Stephen Fry Biography

Fast Facts

• A sufferer of bipolar disorder, he supports the mental health charity Stand to Reason
• Received the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism by the Humanist Chaplaincy of Harvard University
• Before entering Cambridge University, he spent three months in a prison for credit card fraud
• Caught the attention of TV executives when he co-wrote "The Cellar Tapes" with Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery in 1981
• Quote: "The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail․"
• Quote: "To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions․"
• Often collaborates with fellow actor Hugh Laurie on projects
• Provides the narration for the audiobook versions of the "Harry Potter" series
• Was offered the chance to play a role in "Valkyrie․"
• Was one of the guests at the wedding of Camilla Parker-Bowles and Prince Charles
• Provided the voice of Reaver in the 2008 video game "Fable II․"