Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August, 1957) is a British comedian, author, actor, and director. He is the son of Alan and Marianne Fry.

Career highlights

Highlights of Fry's career include:

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• He made an early television appearance on University Challenge while an undergraduate at Cambridge.
• In 1984, he rewrote the script of the stage musical, Me and My Girl, which subsequently became a huge West End hit.
• Very early in his West End debut (Simon Gray's play Cell Mates), Fry suffered an attack of stage fright so serious that he ran away, leaving only an apology, and turning up some days later in Belgium.
• He famously declared that he practised a celibate lifestyle (which he has since abandoned).
• He made his debut as a film director with Bright Young Things, an adaptation of the novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, in 2003.