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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.
Hugh Laurie
Jeremiah Arkham
for Jeremiah Arkham in Batman: The Deranged Detective
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While investigating a medicine robbery from Arkham Asylum, Renee Montoya suddenly loses her mind and destroys all of the evidence she’d gathered. She then goes on a terrifying rampage towards the GCPD in order to destroy the hard drives stored there. After she’s stopped by the combined efforts of Batman & The Jokester, the two investigate her apartment in order to find out what made her go cuckoo. During their search of Renee’s apartment, they manage to uncover a solved rubix cube on her desk. After a quick scan, Bruce discovers that it had been solved the day she went crazy. The next day at Wayne Enterprises, Bruce winds up getting a chinese puzzle box mailed to his office. Suddenly, Bruce went crazy and started tearing up his office, destroying his computer and everything on his desk, laughing like a madman and babbling incoherent nonsense. He and Renee were then committed to Arkham Asylum for psychological analysis. Now it’s up to Jokester and Batgirl to figure out what happened to Bruce. It turns out that the mastermind is actually Dr. Byron Meredith (a.k.a) the Merrymaker. His plan was to inject the chemicals he stole into his fellow doctors and drive them insane, all in a revenge plot against the people who fired him for his extreme research into the minds of Joker worshippers. After that, he’d become the new head doctor of Arkham Asylum under the false identity of Dr. Merion Brydeth.
