Stephen Fry
<p>Stephen Fry was born in London in 1957 and educated at Stout's Hill, Uppingham, and Queens' College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he joined the Footlights, where he first met Hugh Laurie. He has numerous television appearances to his credit, most notably, <em>A Bit of Fry and Laurie</em>, <em>Jeeves and Wooster</em>, <em>Blackadder</em>, <em>QI</em>, and <em>House</em>. Major film roles include Peter in <em>Peter's Friends</em> (1990) and Oscar Wilde in <em>Wilde</em> (1997); in the realm of television, his critically acclaimed <em>The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive</em> won an Emmy. He is the author of the best selling novels <em>The Liar</em>, <em>The Hippopotamus</em>, <em>Making History</em>, and <em>Revenge: A Novel</em>, as well as the highly acclaimed autobiography <em>Moab Is My Washpot</em> and, in 2005, a well-received guide to writing poetry, <em>The Ode Less Travelled</em>.</p>