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Stephen Fry
Memoir & Personal Growth
English actor, comedian, writer and broadcaster, known for television and theatre roles, documentary presenting, and several books including autobiographies.
Biography
Sir Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and broadcaster. He began his career on the sketch comedy series Alfresco (1983–1984) and the sitcom Blackadder (1986–1989), and gained recognition as one half of Fry and Laurie, appearing in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993). He was the original host of QI (2003–2016), for which he was nominated for six BAFTA TV Awards, and has presented documentary series including the Emmy-winning Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive (2006) and Stephen Fry in America (2008).
His film credits include Chariots of Fire (1981), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and Gosford Park (2001), among others; he has voiced the audiobooks for all seven Harry Potter novels and the Paddington Bear books. Fry has written four novels and three autobiographies, adapted Me and My Girl (1983) for the stage and received Tony Award nominations for work taken to Broadway. Since 2011 he has served as president of the mental health charity Mind; in 2006 he was ranked number 9 in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars, and in 2025 he was knighted for services to mental health awareness, the environment, and charity.
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Books by Stephen Fry
More fool me
More Fool Me is an autobiographical account of Fry's life in his early thirties, describing a hectic social and professional life that became a high-functioning addiction; the book draws on raw, electric extracts from his diaries of the time.