Gregory House

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Gregory House, M.D.

House character

First

appearance

"Pilot"

Create d by David Shore

Portrayed by Hugh Laurie

Information

Occupation Head of Diagnostic Medicine

Department

Family John House (legal father;

deceased)

Blythe House (mother)

Significant

other(s)

Stacy Warner (prior to

series)

Dr. Lisa Cuddy (6.22-7.15)

Gregory HouseFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gregory House, M.D., is a fictional antihero[1] and title

character of the American medical dramaHouse. Portrayed

by Hugh Laurie, the character is a medical genius; a

diagnostician with specializat ions in infectious diseases and

nephrology. He works as the Chief of Diagnostic Medicine at

the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, where

he heads a team of diagnosticians. House's character has been

described as a "misanthrope", a "cynic", a narcissist and a

"curmudgeon".

In the series, the character's unorthodox diagnostic

app roaches, radical therapeutic motives, and stalwart

rationality have resulted in much conflict between him and his

colleagues.[2] House is also often portrayed as lacking

sympathy for his patients, a practice that allots him the timeto solve pathological enigmas. The character is partly inspired

by Sherlock Holmes.[3][4] A portion of the show's plot

centers on House's habitual use of Vicodin to manage pain

stemming from a leg infarction involving his quadriceps

muscle some years earlier, an injury that forces him to walk

with a cane. This addiction is also one of the many parallels

to Sherlock Holmes, who was a habitual user of cocaine.[5]

Throughout the series' run, the character has received positive

reviews.[6][7] Tom Shales ofThe Washington Postcalled

House "the most electrifying character to hit television in

years".[8] In 2008, Gregory House was voted second sexiest

TV doctor ever, behind Dr. Doug Ross (George Clooney)

fromER.[9] For his portrayal of Gregory House, Hugh Laurie

has won various awards, including two Golden Globe Awards

for Best Actor in a Television Drama Series and a Screen

Actors Guild Award for Best Actor from Drama Series.[10]

Laurie also earned Primetime Emmy Award nominations in

2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.[11][12][13] TV Overmind

has named Gregory House the best TV character of the last decade.[14] In making a list of the 100 greatest

television characters, TV Guide selected Gregory House as the greatest of all time.[citation needed]

Contents

1 Character history

1.1 Medical school

1.2 Leg injury


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House studied both as an

undergraduate and a medical

student at Johns Hopkins

University.

2 Personality

2.1 Social behavior

3 Development

3.1 Conception

3.2 Casting

3.3 Parallels to Sherlock Holmes

4 Bibliography

5 References

6 External links

Character history

Gregory House was born to John and Blythe House (R. Lee Ermey and Diane Baker) on 15 May 1959.[15]

House is a "military brat"; his father served as a Marine Corps pilot and transferred often to other bases during

House's childhood.[16]

One place in which his father was stationed was Egypt, where House developed afascination with archaeology and treasure-hunting, an interest which led him to keep his treasure-hunting tools

well into his adulthood.[17] Another station was Japan, where, at age 14, House discovered his vocation after

witnessing the respect given to a buraku doctor who solved a case no other doctor could.[18] House loves his

mother but hates his father, who he claims has an "insane moral compass", and deliberately attempts to avoid

both p arents.[16] At one point, House tells a story of his parents leaving him with his grandmother, whose

punishments constituted abuse.[19] However, he later confesses that it was his father who abused him.[19] Due

to his father abusing him, House never believed that John House was his biological father; at the age of 12, he

deduced that a friend of his family with the same birthmark was his real father.[15] In the season 5 episode

"Birthmarks", House discovers that this was true, after he ordered a DNA test that compared his DNA against

John's.[15]

Medical school

House first attended Johns Hopkins University as an undergraduate. He

was accepted to the Johns Hopkins Medical School, and did very well

during his time there. He was a front runner for a prestigious and

competitive internship at the Mayo Clinic;[20] however, during this time

in medical school, he was caught cheating by another student, Philip

Weber.[20] After an appeal process, he was denied re-entry into the

Johns Hopkins Medical School. He then finished his last y ear of medicalschool at the University of Michigan, where, while working at a

bookstore, he met his future employer and love interest Lisa Cuddy

(Lisa Edelstein),[21] with whom he shared (in his words) a night where

"he gave her everything she asked for".[22] During a medical convention

in New Orleans that he attended short ly after graduating medical school,

House first saw his eventual friend Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean

Leonard) among a "sea of boring people" clutching a package. House

deduced that it contained divorce papers. While at a bar, Wilson accidentally broke an antique mirror and started

a bar fight with a man who repeatedly played "Leave A Tender Moment Alone" by Billy Joel to the frustration


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"Dr. House is a fascinat ing and daringly

cantankerous enigma, the proverbial bitter

pill who also happens to be a highly int uitive

medical genius. He despises int eract ing with

pat ient s and prefers dealing with diseases --

with medical mysteries that leave other

doctors scratching their heads in

befuddlement ."

of Wilson who indeed was going through his first divorce at the time. [15] House bailed him out and hired an

attorney to clear his name, thus starting their professional and personal relationship.[15]

Leg injury

Approximately ten years before the beginning of the series, House entered into a relationship with Stacy Warner

(Sela Ward), a constitut ional lawyer, after she shot him during a "Lawyers vs. Doctors" paintball match.[18] Five

years later, during a game of golf, he suffered an infarction in his right leg which went misdiagnosed for threedays due to doctors' concerns that he was exhibiting drug-seeking behavior. House would eventually diagnose

the infarction himself.[23] An aneurysm in his thigh had clotted leading to an infarction and causing his

quadriceps muscle to become necrotic.[23] House had the dead muscle bypassed in order to restore circulation to

the remainder of his leg, risking organ failure and cardiac arrest. [23] He was willing to endure excruciating

post-operative pain to retain the use of his leg.[23] However, after he was p ut into a chemically induced coma to

sleep through the worst of the pain, Warner, House's medical proxy, acted against his wishes and authorized a

safer surgical middle-ground procedure between amputation and a bypass by removing just the dead muscle.[23]

This resulted in the partial loss of use in his leg and left House with a lesser, but still serious, level of pain for

the rest of his life.[23] House could not forgive Stacy for making the decision and this was eventually the reason

Stacy left him.[23] House now suffers chronic pain in his thigh and uses a cane to aid his walking. He also

frequently takes Vicodin to relieve his p ain.[24] House does however break his addiction with psychiatric help,

after he suffers a psychotic break. When Warner makes her first app earance in season 1, she is married to a high

school guidance counselor named Mark Warner.[25] Although she and House have a brief, intimate encounter

during the second season, House eventually tells Warner to go back to her husband, devastating her.

At the beginning of season three, House temporarily regains his ability to walk and run after receiving ketamine

treatment.[26] However, the chronic pain in his leg comes back and House takes painkillers and uses his cane

once again.[27] The other doctors speculate that his cane and opiate re-usage are due to his psychological

tendencies.[27] During season five, House once again regains his ability to walk without pain after taking

methadone, but soon stops after nearly killing a patient due to an uncharacteristic medical error. At the start of

season six, after spending time in the Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital, House stops taking pain medications and

finds other ways to deal with his p ain, including cooking. Thirteen and Wilson discover that House is a great

cook, attributing this to House thinking of ingredients in terms of chemistry. House eventually finds the one

thing that seems to help the p ain go away: practicing medicine. After he diagnoses a p atient online for his team

(without their knowledge) and he shows Doctor Nolan how this reduces his pain, Nolan suggests that House

resume his medical career.[28] In season 7 when Cuddy gets sick, House goes back on Vicodin. When Cuddy

finds out about this she ultimately breaks up with him.[citation needed]

PersonalityHouse's character frequently shows his cunning and biting

wit, enjoys picking people apart, and often mocks their

weaknesses.[29] House accurately deciphers people's

motives and histories from aspects of their personality and

appearance.[30] His friend and colleague Wilson says

although some doctors have the "Messiah complex"they

need to "save the world", House has the "Rubik's

complex"he needs to "solve the puzzle".[31] House


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Tom Shales describing the charact er.[8]

"[House] enjoys pursuing the t ruth, and he

knows we all see the world through our own

lenses. He's constantly trying to strip

typically waits as long as possible before meeting his

patients.[29] When he does, he shows an unorthodox bedside

manner and uses unconventional treatments.[32] However, he impresses them with rapid and accurate diagnoses

after seemingly not paying attention.[27] This skill is demonstrated in a scene where House diagnoses an entire

waiting room full of patients in little over one minute on his way out of the hospital clinic.[33] Critics have

described the character as "moody", "bitter", "antagonistic",[34] "misanthropic",[31] "cynical"[35] "grumpy",

"maverick"[36] and a "curmudgeon".[37] The Global Language Monitor chose the word "curmudgeon" as the best

way to describe the character.[38]

Laurie describes House as a character who refuses to "obey the usual pieties of modern life" and expects to find

a rare diagnosis when he is t reating his patient.[39][40] As a p rotagonist, many aspects of his personality are the

antithesis of what might be expected from a doctor.[29] Executive producer Katie Jacobs views House as a stat ic

character who is accustomed to living in misery.[41] Jacobs has said that Dr. Wilson, his only friend in the show,

and House both avoid mature relationships, which brings the two closer together.[42] Leonard has said that Dr.

Wilson is one of the few who voluntarily maintains a relationship with House, because he is free to criticize

him.[42]

Although House's crankiness is commonly misattributed to the chronic pain in his leg, both Stacy and Cuddy

have said that he was the same before the infarction.[25][43] To handle the chronic pain in his leg, House takes

Vicodin every day, and as a result has developed an addiction to the drug.[44] He refuses to admit that he has an

addiction ("I do not have a pain management problem, I have a pain problem").[45] However, after winning a bet

from Cuddy by not taking the drug for a week, he concedes that he has an addiction, but says that it is not a

problem because it does not interfere with his work or life.[46] In the 2009 season House goes through detox and

his addiction goes into remission, so to say.[47] However, it does seem that House may have gotten over his

addiction in the season 6 p remiere.[48]House creator David Shore told the Seattle Times in 2006 that Vicodin is

"becoming less and less useful a tool for dealing with his pain, and it's something [the writers] are going to

continue to deal with, continue to explore".[49]

House openly talks about, and makes references to,pornography.[50] In "Lines in the Sand", he returns the flirtations of a female underage patient.[51] He regularly

engages the services of prostitutes,[20][52] of which his former female diagnostic team member Dr. Allison

Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), who has a crush on him, is aware.[53]

A polyglot, House speaks English, Spanish,Russian[citation needed] , Latin, Portuguese[citation needed] ,

Hindi[citation needed] , Japanese[citation needed] and Mandarin. He is an atheist. He plays the piano (as does Hugh

Laurie) and has an interest in vintage electric guitars. He openly and relentlessly mocks colleagues and p atients

who express any belief in religion. He does not believe in an afterlife because he finds it is better to believe that

life "isn't just a test".[23] However, in the season four episode "97 Seconds", he expresses sufficient interest in

the possibility of an afterlife to nearly electrocute himself in an effort to find out; however, he is dissatisfiedwith the results.[54] This is also an example of House's tendency to self-experiment and submit to risky medical

procedures in the name of truth. Over the course of the series, he disproves the effectiveness of a migraine cure

by self-inducing a migraine and controlling the effects through drugs, undergoes a blood transfusion to assist

with a diagnosis, and overdoses on physost igmine to improve his memory after sustaining head injuries,

subsequently causing his heart to stop beating, then undergoes deep brain stimulation soon after.[20][55][56][57]

House frequently says "Everybody lies", but jokingly

remarked that he was lying when he said that in the first

season finale.[39] House criticizes social etiquette for lack of


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himself of t hose biases, t o get a clean,

objective view of things."

Shore to Variety.[58]

rational purpose and usefulness.[51] Dr. Cameron states in

the first episode of the first season "House doesn't believe in

pretense ... so he just says what he thinks".[59] In the season

three episode "Lines in the Sand", he explains how he envies

an autistic patient because society allows the patient to forgo the niceties that he must suffer through. [51] In the

same episode, Dr. Wilson suggests that House might have Asperger syndrome, which is characterized by a

number of traits found in House, such as difficulty accepting the purpose of social rules, lack of concern for his

physical app earance, and resistance to change; though he later reveals to House that he does not truly believethis, and that claiming this was a part of a ploy to soften Cuddy's opinion of House.[51] House is a strong

nonconformist and has litt le regard for how others perceive him.[40] Throughout the series, he displays sardonic

contempt for authority figures.[60] House shows an almost constant disregard for his own appearance,

possessing a permanent stubble and dressing informally in jeans, T-shirts, and sneakers.[61] He avoids wearing

the standard white lab coat to avoid patients recognizing him as a doctor.[24][60]

Social behavior

House does not have much of a social life, and his only real friend is Dr. James Wilson.[31][40] Wilson knew

House before the infarction and looked after him when House's relationship with Stacy ended.[43] Dr. Wilson's

moving into House's apartment after his failed marriage in "Sex Kills" symbolizes his taking emotional refuge in

his friend.[62] Although they frequently analyze and criticize each other's motives, Wilson has risked his career

to p rotect House, including having his job terminated in the first season as an effort of Edward Vogler to dismiss

House, and having his practice damaged by Detective M ichael Tritter in an investigation of House's narcotics

consumption.[50][63] House has quietly admitt ed, at several instances, that he is grateful for Wilson's presence,

including referring to Wilson as his best friend. When Wilson resigns and moves away from both New Jersey

and House's friendship in the season 5 premiere, House is desperate to have his friend back, and hires a private

investigator (Michael Weston) to spy on him.[64] The two ultimately reconcile at House's father's funeral in a

scene similar to their first meeting where Wilson again breaks something valuable with a glass in a moment of

anger, this time directed at House.[15]

Edelstein has said that despite his sardonic personality, House is a character who is reliant on people

surrounding him.[39] Edelstein says this characteristic is portrayed on several occasions in the third season,

during which House's medical career is in jeopardy due to investigations by Det. Michael Tritter (David Morse),

who arrests him for possessing narcotics.[65] House's legal trouble ends when Edelstein's character, Lisa Cuddy,

commits perjury during his hearing.[47] In Season 5, a relationship with Cuddy begins to blossom, as they are

unable to deny feelings between each other.[66] They share a kiss in episode six "Joy" which sparked an ongoing

romantic tension between them.[66] When Cuddy's office is destroyed by a gunman and is being renovated, she

moves into House's office in what Wilson believes to be an attempt to get closer to House. The two try to drive

each other away, doing things to each other's office to make them worse, but in an uncharacteristically nice

move, House has Cuddy's mother send her medical school desk for her new office as a surprise. Cuddy is

touched by what he did, but is devastated when she spots him with a prostitute he hired, not knowing he had

done so only to mess with Kutner and Taub. In the season finale "Both Sides Now" it is confirmed that House

wishes to pursue a romantic relationship with Cuddy. In this same episode he believes he has slept with Cuddy

and informs Dr. James Wilson the following morning. This however is revealed to be a p sychosis, which is a side

effect of his Vicodin abuse. The House-Cuddy story culminates in the season 6 finale, "Help Me", when Cuddy

cancels her engagement to Lucas to face the inevitable realization of her loving House all along;[67] they share a

passionate kiss, thus hinting on mutual willingness to try and develop a real relationship.[68]


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"T he t itle diagnost ician of the show would

be as smart a physician as Dr. Kildare and as

sharp a sleuth as Gil Grissom ofCSI, it was

important to us that he be damaged, both

emot ionally and physically."

Shore on House's creat ion.[70]

House can also been seen acting as mooch at times, frequently stealing food from Wilson. In You Don't Want to

Know, while House is searching for the cause of Thirteen's twitching, he claims to have stolen money from her

wallet.[69] In the same episode, Wilson later observes that House's blood type is AB, the universal receiver,

reflecting his desire to take whatever he can.

Development

Conception

While the show was originally set to be a medical

procedural, the idea changed when the writers started to

explore the possibilities of a curmudgeonly t itle

character.[58] Shore traced the concept for the t itle character

to his background as a patient at a teaching hospital.[71]

Shore recalled that "I knew, as soon as I left the room, they

would be mocking me relentlessly [for my cluelessness...]

and I thought that it would be interesting to see a character who actually did that before they left the room". [72]

Shore also based the character partly on himself: in a 2006 interview withMacleans he explained that, while he

does not have "cynical and cold attitude lurking within" him, he almost agrees with House's p oint of view.[70] A

central part of the show's p remise was that the main character would be disabled in some way.[73] The initial

idea was for House to use a wheelchair, inspired by the 1960s police dramaIronside, but Fox turned down this

interpretation (for which the crew was later grateful).[58][73] The wheelchair became a scar on House's leg, which

later turned into a bad leg necessitating the use of a cane. [73] House usually holds his cane on the same side as his

injured leg; Shore explained: "Some people feel more comfortable with the cane in the dominant arm, and that is

acceptable".[74] The cane tricks that are seen throughout the series are created by Laurie himself.[42]

Cathy Crandall, costume designer for the show, created a look for the character that made it seem like he did not

care about his clothing.[75] She designed House with a wrinkled t-shirt, a blazer that is one size too short, faded

and worn-in jeans and heather-gray rag socks.[75] It was Laurie's idea to have the character wear sneakers,

because he thought "a man with a cane needs functional shoes"; the Fox studios' wardrobe department keeps 37

pairs of Nike Shox on hand.[75] House has worn t -shirts designed by famous designers such as Barking Irons and

Lincoln Mayne,[75] but also by less known designers such as Andrew Buckler[76] and Taavo.[77] The shirts are

usually kept tied in a ball overnight to get them to wrinkle.[75]

Casting

When casting for the part started, Shore was afraid that in "the wrong hands", House would "just be hateful".

[70]

The casting directors were looking for someone who could, as Shore described, "do these horrible things and be

somehow likable without just, you know, petting a kitten".[78] When Laurie was asked to audition for the role of

House, he was filmingFlight of the Phoenix in Namibia.[79] Laurie had no big expectations for the show, thinking

that it would only "run for a few weeks".[61][80] He planned to audition for the roles of both James Wilson and

Gregory House.[78] However, when he read that Wilson was a character with a "handsome open face", he

decided to audition solely for the role of House.[78] Laurie chose not to change his clothing, but to remain in the

costume he wore for the film; he also decided not to shave his beard.[61] He put together an audition tape of his

own in a Namibian hotel bathroom, the only place with enough light,[81] while hisFlight of the Phoenix co-stars


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House and Wilson's relat ionship

mirrors Holmes and Watson's

(pictured) relationship.

Jacob Vargas and Scott Michael Campbell held the camera.[61] He improvised by using an umbrella for a cane.[82]

Laurie initially believed that James Wilson would be the protagonist of the show after reading the brief

description of the character and did not find out that House was the main character until he read the full script o

the pilot episode.[83][84]

After he had watched casting tapes for the p ilot episode, Bryan Singer grew frustrated and refused to consider

any more British actors because of their flawed American accents.[40] Although Singer compared Laurie's

audition tape to an "Osama bin Laden video",[85]

he was impressed with Laurie's acting and, not knowing whohe was, Singer was fooled by his American accent.[81] He commented on how well the "American actor" was

able to grasp the character, not realising Laurie is English.[72] Although Laurie's appearance was very different

from the way Shore pictured House, when he watched the audition tape, he was equally impressed as Singer.[70]

More famous actors such as Denis Leary, Rob Morrow and Patrick Dempsey were also considered, but Singer,

Shore, and executive producers Paul Attanasio and Katie Jacobs all thought Laurie was the best option and

decided to cast him for the part.[86] Laurie was the final actor to join the cast ofHouse.[87] After he was chosen

for the part, Laurie, whose father Ran Laurie was a doctor himself, said he felt guilty for "being paid more to

become a fake version of my own father".[81] Adopting an American accent for his role has been difficult for

Laurie, who said words such as "coronary artery" are particularly tricky to pronounce. [52]

Parallels to Sherlock Holmes

Similarities between House and the famous fictional detective Sherlock

Holmes appear throughout the series;[88] Shore explained that he was

always a Sherlock Holmes fan, and found the character's traits of

indifference to his clients unique.[72] The resemblance is evident in

various elements of the series' plot, such as House's reliance on

psychology to solve a case, his reluctance to accept cases he does not

find interesting and House's home address (221B Baker Street, same as

Holmes).[39][89] Other similarities between the two characters are druguse (House battled a Vicodin addiction for years and Holmes was a

recreational user of cocaine), successful detoxification, playing an

instrument (Holmes plays the violin and House plays the guitar, piano,

organ and harmonica) and a talent for accurately deducing people's

motives and histories from aspects of their personality and

appearance.[90]

Shore has also explained that the name "House" is a play on the name

Holmes (i.e., homes).[91] Both Holmes and House each have one true

friend, Dr. John Watson is Holmes' and Dr. James Wilson is House's.[4]

Leonard has said that House and his character were originally intended to play the roles of Holmes and Watson

in the series although he believes that House's team has assumed the Watson role.[92] Shore has also said that Dr.

House draws inspiration from Dr. Marc Chamberlain, a professor of neurology at the University of Washington,

Seattle, and Dr. Joseph Bell (who was a teacher of Arthur Conan Doyle's and thus a chief source of inspiration

for the creation of Holmes), who could "walk into a waiting room and diagnose people without speaking to

them".[4] In the season two finale "No Reason", House is shot by a man named Jack Moriarty, a name that

coincides with Sherlock Holmes' adversary, Professor James Moriarty ;[90][93] likewise, in the fifth season,

Wilson uses Irene Adler as the name for an imaginary love interest of House,[94] the same name as the only


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female adversary Holmes ever encountered.[90] In episode 89, House is talking to Lucas and he says, "There is

only one truth", which was a famous Sherlock Holmes quote.

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