Hugh Laurie to Lead Apple TV+ Thriller 'The Wanted Man'

Despite the presumably thousands of viewers who assume Hugh Laurie is from the U.S., thanks to his many years starring in the FOX medical drama House with an American accent, he's actually a very British actor, with the awards hardware to prove it. (He was given an OBE in 2007 and promoted to a CBE in 2018.)

Since House concluded in 2012, he's starred in diverse projects, including the political thriller Roadkill, spy drama The Night Manager, Agatha Christie mystery Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, and World War II drama All the Light We Can Not See. His latest role was in the Apple TV+ spy drama Tehran, which may help explain the origins of his latest project, in which he will lead the streamer's forthcoming eight-episode thriller The Wanted Man.

Laurie will play Felix Carmichael, the head of a powerful London crime syndicate, The Capital. When he is finally captured and imprisoned, he learns that his arrest resulted from a betrayal by someone close to him seeking to take over his empire. To save everything he has built (and exact revenge on the person who betrayed him), Felix must attempt a daring escape — and become a wanted man once again in the process. Playing an intelligent criminal anti-hero seems right in Laurie's wheelhouse as an actor. Here's hoping his character's on-the-run status means that an array of disguises, cool outfits, and/or fake accents are in his future. And, of course, presumably this means he'll get to use his real accent.