Stephen John Fry, an English actor, comedian, filmmaker, and writer, was born on August 24, 1957. Alongside Hugh Laurie, he originally gained notoriety in the 1980s as one half of the comedic duo Fry and Laurie, appearing in the films Jeeves and Wooster and A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1955).

He also appeared with Laurie, Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane, and others in the sketch series Alfresco (1983–1984) as well as with Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder (1986–1989). He has been president of the mental health charity Mind since 2011.

Stephen Fry parents: Alan John Fry, Marianne Neumann

The son of Marianne Eve Fry and physicist and inventor Alan John Fry, Stephen John Fry was born on August 24, 1957, in the Hampstead neighborhood of London (1930–2019).

The Cellar Tapes, a 1981 Cambridge Footlights revue that Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, and Tony Slattery wrote, premiered Fry’s career in television in 1982. The revue drew the eye of Granada Television, who engaged Fry, Laurie, and Thompson to star alongside Ben Elton in There’s Nothing to Worry About in an effort to duplicate the success of the BBC’s Not the Nine O’Clock News! Fry and Laurie’s status as a comic duo was cemented by a second series, renamed Alfresco, that aired in 1983 and a third in 1984.