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Stephen Fry

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Author, role player, comedian, doer of good works, excellent skilful friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk firm when not traveling. Famous for his public annunciation of celibacy in the "Tatler" back in the 1980s, Emma Thompson has characterised her friend every bit "xc percent gay, 10 pct other."

Stephen Fry was born in Hampstead, London, to Marianne Eve (Newman) and Alan Fry, a physicist and inventor. His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants, while his father'southward family was of English language background. He grew upwards in Norfolk and attended Uppingham School and Stout's Hill. Afterwards his notorious three months in Pucklechurch prison for credit carte du jour fraud, he attended Queens College, Cambridge in 1979, finishing with a 2:1 in English in 1981/2. While at Cambridge, he was a member of the Cherubs drinking society, and Footlights with Thompson, Tony Slattery, Martin Bergman, and Hugh Laurie (to whom he was introduced by E.T.). His prolific writing partnership with Laurie began in 1981 with resulting Footlights revues for (among others) Mayweek, Edinburgh Festival, and a three month bout of Australia. In 1984, Fry was engaged to do the rewrite of the Noel Gay musical "Me and My Girl," which made him a millionaire earlier the age of thirty. Information technology also earned him a nomination for a Tony honour in 1987. (Sidenote: It was upon SF'due south suggestion that Emma Thompson landed a leading role in the London cast of this bear witness.) Throughout the 1980s, Fry did a huge amount of television and radio work, as well every bit writing for newspapers (e.g. a weekly cavalcade in the "Daily Telegraph") and magazines (e.k. articles for "Loonshit"). He is probably all-time known for his television roles in Blackadder 2 (1986) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990).

His support of the Terence Higgins Trust through events such as the first "Hysteria" benefit, also as numerous other clemency efforts, are probably those works of which he is most proud. Fry's acting career has non been limited to films and television. He had successful runs in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On," Simon Gray's "The Mutual Pursuit" with John Sessions, Rik Mayall, John Gordon Sinclair, and others. Michael Frayn's "Look Wait" and Grey's "Cell Mates" were less successful for both Fry and their playwrights, the latter not helped by his walking out of the play after merely a couple of weeks. Fry has published four novels as well as a drove of his radio and journalistic miscellanea. He has recorded audiotapes of his novels (an unabridged version of "The Liar" was released in 1995), as well as many other works for both adults and children.