Hugh Laurie

Biography

Born 06/11/1959

Comic actor Hugh Laurie hailed from Oxford, England but first made a name for himself as a performer with the Footlights Theater at rival Cambridge University in the early 1980s. He quickly rose in British television as a writer and actor, best known for his portrayal of dimwits on wacky British...
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Filmography

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Awards

In 2009, received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
In 2007, received Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama
In 2007, received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

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Production Photos

Hugh Laurie, Valiant (2006)

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Highlights

In 2009, Nominated for the 2009 TV Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama
In 2009, Nominated for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in Drama Series
In 2009, Voiced Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D., a mad scientist with the head of a cockroach, in the computer-animated 3-D feature, "Monsters vs. Aliens"

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Family & Companions

Emma Thompson: dated briefly while both attended Cambridge
William George Ranald Mundell Laurie: father (Was a competitive oarsman at Cambridge; won an Olympic gold medal in the Coxless pairs at the 1948 London Games; deceased)
Patricia Laurie: mother (Died when Hugh was 29, of a motor neurone disease )

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