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Hugh Laurie (born June 11, 1959) is a British comedian, actor, and author best
known for his television work, especially his
double act, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, with Stephen
Fry.

He was born and raised in Oxford, where he
attended the Dragon School (a famous prep school),
before going on to Eton College|Eton and then to
Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read
Archaeology and Anthropology. His father had won
an Olympic gold medal in rowing, and he himself
was a rower at school and university taking part
in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race of 1980.

During his first year at University, Laurie went
out for a while with Emma Thompson, now a
well-known actress. He also joined the famous
Cambridge Footlights, which has been the starting
point for many successful British comedians. In
his final year, 1981 he was the President of the
Footlights Club, while Emma Thompson was the
Vice-president. It was when Footlights took their 
end-of-year revue to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
in 1980 that Laurie met Stephen Fry.


Fry and Laurie had several series of their own as
a double act, as well as starring in the
television series Jeeves and Wooster, an
adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's  Jeeves stories.
Laurie played Jeeves' employer, the amiable twit
Bertie Wooster, a role for which his talent as a
pianist and singer came in handy.

However, like Fry, Laurie has branched out into a
solo career as an actor in both comic roles (such
as the Blackadder series with Rowan Atkinson as
Prince George (Blackadder character)|Prince George
and Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St.
Bartleigh|Lieutenant George) and also had more
serious roles, such as his parts in the films,
Peter's Friends and Sense and Sensibility.  Other
film appearances include Maybe Baby and Stuart
Little. In 1996, his book The Gun Seller, a
humorous novel of suspense, was published.

Since 2002 he has been a familiar face in a range
of television dramas, guest starring that year in
several episodes of the first season of the spy
thriller series Spooks on BBC One. In 2003 he
starred in and also directed ITV's comedy-drama
series Fortysomething. He guest-starred in the
Family Guy episode "One if By Clam, Two if By
Sea."

Although previously best known for playing British
characters, Laurie is currently starring as the
American physician Dr. Gregory House in the Fox
Broadcasting|Fox Broadcasting medical drama,
House, M.D.. In July 2005, he was nominated for an
Emmy award for this role.

He married the former Jo Green in June 1989, and
they live in north London with their two sons and
daughter.