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What is Stephen Fry's Net Worth?
Stephen Fry is an English comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, and presenter who has a net worth of $40 million. Stephen Fry co-starred withHugh Laurieon the television series "A Bit of Fry & Laurie" (1989–1995) and "Jeeves and Wooster " (1990–1993), and he has more than 170 acting credits to his name. Stephen has appeared in the films "Wilde" (1997), "Gosford Park" (2001), and "Love & Friendship" (2016) as well as several entries in the "Blackadder" series (1986–1999), which includes TV shows and television films. He hosted the quiz show "QI" from 2003 to 2016, and he wrote, directed, and produced the 2003 film "Bright Young Things."
Stephen Fry has served as a producer on numerous projects, such as the TV series "Kingdom" (2007–2009) and the film "Dead in a Week Or Your Money Back" (2018). Stephen has published 15 books, including "The Liar" (1992), "Moab Is My Washpot" (1997), "The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography" (2010), and "Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece" (2017), and his 1996 novel "Making History" won a Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
Early Life
Stephen Fry was born Stephen John Fry on August 24, 1957, in Hampstead, London, England. He grew up with mother Marianne, father Alan (an inventor and physicist), older brother Roger, and younger sister Joanna. Fry's maternal great-grandparents were sent to a concentration camp during the Holocaust and were killed by the Nazis. As a child, Stephen's family lived in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, and Booton, Norfolk, and Fry attended Chesham Preparatory School, Cawston Primary School, Stouts Hill Preparatory School, Uppingham School, Paston School, and Norfolk College of Arts and Technology. At age 14, he took his O-Levels and passed all of them except physics. Fry spent three months in prison for using a stolen credit card, then he enrolled at City College Norwich and earned a scholarship to Queens' College, Cambridge. While attending Cambridge, Stephen was a member of the Footlights drama club alongside his future collaborator Hugh Laurie. Fry earned an English Literature degree and graduated with upper second-class honours.
Career
Stephen's television career began with a 1982 broadcast of "The Cellar Tapes," a Cambridge Footlights Revue that was written, by Fry, Laurie, Tony Slattery, andEmma Thompson. The broadcast led to Granada Television offering Fry, Laurie, and Thompson a show, and "There's Nothing to Worry About!" premiered later that year. Stephen and Hugh guest-starred on a 1984 episode of "The Young Ones," and Fry appeared on "Happy Families" and "Alas Smith & Jones" in 1985. The sketch comedy show "A Bit of Fry & Laurie" aired 26 episodes from 1989 to 1995, and Stephen and Hugh co-starred on "Jeeves and Wooster," which was based on novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, from 1990 to 1993. Fry appeared in the films "The Good Father" (1985), "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988), and "The Wind in the Willows" (1996), and he portrayed Oscar Wilde in 1997's "Wilde." In 2001, he played Inspector Thompson in "Gosford Park," which earned its cast several awards, and from 2007 to 2009, he starred as Peter Kingdom on the ITV1 series "Kingdom."
In 2007, Fry landed a recurring role on the Fox series "Bones" and would play Dr. Gordon Wyatt in six episodes over the next decade. In 2008, he starred in the documentary "Stephen Fry in America," followed by 2013's "Stephen Fry: Out There" and "Stephen Fry's Key to the City" and 2015's "Stephen Fry in Central Africa." Stephen appeared in the films "V for Vendetta" (2006), "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" (2011), "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" (2013), and "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" (2014), and he voiced the Cheshire Cat in "Alice in Wonderland" (2010) and "Alice Through the Looking Glass" (2016).
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