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Stephen Fry is knighted for his services to mental health awareness as he leads long list of TV and film stars included in the New Year's Honours list


Stephen Fry has cemented his status as a national treasure after being knighted in the New Year Honours.

He went on to attend Cambridge where he formed a comedy group with Dame Emma Thompson, Tony Slattery and Hugh Laurie at the university's famous Footlights club. Coronation Street star Anne Reid (left), 89, who played Ken Barlow's first wife, Valerie, in the 1960s and 1970s, is made CBE, alongside author Robert Harris, 67 (right) Actor Eddie Marsan, 56, (pictured left) who plays Amy Winehouse's father Mitch in biopic Back to Black, said he is 'shocked, delighted and deeply honoured' to be made OBE

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