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  Hugh Laurie - Photos, Bio and News for Hugh Laurie | TVGuide.com
Despite being highly intelligent and Cambridge-educated, actor, author and wit Laurie made his name in his native England playing a series of dimwits on the TV series Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster.
Hugh Laurie, the charming star of Fox's House, says he experimented with Vicodin to understand his character's addiction to the prescription painkiller.
He annoyingly referred to Hugh Laurie (who looked like he was being held at gunpoint to promote House's supercool post-Super Bowl episode) as "Dr. House." Have a little respect, Ryan — the guy's an award-winning actor, not Urkel!
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  Hugh Laurie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laurie was born and raised in Oxford, England where he attended the Dragon School, a prestigious preparatory school.
Laurie was not nominated for the 2006 Emmys, apparently to the "outrage" of Fox executives.
Laurie was badly burned by a petrol bomb that he made at the age of ten.
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 Hugh Laurie Biography
Hugh Laurie was born and raised in Oxford, where he attended the Dragon School before going on to Eton and then to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read Archaeology and Anthropology.
Hugh Laurie as Lieutenant George in Blackadder Goes Forth.Fry and Laurie had several series of their own as a double act and starred in the television series Jeeves and Wooster, an adaptation of P. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories.
Laurie first recognized the extent of his depression when he realized the car race he was in neither excited nor scared him.
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 Biography for Hugh Laurie   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hugh was born in Oxford, England on June 11, 1959.
Hugh is married and lives in London with his wife and three children.
Hugh also had a promising career as an oarsman, but he was forced to give it up while at Cambridge when he contracted glandular fever (mononucleosis).
www.imdb.com /name/nm0491402/bio   (1415 words)

  
 Hugh Laurie - Actor - A Brief History
Hugh Laurie was born in Oxford, England on June 11, 1959.
Hugh was President in his final year; Vice-president was Emma Thompson (who had incidentally been his girlfriend for a short time during their first year at Cambridge).
Laurie is married and lives in London with his wife, Jo Green, and three children.
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 A Bit of Hugh Laurie   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lanky comedy actor Hugh Laurie has been a familiar presence on British TV in everything from Blackadder to Jeeves and Wooster, and now is carving out a career in motion pictures.
Laurie held his own and it was riveting stuff watching him be a one-man self-destruction unit.
Besides acting and comedy, Laurie has written the best-selling thriller The Gun Seller, is working on a screenplay for the film version, and has a second novel being published in 2000.
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 Feature - Hugh Laurie Comic Brillance and Beyond
Hugh Laurie's ascension to star of the dramatic series House probably comes as a surprise to anyone familiar with his work to date.
Laurie's chemistry with Atkinson is akin to that of the all time great comic duos; their timing is impeccable.
Laurie's brainless twit is as far away from House as possible and it's amazing how well and how completely he inhabits the character.
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 Hugh Laurie
Laurie took up the oar while attending Eton College where he became house captain and a national junior champion.
When not on the water or deep in his studies, Laurie joined the Footlights Club at Cambridge, where he started performing in their comedy revues and pantomimes.
Laurie lives in London, England with his wife, Jo Green and their three children.
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 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Laurie is a well-known comedic actor in England, he co-wrote and starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie and was on Blackadder for three seasons.
Hugh Laurie: As an actor, the character I'm playing is separate from me but of course you can't help bits of yourself creeping in or bits of the character creeping into yourself.
Hugh Laurie: The stories are suggested by doctors and one of the writer is a doctor.
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 Hugh Laurie News
I just adore Hugh Laurie and his wonderfully misanthropic manner, and the show is a breath of fresh air because of its unique,...
Hugh Laurie has wowed critics in medical drama House Hugh Laurie has been part of the British comedy establishment for nearly 20 years as the star of series including Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster, in which...
Hugh Laurie, the British actor who won a Golden Globe for his role on the Fox medical drama, "House," says speaking like an American isn't as easy as it sounds.
www.topix.net /who/hugh-laurie   (698 words)

  
 FOX Broadcasting Company: Celebrity Duets: Bios
On the big screen, Laurie was in the 20th Century Fox release "Flight of the Phoenix" opposite Dennis Quaid.
Four volumes of "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" scripts have been published by Mandarin, and his first novel, "The Gun Seller," was published in both the UK and the U.S. to critical acclaim and has been adapted into a screenplay for MGM.
Laurie was educated at Eton and Cambridge University, where he took a degree in Anthropology.
www.fox.com /house/bios   (352 words)

  
 Hugh Laurie - House
GREG HOUSE (HUGH LAURIE, "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows") is irreverent, controversial, devoid of bedside manner and wouldn't even talk to his patients if he could get away with it, but he is brilliant diagnostician and only the most dire cases come his way.
Hugh won for House and Fry was there too - apparently, he just happened to be in LA filming for the BBC so went along.
I had never actually heard of Hugh Laurie till then and i was told that he was in Black Adder...So i rented the dvd of Black Adder and was in total shock when i saw Hugh Laurie as the Prince and heard him speak with an english accent...
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 BBC NEWS | Magazine | Faces of the week
Hugh Laurie was born in Oxford, in 1959, the youngest of four children.
Laurie formed a double-act with Stephen Fry, first in theatre revue and later, on television.
Though something of a foil for Fry, Hugh Laurie was establishing himself as a comic actor.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4631772.stm   (943 words)

  
 Hugh Laurie @ Filmbug
Hugh Laurie stars in the Fox television series House, a new take on mystery, where the villain is a medical malady and the hero is a cantankerous doctor who trusts no one, least of all his patients.
Laurie began his career in the 1981 Cambridge University Footlights revue The Cellar Tapes, along with Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson.
Laurie took part in the 1987 Royal Variety Show with Stephen Fry, and played the lead in Gasping written by Ben Elton at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
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 USATODAY.com - Hugh Laurie gets into 'House'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Laurie, 45, says he's fascinated by the character of Gregory House, an infectious-disease specialist at a New Jersey hospital who brutalizes colleagues and patients with his harsh honesty.
That eventually yielded Laurie, who auditioned via video shot in a hotel bathroom ("It was the only place with enough light," the actor says) in Namibia, where he was shooting the upcoming film Flight of the Phoenix.
Laurie says he's still learning the nature of the complex and contradictory House, whose medical mastery is countered by life challenges, including a leg disability, a reliance on painkillers and seemingly non-existent social skills.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2004-11-15-hugh-laurie_x.htm   (676 words)

  
 Hugh Laurie News - Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hugh Laurie and Geena Davis have been vying for ratings on Tuesday nights when his "House" goes up against her "Commander in Chief".
Hugh Laurie and Geena Davis are back again as the Littles-those time-warp, '50s-acting parents of one normal boy named George and a little fellow named Stuart, who was "not much bigger than a mouse." In fact,...
Hugh Laurie and Geena Davis were struck by Golden Globe coincidence on Monday, when the former Stuart Little co-stars were named Best Actor and Best Actress in a Tv Drama respectively.
www.topix.net /who/hugh-laurie/page2   (965 words)

  
 Amazon.de: The Gun Seller.: English Books: Hugh Laurie   (Site not responding. Last check: )
British actor and comedian Hugh Laurie's first book is a spot-on spy spoof about hapless ex-soldier Thomas Lang, who is drawn unwittingly and unwillingly into the center of a dangerous James Bond-like plot of international terrorists, arms dealing, high-tech weapons, and CIA spooks.
Hugh Laurie's engaging meta-spy novel THE GUN SELLER is a great piece of fast, incredibly readable fun.
Hugh Laurie is a comedy actor of a very high standard and his writing comes up to the same standard.
www.amazon.de /Gun-Seller-Hugh-Laurie/dp/0099469391   (1161 words)

  
 Hugh Laurie FAQ News Page » Archive
At first it was in school, where Laurie amassed good grades because he harbors a facility for exams, he says.
As House, Laurie is the obsessive doc, anti-social, with a bad leg and possibly addicted to painkillers.
Of his iconoclastic hero House, Laurie says that the doctor he plays may not be a people person, but he's a hero nonetheless.
www.hughlauriefaq.com /blog/index.php?blogid=1&archive=2005-08   (1561 words)

  
 Hugh Laurie has just the right look for ‘House’ - TV DRAMA - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Laurie is probably best known to U.S. audiences as the very, very English gadabout Bertie Wooster in “Jeeves and Wooster,” which aired on PBS from 1990-95.
Laurie, 45, is the son of a doctor, and there was a time when he thought of pursuing that career.
Laurie says his character reasons against emotion, and “in this touchy, feely age, reason is not a popular thing.
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 Hugh Laurie - The TV IV
Hugh Laurie is a British actor, writer and director best known for his work on the British sketch comedy A Bit of Fry and Laurie, the British series Blackadder and the American medical drama House, M.D. Table of contents
James Hugh Calum Laurie was born in Oxford, England on June 11, 1959.
Fry would later work with Laurie on their BBC sketch comedy, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, as well as Jeeves and Wooster and Blackadder.
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 About Hugh Laurie from House
Hugh Laurie was educated at Eton and Cambridge University, where he took a degree in anthropology.
He also rowed in the University Boat Race of 1980, and would have continued in the sport but for a bout of glandular fever, which led him to convalesce in the gentler environs of the theater.
Laurie's film credits include "Peter's Friends," directed by Kenneth Branagh, "Sense and Sensibility" with Emma Thompson, "Cousin Bette" with Jessica Lange, "The Man in the Iron Mask," "101 Dalmatians," "Stuart Little" and "Stuart Little 2" with Geena Davis, and the upcoming 20th Century Fox release "Flight of the Phoenix" with Dennis Quaid.
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 The Life Of Hugh Laurie quiz -- free game
Hugh Laurie appeared in all four of the "Blackadder" series.
In the episode "Bambi" (1984) of "The Young Ones", Hugh Laurie played a member of the opposing team in University challenge, along with three other contestants.
Hugh Laurie has portrayed many different roles in both TV and film.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=230441   (162 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Gun Seller: Books: Hugh Laurie   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hugh Laurie, TV's Dr. Gregory House, turns out to be a talented writer of fiction as well as a good actor.
Laurie in HOUSE and A BIT OF FRY AND LAURIE will hear Thomas Lang as clearly as if being read aloud by the author, which only adds to the laugh-out-loud pleasure of it.
Laurie's quick wit with words and insane plot twists are golden - I could not have asked for a better read.
www.amazon.com /Gun-Seller-Hugh-Laurie/dp/067102082X   (1899 words)

  
 ‘House’ star ‘reeling’ from Emmy nod - TELEVISION - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hugh Laurie plays the acidic doctor with the terrible beside manner
LOS ANGELES - Hugh Laurie’s character in the medical drama “House” would probably greet Thursday’s news of an Emmy nomination with a sarcastic putdown, but Laurie himself was simply thrilled to make the cut.
Laurie, who plays a drug-addicted American medic with an awful bedside manner but a brilliant mind, has just begun work on the Fox show’s second season.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8575051   (411 words)

  
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