{"id":19567,"date":"2025-11-22T00:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=19567"},"modified":"2025-11-22T00:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:32:26","slug":"at-64-years-old-the-legendary-actor-is-unrecognizable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=19567","title":{"rendered":"At 64 years old, the legendary actor is unrecognizable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hugh Laurie, once one of TV\u2019s highest-paid stars at $700,000 per episode on <em>House<\/em>, admits he still feels guilty about his success. Even after global fame as Dr. Gregory House, he says he sometimes feels like a \u201cfraud\u201d for playing a doctor instead of becoming one \u2014 the career his late father, a respected physician and Olympic gold medalist, had hoped he\u2019d pursue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laurie originally planned to follow his father into medicine while rowing at Cambridge, but his life changed when he joined the Footlights comedy troupe, meeting Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry. Acting soon replaced medicine, leading to decades of British comedy classics and eventually the role that made him a worldwide sensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite House\u2019s fame and two Golden Globes, Laurie struggled emotionally during the show, admitting he sometimes wished for a minor accident just to get a day off. After the series ended, he returned to playing a doctor again in <em>Chance<\/em>, though the guilt about abandoning medicine never fully disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now 64, Laurie remains one of Britain\u2019s most accomplished actors, but he still feels he \u201ctook shortcuts\u201d his father wouldn\u2019t have approved of. His confession raises an emotional question: can someone honor their parents\u2019 legacy even when they choose a different path?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Laurie, once one of TV\u2019s highest-paid stars at $700,000 per episode on House, admits he still feels guilty about his success. Even after global fame as&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":381,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19569,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19567\/revisions\/19569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}