Hugh Laurie
b. 1959
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer (born 1959)
- Born
- 11 Jun 1959 · Blackbird Leys
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 11 Jun 1959BornBorn in Blackbird Leys
- 2005AwardSatellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
- 2005AwardTCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama
- 2006AwardGolden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
- 2006AwardSatellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
- 2006AwardTCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama
- 2007AwardGolden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
- 2007AwardScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
- 2007AwardTeen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor Drama
- 2009AwardScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
- 2017AwardGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1959 – today).
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 19941994 FIFA World Cup
- 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
- 19981998 FIFA World Cup
- 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
- 2003 – 2011Iraq War
- 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
- 20062006 FIFA World Cup
- 20082008 Summer Olympics
- 2008Russo-Georgian War
- 20102010 Haiti earthquake
- 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
- 20112011 Norway attacks
- 2011Libyan civil war
- 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
- 20122012 Summer Olympics
- 20142014 FIFA World Cup
- 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2015Paris Agreement
- 20182018 FIFA World Cup
- 2020COVID-19 pandemic
- 20212020 Summer Olympics
Biography
James Hugh Calum Laurie (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian, and musician. Laurie first gained professional recognition as a member of the English comedy double act Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry. Fry and Laurie acted together in several projects during the 1980s and 1990s, including the BBC sketch comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie and the P. G. Wodehouse adaptation Jeeves and Wooster. From 1986 to 1989, Laurie appeared in three series of the period comedy Blackadder.
From 2004 to 2012, Laurie starred as Dr. Gregory House in the Fox medical drama series House. He received two Golden Globe Awards and many other accolades for his work on House. 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 at the time. After House, Laurie won a Golden Globe for his starring role as arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, the main antagonist in the TV series The Night Manager (2016–present). He received his 10th Emmy Award nomination for his portrayal of Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2015–2019).
Laurie released the blues albums Let Them Talk (2011) and Didn't It Rain (2013), both to favourable reviews. Laurie also wrote the novel The Gun Seller (1996). He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours and CBE in the 2018 New Year Honours, both for services to drama.
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