Caption: Hugh Laurie and Jo Green (Source: Heavy)Īlong with Robbie Coltrane, Ben Elton, and fellow Footlights performer Emma Thompson, they soon were writing and performing on the television sketch-comedy program Alfresco (1983–84). They entered that review in the 1981 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and won the Perrier Pick of the Fringe Award. The two collaborated on The Cellar Tapes. While on an end-of-year tour with the Footlights, he met the actor-playwright Stephen Fry. Hugh Laurie: Professional Life, CareerĪt that point Laurie joined Cambridge’s Footlights Club comedy revue group, eventually serving as its president. He earned a degree from Cambridge University, 1981. There, he specialized in social anthropology and studied archeology as well. With his admission at Selwyn College, he had sought to follow his father, who had studied at the same college.

Then, he got admission at the Selwyn College, which is a constituent college of Cambridge University in 1978. After that, he got enrolled at a private school, Eton College. Hugh Laurie: Education, School/College University He holds British nationality and English ethnicity. His father’s name is William George Ranald Mundell “Ran” Laurie, who was a physician and winner of an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs (rowing) at the 1948 London Games. He has an older brother named Charles Alexander Lyon Mundell Laurie, and also two older sisters, Susan, and Janet in his family. His birth name is James Hugh Calum Laurie and was born on 11 June 1959 in Blackbird Leys, Oxfordshire. Hugh Laurie: Age( 59), Parents, Siblings, Nationality, Ethnicity

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