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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Full Filmography
All Credits (96)
Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble
as Steven
Untitled Tinkerbell Movie
as Steven
National Theatre Live: Golden Boy
as Mr. Carp / Barker
Falling
as Father Victor
Death by Lightning
as Loeffler
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
as Steven
The Agency
as Ancient Gem Dealer
Beyond Paradise
as Father Brian
A Paris Proposal
as Jacques
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Diarmid
Firebird
as Polkovnik Kuznetsov
Quiz
as Nicholas Hilliard QC
On the Beaches
as Albert Einstein
The Hustle
as Albert
Disobedience
as Rabbi Goldfarb
Beirut
as Herzerg
Paddington 2
as Insurance Company CEO
The Death of Stalin
as Boris Bresnavich, Conductor #2
Will
as Phillip Henslowe
Taboo
as Robert Thoyt
Delicious
as Allen Billington
The Limehouse Golem
as Toby Dosett
The Living and the Dead
as Reverend Matthew Denning
Race
as Fred Rubien
Ramona & The Chair
as Priest
The Danish Girl
as Dr. Buson
The Eichmann Show
as Yaakov Jonilowicz
Mapp and Lucia
as Algernon Wyse
Mr. Turner
as Gentleman Critic
The Escape Artist
as George Balfour QC
It's Kevin
as Various
Ripper Street
as Dr. William Corcoran
Loving Miss Hatto
as Erich
Secret State
as Lord Justice Holbeck
Skyfall
as Doctor Hall
Hannah Arendt
as William Shawn
John Carter
as Dalton
Hysteria
as Dr. Richardson
Friday Night Dinner
as Rabbi
Silk
as Professor Stephen Nyman
Borgen
as Alexander Grozin
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Michael Warren
Pope Joan
as Arighis
Red Riding
as Unknown
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
as Harman Grisewood
Poppy Shakespeare
as Professor
Amazing Grace
as Harrison
Eleventh Hour
as Unknown
Rome
as Posca
Christine
as Gerald Leyman
Shameless
as Isaac
New Tricks
as Viktor Proust
Foyle's War
as Josef Novak
One of the Hollywood Ten
as Bill
Helen West
as Brian Redwood
Waking the Dead
as Reese Dickson, Solicitor
Conspiracy
as Otto Hofmann
Topsy-Turvy
as Mr. Seymour
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Mr. Dian
Mad Cows
as Detective Slynne
Great Expectations
as Wemmick
Great Expectations
as Wemmick
Titanic Town
as Jeremy Immonger
The Woman In White
as Asylum Proprietor
The Woman In White
as Asylum Proprietor
The Man Who Knew Too Little
as Sergei
Shooting Fish
as Mr Collyns
Silent Witness
as Derek Galton
Men of the Month
as Keith
Pie in the Sky
as Maurice Plummer
Cracker
as Hennessy
The Pelican Brief
as Stump
Maria's Child
as Roland
Hedda Gabler
as Jorgen Tesman
Mr. Wroe's Virgins
as Brother Moses
Bonjour la Classe
as Unknown
The Blackheath Poisonings
as Bertie Williams
The Blackheath Poisonings
as Bertie Williams
A Touch of Frost
as Anton Caldwell
Bad Girl
as Geoff Harris
A Fatal Inversion
as Inspector Winder
Performance
as Jorgen Tesman
For the Greater Good
as Michael Parke-Walsh MP
My Kingdom for a Horse
as Robin 'Jacko' Jackman
The Russia House
as Niki Landau
The Chief
as Milverton
Max and Helen
as Martin Greenbaum
Blackeyes
as Stilk
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Detective Sergeant Hoskins
Casualty
as Jack Clayton
ScreenPlay
as Geoff Harris
Miami Vice
as Artie Cross
Piaf
as Emil / Jacko
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Sir Henry Baskerville
Heaven's Gate
as Small man
A Rumor of War
as Cpl. Kazmarak