Hugh Calum Laurie is a well-known English actor, comedian, writer, and musician. He was born on June 11th, 1959. It was via his performance as one-half of the comedic duo act Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry that he initially earned widespread notoriety.
Hugh Laurie parents: Meet Ran Laurie, Patricia Laurie
The name of Hugh Laurie’s parents was Patricia Laidlaw and William George Ranald Mundell, and she was born in the Blackbird Leys neighborhood of Oxford.
Both William George and Patricia Laidlaw were active members of the Presbyterian church in their community, which is now known as St. Columba’s United Reformed Church in Oxford. Laurie was married to Patricia Laidlaw from 1944 until her death in 1989 due to motor neuron disease.
Laurie’s parents were of Scottish ancestry, and they were members of St. Columba’s Presbyterian Church in Oxford, which is now known as the United Reformed Church. He makes the observation that “belief in God didn’t play a large role” in his family, but that “a certain attitude to life and the living of it did”