[1] Raised Scottish Presbyterian, but now an atheist. See Richard Clune, "Man about the House", The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 28 October 2007: "I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away."
Father: W.G.R.M. "Ran" Laurie (doctor, 1948 Olympic Gold Medalist)
Mother: Patricia Laurie
Girlfriend: Emma Thompson (actress, dated at Cambridge)
Wife: Jo Green (m. Jun-1989, two sons, one daughter)
High School: Dragon School, Oxford, England
High School: Eton College
University: BA Archaeology/Anthropology, Selwyn College, Cambridge University (1981)
Golden Globe 2006 for House
Golden Globe 2007 for House
Officer of the British Empire 2007
Cambridge Footlights
Risk Factors: Depression, Smoking
TELEVISION
House Dr. Gregory House (2004-)
Jeeves and Wooster Bertie Wooster (1990-93)
Blackadder Goes Forth George Colhurst St. Barleigh (1989)
Blackadder the Third George, Prince Regent (1987)
A Bit of Fry and Laurie Various Roles (1986-95)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Monsters vs Aliens (19-Mar-2009) [VOICE]
Street Kings (10-Apr-2008)
Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (11-Oct-2005) [VOICE]
Valiant (20-Mar-2005) [VOICE]
Flight of the Phoenix (17-Dec-2004)
The Young Visitors (26-Dec-2003)
Stuart Little 2 (14-Jul-2002)
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (25-Feb-2001)
Maybe Baby (2-Jun-2000)
Stuart Little (5-Dec-1999)
Cousin Bette (12-Jun-1998)
The Man in the Iron Mask (13-Mar-1998)
Spice World (15-Dec-1997)
The Borrowers (5-Dec-1997)
101 Dalmatians (27-Nov-1996)
Sense and Sensibility (13-Dec-1995)
Peter's Friends (18-Sep-1992)
Strapless (14-May-1989)
Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)
Plenty (10-Sep-1985)