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
We Work for the Dead
Pruitt (voice)
2024
The Canterville Ghost
Sir Simon de Canterville (voice)
2023
Red, White & Royal Blue
King James III
2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
Self – Contributor
2023
Willem and Frieda: Defying the Nazis
2023
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
Self
2023
Mind Games - The Experiment
Narrator
2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Self
2022
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Chapter Passages Narrator (voice)
2022
It's Always Something
Narrator
2021
Listening through the Lens: The Christopher Nupen Films
Narrator
2021
Night of the Living Dread
Meditation Guru (voice)
2021
Fear of Dancing
Self - Actor & Writer
2020
All Families Have Secrets: Patrick Gale's Art of Fiction
2017
Stephen Fry Live: More Fool Me
Self
2014
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
Self
2014
That Sugar Film
The Sugar Family Sketch
2014
A Little Bit of Fry and Waddell
Self - Darts Fan
2014
Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
2013
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Master of Laketown
2013
Sir David Frost: That Was the Life That Was
Narrator
2013
Hugh Laurie: Copper Bottom Blues
2013
The Look of Love
Barrister
2013
Frost on Sketch Shows
Self
2013
Stephen Fry's Key to the City
Self - Presenter
2013
Doors Open
Professor Robert Gissing
2012
Special Report – The Voice of Darts
Self (archive footage)
2012
Cicada Princess
Narrator (voice)
2012
Wagner & Me
Himself
2012
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
Oscar Wilde (voice)
2012
Jools Holland: My Life in Music
Self
2012
The Borrowers
Professor Mildeye
2011
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Mycroft Holmes
2011
Holy Flying Circus
God
2011
Ocean Giants
Narrater
2011
Botham: The Legend of '81
Self
2011
March of the Dinosaurs
Narrator (UK)
2011
Benjamin Sniddlegrass and The Cauldron of Penguins
The Narrator
2011
Lost Connection
Dad
2010
Stephen Fry Live at the Sydney Opera House
Stephen Fry
2010
Alice in Wonderland
Cheshire Cat (voice)
2010
House of Boys
Dr. Marsh
2009
Last Chance to See
Himself
2009
Blackadder Rides Again
Self
2008
Pocoyo: Fun & Dance with Pocoyo
Narrator
2008
Spectacled Bears: Shadows of the Forest
Narrator
2008
The Machine That Made Us
Himself - Presenter
2008
Tales of the Riverbank
Owl (voice)
2008
St. Trinian's
Stephen Fry
2007
Eichmann
Minister Tormer
2007
Stormbreaker
Smithers
2006
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
Self
2006
V for Vendetta
Deitrich
2006
A Cock and Bull Story
Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick
2005
MirrorMask
Librarian
2005
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Dr. Thomas Arnold
2005
Meet Pocoyo!
Narrator
2005
Pocoyo & Friends
Narrator
2005
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Self
2004
Tooth
Pedro
2004
Thunderpants
Sir Anthony Silk
2002
Gosford Park
Inspector Thompson
2001
The Discovery of Heaven
Onno Quist
2001
Four Play
Nigel Steele
2001
Sabotage!!
Wellington
2000
Relative Values
Frederick Crestwell
2000
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Dr. Peter Robinson
2000
Longitude
Sir Kenelm Digby
2000
A Civil Action
Pinder
1998
Oscar
Self
1997
Wilde
Oscar Wilde
1997
The Wind in the Willows
The Judge
1996
Cold Comfort Farm
Mybug
1995
I.Q.
James Moreland
1994
An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
1994
Stalag Luft
Wing Commander James Forrester
1993
Peter's Friends
Peter Morton
1992
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
Self
1989
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Lords Melchett / Frondo
1988
A Fish Called Wanda
Hutchison
1988
A Handful of Dust
Reggie
1988
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
King Charles I
1988
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
Self
1987
The Good Father
Creighton
1985
The Cellar Tapes
various
1982
Chariots of Fire
Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
1981
Le peuple miniature
A Friend of Dorothy
2025
Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future
Self
2025
Doctor Who at the Proms
C (archive footage)
2024
About a Hero
2024
This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)
Self
2024
The Big Fat Quiz of Telly
Self
2024
Stephen Fry Into Ukraine
Self
2024
U.Me: The Musical
Narrator
2024
The Big Fat Quiz Of Sport
Self
2023
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts
John Craxton (Voice)
2023
Hating Peter Tatchell
Self (Actor, Comedian & Writer)
2021
Sparkling: The Story Of Champagne
Self / Sir Fopling Flutter
2021
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Interviewer
2021
It's a Sin
Arthur Garrison · (2 episodes)
2021
Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean
Narrator
2021
Cold War Steve Meets the Outside World
Self
2020
Bill Turnbull: Staying Alive
Himself
2019
M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
M. C. Escher (voice)
2018
Pocoyo's Easter Picnic
2018
Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song
Self
2017
Do I Sound Gay?
Self
2015
Marked
Father Christmas
2014
Super Clyde
Randolph
2013
Gadget Man
Presenter · (6 episodes)
2012
Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
Skulkingworm · (3 episodes)
2012
Fry's Planet Word
(5 episodes)
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self · (1 episode)
2011
Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry
Self · (6 episodes)
2011
The Great American Oil Spill
Self
2010
Last Chance to See
Presenter · (6 episodes)
2009
Fawlty Exclusive: Basil's Best Bits
Self - Narrator (voice)
2009
Chris Moyles' Quiz Night
Self · (1 episode)
2009
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Self
2008
Stephen Fry in America
Self - Host · (6 episodes)
2008
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me
Self
2007
Stephen Fry: Guilty
Self
2007
Kingdom
Peter Kingdom · (18 episodes)
2007
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
(2 episodes)
2006
The Secret Show
(1 episode)
2006
The One Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2006
The Story of Light Entertainment
Self - Narrator · (8 episodes)
2006
The Transporters
Narrator
2006
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'
Self
2005
Pocoyo
Narrator · (212 episodes)
2005
Missing
(1 episode)
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self · (2 episodes)
2005
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self · (1 episode)
2004
Supergrass: A Home Movie
Self (archive footage)
2004
Absolute Power
Charles Prentiss · (12 episodes)
2003
The Biggest Nose in Borneo
Narrator
2003
Le Divorce
Piers Janely
2003
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
Self
2002
Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time
The Minister of Chance
2002
24
Alastair Davies · (12 episodes)
2001
Baddiel's Syndrome
The Psychiatrist · (13 episodes)
2001
In Search of the Prisoner
Self
2001
Gormenghast
(4 episodes)
2000
The Magician's House
Jasper the Owl (voice) · (11 episodes)
1999
Watership Down
Cowslip · (39 episodes)
1999
So Graham Norton
Self · (1 episode)
1998
Simply Wilde
Self
1997
Now & Then
TG
The Thin Blue Line
Blaster Sump · (1 episode)
1995
Room 101
Self · (1 episode)
1994
Shooting Stars
Self · (2 episodes)
1993
Jeeves and Wooster
Jeeves · (23 episodes)
1990
The Simpsons
Terrance / Hazel / MI5 Man (voice) · (1 episode)
1989
Happy Families
(5 episodes)
1989
Anything More Would Be Greedy
(6 episodes)
1989
Saturday Night Clive
(1 episode)
1989
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
(25 episodes)
1989
Employees From Hell
1989
Black Samphire
Top Gear
Self · (2 episodes)
2002
Camp Christmas
Santa Claus
1993
Touché
Narrator (voice)
Too Much
(10 episodes)
2025
Time Travel Is Dangerous!
Narrator
2025
Lubach
Self · (1 episode)
2025
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
Supervisor (voice) · (2 episodes)
2024
Black Samphire
Mari's Boss
2024
We Are At Home
Self - narrator (voice)
2024
Treasure
Edek
2024
Jeopardy! Australia
Host · (6 episodes)
2024
Bottom: Exposed
Narrator (voice)
2024
Jeopardy!
Self - Presenter · (45 episodes)
2024
The Dinosaur Hour
(1 episode)
2023
Everything Now
Dr Nell · (8 episodes)
2023
The Inventor
Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
2023
Dinosaur with Stephen Fry
(4 episodes)
2023
A Year on Planet Earth
Self - Presenter · (6 episodes)
2022
Mr Bear's Christmas
Narrator
2022
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Self
2022
Stuff the British Stole
Self · (1 episode)
2022
In Conversation with Alan Yentob
Self · (1 episode)
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – writer and comedian · (1 episode)
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Writer and comedian · (1 episode)
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Writer and broadcaster · (1 episode)
2022
The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
Self (archive footage)
2022
The Sandman
Gilbert · (3 episodes)
2022
George Michael: Portrait of an Artist
Self
2022
Heartstopper
Headmaster Barnes (voice) · (5 episodes)
2022
The Dropout
Ian Gibbons · (4 episodes)
2022
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History
Self - Narrator
2022
London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year
Narrator (voice) · (2 episodes)
2020
What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?
Himself
2020
Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley
Himself
2020
Harley Quinn
Brainiac (voice) · (7 episodes)
2019
The Morning Show
Leonard Cromwell · (5 episodes)
2019
Dancing with the Birds
Narrator
2019
Tomorrow
Chris
2019
Greed
Self
2019
Missing Link
Lord Piggot-Dunceby (voice)
2019
Almost Human
Narrator
2019
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Himself
2019
Sex Education
NSQC Quizmaster · (1 episode)
2019
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Self
2018
The Big Narstie Show
Self · (1 episode)
2018
The Con Is On
Sidney
2018
Duck Duck Goose
Frazier (voice)
2018
Apple & Onion
William Steakspeare (voice) · (1 episode)
2018
Apple & Onion
Onion's Dad (voice) · (3 episodes)
2018
And the Winner Isn't
Self
2017
Queer as Art
Self
2017
50 Years Legal
Self
2017
Britain's Great Gay Buildings
(1 episode)
2017
Battle of Soho
Himself
2017
Santa Forgot
Narrator
2016
The Great Indoors
Roland · (22 episodes)
2016
The Killing$ of Tony Blair
Self
2016
Love & Friendship
Mr. Johnson
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Cheshire Cat (voice)
2016
Pocoyo's Halloween
Narrator
2016
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Sir Francis Spring
2016
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
Self
2016
The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On
Himself
2016
A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
Self
2015
Rocky Horror Show Live
Narrator
2015
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
Uncle Duke (voice) · (1 episode)
2015
Wimbledon: 2015 Official Film Review
Narrator
2015
Danger Mouse
Colonel K (voice) · (100 episodes)
2015
Stephen Fry in Central America
Self - Presenter · (4 episodes)
2015
A Life on Screen
Himself · (1 episode)
2014
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Master of Laketown
2014
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
Self · (1 episode)
2014
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
Self · (1 episode)
2014
Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest
2014
Tiny Giants 3D
Narrator
2014
Lily's Driftwood Bay
Lord Stag (voice) · (100 episodes)
2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Winston Churchill (voice) · (1 episode)
2014
Mahout: The Great Elephant Walk
Narrator
2014
Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
2014
Hidden Kingdoms
Narrator · (3 episodes)
2014
Yonderland
Cuddly Dick · (9 episodes)
2013
Stephen Fry: Out There
Himself · (2 episodes)
2013
Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan
Self · (1 episode)
2013
The Lonely Dodo
Narrator/Mascarene Grass Frog
2013
The Last Leg
Self · (2 episodes)
2013
Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets
Himself
2012
Twelfth Night
Malvolio
2012
Veep
Nikolai Genidze · (1 episode)
2012
Just a Minute
Self · (2 episodes)
2012
Making Qi
Self
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2011
Wogan on Wodehouse
Self
2011
Ocean Giants
Narrator · (3 episodes)
2011
Wagner and Me
Star · (1 episode)
2010
Fry and Laurie Reunited
Self
2010
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
Self
2009
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Self – Narrator (voice)
2009
Country Tracks
Himself · (1 episode)
2009
Pocoyo & the Space Circus
Narrator
2008
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
Self
2008
Happy Birthday to GNU
Himself
2008
Last of the Dambusters
Narrator
2008
Stephen Fry: HIV & Me
Himself - Presenter · (2 episodes)
2007
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Self
2007
Shrink Rap
Himself · (1 episode)
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self · (8 episodes)
2007
Snow White: The Sequel
The Narrator (voice)
2007
Legends
Self (uncredited) · (1 episode)
2006
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: 40th Anniversary Celebration
Self
2006
Dirty Tricks
Owl (voice) · (1 episode)
2005
Bones
Dr. Gordon Wyatt · (6 episodes)
2005
Extras
Stephen Fry · (1 episode)
2005
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Self
2005
Nigella
Self · (1 episode)
2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Narrator / The Guide (voice)
2005
Doctor Who
C · (2 episodes)
2005
American Dad!
John Michael Heaton (voice) · (1 episode)
2005
American Dad!
Mr. Cavendish (voice) · (1 episode)
2005
29 Minutes of Fame
Self - Panelist · (1 episode)
2005
A Bear Named Winnie
Protheroe
2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Maurice Woodruff
2004
The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope
Narrator
2004
Bright Young Things
Chauffeur
2003
QI
Self - Presenter · (200 episodes)
2003
Fortysomething
Derek · (1 episode)
2003
Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons of his Mind
Self
2003
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
Andre Breton
2002
Paddington Bear: The Early Years
2001
Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making
Self
2001
Funny Old World
Narrator (voice)
2001
Funny Old World 2
Narrator (voice)
2001
Funny Old World 3
Narrator (voice)
2001
Funny Old World 5
Narrator (voice)
2001
Funny Old World 4
Narrator (voice)
2001
Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration
Self
2000
Best
Frazer Crane
2000
Click
Self · (1 episode)
2000
Longitude
Sir Kenhelm Digby · (2 episodes)
2000
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
(2 episodes)
2000
A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'
Self
2000
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Melchett
1999
Have I Got Buzzcocks All Over
Themselves - Panellist · (1 episode)
1999
Geri
Self
1999
A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest
1999
Stanley Baxter in Person
Self
1998
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Self - Contestant · (1 episode)
1998
The Tichborne Claimant
Hawkins
1998
In the Red
Controller, Radio 2 · (3 episodes)
1998
Parkinson
Self · (5 episodes)
1998
Spice World
Judge
1997
An Audience with Elton John
Self
1997
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self · (1 episode)
1996
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self - Panellist · (1 episode)
1996
Kulturzeit
self · (1 episode)
1995
The Steal
Wimborne
1995
Common Pursuit
1992
Have I Got News for You
Himself · (1 episode)
1990
Rita Rudner
(1 episode)
1990
Old Flames
Daniel Davenport
1990
This Is David Lander
(12 episodes)
1988
This Morning
Self · (1 episode)
1988
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Self · (5 episodes)
1988
Comic Relief
(2 episodes)
1988
The New Statesman
Piers Lonsdale · (1 episode)
1987
The Laughing Prisoner
No. 2
1987
Filthy Rich & Catflap
P'Farty · (1 episode)
1987
The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
Self
1986
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
(1 episode)
1986
Saturday Live
(30 episodes)
1986
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
1986
The Dangerous Brothers
(1 episode)
1986
Happy Families
Doctor De Quincy · (6 episodes)
1985
Screen Two
Humphrey Taylor · (1 episode)
1985
Chance in a Million
(1 episode)
1984
Natural World
Narrator · (3 episodes)
1983
The Crystal Cube
Dr. Adrian Cowlacey / Various Roles · (1 episode)
1983
Blackadder
Lord Melchett · (6 episodes)
1983
Blackadder
General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett · (6 episodes)
1983
Blackadder
The Duke of Wellington · (1 episode)
1983
Alfresco
Various · (13 episodes)
1983
The Young Ones
Lord Snot · (1 episode)
1982
Countdown
(5 episodes)
1982
There's Nothing to Worry About!
Various · (3 episodes)
1982
Wogan
Self · (3 episodes)
1982
An Audience with...
Self · (2 episodes)
1978
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Self · (15 episodes)
1976
The BAFTA Awards
Host · (12 episodes)
1949
Stephen Fry’s 21st Century Firsts
Self - Host · (1 episode)
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · (1 episode)
1944
The Celebrity Traitors
Self · (9 episodes)