Once tried committing suicide.
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Is the host of the BBC2 show, QI.
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Is homosexual.
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Is an actor, writer and presenter.
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Spent 3 months in prison in his youth for credit card fraud.
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Graduated with a 2:1 in English from Queens' College, Cambridge.
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Received the Pipe Smoker of the Year award in 2003.
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Stephen is an avid Conan Doyle fan, especially of Sherlock Holmes.
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Stephen is a noted pilot, and owns a classic biplane.
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Stephen claims the UK record for saying 'f**k' on television most times in one live broadcast.
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Stephen is regarded in the UK as 'Britain's Favourite Teddy Bear' and is a keen teddy bear collector himself.
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Stephen hosted the 2001 and 2002 British Academy Awards (BAFTAS), which have been their 2 most successful years.
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Stephen narrates the audiobook versions (British releases) of the wildly popular Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.
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Stephen was one of the guests at Prince Charles's and Camilla Parker-Bowles' wedding.
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Stephen co-founded the Bear Rescue Foundation with Nick Green, it's a charitable trust to rescue and nurture distressed bears.
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A book has recently been published entitled Tish and Pish: how to be of a speakingness like Stephen Fry. It's a humorous tribute to Stephen's wonderful use of the English language.
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Stephen is the Godfather to Hugh Laurie's three children.
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Stephen Fry: Comedy always goes up and down but this year's (2005) been great. Comedy is immensely strong right now, with the Green Wing and Nighty Night.
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Stephen Fry: It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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Stephen Fry: (On being gay) My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.'
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Stephen Fry: It is quite difficult to feel that I am placed somewhere between Alan Bennett and the Queen Mother, a sort of public kitten.
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Stephen Fry: How can one not be fond of something that the "Daily Mail" despises?
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Stephen Fry: The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.
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Stephen is a major Cricket fan.
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Stephen is a charter member of the Groucho Club (Soho).
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Stephen admits that he is a MAC fanatic, Usenet lurker, and a Internet/WWW enthusiast.
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Stephen has one older brother, Roger, and a younger sister named Jo.
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Stephen is the son of Marianne Fry and physicist/inventor Alan Fry.
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Stephen is 6' 4½" (1.94 m) tall.
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He wrote an episode for the second season of "Doctor Who" but the story has been pushed back. There is a strong possiblity that it will filmed as a third season episode.
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He is a very close friend of Hugh Laurie. They met at Cambridge University in 1980.
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He has been characterised by one of his closest friends, Emma Thompson, as "90 percent gay, 10 percent other."
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Stephen suffers from a form of bi-polar disorder (manic depression) known as cyclothymia.
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