Hugh’s full name is James Hugh Calum Laurie.
He was born on June 11, 1959 in Oxford, England.
Youngest of four children.

Education:
He was brought up in Oxford and attended the Dragon School. He later went on to Eton and then to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he studied for a degree in archaeology and social anthropology. While at Cambridge, he was a member of the prestigious Hawks' Club.
Like his father, Laurie was an oarsman at school and university; in 1977, he was a member of the junior coxed pair that won the British national title before representing Britain's Youth Team at the 1977 Junior World Rowing Championships. In 1980, Laurie and his rowing partner, J. S. Palmer, were runners-up in the Silver Goblets coxless pairs for Eton Vikings rowing club. Later, he also achieved a Blue while taking part in the 1980 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. Cambridge lost that year by 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in). Laurie is a member of the Leander Club, one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world.
Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of infectious mononucleosis (glandular fever), he joined the Cambridge Footlights, which has been the starting point for many successful British comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship; the two remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of ”Footlights College, Oxbridge” in ”Bambi”, an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team. In 1980–81, his final year at university, besides rowing, Laurie was also president of the Footlights, with Thompson as vice-president. They took their annual revue, The Cellar Tapes, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and won the first Perrier Comedy Award. The revue was written principally by Laurie and Fry, and the cast also included Thompson, Tony Slattery, Paul Shearer and Penny Dwyer.

Family man:
Is married to Jo Green since June 16, 1989.
Has three children: Charlie (1988), Bill (1991) and Rebecca (1993).

Music:
Hugh plays the piano, guitar, drums, harmonica and saxophone. He has displayed his musical talents in episodes of several series, most notably A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, House and when he hosted Saturday Night Live in October 2006. He is a vocalist and keyboard player for the Los Angeles charity rock group Band From TV. Additionally, following Meat Loaf's appearance in the House episode “Simple Explanation“, Laurie played piano as a special guest on the song “If I Can't Have You” from Meat Loaf's 2010 album Hang Cool Teddy Bear. On 26 July 2010, it was announced Laurie would be releasing a blues album, following signing a contract with Warner Bros. The album is due to be recorded this autumn.

Writer:
Published his first novel, The Gun Seller, in 1996; which went on to become a best seller.
He has been working on a second book, titled ‘The Paper Soldier’, but there is no release date as of yet.

Other:
Hugh is an avid motorcyclist.

Movies
The Oranges - David Walling (2010)
Street Kings - Captain James Biggs (2008)
The Big Empty - Doctor #5 (2005)
Flight of the Phoenix - Ian (2004)
The Young Visiters - Lord Bernard Clark (2003) (TV)
Stuart Little 2 - Mr. Frederick Little (2002)
Girl from Rio - Raymond (2001)
The Piano Tuner - Charles (2001)
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows - Vincente Minnelli (2001) (TV)
Maybe Baby - Sam Bell (2000)
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything - French Ambassador (1999) (TV)
Stuart Little - Mr. Fredrick Little (1999)
Cousin Bette - Baron Hector Hulot (1998)
The Man in the Iron Mask - King's Advisor (1998)
Spice World - Poirot (1997)
The Borrowers - Police Officer Steady (1997)
The Place of Lions - Steve Harris (1997) (TV)
101 Dalmatians - Jasper (1996)
Sense and Sensibility - Mr. Palmer (1995)
A Pin for the Butterfly - Uncle (1994)
Peter's Friends - Roger Charleston (1992)
Strapless - Colin (1989)
The Laughing Prisoner - Assistant (1987) (TV)
Up Line - (1987) (TV)
Mrs. Capper's Birthday - Bobby (1985) (TV)
Plenty - Michael (1985)


TV Series
House - Dr. Gregory House (2004-present)
The Lenny Henry Show - Professor (1 episode, s01e01) (2004)
Fortysomething - Paul Slippery (2003)
Spooks - Jools Siviter (2 episodes, s01s04-s01e05) (2002)
Dragans of New York - (unaired pilot, 2002)
Family Guy - Bar Patron (1 episode, s03e04) (2001)
Dominion - Freleng (2000)
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) - Dr. Lawyer (1 episode, s01e02) (2000)
Blackadder Back & Forth - Viscount George Bufton-Tufton / Georgius (1999)
Friends - The Gentleman on the Plane (1 episode, s04e24) (1998)
The Bill - Harrap (1 episode, s14e27) (1998)
Murder Most Horrid - Jerry Bryce (1 episode, s03e04) (1996)
Tracey Takes On... - Timothy 'Timmy' Bugge (2 episodes, s01e04 and s01e08) (1996)
Look at the State We're In! (unknown episodes) (1995)
A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Various Characters (26 episodes, 1987-1995)
All or Nothing at All - Leo Hopkins (1993)
Jeeves and Wooster - Bertie Wooster (23 episodes, 1990-1993)
Blackadder Goes Forth - Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh (6 episodes, 1989)
The New Statesman - Waiter (1 episode, s02e04) (1989)
Les Girls - Mr. Mott (1 episode, s01e07) (1988)
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years – (uncredited) - Roundhead with Cromwell (1988)
Blackadder's Christmas Carol - George, the Prince Regent / Lord Pigmot (1988)
Blackadder the Third - The Prince Regent (6 episodes, 1987)
Filthy Rich & Catflap - Alfons N'Bend (1 episode, s01e02) (1987)
Girls on Top - Tom (1 episode, s02e02) (1986)
Blackadder II - Prince Ludwig / ... (2 episodes, s01e05-s01e06) (1986)
Happy Families - Jim (2 episodes, s01e01 s01e06) (1985)
Alfresco - Various Characters (13 episodes, 1983-1984)
The Young Ones - Lord Monty (1 episode, s02e01) (1984)
The Crystal Cube - Max Belhaven/Various Roles (1983)
There's Nothing to Worry About! - Actor / ... (3 episodes, 1982)
Cambridge Footlights Revue - Various Characters (1982)


Voice work
Family Guy - Dr. House (s08e09) (2009)
Monsters vs. Aliens - Halloween Special - Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (Oct 28 2009)
Monsters vs. Aliens - Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (2009)
Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild - Mr. Frederick Little (2005)
Valiant - Gutsy (2005)
The Tale of Jack Frost - Narrator (2004) (TV)
Stuart Little - Mr. Fredrick Little (1 episode, s01e01) (2003)
Lost in the Snow - Teddy (2002)
Second Star to the Left - Archie the Bunny (2001) (TV)
Preston Pig - Mr. Wolf (2000) TV series
Carnivale - Cenzo (2000)
The Journal of Edwin Carp - Edwin Carp (2000)
Little Gray Rabbit - Hare (2000) TV series
Lounge Act (2000)
Santa's Last Christmas - Geoffrey the Seagull (1999) (TV)
The Ugly Duckling - Tarquin (1997)
Treasure Island - Squire Trelawney (1997)
The Snow Queen's Revenge (1996)
The Snow Queen - Peeps (1995)
The Adventures of Mole - Toad (1995) (TV)
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends - Johnny Town-Mouse (1 episode, s01e09) (1995)
The Legends of Treasure Island - Squire Trelawney (8 episodes, 1993)


Music
Band from TV - Hoggin' All the Covers (2008)


Misc
Saturday Night Live - host (2 episodes, s32e04 & s34e11)
50 Not Out - Stephen Fry BBC special (2008) (TV)

Golden Globe Awards

2005 – Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
2006 – Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Satellite Awards

2005 – Outstanding Actor in a Series, Drama
2006 – Outstanding Actor in a Series, Drama

Screen Actors Guild Awards

2007 – Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
2009 – Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

Television Critics Association

2005 – Individual Achievement in Drama
2006 – Individual Achievement in Drama

Teen Choice Award

2007 – TV Actor: Drama

People's Choice Awards

2008 – Favorite Male TV Star
2009 – Favorite Male TV Star
2010 – Favorite Male Drama Actor

“I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't admire crystals and chewing willow bark and herbal remedies.”

“Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit. ”

“I am going to form a jazz trio along the lines of a Ramsey Lewis or Herbie Hancock kind of thing. I’m gonna find some regular gigs, and we’ll play a very groovy set. If girls in tight-fitting cocktail dresses want to drape themselves over the piano, that’s fine, but the music’s the thing. That’s one of the few things I’m sure about, I just know, that will make me immensely happy.”

“It's as if you're playing left-handed. Or like everyone else is playing with a tennis racket and you have a salmon.” - on the difficulty of performing with an American accent.

“I'm sort of reasonably good at a lot of things, but not great at anything yet. I'm a reasonably good writer. I don't write like Martin Amis, but I wish I did. But I can probably act better than Martin Amis. But I can't act as well as Kenneth Branagh, but I can probably play the piano better than Kenneth Branagh, but I can't play the piano as well as Dr. John. I may be able to cook better than Dr. John.”

“I am absolutely speechless. Seriously, I don't have a speech. People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cuff links and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers you a free acceptance speech. There just seems to be a gap in the market. I would love to be able to pull out a speech by Dolce & Gabbana.” - after winning the Golden Globe.

“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 have googled myself. I don't recommend it. Googling yourself I mean. Not me.”

“Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it’s badly translated, hard to figure out. ”

“If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me Echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.”

“I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.”

“Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.”

“I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.”

“I am terribly conscious of the fact that the world doesn't need any more actors. There are so many brilliant actors around that one more twit like me joining the back of the queue seems completely unnecessary.”

“I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.”

“To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.”

“I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. That’s my MO.”

“One of the reasons I got the role of House is, coming from England, I was largely unknown to Americans. There were no preconceived notions or expectations about how I was supposed to look or sound. I was new, and that was attractive.”

“I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If it were black, it would seem like I've got a [Marlon Brando] idea going on, which I don't.”

“I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.”

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5. He takes our breath away
6. He’s our Emmy winner
7. Because it is all in his blue eyes
8. We Want To See Him Wear The Boxers
9. Because...VOTE for his board
10. Our Hugh can play every instrument known to man
11. Because he finally got his own board
12. Because he is our double winner; GG and SAG
13. Because there is no one on TV like Hugh Laurie
14. Next Stop Emmys
15. We're counting down the days until Season 4!
16. Because "he's tremendously intriguing" - Jennifer
17. He's British. That's why he's so smooth"
18. Because he's Hugh...what else needs to be said?
19. What a man. What a mighty good man.
20. Laurie. Hugh Laurie. Licensed to thrill
21. June 11th, a date to remember. Happy Birthday Gifto
22. Because Hugh takes it to a whole 'nother level!
23. Because He Knows How To Strike A Pose
24. Just one word: THUD!
25. Because He Has Got Us Under His Spell
26. Because Dr. Cockroach has cute eyes, too!
27. Hugh Laurie: Prolonged exposure may result in exploding ovaries
28. Because we all would love to ride pillion with Hugh/House
29. Because he's nominated for GG and SAG again! \o/