- He has been very open about the fact that he suffers from bipolar disorder.
- In the 1980s he shared a house in London with Hugh Laurie. They needed some plastering doing. The plasterers turned out to be Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson who were inspired by Fry and Laurie to have a go at comedy.
- When in London, Fry drives his own black cab for ease of transportation.
- His very recognisable crooked nose is a result of breaking it when he fell over in the school playground at the age of six.
- He has been described as "deeply dippy for all things digital", claims to have owned the second Apple Macintosh sold in the UK (after friend Douglas Adams) and to have never encountered a smartphone that he has not bought.
- He has openly discussed his struggles with depression and attempted suicide.
- He was a regular guest on the BBC quiz Have I Got News for You (1990) for many years but he now allegedly refuses to appear as a protest against the sacking of his friend and the former host Angus Deayton.
- A book has recently been published in the U.K. entitled 'Tish and Pish: How to Be of a Speakingness Like Stephen Fry' (author: Stewart Ferris). It's a humorous tribute to Stephen's wonderful use of the English language.
- Speaks rudimentary German, French and Latin.
- He flies his own classic biplane.
- With Nick Green, co-founded the Bear Rescue Foundation, a charitable trust to rescue and nurture distressed bears.
- He was a close friend of author and fellow Cambridge graduate Douglas Adams. He claims to know why Adams chose the number '42' as the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything in his novel 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'. However, he refuses at length to disclose the reason, or will act as if the microphone magically malfunctions, as if the Universe itself is stopping him from making the revelation. After Adams' untimely death in 2001, he was cast as the Narrator in the film version, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), inheriting the role from the late Peter Jones.
- He's regarded in the UK as 'Britain's Favourite Teddy Bear' and is a keen teddy bear collector himself.
- He is the godfather of Hugh Laurie and Jo Green's three children.
- He narrated the audio-book versions (British releases) of the wildly popular Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.
- He blacked out his website as part of Internet Blackout Week NZ to protest against the controversial New Zealand 'Section 92A' law which has ISPs disconnect users accused of copyright infringement.
- He served as best man at friend Hugh Laurie and Jo Green's wedding in 1989.
- He claims the UK record for saying 'fuck' on television most times in one live broadcast.
- He was one of the guests at King Charles III' and Queen Camilla' wedding.
- Fry fervently supports the return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece.
- He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights and in 1981, along with Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer, and Paul Shearer, became the first winner of The Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh fringe festival.
- He is a cricket fan, Sherlockian, and a charter member of the Groucho Club (Soho).
- Despite his fame and charitable efforts, Stephen Fry has been very open and honest about the details of his less than respectable past which includes a brief stint in jail for credit card fraud and 15 years addicted to 'snorting coke' (cocaine). In his recent autobiography he provides a list of places whose owners he offers his deepest apologies to for indulging in his illegal drug habit on the premises, a few of the places on this list were: Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, The Houses of Parliament, BBC HQ, ITV HQ and several military bases and headquarters.
- He was nominated for Broadway's 1987 Tony Award as one of several writers, including the deceased L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber as well as collaborator Mike Ockrent, as Best Book (Musical) for "Me and My Girl.".
- He was good friends with Carrie Fisher.
- His maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Surany, now in Slovakia. His father's family is English.
- In February 2008, he began providing Stephen Fry's Podgrams: free podcasts about his adventures, available via his official website.
- He won the 1998 Sidewise Award for Alternate History for his novel Making History.
- He has a very wide taste in music, with particular favorites being Richard Wagner, Led Zeppelin and ABBA. He is a big fan of the British comedy rock band The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (best known for their 1968 hit "I'm the Urban Spaceman") and participated in their 40th anniversary reunion show at the Astoria in London on January 28, 2006, along with Adrian Edmondson, Paul Merton and Phill Jupitus. He is also a fan of the progressive rock band Jethro Tull.
- He was ranked #44 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
- He is a snooker fan and attends the final in Crucible Theatre in Sheffield every year.
- He is the son of Marianne Fry and physicist/inventor Alan Fry.
- He hosted the 2001 and 2002 British Academy Awards (BAFTAS), which have been their 2 most successful years.
- In the Independent on Sunday 2006 Pink List -- a list of the most influential gay men and women -- he came no. 23, down from 21.
- He was a friend of the actor John Mills.
- He was made the rector of Dundee University and hon. doctorate from that institution (July 1995).
- He is a Macintosh fanatic, Usenet lurker, Internet/WWW enthusiast.
- He played the Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde in both Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times (1993) and Wilde (1997).
- Politically, he is staunchly liberal and anti-Brexit.
- He has an older brother, Roger, and 7-year younger sister, Jo Foster (his agent).
- He is related to English sportsman, politician and polymath C. B. Fry.
- He is very fond of vintage British TV themes.
- On an episode of QI, a panelist, with reference to the topic at hand, he questioned Jo Brand about her previous work as a psychiatric nurse, asking "If someone had said to you they were God, what would you have done?" Jo Brand laughed and said "I probably would have punched him to the floor!" At which point Fry quipped "What a loss to the profession you were!".
- He mentioned on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001) (on a night when Tom Cruise was another guest) that he was offered a role in Valkyrie (2008).
- He recorded an 'outro' for popular You-Tube vlogger, Charlie Mcdonnell. (aka. Charlieissocoollike).
- In 2019, he expressed his opposition to the petition organized by Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, which had been supported by fellow prog-rock legend Peter Gabriel, opposing Israel hosting the Eurovision Song Contest due to the conflict with Palestine. Fry signed a rival petition which accused Waters' petition of attacking the "spirit of togetherness".
- He took part in a special celebrity edition of Blankety Blank on The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday: Live. He won against contestant Chantelle Houghton.
- He supports Norwich City Football Club, regularly attending games (as his schedule allows) and is on the board of directors.
- In 2009, he earned £100,000 for a TV commercial for Marks & Spencer.
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