Hugh Laurie Biography

Hugh Laurie was born to parents Patricia and W.G.R.M. Laurie. Known as Ran Lauries father was a doctor and a champion rower who won gold at the 1948 London Olympics in the coxless pairs. Laurie was the fourth of four children with an older brother and two older sisters. He received a first class education at the Dragon School a prestigious Oxford preparatory school and then at Eton.
At Eton Laurie excelled at rowing winning the national junior coxed pairs title and representing Britain at the 1977 Junior World Championships. He went to university at Selwyn College Cambridge in 1978 to study anthropology and archaeology but a bout of glandular fever prevented him from making the Cambridge crew for the annual rowing race against Oxford University. The break from rowing due to illness led him to join the Cambridge Footlights a theater group that has launched many successful comedy careers.
In 1980 Laurie achieved his goal of rowing for Cambridge only narrowly losing to Oxford in a hard-fought race. The same year with Laurie as president of the Footlights drama club the company went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won the prestigious Perrier Award for their revue show 'Cellar Tapes'. The hit show was taken to the West End and then was filmed for television.

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