James Hugh Calum Laurie born on 11 June 1959 is an English actor, comedian, writer, and musician. He first gained recognition for his work as one-half of the comedy double act Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry.
The two men acted together in a number of 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. He appeared in two series of the period comedy Blackadder (1987–1989) alongside Rowan Atkinson.
Laurie has also appeared in films, including Peter’s Friends (1992), Sense and Sensibility (1995), 101 Dalmatians (1996), The Borrowers (1997), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), Stuart Little (1999), Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001), Arthur Christmas from 2011 in which he voiced Steven Claus, and The Personal History of David Copperfield (2020).
Where did Hugh Laurie go to high school?
Laurie was brought up in Oxford and attended the Dragon School from ages seven to 13, later stating, “I was, in truth, a horrible child. Not much given to things of a ‘bookey’ nature, I spent a large part of my youth smoking Number Six and cheating in French vocabulary tests.” He went on to Eton College, which he described as “the most private of private schools”. He arrived at Selwyn College, Cambridge, in 1978, which he says he attended “as a result of family tradition” since his father went there. Laurie notes that his father was a successful rower at Cambridge and that he was “trying to follow in [his] father’s footsteps” He studied archaeology and anthropology, specializing in social anthropology, and graduated with third-class honors in 1981.
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