Perhaps still best known in this country for his portrayal of the unflappable gentleman's gentleman Jeeves in the BBC / PBS Jeeves and Wooster series, Stephen Fry is a writer, actor, and comedian just the shadyside of 40.
If you must know, it was the shady scientific practices and the uncertainty in climate science, as revealed in the East Anglia emails, that finally tipped me over to the sceptics» side.