This block contains the information about Hugh Laurie and provides an insight into the life of the celebrity. From here you can also learn when, how and why the profession of an actor was chosen. Some interesting facts are waiting for you here.

Hugh Laurie was born in Oxford in a family of a doctor and a housewife, he was the youngest of the four children that is why he was quite spoilt, and he was attending Scottish protestant church. As he was born in quite rich family, he always had a part of only the best things in his life. He studied in Oxford Secondary School. In 1981he graduated Cambridge University with a bachelor degree of the third level in anthropology and archeology. In the university he activated in the Amateur Theater, where his regular colleagues were Emma Thompson and Steven Frye. He performed in a lot of projects on TV shows together with Steven Frye. Also he was in a relationship for some time with Emma Thompson. In 1981 he became the president of this theater. After the happy university times, Laurie, Frye and Thompson have written a scenario to a comedy together, for what they received their first mutual award and a contract for the translation of West End shows in 1982. Together with his friend Steven Frye they created a TV show which they both were leading, it was called “Frye and Laurie’s Show”. The rating of this show was quite high, that is why it was translated since 1989 till 1995. Also they were creating humorous sketches together. An example of such a work was the scenario to the TV show “Jives and Wooster”.

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Here you can learn about the movies Hugh Laurie acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Monsters vs Aliens - Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)	$175M	2009	$59.3M	$198M
Stuart Little - Mr. Fredrick Little	$133M	1999	$15M	$140M
Stuart Little 2 - Mr. Frederick Little	$120M	2002	$15.1M	$64.7M
Flight of the Phoenix - Ian	$45M	2004	$5.02M	$21M
The Man in the Iron Mask - King's Advisor	$35M	1998	$17.3M	$56.9M
Valiant - Gutsy (voice)	$35M	2005	$5.91M	$19.4M
The Borrowers - Police Officer Steady	$29M	1997	$6.08M	$22.4M
Spice World - Poirot	$25M	1997	$10.5M	$29.2M
Street Kings - Captain James Biggs	$20M	2008	$12.5M	$26.4M
Sense and Sensibility - Mr. Palmer	$16.5M	1995		$42.7M
Plenty - Michael	$10M	1985
Band from TV: Hoggin' All the Covers (video) - Actor	$300K	2008
The Big Empty (short) - Doctor #5	$50K	2005
101 Dalmatians - Jasper		1996	$45.1M	$136M
Treasure Island (video) - Squire Trelawney (voice)		1997
The Snow Queen's Revenge - Actor (voice)		1996
Peter's Friends - Roger Charleston, Soundtrack (writer: "Roger's Coffee Commercial Jingle") (performer: "The Way You Look Tonight", "Roger's Coffee Commercial Jingle", "Orpheus In the U		1992		$4.06M
Strapless - Colin		1989		$765K
Who Sold You This, Then? (video short) - Actor		1975
The Ugly Duckling - Tarquin (voice)		1997