Martin Clunes

A keen camper van driver, Clunes is married to producer Philippa Braithwaite and has a daughter, Emily. In 2004, Laurie stars in the Fox Broadcasting medical drama, House. Clunes was also frequently recruited by his friend and former Men Behaving Badly co-star Harry Enfield to play charcaters in his sketch shows. In 2003 he starred in and also directed comedy-drama series Fortysomething. Clunes won much acclaim for his role and seems a popular choice for a permanent role. In 1996, his book The Gun Seller, a humorous novel of suspense, was published. When Angus Deayton was sacked as host of Have I Got News For You, Clunes was one of several people recruited to guest host the topical news quiz, having been an extremely successful panellist and stand-in captain in the past (he joked that, as he had been a contestant on the show so many times that there was now only one chair on the set that he had not sat in, before dropping a spotlight and dramatic music on Ian Hislop). Other film appearances include Maybe Baby and Stuart Little.

In 2002 he played serial killer John George Haigh in A Is for Acid, and four years earlier he starred as Richard Burbage in Shakespeare in Love. He has also had more serious roles, such as his parts in the films, Peter's Friends and Sense and Sensibility. Clunes is an established dramatic actor too, starring in the films An Evening With Gary Lineker, Staggered and Saving Grace. However, like Fry, Laurie has branched out into a solo career as an actor in both comic roles (such as the Blackadder series with Rowan Atkinson as Prince George and Lieutenant George). His first television appearance came a decade earlier in Doctor Who, and he also got a role as one of the sons in the BBC sitcom No Place Like Home. Laurie played Bertie Wooster, a role for which his talent as a pianist and singer came in handy. The son of actor Alec Clunes, he is best known as Gary in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly which was broadcast from 1992 to 1998. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories.

Martin Clunes (born 28 November 1961) is a British actor. G. Fry and Laurie had several series of their own as a double act, as well as starring in the television series Jeeves and Wooster, an adaptation of P. It was when Footlights took their end-of-year revue to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1980 that Laurie met Stephen Fry. In his final year, he was the President of the Club, while Emma Thompson was the Vice-president.

He also joined the famous Footlights Club at Cambridge, which has been the starting point for many successful British comedians. During his first year at university, Laurie went out for a while with Emma Thompson, now a well-known actress. His father had won an Olympic gold medal in rowing, and he himself was a rower at school and university taking part in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race of 1980. He was born and raised in Oxford, where he attended the Dragon School (a famous prep school), before going on to Eton and then to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read Archaeology and Anthropology.

Hugh Laurie (born June 11, 1959) is a British comedian, actor, and author best known for his television work, especially his double act with Stephen Fry.