Nicholas Woodeson
Acting
Born: November 30, 1949 (age 76) · England, UK
Highest Rated
Biography
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).
Known for
Skyfall
2012
John Carter
2012
The Danish Girl
2015
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022
Paddington 2
2017
The Hustle
2019
The Death of Stalin
2017
The Pelican Brief
1993
Race
2016
Rome
2005
Taboo
2017
Disobedience
2018
Photos (2)
Movies (50)
Skyfall
Doctor Hall
John Carter
Dalton
Savage House
Mr. Brimsby, Jeweller
Paddington 2
Insurance Company CEO
The Hustle
Albert
The Death of Stalin
Boris Bresnavich, Conductor #2
The Pelican Brief
Stump
The Danish Girl
Dr. Buson
The Avengers
Dr. Darling
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Sergei
Firebird
Polkovnik Kuznetsov
Disobedience
Rabbi Goldfarb
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
Steven
The Russia House
Niki Landau
Race
Fred Rubien
Heaven's Gate
Small man
The Limehouse Golem
Toby Dosett
Beirut
Herzerg
Conspiracy
Otto Hofmann
Pope Joan
Arighis
Mr. Turner
Gentleman Critic
Hysteria
Dr. Richardson
Topsy-Turvy
Mr. Seymour
Amazing Grace
Harrison
Hannah Arendt
William Shawn
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Michael Warren
My Kingdom for a Horse
Robin 'Jacko' Jackman
Shooting Fish
Mr Collyns
The Eichmann Show
Yaakov Jonilowicz
On the Beaches
Albert Einstein
Mad Cows
Detective Slynne
Piaf
Emil / Jacko
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Mr. Dian
Bad Girl
Geoff Harris
The Woman In White
Asylum Proprietor
Great Expectations
Wemmick
Max and Helen
Martin Greenbaum
One of the Hollywood Ten
Bill
A Paris Proposal
Jacques
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Harman Grisewood
Loving Miss Hatto
Erich
Poppy Shakespeare
Professor
Maria's Child
Roland
Titanic Town
Jeremy Immonger
Men of the Month
Keith
Hedda Gabler
Jorgen Tesman
A Fatal Inversion
Inspector Winder
The Blackheath Poisonings
Bertie Williams
Christine
Gerald Leyman
Ramona & The Chair
Priest
TV Shows (45)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Diarmid · 1 eps
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Detective Sergeant Hoskins · 1 eps
Miami Vice
Artie Cross · 1 eps
Casualty
Jack Clayton · 1 eps
Silent Witness
Derek Galton · 1 eps
The Agency
Ancient Gem Dealer · 1 eps
Shameless
Isaac · 1 eps
New Tricks
Viktor Proust · 1 eps
Foyle's War
Josef Novak · 1 eps
A Touch of Frost
Anton Caldwell · 1 eps
Waking the Dead
Reese Dickson, Solicitor · 2 eps
Rome
Posca · 22 eps
Ripper Street
Dr. William Corcoran · 1 eps
Silk
Professor Stephen Nyman · 1 eps
Performance
Jorgen Tesman · 1 eps
Taboo
Robert Thoyt · 5 eps
Cracker
Hennessy · 1 eps
Pie in the Sky
Maurice Plummer · 1 eps
Beyond Paradise
Father Brian · 1 eps
ScreenPlay
Geoff Harris · 1 eps
Falling
Father Victor · 1 eps
Borgen
Alexander Grozin · 1 eps
The Chief
Milverton · 1 eps
Death by Lightning
Loeffler · 2 eps
Will
Phillip Henslowe · 3 eps
Secret State
Lord Justice Holbeck · 4 eps
Friday Night Dinner
Rabbi · 1 eps
The Escape Artist
George Balfour QC · 3 eps
Delicious
Allen Billington · 1 eps
The Living and the Dead
Reverend Matthew Denning · 6 eps
Great Expectations
Wemmick · 2 eps
Quiz
Nicholas Hilliard QC · 2 eps
Red Riding
1 eps
For the Greater Good
Michael Parke-Walsh MP · 3 eps
A Rumor of War
Cpl. Kazmarak · 2 eps
Helen West
Brian Redwood · 3 eps
Mr. Wroe's Virgins
Brother Moses · 4 eps
Eleventh Hour
1 eps
It's Kevin
Various · 1 eps
Mapp and Lucia
Algernon Wyse · 3 eps
Blackeyes
Stilk · 1 eps
The Woman In White
Asylum Proprietor · 2 eps
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Henry Baskerville · 4 eps
The Blackheath Poisonings
Bertie Williams · 3 eps
Bonjour la Classe
6 eps
