{"id":2060,"date":"2025-03-07T19:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2025-03-07T19:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:26:35","slug":"at-barely-62-years-old-the-legendary-and-iconic-actor-is-basically-unrecognizable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=2060","title":{"rendered":"At barely 62 years old, the legendary and iconic actor is basically unrecognizable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Even though TV\u2019s most famous doctor was making $700,000 an episode in its final season,\u00a0<em>House<\/em>\u00a0star Hugh Laurie said he feels like a fraud.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regretting that he played \u201ca fake version\u201d of a doctor instead of a becoming a real one like his father wanted, Laurie admitted that his \u201cdad would have hated\u201d the shortcut that he chose to follow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to learn more about Laurie\u2019s decision to be an actor instead of a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. William (Ran) Laurie had huge hopes for the youngest of his sons, Hugh Laurie who was born in June 1959.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-8164933d45fb6d329c42ed5324c342c4\" class=\"newsner-8164933d45fb6d329c42ed5324c342c4 newsner-incide_content_once\"><\/div>\n<p>The junior Laurie was following in the footsteps of his esteemed father, a physician who before starting his career was a 1948\u00a0Olympic\u00a0gold medalist in coxless pairs (rowing) and a graduate of a college of the University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the British-born Laurie was studying at the same college as his dad, he too was a member of the rowing team with plans to train for the Olympics, and then go to medical school.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-ae6210464a5b40703ed6e85cfdf6b9a6\" class=\"newsner-ae6210464a5b40703ed6e85cfdf6b9a6\"><\/div>\n<p>But then, the young man discovered a drama club, a sketch comedy troupe called the Cambridge Footlights where he met\u00a0<em>The Remains of the Day<\/em>\u00a0actor Emma Thompson and then his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry of the 1997 film\u00a0<em>Wilde<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though TV\u2019s most famous doctor was making $700,000 an episode in its final season,\u00a0House\u00a0star Hugh Laurie said he feels like a fraud. Regretting that he played \u201ca fake version\u201d of a doctor instead&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}