Nicholas Woodeson

Nicholas Woodeson

Birthdate
November 30, 1949 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
England, UK
Known For
Acting

Details

Birthdate
November 30, 1949 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
England, UK
Known For
Acting

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).

Nicholas Woodeson's LGBTQ+ Titles

Disobedience
Disobedience
Rabbi Goldfarb
The Danish Girl
The Danish Girl
Dr. Buson
Firebird
Firebird
Colonel Kuznetsov

Acting (81)

Savage House as Mr. Brimsby
2025
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare as Steven
2023
Beyond Paradise as Father Brian (1 episode)
2023
A Paris Proposal as Jacques
2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as Diarmid (1 episode)
2021
Firebird as Colonel Kuznetsov
2020
Quiz as Nicholas Hilliard QC (2 episodes)
2019
On the Beaches as Albert Einstein
2019
The Hustle as Albert
2018
Disobedience as Rabbi Goldfarb
2018
Beirut as Herzerg
2017
Paddington 2 as Insurance Company CEO
2017
The Death of Stalin as Boris Bresnavich, Conductor #2
2017
Taboo as Robert Thoyt (5 episodes)
2016
Delicious as Allen Billington (1 episode)
2016
The Limehouse Golem as Toby Dosett
2016
The Living and the Dead as Reverend Matthew Denning (6 episodes)
2016
Race as Fred Rubien
2016
Ramona & The Chair as Priest
2015
The Danish Girl as Dr. Buson
2015
The Eichmann Show as Yaakov Jonilowicz
2014
Mapp and Lucia as Algernon Wyse (3 episodes)
2014
Mr. Turner as Gentleman Critic
2013
The Escape Artist as George Balfour QC (3 episodes)
2012
Ripper Street as Dr. William Corcoran (1 episode)
2012
Loving Miss Hatto as Erich
2012
Secret State as Lord Justice Holbeck (4 episodes)
2012
Skyfall as Doctor Hall
2012
Hannah Arendt as William Shawn
2012
John Carter as Dalton
2011
Hysteria as Dr. Richardson
2010
Borgen as Alexander Grozin (1 episode)
2009
Pope Joan as Arighis
2009
Red Riding (1 episode)
2009
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 as Michael Warren
2008
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story as Harman Grisewood
2008
Poppy Shakespeare as Professor
2006
Amazing Grace as Harrison
2006
Eleventh Hour (1 episode)
2005
Rome as Posca (22 episodes)
2004
Christine as Gerald Leyman
2004
New Tricks as Viktor Proust (1 episode)
2002
One of the Hollywood Ten as Bill
2002
Helen West as Brian Redwood (3 episodes)
2001
Waking the Dead as Reese Dickson, Solicitor (2 episodes)
2001
Conspiracy as Hofmann
1999
Topsy-Turvy as Mr. Seymour
1999
Mad Cows as Detective Slynne
1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Mr. Dian
1999
Great Expectations as Wemmick
1998
The Avengers as Dr. Darling
1998
Titanic Town as Jeremy Immonger
1997
The Man Who Knew Too Little as Sergei
1997
Shooting Fish as Mr Collyns
1997
The Woman In White as Asylum Proprietor
1996
Silent Witness as Derek Galton (1 episode)
1994
Men of the Month as Keith
1994
Pie in the Sky as Maurice Plummer (1 episode)
1993
Cracker as Hennessy (1 episode)
1993
The Pelican Brief as Stump
1993
Maria's Child as Roland
1993
Hedda Gabler as Jorgen Tesman
1993
Mr. Wroe's Virgins as Brother Moses (4 episodes)
1993
Bonjour la Classe (6 episodes)
1993
The Blackheath Poisonings as Bertie Williams (3 episodes)
1992
The Blackheath Poisonings as Bertie Williams
1992
Bad Girl as Geoff Harris
1992
A Fatal Inversion as Inspector Winder
1991
The Wolvis Family (6 episodes)
1991
For the Greater Good as Michael Parke-Walsh, MP (3 episodes)
1991
My Kingdom for a Horse as Robin 'Jacko' Jackman
1990
The Russia House as Niki Landau
1990
Max and Helen as Martin Greenbaum
1989
Blackeyes as Stilk (4 episodes)
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot as Detective Sergeant Hoskins (1 episode)
1986
Casualty as Jack Clayton (1 episode)
1984
Miami Vice as Artie Cross (1 episode)
1984
Piaf as Emil / Jacko
1982
The Hound of the Baskervilles as Sir Henry Baskerville (4 episodes)
1980
Heaven's Gate as Small man
1980
A Rumor of War as Cpl. Kazmarak (2 episodes)