Stephen Fry Net Worth 2024

What is Stephen Fry’s Net Worth?

Stephen Fry is an English comedian, actor, author, director, producer, and presenter who has a net worth of $40 million. Stephen Fry co-starred with Hugh Laurie on the tv sequence “A Bit of Fry & Laurie” (1989–1995) and “Jeeves and Wooster ” (1990–1993), and he has greater than 170 appearing credit to his identify. Stephen has appeared within the movies “Wilde”  (1997), “Gosford Park” (2001), and “Love & Friendship” (2016) in addition to a number of entries within the “Blackadder” sequence (1986–1999), which incorporates TV reveals and tv movies. He hosted the quiz present “QI” from 2003 to 2016, and he wrote, directed, and produced the 2003 movie “Bright Young Things.”

Stephen Fry has served as a producer on quite a few tasks, such because the TV sequence “Kingdom” (2007–2009) and the movie “Dead in a Week Or Your Money Back” (2018). Stephen has revealed 15 books, together with “The Liar” (1992), “Moab Is My Washpot” (1997), “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography” (2010), and “Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece” (2017), and his 1996 novel “Making History” gained a Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

Early Life

Stephen Fry was born Stephen John Fry on August 24, 1957, in Hampstead, London, England. He grew up with mom Marianne, father Alan (an inventor and physicist), older brother Roger, and youthful sister Joanna. Fry’s maternal great-grandparents had been despatched to a focus camp throughout the Holocaust and had been killed by the Nazis. As a toddler, Stephen’s family lived in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, and Booton, Norfolk, and Fry attended Chesham Preparatory School, Cawston Primary School, Stouts Hill Preparatory School, Uppingham School, Paston School, and Norfolk College of Arts and Technology. At age 14, he took his O-Levels and handed all of them besides physics. Fry spent three months in jail for utilizing a stolen bank card, then he enrolled at City College Norwich and earned a scholarship to Queens’ College, Cambridge. While attending Cambridge, Stephen was a member of the Footlights drama membership alongside his future collaborator Hugh Laurie. Fry earned an English Literature diploma and graduated with higher second-class honours.

Career

Stephen’s tv profession started with a 1982 broadcast of “The Cellar Tapes,” a Cambridge Footlights Revue that was written, by Fry, Laurie, Tony Slattery, and Emma Thompson. The broadcast led to Granada Television providing Fry, Laurie, and Thompson a present, and “There’s Nothing to Worry About!” premiered later that 12 months. Stephen and Hugh guest-starred on a 1984 episode of “The Young Ones,” and Fry appeared on “Happy Families” and “Alas Smith & Jones” in 1985. The sketch comedy present “A Bit of Fry & Laurie” aired 26 episodes from 1989 to 1995, and Stephen and Hugh co-starred on “Jeeves and Wooster,” which was based mostly on novels and quick tales by P. G. Wodehouse, from 1990 to 1993. Fry appeared within the movies “The Good Father” (1985), “A Fish Called Wanda” (1988), and “The Wind within the Willows” (1996), and he portrayed Oscar Wilde in 1997’s “Wilde.” In 2001, he performed Inspector Thompson in “Gosford Park,” which earned its forged a number of awards, and from 2007 to 2009, he starred as Peter Kingdom on the ITV1 sequence “Kingdom.”

In 2007, Fry landed a recurring function on the Fox sequence “Bones” and would play Dr. Gordon Wyatt in six episodes over the following decade. In 2008, he starred within the documentary “Stephen Fry in America,” adopted by 2013’s “Stephen Fry: Out There” and “Stephen Fry’s Key to the City” and 2015’s “Stephen Fry in Central Africa.” Stephen appeared within the movies “V for Vendetta” (2006), “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” (2011), “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” (2013), and “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” (2014), and he voiced the Cheshire Cat in “Alice in Wonderland” (2010) and “Alice Through the Looking Glass” (2016).

Fry performed Prime Minister Alastair Davies on “24: Live Another Day” (2014) and appeared in 13 episodes of the CBS sequence “The Great Indoors” (2016–2017), and from 2015 to 2019, he voiced Colonel Okay on the animated sequence “Danger Mouse.” In 2021, it was introduced that Fry had joined the forged of the Netflix sequence “The Sandman,” an adaptation of the Neil Gaiman comedian e-book sequence of the identical identify, and that he could be starring alongside Amanda Seyfried, William H. Macy, and Laurie Metcalf within the Hulu miniseries “The Dropout.” Stephen has additionally been concerned within the theatre, profitable a Fringe First prize for his play “Latin! or Tobacco and Boys” on the 1980 Edinburgh Festival and incomes a Tony nomination for his adaptation of the 1937 musical “Me and My Girl.” He has narrated a number of audiobooks, together with lots of his personal books and the British variations of the “Harry Potter” sequence.

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Personal Life

Stephen is brazenly homosexual, and with regards to his sexuality, he joked, “I suppose all of it started once I got here out of the womb. I appeared again up at my mom and thought to myself, ‘That’s the final time I’m going up a type of.'” For 15 years, Fry was in a relationship with Daniel Cohen, and after they cut up up in 2010, Stephen started courting comedian Elliott Spencer. Fry and Spencer married on January 17, 2015. Stephen is associates with Prince Charles and attended his 2005 wedding ceremony to Camilla Parker Bowles. Stephen’s greatest good friend is Hugh Laurie, and he was the most effective man at Hugh’s wedding ceremony, and he’s the godfather of Laurie’s kids.

Fry started following a vegetarian eating regimen in 2017, and he’s a cricket fan and a supporter of Norwich City FC. He has bipolar dysfunction and spoke about it within the Emmy-winning 2006 documentary “Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive.” Stephen has tried suicide a number of instances, and in 1995, he had a nervous breakdown and disappeared for just a few days. He later revealed that he would’ve dedicated suicide throughout that point if he hadn’t had “the choice of disappearing.” Fry is the president of Mind, a charitable group devoted to offering “recommendation and assist to empower anybody experiencing a psychological well being drawback.” In early 2018, Stephen introduced that he had undergone surgical procedure to deal with prostate most cancers, ensuing within the removing of his prostate and 11 lymph nodes.

Awards and Honors

Fry has acquired Lifetime Achievement awards from the British Comedy Awards (2007), British LGBT Awards (2019), and the Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards (2020), and in 2010, he earned a Special Recognition Award from the National Television Awards. “Wilde” earned him a Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actor on the 1998 Seattle International Film Festival, and he gained a NAVGTR Award for Performance in a Comedy, Supporting for “LittleBigPlanet” in 2009. In 2006, Stephen acquired a Golden Rose for Best Game Show Host for “QI” on the  Rose d’Or Light Entertainment Festival, and he has earned seven BAFTA Award nominations (six for Best Entertainment Performance for “QI” and one for Best Performer for “LittleBigPlanet 2”) and a Golden Globe nomination (Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for “Wilde”). The forged of “Gosford Park” acquired ensemble awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, Florida Film Critics Circle Awards, Online Film Critics Society Awards, Satellite Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

In 1995, Fry acquired an honorary doctorate from the University of Dundee, and the varsity named its Students’ Association bar after his first novel, “The Liar.” He has additionally acquired honorary levels from Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Sussex. Stephen earned the AoC Gold Award in 2004 and was inducted into their Hall of Fame, and he’s an honorary fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Cardiff University. In 2006, the BBC held a vote to find out the nation’s high dwelling icon, with Fry coming in sixth place, and in 2007, “The Independent on Sunday” ranked him #2 on their record of Britain’s most influential homosexual individuals. In celebration of Stephen’s fiftieth birthday in 2007, BBC Four honored him by dedicating two nights of programming to him. In 2011, Harvard University’s Humanist Chaplaincy awarded him the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism, and in 2017, a species of chook louse was named Saepocephalum stephenfryii in his honor. In 2021, Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou appointed Fry a Commander of the Order of the Phoenix.