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Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957)〔 is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist. After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from two schools and spent three months in prison for credit card fraud, he secured a place at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature. While at university, Fry became involved with the Cambridge Footlights, where he met his long-time collaborator Hugh Laurie. As half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in ''A Bit of Fry & Laurie'', and took the role of Jeeves (with Laurie playing Wooster) in ''Jeeves and Wooster''. Fry's acting roles include a Golden Globe Award–nominated lead performance in the film ''Wilde'', Melchett in the BBC television series ''Blackadder'', the title character in the television series ''Kingdom'', a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the crime series ''Bones'', and as Gordon Deitrich in the dystopian thriller ''V for Vendetta''. He has also written and presented several documentary series, including the Emmy Award–winning ''Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive'', which saw him explore his mental illness. He is also the long-time host of the BBC television quiz show ''QI''. Besides working in television, Fry has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines and written four novels and three volumes of autobiography, ''Moab Is My Washpot'', ''The Fry Chronicles'' and ''More Fool Me''. He also appears frequently on BBC Radio 4, starring in the comedy series ''Absolute Power'', being a frequent guest on panel games such as ''Just a Minute'', and acting as chairman for ''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'', where he was one of a trio of hosts who succeeded the late Humphrey Lyttelton. Fry is also known for his voice-overs, reading all seven of the ''Harry Potter'' novels for the UK audiobook recordings, narrating the ''LittleBigPlanet'' and ''Birds of Steel'' series of video games, as well as an animated series of explanations of the laws of cricket,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Laws of Cricket animations - English )〕 and a series of animations about Humanism for the British Humanist Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=That's Humanism! ).〕 ==Early life and education== Fry was born in Hampstead, London, on 24 August 1957,〔 the son of Marianne Eve Fry (née Newman) and Alan John Fry, a British physicist and inventor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stephen Fry Biography (1957–) )〕 Fry's mother is Jewish but he was not raised in a religious family. His maternal grandparents, Martin and Rosa Neumann,〔 were Hungarian Jews, who emigrated to Britain in 1927; Rosa's parents, who originally lived in Vienna, Austria, were sent to a concentration camp in Riga, Latvia and murdered.〔〔 His mother's aunt and cousins were sent to Auschwitz and never seen again.〔 Fry's father is English, and his paternal grandmother had roots in Kent and Cheshire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stephen Fry discovers that he too is 'just another ruddy peasant' )〕 Fry grew up in the village of Booton near Reepham, Norfolk, having moved from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, at an early age. He has an elder brother named Roger and a younger sister named Joanna. Fry briefly attended Cawston Primary School in Cawston, Norfolk,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cawston Parish in Norfolk )〕 before going on to Stouts Hill Preparatory School in Uley, Gloucestershire, at the age of seven, and then to Uppingham School, Rutland, where he joined Fircroft house, and was described as a "near-asthmatic genius".〔''Fry and Laurie Reunited'', 2010 (Gold)〕 He was expelled from Uppingham when he was 15 and subsequently from the Paston School. At 17, after leaving Norfolk College of Arts and Technology, Fry absconded with a credit card stolen from a family friend. He had taken a coat when leaving a pub, planning to spend the night sleeping rough, but had then discovered the card in a pocket.〔 He was arrested in Swindon, and, as a result, spent three months in Pucklechurch Prison on remand. While Fry was in Pucklechurch, his mother had cut out the crossword from every copy of ''The Times'' since he had been away, something which Fry said was "a wonderful act of kindness". Fry later stated that these crosswords were the only thing that got him through the ordeal.〔 Following his release, he resumed his education at City College Norwich, promising administrators that he would study rigorously to sit the Cambridge entrance exams. He scored well enough to gain a scholarship to Queens' College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, Fry joined the Cambridge Footlights, appeared on ''University Challenge'', and read for a degree in English literature, graduating with upper second-class honours.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stephen Fry. Actor, comedian, writer, presenter, and distinguished supporter of Humanism )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stephen Fry )〕 Fry also met his future comedy collaborator Hugh Laurie at Cambridge and starred alongside him in the Footlights Club. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephen Fry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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