He was born & raised within Oxford, where he attended a Dragon School (a far-famed preparatory school), prior to running in to Eton and then to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read Archaeology and Anthropology. His father experienced won an Olympic gold medal in rowing, & he himself was the oarsman at school & university, participate in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race of 1980.

When you took his foremost month at university, Laurie dated Emma Thompson, now the easily-known actress. He besides joined a celebrated Cambridge Footlights, which has been the starting point for several successful British comedians. While Footlights brought their prevent-of-season review to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1980, Laurie met Stephen Fry. Within his final month, 1981, he was a president of the Footlights Club, when Emma Thompson was the vice-president.

Western audiences own recently are to love Laurie as a bad-tempered, pill-popping doctor, however he is right-known inside Britain for his portrayal of nitwit in many TV comedies. Fry & Laurie experienced many series of their have when a double work, too as starring in the television series Jeeves and Wooster, an adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories. Laurie played Jeeves' employer, a amiable twit Bertie Wooster, a role for which his talent as a pianist and singer came inside convenient.

All a same, prefer Fry, Laurie has broaden into the career as an actor within each amusing roles (like the Blackadder series with Rowan Atkinson as Prince George and Lieutenant George) and also had more serious roles in such films as ''Peter's Friends and Sense and Sensibility. More film appearances include Mayhap Tot & Stuart Little. Around 1996, his book The Gun Seller, a humourous novel of suspense, was published; it has become the right seller. Laurie is presently working in another novel, A Paper Soldier.

Since 2002, Laurie has been the familiar face withwithin a range of British television dramas, guest starring that year in both episodes of the 1st season of the spy thriller series Spooks'' on BBC One. Within 2003 he starred in & too directed ITV's comedy-drama series Fortysomething. He too voiced the character in the Family Guy episode "One If By Clam, Two If By Sea."

Although Laurie has been a personal title around Britain since the Eighties, he come to the attention of American audiences only around 2004, when he foremost starred when a cantankerous doctor Dr. Gregory Home in the popular FOX medical drama, House, M.D.. Laurie utilizes an U.s. accent in that role, & is convincing sufficiency as an Western that director Bryan Singer, upon viewing Laurie's audition tape, pointed to him as an example of the compelling Western actor. Within July 2005, Laurie was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role in Home, however wasted to James Spader.

Hugh Laurie married a previous Jo Green around June 1989, and it sleep in n London with their daughter & 2 sons.