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Nicholas Woodeson

Nicholas Woodeson

Acting

November 30, 1949 (76 years old)
England, UK
Male
52 Movies
43 TV Shows

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).

Rome
Rome

Rome

2005 8.2

as Posca

Age 55 (now 76)
22 eps
The Danish Girl
The Danish Girl

The Danish Girl

2015 7.5

as Dr. Buson

Age 65 (now 76)
Disobedience
Disobedience

Disobedience

2018 6.9

as Rabbi Goldfarb

Age 68 (now 76)
The Hustle
The Hustle

The Hustle

2019 6.2

as Albert

Age 69 (now 76)
Skyfall
Skyfall

Skyfall

2012 7.3

as Doctor Hall

Age 62 (now 76)
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

2012 6.9

as William Shawn

Age 62 (now 76)
The Eichmann Show
The Eichmann Show

The Eichmann Show

2015 6.7

as Yaakov Jonilowicz

Age 65 (now 76)
Firebird
Firebird

Firebird

2021 7.3

as Polkovnik Kuznetsov

Age 71 (now 76)
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

2009 6.9

as Michael Warren

Age 59 (now 76)
John Carter
John Carter

John Carter

2012 6.4

as Dalton

Age 62 (now 76)
The Pelican Brief
The Pelican Brief

The Pelican Brief

1993 6.6

as Stump

Age 43 (now 76)
Taboo
Taboo

Taboo

2017 7.9

as Robert Thoyt

Age 67 (now 76)
5 eps
The Man Who Knew Too Little
The Man Who Knew Too Little

The Man Who Knew Too Little

1997 6.4

as Sergei

Age 47 (now 76)
Pope Joan
Pope Joan

Pope Joan

2009 6.8

as Arighis

Age 59 (now 76)
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare

Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare

2025 5.7

as Steven

Age 75 (now 76)
Conspiracy
Conspiracy

Conspiracy

2001 7.3

as Otto Hofmann

Age 51 (now 76)