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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
The Gentleman Bandit
for The Gentleman Bandit in Rough Riders
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Rough Riders is an animated Western adventure set in an alternate frontier where humans and dinosaurs have lived side by side for centuries. When a young Allosaurus named Spiral is kidnapped from his home and taken to the bustling dinosaur metropolis of Primeval Junction, he joins forces with Lǐ Míng, a former outlaw seeking redemption, Maleri "Twig" Thunderhawk, a fearless wilderness tracker, and the lovable old cowboy Jim Gusto. Together, they embark on a thrilling journey across the untamed frontier to reunite Spiral with his missing brother and stop the infamous Gentleman Bandit, a charismatic aristocrat-turned-outlaw who, alongside his show-stealing Carnotaurus Bull and his elite Wranglers mounted on swift Atrociraptors, plans to seize control of the West through an empire of crime. Blending action, comedy, heart, and breathtaking world-building, Rough Riders is a coming-of-age tale about redemption, friendship, and discovering that the strongest family is the one you choose along the trail.
