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Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times opined that "Wilde has found a perfect Oscar in the formidably talented Stephen Fry, who brings an uncanny physical resemblance to the Victorian playwright along with a profound grasp of the great wit's psyche" and described the film as "a lustrous period piece with a high degree of authenticity in decor ...
Sir Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer. He first came to prominence as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993).
He is also nominated for his two documentary series Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive (2007), and Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press (2009). For his work in film he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama nomination for his performance as Oscar Wilde in the film Wilde (1998).
British actor Stephen Fry remembers being about 10 years old in the late 1960s when he first saw a production of Oscar Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest” on television. He ...
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Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, played Melchett in the Blackadder television series, and was the host of celebrity comedy trivia show QI. He has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and three autobiographies, Moab Is My Washpot , The Fry Chronicles , and More Fool Me: A Memoir .
As well as his many roles in films and TV series over the years, including his Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1997 Oscar Wilde biopic, Wilde, Fry served as the host on the BBC’s ...
On 14 May 2012, Fry announced he and Laurie were working together on a new project, [1] which came to be an animated adaption of Oscar Wilde’s 1887 story "The Canterville Ghost". The film was released on October 20, 2023, and features Freddie Highmore as The Duke of Cheshire alongside Fry as Sir Simon de Canterville and Laurie as the Grim Reaper.