James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House. Laurie first gained recognition for his work as one half of the comedy double act Fry and Laurie with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry. Outside of acting, Laurie released the blues albums Let Them Talk and Didn’t It Rain, and authored the novel The Gun Seller.
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James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House. Laurie first gained recognition for his work as one half of the comedy double act Fry and Laurie with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry. Outside of acting, Laurie released the blues albums Let Them Talk and Didn’t It Rain, both to favourable reviews, and authored the novel The Gun Seller. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2007 New Year Honours and Commander of the order in the 2018 New Year honours, both for services to drama. He has won three Golden Globe Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and has been nominated for 10 Primetime Emmy Awards. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep. His mother died from motor neurone disease in 1989, at the age of 73. He had a strained relationship with his mother, whom he noted as \”Presbyterian by character, by mood\”. He has an older brother, Charles Alexander Lyon Mundell Laurie, and two older sisters, Susan and Janet. His father was a physician and winner of an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs at the 1948 London Games. He attended Eton and Cambridge University, where he was a member of the junior coxed pair that won the British title before representing Britain’s Youth Team at the 1980 World Championships.
He graduated with third-class honours in social anthropology, specialising in anthropology, archaeology and archaeology. He went on to study at Eton’s private school Number Six and Selwyn College, which he described as ‘the most private of private schools’ He has a son, Charles, and a daughter, Susan, with whom he has two step-grandchildren. He lives in London with his wife and two sons, and they have a son and daughter-in-law, both of whom are also actors and have appeared in a number of films, including 101 Dalmatians, The Borrowers, and Stuart Little. He also has a step-son, James, who has appeared in several films and TV shows, including Sense and Sensibility and Jeeves and Wooster. In 2011, he was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 per episode of House. He says he was, in truth, a horrible child. Not much given to things of a ‘bookey’ nature, I spent a part of my youth smoking in French vocabulary tests. He later stated, ‘I don’t believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he’d take it away. I find pleasure a difficult thing; I don’t know what you do with it’
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