Hugh Laurie - Famous Voice Actor

Hugh Laurie Net Worth

$45,000,000

Hugh Laurie, the famous British actor, musician, and comedian, is worth an impressive $45 million, mostly due to his wildly popular role on the medical drama ‘House’, for which he was awarded two Golden Globes and received numerous Emmy nominations. Along with his acting career, he has also had success as a comic duo with Stephen Fry and has worked on several other television shows including ‘Blackadder’ and ‘Jeeves and Wooster’.

Key facts:

  • Hugh Laurie is a British actor, musician, and comedian with a net worth of $45 million.
  • He is best known for his role as Dr. House in the Fox medical drama 'House', for which he received two Golden Globes and numerous Emmy nominations.
  • Laurie also gained popularity for his comic work as one half of Fry and Laurie, and on the television shows 'Blackadder' and 'Jeeves and Wooster'.
  • He has more than 100 acting credits to his name, including voice acting roles in the DreamWorks animated films 'Monsters vs. Aliens' (2009) and 'Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space' (2009).
  • Laurie has won multiple notable awards, including Golden Globe Awards for House M.D. in 2006 and 2007, and for The Night Manager in 2017.

Basic Information About Hugh Laurie

CategoryCelebrities β€Ί Actors
ProfessionsActor, Comedian, Musician, Voice Actor, Screenwriter, Television producer, Television Director, Singer, Author, Writer
Net worth$45,000,000
Date of birth1959-06-11 (65 years old)
Place of birthOxford
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Curiosities and TrademarksFluent American accent from House M.D. (2004)
Frequently plays upper-class and dimwitted English characters
Spouse16 June - Joanne Green (Β 1989 - present)Β (3 children)
GenderMale
Height6 ft 2 in (1.89 m)
Social Mediaβ†—οΈŽ Wikipedia β†—οΈŽ IMDb

What Movie Awards did Hugh Laurie win?


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Hugh Laurie awards

Award Name State Movie / Series Name Year
Young Artist Award - Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young EnsembleNomineeThe Borrowers1999
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama SeriesNomineeHouse M.D.2010
Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama SeriesNomineeHouse M.D.2011
Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama SeriesNomineeHouse M.D.2010
Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama SeriesWinnerHouse M.D.2009
Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama SeriesNomineeHouse M.D.2008
Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama SeriesWinnerHouse M.D.2007
Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama SeriesNomineeHouse M.D.2006
Gold Derby TV Award - Drama Actor of the DecadeNomineeHouse M.D.2019
Gold Derby TV Award - Drama Lead ActorNomineeHouse M.D.2012
Gold Derby TV Award - Drama Lead ActorNomineeHouse M.D.2011
Gold Derby TV Award - Drama Lead ActorNomineeHouse M.D.2010
Gold Derby TV Award - Drama Lead ActorNomineeHouse M.D.2009
Gold Derby TV Award - Drama Lead ActorWinnerHouse M.D.2007
Audience Camera - Best US SeriesWinnerHouse M.D.2009
Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - DramaNomineeHouse M.D.2011
Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - DramaWinnerHouse M.D.2007
Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - DramaWinnerHouse M.D.2006
OFTA Television Award - Best Actor in a Drama SeriesNomineeHouse M.D.2012
OFTA Television Award - Best Actor in a Drama SeriesNomineeHouse M.D.2010
OFTA Television Award - Best Actor in a Drama SeriesNomineeHouse M.D.2009
OFTA Television Award - Best Actor in a Drama SeriesWinnerHouse M.D.2007
OFTA Television Award - Best Actor in a Drama SeriesWinnerHouse M.D.2006
OFTA Television Award - Best Actor in a Drama SeriesWinnerHouse M.D.2005
Prism Award - Performance in a Drama EpisodeNomineeHouse M.D.2010
Prism Award - Performance in a Drama Series, Multi-Episode StorylineNomineeHouse M.D.2007
Prism Award - Performance in a Drama Series EpisodeNomineeHouse M.D.2006
Satellite Award - Best Actor in a Series, DramaNomineeHouse M.D.2007
Teen Choice Award - Choice TV Actor: DramaWinnerHouse M.D.2007
Teen Choice Award - TV - Choice ActorNomineeHouse M.D.2006
TCA Award - Individual Achievement in DramaNomineeHouse M.D.2009
TCA Award - Individual Achievement in DramaNomineeHouse M.D.2007
TCA Award - Individual Achievement in DramaWinnerHouse M.D.2006
TCA Award - Individual Achievement in DramaWinnerHouse M.D.2005
WIN Award - Actor in Drama SeriesWinnerHouse M.D.2005

Hugh Laurie roles

Movie / Series Role
Monsters vs. AliensDr. Cockroach Ph.D. (voice)
Sense and SensibilityMr. Palmer
101 DalmatiansJasper
TomorrowlandNix
The Personal History of David CopperfieldMr Dick
The Man in the Iron MaskKing's Advisor
Holmes & WatsonMycroft (uncredited)
Stuart LittleMr. Little
Stuart Little 2Mr. Little
Street KingsCaptain James Biggs
HopE.B.'s Dad (voice)
The BorrowersPolice Officer Steady
Spice WorldPoirot
ValiantGutsy (voice)
FriendsThe Gentleman on the Plane 1 episode, 1998
Avenue 5Ryan Clark 9 episodes, 2020
Family GuyBar Patron / ... 2 episodes, 2001-2009
The Young OnesLord Monty 1 episode, 1984
Made in HollywoodSelf 1 episode, 2011
The SimpsonsRoger 1 episode, 2010
Blackadder the ThirdThe Prince Regent, their master 6 episodes, 1987
Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host / ... 2 episodes, 2006-2008
Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres ShowSelf - Guest 4 episodes, 2005-2008
SpooksJools Siviter (uncredited) unknown episodes
The BillHarrap 1 episode, 1998
Blackadder IIPrince Ludwig / ... 2 episodes, 1986
The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf / ... 4 episodes, 2016-2020
QISelf 1 episode, 2003
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSelf - Guest 1 episode, 2016
CBS News Sunday MorningSelf - Guest 1 episode, 2011
ConanSelf - Guest 1 episode, 2011
Jeeves and WoosterBertie Wooster 23 episodes, 1990-1993
The Tonight Show with Jay LenoSelf - Guest 12 episodes, 2005-2012
A Bit of Fry and LaurieWriter
A Bit of Fry and LaurieVarious Characters 26 episodes, 1987-1995
ChanceEldon Chance 20 episodes, 2016-2017
Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest 1 episode, 2008
The One ShowSelf - Guest / ... 2 episodes, 2011-2013
Late Night with Jimmy FallonSelf - Guest 2 episodes, 2012-2013

Hugh Laurie's Movie/Shows Salary

Movie / Series Salary
House M.D.Β (2004)Β£240,000 per episode

Hugh Laurie's Quotes

  • [on Cambridge] I went there to row. I'll be blunt with it. It's been ten years, and I think the admissions tutor can take it now... but that's really what I went for, and anthropology was the most convenient subject to read while spending eight hours a day on the river.
  • [on the Oxford-vs.-Cambridge Boat Race] The year was 1980, I was #4 in this particular encounter, and the result was a loss by Cambridge by a distance of five feet, which is something which I will carry to my grave... in fact, I shouldn't really say this, because I still to this day wouldn't want to give any pleasure or satisfaction to the opposing crew. But yes, it's true, it was a very bitter defeat.
  • [on picking up his new hobby] Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.
  • I picked a reverence for medicine because I rather hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't admire crystals and chewing willow bark and herbal remedies.
  • [on his late father's reaction to his character Dr. Gregory House] He would be absolutely appalled. He was an endlessly polite, generous and soft-spoken man. He was no pushover, but he would never hurt, shock or outrage people just for the hell of it. At the same time, I hope he would be entertained and see that science and logic are like a religion to House. He'd approve of that.

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Interesting Facts about Hugh Laurie

  1. Received his Third-Class Honours degree in anthropology and archaeology at Selwyn College, Cambridge University.
  2. Bought an all-black Triumph Bonneville motorcycle, a replica of the 1960s British model, in Los Angeles, upon getting the role on House M.D. (2004), but he was always an avid motorcyclist, even in England. He enjoys the anonymity the motorcycle helmet gives him.
  3. Attended the Dragon School, a renowned British "public" college preparatory school located in Oxford, England. Also attended by actress Emma Watson and tennis player Tim Henman.
  4. Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), originally wanted him to play Arthur Dent for the film adaptation. A deal was almost in place to have Hugh play Dent, along with Jim Carrey as Zaphod and Jay Roach directing, before Adams' untimely death.
  5. Won the National Junior Championship for rowing (coxed pair) (1977). In the same year, he and his rowing partner represented England in the World Junior Championship for rowing where they finished fourth place.
  6. He lives in a West Hollywood apartment rental while working on House M.D. (2004), but flies home to London to be with his family whenever he has a break in filming. He has said that he will move his whole family to America to be with him if the second season looks to be equally successful as the first.
  7. Has played the husband opposite Imelda Staunton's characters in two films: Peter's Friends (1992) and Sense and Sensibility (1995).
  8. His father, William George Ranald Mundell Laurie, and his mother, Patricia (Laidlaw), were both of Scottish descent.
  9. Is the youngest of four children, by six years. He has a brother and two sisters, Charles (who works as a lawyer/shepherd in Scotland), Susan Lassen (who helped found the Save the Children Long Island, NY Volunteer Chapter, and was a member of Save the Children's Board of Trustees), and Janet.
  10. His father won an Olympic gold medal for coxless pairs in the 1948 Games in London. Hugh also had a promising career as an oarsman, but he was forced to give it up while at Cambridge when he contracted glandular fever (mononucleosis). His brother was also an oarsman.
  11. He sings and plays piano, guitar, drums, harmonica and saxophone.
  12. Entered the 1980 Silver Goblets and Nicklass Cup with his Eton rowing partner J.S. Palmer at the Henley Royal Regatta, becoming the only British crew to reach the final that year. They finished in second place behind the favored American crew.
  13. He was first cast in the role of Perry White in Superman Returns (2006). However, the popularity of his television series House M.D. (2004) caused schedule conflicts. Frank Langella was then cast.
  14. Auditioned for the role of Arnold Rimmer in Red Dwarf (1988). Others to audition for the role were Norman Lovett, Lee Cornes, Alfred Molina, Alan Rickman and Craig Ferguson. The role went to Chris Barrie.
  15. He was a house captain (senior prefect) in his last year at Eton College. He also played percussion for the school's orchestra and was a "wet bob" - a member of Eton's prestigious rowing team.
  16. He received his first motorcycle when he was 16 as a present from his father. The same year he owned his first guitar, a Yamaha.
  17. Although his first name is James, he has never been called that. His third name, Calum, is the short form of 'Mael Calum', which translates from Gaidhlig (Scots Gaelic) to Scottish and English as 'Malcolm'. (The Gaeilge or Irish Gaelic form is 'Maol Colm', or 'Colm' in short form). His brother's full name is Charles Alexander Lyon Mundell Laurie.
  18. He took up diving.
  19. Is a huge fan of Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen.
  20. He was a member of Cambridge Footlights throughout his university years, serving as a writer and cast member for two years (1978-1980) and president during his last year (1980-1981). Emma Thompson was the vice president.

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