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He was born and raised in Oxford, where he attended the Dragon School (a famous prep school), before going on to 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 ThompsonEmma Thompson (born April 15, 1959) is an Academy Award-winning British actress. She is the daughter of actor Eric Thompson (of The Magic Roundabout fame) and actress Phyllida Law. Her sister is actress Sophie Thompson. Emma Thompson came to fame with a l, now a well-known actress. He also joined the famous Footlights ClubCambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club commonly referred to simply as the Footlights is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, run by the students of Cambridge University. It was founded in 1883. It grew in prominence in the 1960s, as a at Cambridge, which has been the starting point for many successful British comedians. In his final year, he was the President of the 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 WoosterHugh Laurie (left) and Stephen Fry portray Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves Jeeves and Wooster are the protagonists of a series of humorous stories and novels by P. The series was never so called, but many of the stories and novels made reference to on, an adaptation of P. G. WodehouseSir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse ( October 15, 1881 February 14, 1975) was a profilic English comic novelist whose writing career spanned nearly seventy years. He was most famously described as "English literature's performing flea. An acknowledged master o's Jeeves stories. Laurie played Bertie WoosterHugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster Bertram Wilberforce Wooster is a fictional character created by P. He is a foppish, somewhat dim-witted, and fabulously wealthy British aristocrat and member of the "idle rich". In Wodehouse's stories he always appears alongs, 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 BlackadderElizabethan England, starring (left to right) Tony Robinson as Baldrick, Rowan Atkinson as Edmund Blackadder, and Tim McInnerny as Lord Percy Percy. Blackadder is a British sitcom made by the BBC. The title does not refer to a specific series, but rather series with Rowan AtkinsonRowan Sebastian Atkinson (born January 6, 1955 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a British comedian and actor. He toured with a one-man show, with Angus Deayton as the straight man. The one-man show was filmed for television, and is still popular on vid) as Prince George and Lieutenant George. He has 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.
In 2003 he starred in and also directed comedy-drama series Fortysomething .
In 2004, Laurie stars in the Fox Broadcasting medical drama, House