[8], Stephen John Fry was born on 24 August 1957 in the Hampstead area of London,[9] the son of Marianne Eve Fry (ne Newman) and physicist and inventor Alan John Fry (19302019). Following his release, he resumed his education at City College Norwich, promising administrators that he would study rigorously and sit the Cambridge entrance exams. Between 1990 and 1993, Fry starred as Jeeves (alongside Hugh Laurie's Bertie Wooster) in Jeeves and Wooster, 23 hour-long adaptations of P. G. Wodehouse's novels and short stories. [44] He appeared as the Christian God in 2011's Holy Flying Circus. [153] In some quarters, the general methods Fry uses on Twitter have been criticised. [201][202], On 6 January 2015, British tabloid The Sun reported that Fry would marry his partner, comedian Elliott Spencer. [280] The sketch had been put together by Comic Relief and Children in Need to raise money and keep people entertained during the lockdown. Fry was the special guest in their "Blackmail" sketch. [195] 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[196] The first episode of the second series was released on 13 January 2020 and continued to be released over the course of nine weeks. Fry helped to fund a 1988 London re-staging of Stanshall's Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera, written by Vivian and Ki Longfellow-Stanshall for the Bristol-based Old Profanity Showboat. But now I'm so happy to relinquish my seat on the board to Thomas Smith and to engage as fully as I can in the role of ambassador for Norwich City. Fry moved to Norfolk College of Arts and Technology, where, after two years in the sixth form studying English, French, and History of Art,[29] he ultimately failed his A-Levels, not turning up for his English and French papers. He was awarded the AoC Gold Award in 2004, and was entered into their Hall of Fame. Once a columnist in The Listener and The Daily Telegraph, he now writes a weekly technology column in the Saturday edition of The Guardian. [102] The Cellar Tapes, the Footlights Revue of 1981, won the Perrier Comedy Award. [172] That same year, Broadcast magazine listed Fry at number four in its "Hot 100" list of influential on-screen performers, describing him as a polymath and a "national treasure". [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. 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In the summer 2009 series of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Fry was one of a trio of hosts replacing Humphrey Lyttelton (the others being Jack Dee and Rob Brydon). Regarding football, he is a supporter of Norwich City FC, and is a regular visitor to their home ground at Carrow Road. [166] He is a Patron of the Norwich Playhouse theatre and a Vice-President of The Nol Coward Society. He was a massive lover of cricket and used to play cricket. [237], In January 2008, Fry broke his arm while filming Last Chance to See in Brazil. The book won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. In February 2008, he launched his private podcast series, Stephen Fry's Podgrams (defunct), and a forum, including discussions on depression and activities in which he is involved. [155] Fry alluded to this on an April 2016 episode of The Rubin Report in which he criticised groupthink mentality and stated that his return to Twitter was a "maybe". [160], In 1995, Fry was presented with an honorary doctorate from the University of Dundee, which named their main Students' Association bar after his novel The Liar. Fry performed several of Stanshall's numbers as part of the Bonzos' 2006 reunion concert at the London Astoria. [96], Since August 2008, he has presented Fry's English Delight, a series on BBC Radio 4 about the English language. [132] He filmed a 2016 advertisement where he explains the essence of British culture to foreigners arriving at London's Heathrow Airport.[133]. Stephen Fry has told how he attempted to take his own life as a teenager in a candid new interview. In 2017, Fry also released his own audio book on Audible, titled Mythos,[120] which he both wrote and narrated. He has published several books and hosts the TV comedy quiz show QI. Fry, Stephen [as Mrs. Stephen Fry] (2010). QI has the highest viewing figures for any show on BBC Four and Dave (formerly UKTV G2). [197], 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. His dry sarcasm, intellectualism, and coy euphemisms all play on the British ideal of what is "proper" yet it is still edgy and fearless. [100], Fry wrote the play Latin! The second night was composed of programmes selected by Fry, as well as a 60-minute interview with Mark Lawson and a half-hour special, Stephen Fry: Guilty. His maternal grandparents, Martin and Rosa Neumann, were Hungarian Jewish immigrants from urany, which is now in Slovakia. Related Stories 'The Crown' Tackles Duke of Windsor's . He also received a grade A in an alternative O-Level in the Study of Art[33] and scored a distinction in an S-Level paper in English. [239], Appearing on the BBC's Top Gear in 2009, Fry had lost a significant amount of weight, and explained that he had shed a total of 6 stone (84lb; 38kg). He jokes that he has never encountered a smartphone that he has not purchased. How dare you create a world where there is such misery that's not our fault? [10][11][12][13] He has an older brother, Roger, and a younger sister, Joanna. Camilla died in 2000. He was a friend of John Mills. It was all me. Stephen Fry on the Joys of SwearingFrom celebrations of Fry's 50th birthday. [271] In the film, Fry explains the principles of software freedom central to the development of the Linux and GNU software projects. [37][38] Fry also met his future comedy collaborator Hugh Laurie (through their mutual friend Emma Thompson) at Cambridge and starred alongside him in the Footlights.[39]. His television roles include Lord Melchett in the BBC television comedy series Blackadder, the title character in the television series Kingdom and Absolute Power, as well as recurring guest roles as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the American crime series Bones and Arthur Garrison MP on the Channel 4 period drama It's a Sin. Despite his praise of the Blair/Brown government's work on social reform, Fry was an outspoken critic of the Labour Party's Third Way concept. [158] He left Twitter again in November 2022,[159] joining Mastodon that same month. 1 on the UK Album Chart list. [205], On 30 April 2008, Fry signed an open letter, published in The Guardian newspaper by a number of Jewish personalities, stating their opposition to celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. In 1988, Fry wrote and presented a six-part comedy series entitled Saturday Night Fry. [190] He counts Wikipedia among his favourite websites "because I like to find out that I died, and that I'm currently in a ballet in China, and all the other very accurate and important things that Wikipedia brings us all". [176][177] The weekend programming proved such a ratings hit for BBC Four that it was repeated on BBC Two on 16 and 17 September 2007. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (19891995) and Jeeves and Wooster (19901993). The Fry's chocolate 'family' do not come from one family, some from Bristol others from Devon, they were from a Society of Friends and Quaker families.. Stephen Fry was [266] Fry said, "My five years in the role have been an honour and a privilege beyond almost anything I can remember. "[218], On 1 February 2021, Fry supported the petition of two Holocaust survivors, Dorit Oliver-Wolff and Ruth Barnett who were asking to meet Prime Minister Boris Johnson regarding the 'genocide amendment' to the trade bill; this amendment would allow an independent parliamentary judicial committee to examine evidence of genocide. In 2003, Fry made his directorial dbut with Bright Young Things, adapted by him from Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies. "[260] Within days, the video was viewed over five million times. [173] He was also granted a lifetime achievement award at the British Comedy Awards on 5 December 2007,[174] and the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards on 20 January 2010. [32] In 2018, alongside Nadiya Hussain and Olly Alexander, Fry was part of Sport Relief's attempt to raise awareness of mental health. He later recalled the incident as a hypomanic episode in his documentary about bipolar disorder, The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive. [28] He was later dismissed from Paston School, a grant-maintained grammar school that refused to let him progress to study A-Levels. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (19891995) and Jeeves and Wooster (19901993). Frys on-off relationship with Twitter means his latest departure has met with scepticism, and sparked speculation he will be back in the future in due course. [194] This vehicle has been featured in Fry's production Stephen Fry in America. [42] In 1986 and 1987, Fry and Laurie performed sketches on the LWT/Channel 4 show Saturday Live. He appears frequently on other panel games, such as the radio programmes Just a Minute and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Polly was born three weeks into their honeymoon. [244] Fry also has prosopagnosia ("face blindness"). The show accurately portrays Margaret's relationship with Armstrong-Jones. Armstrong-Jones died in January of this year. On 6 October 2009, Fry was interviewed by Jon Snow on Channel 4 News[221] as a signatory of a letter to British Conservative Party leader David Cameron expressing concern about the party forming a political alliance with the right-wing Polish Law and Justice party in the European Parliament. He is also a friend of Rowan Atkinson and was best man at Atkinson's wedding to Sunetra Sastry at the Russian Tea Room in New York City. In 2004 he was the narrator for an adaptation of Vanity Fair on BBC Radio 4. [95] In July 2008, he appeared as himself in I Love Stephen Fry, an Afternoon Play for Radio 4 written by former Fry and Laurie script editor Jon Canter. In 1983, the BBC offered Fry, Laurie and Thompson their own show, which became The Crystal Cube, a mixture of science fiction and mockumentary that was cancelled after the first episode. He had a love child with Camilla Fry. in the United States recorded since 1880 is: 75.4 years. [116], Fry has been the reader for the British versions of all of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of audiobooks. He also appeared as a shiny New Millennium Bonzo on their post-reunion album, Pour l'Amour des Chiens, on which he recited a recipe for "Salmon Proust", played a butler in "Hawkeye the Gnu", and voiced ads for the fictitious "Fiasco" stores. In 2011, Fry portrayed Professor Mildeye in the BBC adaptation of Mary Norton's 1952 novel The Borrowers. [69] In the same month, the nature documentary series Ocean Giants, narrated by Fry, premiered. [279] In the lighthearted sketch, Fry reprises his Blackadder character Lord Melchett, who is on a Zoom call with the Duke of Cambridge as they talk about television shows such as EastEnders and Tiger King as well as homeschooling. 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? Making History (1996) is partly set in an alternative universe in which Adolf Hitler's father is made infertile and his replacement proves a more effective Fhrer. [273] He has been the President of the Great Fen Project since 2006[274] and Vice-president of international NGO Fauna and Flora International since 2009. The child's mother, Camilla Fry, was the wife of Armstrong-Jones's best friend, Jeremy. In 2001, he began hosting the BAFTA Film Awards, a role from which he stepped down in 2006. [222] 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. Alan R Fry is also linked to this address. [107][108] He received excellent reviews. What's that about? Fry attacked the Catholic Church's teachings on sexuality and denounced its wealth. Polly Fry asserted that a DNA test in 2004 proved Snowdon's paternity. Jeremy Fry rejected her claim, and Snowdon denied having taken a DNA test. However, four years later, after Fry had died, Snowdon admitted that this account was true. [128], 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. 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. Ms Fry was born just a few weeks before Margaret and Antony walked down the [13][23][24] His mother's aunt and cousins were sent to Auschwitz and Stutthof and never seen again.[13]. [198] When asked when he first acknowledged his sexuality, Fry quipped: "I suppose it all began when I came out of the womb. [234] He abandoned the idea and left the United Kingdom by ferry, eventually resurfacing in Belgium. Fry's use of the word "luvvie" (spelled "lovie" by Fry), in The Guardian on 2 April 1988, is given by the Oxford English Dictionary as the earliest recorded use of the word as a humorous synonym for "actor". He portrays the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland (2010) and its 2016 sequel, and the Master of Lake-town in the film series adaptation of The Hobbit. Fry has said, in his memoirs, that after receiving his payment for this work 25,000 he has never subsequently experienced "what one could call serious money troubles". In September 2011, Fry's Planet Word, a five-part documentary about language, aired on BBC HD and BBC Two. [255], In 2010, Fry was made a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association, stating: "it is essential to nail one's colours to the mast as a humanist. [89] 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,[90] and the third The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. [14] His paternal grandmother, Ella Fry (ne Pring), had roots in Cheshire and Kent. I wish I could take credit for ushering the club up from League One to the Premiership during that time on the Board. [209][210] Cameron stated on Twitter he believed "we can better challenge prejudice as we attend, rather than boycotting the Winter Olympics". [45] In 2016, Fry had a lead role in the American sitcom The Great Indoors. In 2010, having learned some Irish for the role,[54] he filmed a cameo role in Ros na Rn, an Irish-language soap opera broadcast in Ireland, Scotland and the US. His blog attracted more than 300,000 visitors in its first two weeks. "[265] Fry stepped down from his Board position in January 2016, to take up a new position as "Norwich City Ambassador". [163][164], He was made honorary president of the Cambridge University Quiz Society and honorary fellow of his alma mater Queens' College, Cambridge. The actor, 65, admitted that he felt lost and adrift during his disastrous childhood after he was expelled from multiple schools. Fry captioned one image with the words: 'On Saturday afternoon we did have cake. The Hippopotamus (1994) is about Edward (Ted/Tedward) Wallace and his stay at his old friend Lord Logan's country manor in Norfolk. According to The Daily Mail, she attended Lord Snowdon's funeral in 2017, Fry's career in television began with the 1982 broadcasting of The Cellar Tapes, the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue[40] which was written by Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, and Tony Slattery. He also starred in the sketch series Alfresco (19831984) alongsi He has also written and presented several documentary series, including the Emmy Award-winning Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, which saw him explore his bipolar disorder, and the travel series Stephen Fry in America. [91], 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. Research genealogy for Polly J. Fry of Thurman, Warren, New York, as well as other members of the Fry family, on Ancestry. On 13 July 2010, he was made an honorary fellow of Cardiff University,[165] 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. Bonzos ' 2006 reunion concert at the London Astoria Fry uses on Twitter have been criticised were Jewish... 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