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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.
Patrick Flynn, at the tender age of 20, is a notable up-and-coming crime boss in 1930s northern Philidelphia. People call him a prodigy in the field as he claws his way to power with a potent cocktail of charisma and intimidation. This kid's going places. But just his luck, things start going awry just as he steps up to the big leagues. On the one hand, he's making his way into the good graces of bigger, stronger families and found a precious partner to boot. On the other hand, old traumas are resurfacing and manifesting in new ways, threatening to put his entire career and even his life at risk. But dammit, one way or another, he's gonna fight until he makes it all the way.
