Stephen
Fry
Stephen Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet and film director. He was born in London and studied English literature at the University of Cambridge.
It was there that he became involved with the Footlights, a theatre club that has spawned many of Britain’s most prominent comic actors, and met his long-time collaborator and friend, Hugh Laurie.
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet and film director. He was born in London and studied English literature at the University of Cambridge.
It was there that he became involved with the Footlights, a theatre club that has spawned many of Britain’s most prominent comic actors, and met his long-time collaborator and friend, Hugh Laurie.
Fry is best-known for playing Lord Melchett and other characters in the television comedy series “Blackadder,” the Irish writer Oscar Wilde in the 1997 film “Wilde” and the Master of Laketown in Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” trilogy.
Fry has also written and presented several documentary series, including the Emmy Award-winning “Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive” and “Stephen Fry: Out There,” a two-part documentary about the lives of lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender people around the world.
Fry has been married to comedian Elliott Spencer since 2015 and has advocated for the rights of the LGBT community for 30 years.
“The advances of the Enlightenment are being systematically and deliberately pushed back.”
