Facts About Hugh Laurie

- His father is a real doctor.

- His American accent was so convincing at his audition, the producers didn't know he was British.

- He is a writer, his credits include writing for Saturday Night Live, the Alfresco series, and A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

- He is also a director and producer. His project work includes directing episodes of the television drama Forty Something, movie Maybe Baby, and producer on Dragons of New York.

- He appeared in the Annie Lenox video for "Walking on Broken Glass."

- He once dated actress, Emma Thompson when they were both studying at Cambridge. The romance did not last and Hugh later married Jo Green in 1989.

- In May of 2007, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Her Magesty, Queen Elizabeth II.

- He has been famous on television and in film in Britain about twenty-odd years before he caught the attention of American audiences by portraying House in House M.D.

- He played the part of Poirot in the Spice Girls movie, Spice World.

- He is the author of The Gun Seller , a spy spoof about an ex-soldier who is shanghaied into undercover work for the British government.