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person_profile-Nicholas Woodeson

Nicholas Woodeson Age: 75

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Nicholas Woodeson

Date of Birth:

Nov 30, 1949

Country of birth:

UK

Biography of

Nicholas Woodeson

    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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Filmography of

Nicholas Woodeson

Found 46 Movies in total

... 2025

A Paris Proposal

Jacques ( Actor )

... 2023

Firebird

Colonel Kuznetsov ( Actor )

... 2021

The Hustle

Albert ( Actor )

... 2019

Disobedience

Rabbi Goldfarb ( Actor )

... 2018

Beirut

Herzerg ( Actor )

... 2018

Paddington 2

Insurance Company CEO ( Actor )

... 2017

The Death of Stalin

Boris Bresnavich, Conductor #2 ( Actor )

... 2017

The Limehouse Golem

Toby Dosett ( Actor )

... 2016

Race

Fred Rubien ( Actor )

... 2016

The Danish Girl

Dr. Buson ( Actor )

... 2015

The Eichmann Show

Yaakov Jonilowicz ( Actor )

... 2015

Mr. Turner

Gentleman Critic ( Actor )

... 2014

Loving Miss Hatto

Erich ( Actor )

... 2012

Skyfall

Doctor Hall ( Actor )

... 2012

Hannah Arendt

William Shawn ( Actor )

... 2012

John Carter

Dalton ( Actor )

... 2012

Hysteria

Dr. Richardson ( Actor )

... 2011

Pope Joan

Arighis ( Actor )

... 2009

... 2009

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

Harman Grisewood ( Actor )

... 2008

Poppy Shakespeare

Professor ( Actor )

... 2008

Amazing Grace

Harrison ( Actor )

... 2006

Christine

Gerald Leyman ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2002

Conspiracy

SS Lt.Gen. Otto Hofmann ( Actor )

... 2001

Topsy-Turvy

Mr. Seymour ( Actor )

... 1999

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Mr. Dian ( Actor )

... 1999

Mad Cows

Detective Slynne ( Actor )

... 1999

Great Expectations

Wemmick ( Actor )

... 1999

The Avengers

Dr. Darling ( Actor )

... 1998

Titanic Town

Jeremy Immonger ( Actor )

... 1998

... 1997

Shooting Fish

Mr Collyns ( Actor )

... 1997

The Woman In White

Asylum Proprietor ( Actor )

... 1997

Men of the Month

Keith ( Actor )

... 1994

The Pelican Brief

Stump ( Actor )

... 1993

Maria's Child

Roland ( Actor )

... 1993

Hedda Gabler

Jorgen Tesman ( Actor )

... 1993

The Blackheath Poisonings

Bertie Williams ( Actor )

... 1992

Bad Girl

Geoff Harris ( Actor )

... 1992

A Fatal Inversion

Inspector Winder ( Actor )

... 1992

The Russia House

Niki Landau ( Actor )

... 1990

Max and Helen

Martin Greenbaum ( Actor )

... 1990

Piaf

Emil / Jacko ( Actor )

... 1984

Heaven's Gate

Small man ( Actor )

... 1980