Hugh Laurie got a star on Walk of Fame. Stephen Fry had all good things to say

British actor Hugh Laurie, best known for playing a cantankerous doctor in the TV series House, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday.

British actor Hugh Laurie, best known for playing a cantankerous doctor in the TV series House, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday.

Actor Hugh Laurie poses on his star after it was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California. (REUTERS)

Laurie, 57, was already well-known in Britain in the late 1980s for his role in the comedy series Blackadder, and A Bit of Fry and Laurie with his friend and former comedy partner Stephen Fry.

Actor Hugh Laurie (R) reacts, as actor Stephen Fry speaks.

He crossed the Atlantic in 2004 to play Gregory House in the eight-year Fox TV series, twice winning the Golden Globe award for best actor in a TV drama.

“I have lost count of the number of times, the number of young people I’ve met who are either studying or practising medicine because they saw House,” Laurie said at the ceremony in Los Angeles.

Hugh Laurie signs autographs after the event.

Laurie currently stars in Hulu’s thriller TV series Chance, playing a forensic neuropsychiatrist.

Hugh Laurie poses on his star.

Fry, who met Laurie while studying at the University of Cambridge in England, poked fun at his friend during the ceremony.

“It is the tradition in this marvelous town to reward stars by bringing them down to earth, so far down to earth that now Hugh will spend eternity having chewing gum and dog poo trodden into him and very likely worse,” Fry told the crowd.

“The world was at its feet and now the world’s feet are at him,” he added.

The Hollywood Walk of Fame said on its website that Laurie received the 2,593rd star on the renowned Hollywood Boulevard.

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