Laurie married Jo Green, a theatre administrator, in June 1989. They live in north London with their daughter, Rebecca, and two sons, Bill and Charlie. Charlie had a cameo in A Bit of Fry and Laurie in the last sketch of the third episode of the first series entitled Special Squad, as baby William (whom Stephen and Hugh begin to "interrogate" about "what he's done with the stuff", calling him a scumbag and telling him that he's been a very naughty boy) during his infancy, while Rebecca had a role in the film Wit as five-year-old Vivian Bearing. Laurie is close friends with actress Emma Thompson and his House co-star Robert Sean Leonard. The group is tight-knit professionally as well; as mentioned, Laurie acted in Thompson's film script of Sense and Sensibility, and Leonard has appeared with Thompson in a film of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Thompson's then-husband, Kenneth Branagh. Laurie also acted with Thompson and Branagh in the film Peter's Friends, in which Stephen Fry pl