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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 J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man: Dark Side
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Taking place before the events of The X-Men: Rise and Fall, and 1 year after Spider-Man: Freshman Year, this movie follows Peter Parker, now a sophomore as he has to face new threats. William Baker was a worker for hire and during an excavation of a ruined Egyptian tomb, he accidentally unleashed an ethereal entity that took over him and gave him the powers of sand. Meanwhile when S.H.I.E.L.D's helicarrier is compromised a dark, black substance gets loose and it's first target is Mac Gargan, aka the Scorpion, who was hired by Tombstone to take the Spider-Man down. Spider-Man has trouble fighting Scorpion now that he has the power of the symbiote, but end up accidentally taking it from him. As the movie goes on Peter becomes darker and darker and colder to the people he cares about. Meanwhile Harry, with all this distance has become more set on killing Spider-Man for killing his father, as he believes. Peter has to fight off the symbiote in a bell tower as he remembers Uncle Ben and the words ringing in his ears "with great power, there must also come great responsibility" and as he rips it off he goes to stop William from destroying New York. Peter uses everything in his power to get William to the harbor and get him wet. He mushes up and becomes stiff giving Peter time to kick William out of the entity, saving the city. In the credits scene we see that Harry is looking at his father's old belongings.