Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE ( born June 11, 1959 in Oxford ) is an English actor, comedian, writer and musician.
Life
After completing his schooling at Eton College Laurie took at Cambridge University to study at Selwyn College on ( degree in anthropology ). During his studies he joined the Cambridge Footlights, a theater group of the University, which was the starting point for a successful career already for many British actors and entertainers. From 1980 to 1981 Laurie led the group. The Cambridge Footlights he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a relationship and is good friends even today. Emma Thompson asked Laurie 1980, the new theater group member Stephen Fry ago, Laurie's later partner in several British television productions. Laurie called Stephen Fry as his best friend.
At the British Rowing Junior Championships 1977, the son of the Olympic champion from 1948 Ran Laurie took first place in two with coxswain at the Junior World Championships in the same year, he finished in fourth place in this discipline. Even today Laurie is a member of the exclusive Leander Rowing Club. Laurie also belonged to the Cambridge roller in the traditional Oxford and Cambridge boat race, the 1980 hit by the Oxford team with five feet ahead. He also said in 2005 in a late -night show to have started with the boxes.
Laurie is an avid pianist and occurs along with other celebrities as singer and keyboardist of the charity rock group Band From TV, participate in the castmates Teri Hatcher (vocals), Jesse Spencer ( violin ) and James Denton ( guitar). Since 1989, Laurie is married. With his wife, Jo Green, he has three children. His youngest child and only daughter Rebecca had a role in the film Wit ( 2001). On 23 May 2007 Laurie was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to the art of acting to the Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE).
Artistic Career
In 1981, Laurie's theater company at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Perrier Comedy Award.
From 1986 to 1995 Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry were in the BBC sketch series A Bit of Fry & Laurie a successful comedy duo. For the four seasons of this series, which aired in 26 episodes, Laurie also wrote the screenplays.
Hugh Laurie has been known through numerous exposures to a wide audience, initially mainly in British comedy series, such as the Blackadder series. Hugh Laurie is a great admirer of the writer PG Wodehouse and took over in the early 1990s in the BBC adaptation of the book series Jeeves and Wooster, the role of Bertie Wooster opposite Stephen Fry as Jeeves butler. In addition, he also occupied roles in feature films, including the comedy film Peter's Friends, 101 Dalmatians and Maybe Baby and children's book adaptations of Stuart Little.
At the same time Laurie took over repeatedly roles beyond the comedy genre, such as in some episodes of the spy series Spooks, in the Jane Austen adaptation Sense and Sensibility and in the remake of The Flight of the Phoenix. In 2003 he played the lead role in the British television series Dr. Slippery (OT: Forty Something ). For his title role of Dr. Gregory House in the hospital series House MD (2004-2012), in which he speaks with an American accent, he was nominated four times for an Emmy Award and won the 2006 and 2007 Golden Globe Award. For the launched in the U.S. in September 2008 Season 5 Hugh Laurie received $ 400,000 for the presentation of Dr. House per episode; So grossed approximately nine million dollars per year. To start the eighth and final season of his salary has risen to $ 700,000 per episode.
He also played in the 1986 music video for the title Experiment IV by Kate Bush and 1992 together with John Malkovich in the music video Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox.
Hugh Laurie also works as a writer. In 1996 he published a novel ( The Gun Seller ), which made it in show in the UK in the bestseller lists. In Germany the book was published in 1999 under the title The arms dealer, which was reissued under the title of bullshit in March 2008. Hugh Laurie is working on his second novel, The Paper Soldier.
On April 29, 2011 his debut album Let Them Talk was released by Warner Music. On admission he worked with, among others, with Irma Thomas and Tom Jones.
Filmography ( excerpt)
Movies
TV series (selection)
Discography
- 2011: Let Them Talk
- 2013: Did not It Rain ( PdSK leaderboard 3/2013 in the category " blues and related styles " )
Synchronization
In German-speaking Laurie is synchronized in the television series Dr. House and Dr. Slippery as well as in the movie Street Kings (2008) by Klaus -Dieter Klebsch.
Awards
- 2005: in the category "Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series "
- 2006: in the category "Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series "
- 2008: in the category " Favorite Male TV Star"
- 2009: In the category " Favorite Male TV Star"
- 2010: in the category "Favorite TV Drama Actor"
- 2011: in the category "Favorite TV Drama Actor"
- 2011: in the category "Favorite TV Doctor"
- 2005: in the category "Outstanding Actor in a Series"
- 2006: in the category "Outstanding Actor in a Series"
- 2007: in the category "Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series "
- 2009: in the category "Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series "
- 2005: in the category of " Individual Achievement in Drama "
- 2006: in the category of " Individual Achievement in Drama "
- 2007: in the category " TV Actor: Drama "
Publications
- The Gun Seller. German edition: The arms dealer. Translated by Ulrich Blumenbach. Haffmans, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-251-00361-5.
- Reprint: bullshit. Translated by Ulrich Blumenbach. Heyne, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-43324-3.