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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.
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for Darryl Frye in Flash: The Scarlet Speedster (2008)
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Young police scientist Barry Allen is struck by lightning, miraculously surviving, he realizes that he has gained super-human speed. Inspired by the recently debuted superheroes, he designs a suit and calls himself Flash, after a famous speedster from the 40s. As he struggles to get used to his new powers, Flash frequently clashes with the Rogues, a team of criminals who were recently equipped with advanced technology by an unknown source. Barry's friend and engineer Clyde Mardon is mysteriously killed and his creations are stolen, which causes his brother Mark to swear revenge, using the only invention that the attackers couldn’t find, an advanced staff that can affect the weather. Barry and Iris investigate and discover that the technology used by the Rogues is connected to Russell Glosson, an elderly inventor, who killed Clyde in order to steal his technology. It’s revealed that Glosson is the Turtle, an old enemy of the original Flash, and helped the Rogues out of disgust that someone has followed on his nemesis’ legacy. Turtle uses an advanced suit that can slow down reality around him, but is defeated by Flash and Mark Mardon. Mark brutally beats Turtle but is stopped by Flash. In the aftermath, Flash settles in as Central City’s hero while Mark joins the Rogues with the alias Weather Wizard.
