Nicholas Woodeson (born November 30, 1949) is an English film, television and theatre actor, and Drama Desk and Olivier award nominee.
Nicholas Woodeson (born November 30, 1949) is an English film, television and theatre actor, and Drama Desk and Olivier award nominee.
Woodeson was born in Sudan and lived in the Middle East as a boy. He started performing at prep school in Sussex, and Marlborough College. He read English at the University of Sussex, and became involved in student drama productions, where he met Michael Attenborough, Jim Carter, and Andy de la Tour. He took part in the 1970 National Student Drama Festival. Next was a season in rep at the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe, after deciding not to pursue an academic career. He won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1972–74).
His first work after drama school was a season at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool (1974–75), in a company that included Jonathan Pryce (artistic director), Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite and Bill Nighy. He has worked in regional theatre in the UK and US, at the Hampstead Theatre Club, the Young Vic and the Almeida Theatre in London and at the Manhattan Theatre Club (Off-Broadway). He joined the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1982 and worked with them for seven years. On Broadway his work includes Straker in Man and Superman (1978), Piaf (1981), Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls (1995), and Burleigh in Mary Stuart (2009). In 2011, he played Mr Prince in the National Theatre revival of Odets' Rocket to the Moon. He has appeared in the West End in Funny Peculiar (1976), in Good (1982) (also Broadway), as Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls (2009), as Bonesy in Jumpers (2003) (also Broadway), as Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (2012), and as Harold Wilson in The Audience (2015). He has been in two productions of Pinter's 'The Birthday Party', playing McCann at the National Theatre in 1994, and Goldberg in the Lyric Hammersmith's 50th centenary production in 2008, and two productions of Pinter's The Homecoming, playing Lenny in the 25th Anniversary West End revival in 1991, and Max at the RSC in 2011.
In 2017, following the death of Tim Pigott-Smith, he took over the role of Willy Loman in the Royal & Derngate theatre's tour of Death of a Salesman, for which he was nominated for a UK Theatre Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Woodeson's first film work was a role in Heaven's Gate, released in 1980. By chance, he spent more time on location in Montana than any other actor in the film. He has also appeared in, among others, The Russia House (1990), The Pelican Brief (1993), Shooting Fish (1997), The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) Titanic Town (1998), The Avengers (1998), Mad Cows (1999), Topsy-Turvy (1999), Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999), Amazing Grace (2006), Hannah Arendt (2012), the James Bond film Skyfall (2012), Mr. Turner (2014), The Danish Girl (2015), Race (2016), Disobedience (2017), The Death of Stalin (2017) and The Hustle (2019).
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IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/nm0940245
Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q196080
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Filmography (Movies)
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
Character:Steven
Release Date:13/01/2025
A Paris Proposal
Character:Jacques
Release Date:11/02/2023
Firebird
Character:Polkovnik Kuznetsov
Release Date:29/10/2021
On the Beaches
Character:Albert Einstein
Release Date:19/11/2019
The Hustle
Character:Albert
Release Date:09/05/2019
Disobedience
Character:Rabbi Goldfarb
Release Date:24/04/2018
Beirut
Character:Herzerg
Release Date:11/04/2018
Paddington 2
Character:Insurance Company CEO
Release Date:09/11/2017
The Death of Stalin
Character:Boris Bresnavich, Conductor #2
Release Date:20/10/2017
The Limehouse Golem
Character:Toby Dosett
Release Date:18/10/2016
Race
Character:Fred Rubien
Release Date:19/02/2016
Ramona & The Chair
Character:Priest
Release Date:01/01/2016
The Danish Girl
Character:Dr. Buson
Release Date:27/11/2015
The Eichmann Show
Character:Yaakov Jonilowicz
Release Date:20/01/2015
Mr. Turner
Character:Gentleman Critic
Release Date:31/10/2014
Loving Miss Hatto
Character:Erich
Release Date:23/12/2012
Skyfall
Character:Doctor Hall
Release Date:24/10/2012
Hannah Arendt
Character:William Shawn
Release Date:11/09/2012
John Carter
Character:Dalton
Release Date:07/03/2012
Hysteria
Character:Dr. Richardson
Release Date:06/06/2011
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Character:Michael Warren
Release Date:11/11/2009
Pope Joan
Character:Arighis
Release Date:22/10/2009
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Character:Harman Grisewood
Release Date:27/05/2008
Poppy Shakespeare
Character:Professor
Release Date:31/03/2008
Amazing Grace
Character:Harrison
Release Date:16/09/2006
Christine
Character:Gerald Leyman
Release Date:13/02/2004
One of the Hollywood Ten
Character:Bill
Release Date:07/06/2002
Conspiracy
Character:Otto Hofmann
Release Date:19/05/2001
Topsy-Turvy
Character:Mr. Seymour
Release Date:15/12/1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Character:Mr. Dian
Release Date:29/10/1999
Mad Cows
Character:Detective Slynne
Release Date:29/10/1999
Great Expectations
Character:Wemmick
Release Date:12/04/1999
The Avengers
Character:Dr. Darling
Release Date:13/08/1998
Titanic Town
Character:Jeremy Immonger
Release Date:08/08/1998
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Character:Sergei
Release Date:14/11/1997
Shooting Fish
Character:Mr Collyns
Release Date:22/08/1997
The Woman In White
Character:Asylum Proprietor
Release Date:01/01/1997
Men of the Month
Character:Keith
Release Date:25/05/1994
The Pelican Brief
Character:Stump
Release Date:17/09/1993
Maria's Child
Character:Roland
Release Date:28/03/1993
Hedda Gabler
Character:Jorgen Tesman
Release Date:27/03/1993
The Blackheath Poisonings
Character:Bertie Williams
Release Date:07/12/1992
Bad Girl
Character:Geoff Harris
Release Date:14/07/1992
A Fatal Inversion
Character:Inspector Winder
Release Date:10/05/1992
My Kingdom for a Horse
Character:Robin 'Jacko' Jackman
Release Date:12/03/1991
The Russia House
Character:Niki Landau
Release Date:21/12/1990
Max and Helen
Character:Martin Greenbaum
Release Date:08/01/1990
Piaf
Character:Emil / Jacko
Release Date:10/06/1984
Heaven's Gate
Character:Small man
Release Date:19/11/1980
Television Appearances
Death by Lightning
Character:Loeffler
Beyond Paradise
Character:Father Brian
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Character:Diarmid
Quiz
Character:Nicholas Hilliard QC
Will
Character:Phillip Henslowe
Taboo
Character:Robert Thoyt
Delicious
Character:Allen Billington
The Living and the Dead
Character:Reverend Matthew Denning
Mapp and Lucia
Character:Algernon Wyse
The Escape Artist
Character:George Balfour QC
It's Kevin
Character:Various
Ripper Street
Character:Dr. William Corcoran
Secret State
Character:Lord Justice Holbeck
Friday Night Dinner
Character:Rabbi
Borgen
Character:Alexander Grozin
Red Riding
Character:
Eleventh Hour
Character:
Rome
Character:Posca
Shameless
Character:Isaac
New Tricks
Character:Viktor Proust
Foyle's War
Character:Josef Novak
Helen West
Character:Brian Redwood
Waking the Dead
Character:Reese Dickson, Solicitor
Great Expectations
Character:Wemmick
Silent Witness
Character:Derek Galton
Pie in the Sky
Character:Maurice Plummer
Cracker
Character:Hennessy
Mr. Wroe's Virgins
Character:Brother Moses
Bonjour la Classe
Character:
The Blackheath Poisonings
Character:Bertie Williams
Performance
Character:Jorgen Tesman
The Wolvis Family
Character:
For the Greater Good
Character:Michael Parke-Walsh, MP
The Chief
Character:Milverton
Blackeyes
Character:Stilk
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character:Detective Sergeant Hoskins
Casualty
Character:Jack Clayton
Miami Vice
Character:Artie Cross
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character:Sir Henry Baskerville
A Rumor of War
Character:Cpl. Kazmarak
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