There’s so much you could ask Stephen Fry. Maybe something about his TV career, from A Bit of Fry and Laurie to Jeeves and Wooster to Blackadder to QI. Perhaps his books – the novels, the memoirs, the classics, how to write poetry.
Maybe something about his illustrious film career, with Wilde the obvious highlight, but which also includes Chariots of Fire, Gosford Park, The Hobbit, Love and Friendship, and Spice World.
Last week his latest film, Treasure, in which he stars as a Holocaust survivor and the father of Lena Dunham, premiered at the Berlin film festival. In a fortnight, he can be heard in UK cinemas as the voice of Leonardo da Vinci in new animation The Inventor, in which – according to the blurb – he quits Italy to join the French court, “where he can freely experiment, invent flying contraptions and incredible machines, and study the human body. Joined in his adventure by the audacious Princess Marguerite (Daisy Ridley), Leonardo attempts to uncover the answer to the ultimate question: ‘What is the meaning of life?’”
Existential head scratchers will doubtless be welcomed by Fry (himself the son of an inventor). Britain’s pre-eminent broadcasting polymath is the 12-time host of the Baftas, a prodigious audiobook narrator, radio performer and host, an Olivier-award winning dramatist, a Grand Commander of the Order of the Phoenix in Greece and the namesake of the bird louse Saepocephalum stephenfryii.
He’s a longstanding campaigner on multiple issues, including LGBTQ+ rights, libel laws, press regulation, antisemitism and humanism. His 2006 documentary about the bipolar disorder from which he suffers is considered a landmark programme in public perceptions about manic depression.
If you can think of just one question for Fry, congratulations. Otherwise, post your dozens of posers below by 10am GMT on 22 February. We’ll publish the answers on 1 March.
