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James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (born June 11, 1959), known professionally as Hugh Laurie, is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian, and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever, he joined the Cambridge Footlights, a university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship, which later ended yet they remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team.
The 1950s, following the conclusion of WW2, British espionage enters a new and revolutionary dawn with the birth of the 00 program. Technology, gadgets and vehicular combat become more prominent in a new world of secret service. An ex Nazi general, believed to be dead has fled to Greece under a new identity and appearance following disfiguring facial injuries sustained at war. He fronts an ever-growing crime organisation called Spectre under the codename 'Number 1'. MI6 are tasked with investigating the organisation after several mysterious disappearances of world leading scientists occur with ex SAS veteran James Bond (Henry Cavill) , now agent 007, spearheading the operation. Number 1's main henchman (Michael Shannon) is sent to intercept Bond but fails after the British spy delivers seemingly fatal injuries to his face and neck, removing his teeth and rupturing his vocal chords. However, he is rescued by fellow agents of Spectre and receives state of the art prosthetic teeth and skin grafts. The massive henchman is now on a rampage to get Bond, stopping at nothing. Capturing Bond's newly found love. The bait is set. It's the mission or the girl...
