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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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the show has many characters, but main are two men: Tom Mater, a criminal and head of a team of thieves who plan and then rob a bank, and Wayne Johnson, an FBI agent who has been on the trail of Mater and his team for a long time and wants to catch them. Mater and Johnson are complete opposites and strict opponents. Mater's team consists of Hilário, Joe, Frank, Ralph, Kai (driver), Peter and Mike, also pilot Kaden Wright and Informant and tenant Sam Hardford. Johnson's FBI team consists of Matt, Jim, Ray and Jeff. Tom Mater's ex-wife Fleurette, is now Johnson's wife. Mater also has a wife, Jocelin. Both Mater and Johnson thought it would be an easy job, but they both have to deal with various enemies and crooks, and Johnson is pressured by FBI chief Lachlan. A big twist comes when information about whos money has been stolen from the bank, drug cartel boss Alfredo Del Real, Hilário's uncle, a member of the thieves' team, had the money in this bank. Afredo has lunch with Sergio Fonseca, the cleaner and hitman. In one event, Jim Konchi, a member of Johnson's team of FBI agents, but also the son of Yakuza boss Kasai Konchi, is murdered and he wants revenge. Sam Hardford hires Caesaretti and his Italian mob to liquidate Mater's team and he has the money for himself. Joe from the crime team also puts it together with Merrion, due to the fact that Fleurette had an affair with both Mater and Johnson, no one knows who the father is. Someone in the FBI is helping Mater.
