Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry: Biography in Details

Who is Stephen Fry?

Stephen Fry is an English comedian, actor, and writer famous for the Emmy Award-winning documentary series Stephen Fry: The Secret Lige of the Manic Depressive.

Similarly, he and Hugh Laurie are the comic double act Fry and Laurie, who starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster.

Stephen Fry: Age(64), Parents, Siblings, Ethnicity, Nationality

He was born on 24th August 1957 in Hampstead, London, England. He is the son of Alan John Fry and Marianne Eve Fry.

His father was a British physicist and inventor. He grew up in the village of Booton near Reepham, Norfolk, having moved from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, at an early age.

Similarly, he has an elder brother Roger and a younger sister Joanna. Likewise, he belongs to British nationality and his ethnicity is English and Ashkenazi Jewish.

Stephen Fry: Education, School/College University

Talking about his education, he attended Cawston Primary School in Cawston, Norfolk. Then he attended Uppingham School, Rutland, where he joined Fircroft house.

Similarly, he took and passed his O-Levels in the summer of 1972 at the age of 14 except Physics.

He moved to Norfolk College of Arts and Technology where, after 2 years in the sixth form studying English, French, and History of Art.

Likewise, Stephen Fry then attended the University of Cambridge and joined Footlights appearing on University Challenge. He read for a degree in English graduating with upper second-class honors.

Stephen Fry: Professional Life, Career

His performed in Golden Globe Award-nominated as lead performance in the film Wilde. He was Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder and the title character in the television series Kingdom.

Similarly, he did a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on crime series Bones, and as Gordon Deitrich in the dystopian thriller V for Vendetta.

Similarly, he has written and presented many documentary series like the Emmy Award-winning Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive.

It saw him explore his bipolar disorder and the travel series Stephen Fry in America. Also, he was the long-time host of the BBC television quiz show QI, with his tenure lasting from the year 2003 to 2016.

Moreover, Stephen Fry has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines. He has written four novels and three volumes of autobiography like Moab Is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles, and More Fool Me.

Similarly, he also appears frequently on BBC Radio 4, starring in the comedy series Absolute Power and is a frequent guest on panel games such as Just a Minute.

Stephen Fry is acting as chairman during one series of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, where he was one of a trio of possible hosts who were tried out to succeed the late Humphrey Lyttelton.

Likewise, he has done voice-overs. He is known for reading all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the UK audiobook recordings, narrating the LittleBigPlanet and Birds of Steel series of video games.

He has voice-overs in animated series of explanations of the laws of cricket and a series of animations about Humanism for Humanists UK.

Further, he has also filmed commercials like the essence of British culture to foreigners arriving at London’s Heathrow Airport.

Stephen Fry: Awards, Nominations

He has been nominated for many awards. He has won Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards for Best Acting Ensemble. Similarly, he won Florida Film Critics Circle Awards for Gosford Park.

He won the NAVGTR award for Performance in a Comedy for the LittleBigPlanet movie. His series Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive won Emmy Awards.

Stephen Fry: Net Worth 2024($30M), Income, Salary

The estimated net worth of Stephen is around $30 million as of 2024. He has a successful career.

So he might have earned this amount of money from his career. But he has not disclosed his salary and earnings.

Stephen Fry: Rumors and Controversy/Scandal

Stephen Fry faced a furious backlash after attacking the country’s most high-profile police inquiry into historic sex abuse while hosting a Labour fundraiser.

It was a controversy and he apologized for it.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight, Body Size

Stephen Fry has a height of 6 feet 4 inches and his weight is around 78 kg.

Similarly, his hair color is salt and pepper and he has blue color eyes.

Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

Stephen Fry is active on social media.

He has around 12.7M followers on Twitter and 363k followers on Instagram. But he does not have a Facebook account.

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