two on 16 and 17 September 2007. Like. But Stephen Fry, filming his brief return to the TV series Bones, is battling valiantly. Stephen John Fry was born on 24 August 1957, in Hampstead, London, England, to Marianne Eve and Alan John Fry, an English physicist and inventor. [93], Fry came to the attention of radio listeners with the 1986 creation of his alter-ego, Donald Trefusis, whose "wireless essays" were broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 programme Loose Ends. Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist, known primarily for appearances in the BBC television series Blackadder, the crime series Bones, and in V for Vendetta. [247][248], In February 2018, Fry announced that he was recovering from an operation to treat prostate cancer, involving the removal of the prostate and 11 adjacent lymph nodes. He is also known for his voice-over work; he read all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the UK audiobook recordings,[5] narrated Paddington Bear audiobooks,[6] narrated the video game series LittleBigPlanet and Birds of Steel, narrated an animated series of explanations of the laws of cricket[7] and narrated a series of animations about humanism for Humanists UK. For his adaptation of Me and My Girl for the West End, he received two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play following its transfer to Broadway. Fry is a patron of its Lip Theatre Company. When we caught up. His father Alan worked as a physicist and inventor. In the same year, in V for Vendetta, he played a closeted TV presenter who challenges a fascist state - the screenwriters, The Wachowskis, pointed out that it was Fry's "normalcy" in the face of the insanity of the censorship of BTV that made his character truly powerful and added a "wholly unexpected dimension to the film". The actor, who previously appeared as Dr Gordon Wyatt, will return to the show in the episode titled 'Mayhem On A Cross'. [59][60] In 2022, Fry had a recurring role as biochemist Ian Gibbons in the Hulu miniseries The Dropout, which dramatizes the scandal involving biotechnology company Theranos. Fry provides the voice of Mr. Cavendish in "Big Stan on Campus". "Thank you @stephenfry for the love and humor. [141][142] He is frequently asked to promote various charities and causes, often inadvertently causing their websites to crash because of the volume of traffic generated by his large number of followers; as Fry notes on his website: "Four thousand hits a second all diving down the pipeline at the same time for minutes on end. Throughout the 1980s, Fry did a huge amount of television and radio work, as well as writing for newspapers (e.g. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.". [136] The Stars' Tennis Balls (2000) is a modern retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo. [186], Fry married comedian Elliott Spencer in January 2015 in Dereham, Norfolk. [46] The show was cancelled after one season. 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[154] In October 2010, Fry left Twitter for a few days, with a farewell message of "Bye bye", following press criticism of a quote taken from an interview he had given. [130], Fry has appeared in numerous advertisements, predominantly on UK television either on-screen or in voice-over starting with an appearance as "Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar" in a 1982 advert for Whitbread Best Bitter. "[205] Eleven days after the news story, Fry married Spencer on 17 January at Dereham in Norfolk. 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An old man had a police phone box of the kind we saw in the street all the time. [28] He was later dismissed from Paston School, a grant-maintained grammar school that refused to let him progress to study A-Levels. [10][11][12][13] He has an older brother, Roger, and a younger sister, Joanna. Having made his film dbut in the 1985 film The Good Father, Fry had a brief appearance in A Fish Called Wanda (in which he is knocked out by Kevin Kline, who is posing as an airport security man), and then appeared as the eponymous Peter in Kenneth Branagh's Peter's Friends in 1992. In 1984, Fry adapted the hugely successful 1930s musical Me and My Girl for the West End, where it ran for eight years and received two Laurence Olivier Awards. [208] Furthermore, he is a signatory member of the British Jews for Justice for Palestinians organisation, which campaigns for Palestinian rights. In the 2009 television series Last Chance to See, Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine sought out endangered species, some of which had been featured in Douglas Adams' and Carwardine's 1990 book and radio series of the same name. He is also the narrator for the English version of the toddler show Pocoyo created by Guillermo Garca Cars, Luis Gallego and David Cantolla, and had also made audiobooks of a few Harry . He portrayed an outdoor magazine publisher helping to ease his best worldly reporter (Joel McHale) into a desk job. [32] He was arrested in Swindon and, as a result, spent three months in Pucklechurch Prison on remand. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 July 2021. In September 2012, Fry made a return to the stage at Shakespeare's Globe, appearing as Malvolio in a production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which transferred to the West End in November 2012. Fry has become known to American audiences for his recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones. It's utterly, utterly evil. His prolific writing partnership with Laurie began in 1981 with resulting Footlights revues for (among others) Mayweek, Edinburgh Festival, and a three month tour of Australia. [55][56][57] In 2014, he began starring alongside Kiefer Sutherland and William Devane in 24: Live Another Day as British Prime Minister Alastair Davies. The production was then taken to the West End before transferring to Broadway where he received a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Writer, actor, comedian, doer of good works, excellent good friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk house when not traveling. Fat chance! He portrayed Maurice Woodruff in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and served as narrator in the 2005 film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 501 likes. [116] The production received its European premiere in August 2019 at the Edinburgh International Festival. His book choice was Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot and his luxury item was "canvasses, easels, brushes, an instruction manual". He later said that he would have killed himself if he had not had "the option of disappearing". Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me." BBC. The first night, comprising programmes featuring Fry, began with a sixty-minute documentary entitled Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out. His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants, while his father's family was of English background. "[254] Fry claims to have been expelled from Salt Lake City, Utah, because of a joke made about doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [82] It earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor Drama. [17] In his autobiographical writings and elsewhere, Fry has claimed relationship to the Fry family that founded the eponymous chocolate company, John Fry (one of the signatories to the death warrant for Charles I),[18][19][20] and the cricketer C. B. [65] In 2007, he presented a documentary on the subject of HIV and AIDS, HIV and Me. Usually dispatched within 2-3 days. A lifelong fan of "the Canaries" and a regular visitor to Carrow Road, he said, on being appointed, "Truly this is one of the most exciting days of my life, and I am as proud and pleased as I could be. He was a friend of John Mills. Fry was the special guest in their "Blackmail" sketch. Actor, Comedian, Author, Journalist, Broadcaster, Film Director, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Fry appeared in campaign literature to support changing the British electoral system from first-past-the-post to alternative vote for electing members of parliament to the House of Commons in the Alternative Vote referendum of 2011. Who is Stephen Fry? [224] During the interview, he stated: There has been a history, let's face it, in Poland of a right-wing Catholicism which has been deeply disturbing for those of us who know a little history, and remember which side of the border Auschwitz was on and know the stories, and know much of the anti-semitic, and homophobic and nationalistic elements in countries like Poland. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and where they have knitted up; mental wounds can grind and ooze for decades and be re-opened by the quietest whisper." 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