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H ugh Laurie - debonair, tall, lanky, and handsome. Since House, Laurie starred in Mr. Pip and co-starred
This cool Brit was recently nominated for an in Tomorrowland. Though he publicly groused about
Emmy for his bad guy role in The Night Manager the hard schedule and insistent fame that House
and received two Golden Globe awards and two brought him, he has once again returned to the genre
Screen Actors Guild Awards, among others, during his eight-year as Tom James in the HBO comedy Veep and as Eldon
stint as the curmudgeon Dr. Gregory House, in House, for which he Chance, a forensic neuropsychiatrist in the new series,
had to learn to speak, "American". He says, Chance.

"It's as if you're playing left-handed. Or like
everyone else is playing with a tennis racket and
you have a salmon."

Laurie is equally dedicated to his music as he is to acting. He began
playing the piano at age six and also plays drums, guitar, harmonica
and saxophone. He has two blues albums: Let Them Talk, and Didn’t
It Rain, and tours with his band. He has often incorporated his
musical ability with his acting ability, quite prominently, in A Bit of
Fry & Laurie, and Jeeves and Wooster, and also in House and others
as well. Astutely he notes, “Acting is largely about putting on masks
and music is about removing them.”

Photo: Mary Mac Cartney, Mitch Jenkins, Jim Smeal.

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