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