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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
Senator Claudius
for Senator Claudius in Gladiator 2
Suggested by thefilmcritic
Drusus Servilius Meridius the son of Maximus Decimus Meridius and Flavia is still alive. Apparently his mother Flavia switched her son for a servant boy with the help Maximus's loyal servant Cicero. Cicero arrived at Maximus’s villa in Spain two days before Commodus’s men ever reached there and bought a boy slave with the similar facial features as Drusus. Drusus now a man is hiding from his mother’s Roman murderers in the forests in the Roman province of Britannia living among a nomadic tribe. Lucius son of Lucilla is in Parthia serving as a centurion under the command and protection of Senator Gracchus’s young nephew Titus Aelius, a Tribune in the Roman army. Falco has risen to power in Rome and is no longer a member of the Roman Senate. Falco is now a loyal close advisor to the young wicked Emperor, Caracalla. Who is co-ruler of Rome along with his brother Geta. Lucius and Titus have a conversation about the late hero of Rome Maximus. Drusus is grateful for Lucilla for saving his life as a young boy and decides to leave Britannia and return with Lucilla to Umbria. Falco surprisingly arrives at Lucilla’s villa for the dinner party. Falco meets Drusus. As the party progresses when Drusus pours wine into Falco’s goblet. Falco sees Maximus’s likeness in his face. After the party Lucilla tells Drusus he is now endanger from Falco and advises him to leave her estate and go to Parthia to go and see her son Lucius Versus.
