Nicholas Woodeson
Acteur
30 novembre 1949 (76 ans)
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).
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).
Films & Séries sur Plex
Connue pour
Filmographie
| 2026 | Savage House · as Mr. Brimsby |
| 2025 | Death by Lightning · as Loeffler |
| 2025 | Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare · as Steven |
| 2023 | Beyond Paradise · as Father Brian |
| 2023 | A Paris Proposal · as Jacques |
| 2022 | My Father's Secrets · as Old Rabbi |
| 2022 | The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power · as Diarmid |
| 2021 | '83 · as Brian Johnston |
| 2021 | Firebird · as Polkovnik Kuznetsov |
| 2020 | Quiz · as Nicholas Hilliard Qc |
| 2019 | On the Beaches · as Albert Einstein |
| 2019 | Jarhead: Law of Return · as Minister Of Defense |
| 2019 | The Hustle · as Albert |
| 2019 | Baptiste · as Peter |
| 2018 | Beirut · as Herzerg |
| 2017 | Paddington 2 · as Insurance Company Ceo |
| 2017 | Disobedience · as Rabbi Goldfarb |
| 2017 | The Death of Stalin · as Boris Bresnavich, Conductor #2Sur Plex |
| 2017 | Will · as Phillip Henslowe |
| 2017 | Taboo (2017) · as Robert ThoytSur Plex |
| 2016 | Delicious · as Allen Billington |
| 2016 | The Limehouse Golem · as Toby DosettSur Plex |
| 2016 | Letters from Baghdad · as General Sir George Macmunn |
| 2016 | Race · as Fred Rubien |
| 2016 | The Living and the Dead · as Reverend Matthew Denning |
| 2015 | The Danish Girl · as Dr. Buson |
| 2015 | The Eichmann Show · as Yaakov Jonilowicz |
| 2014 | Mapp and Lucia (2014) · as Algernon Wyse |
| 2014 | Mr. Turner · as Gentleman Critic |
| 2014 | The Honourable Woman · as Judah Ben-Shahar |
| 2014 | The Assets · as Volkov |
| 2013 | Moonfleet (2013) · as Bailiff |
| 2013 | The Escape Artist · as George Balfour QcSur Plex |
| 2013 | Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth · as Narrator |
| 2013 | It's Kevin · as Various |
| 2013 | Father Brown (2013) · as Bernard Ross |
| 2012 | Ripper Street · as Dr. William Corcoran |
| 2012 | Loving Miss Hatto · as Erich |
| 2012 | Secret State · as Lord Justice Holbeck |
| 2012 | Skyfall · as Doctor Hall |
| 2012 | Hannah Arendt · as William Shawn |
| 2012 | John Carter · as Dalton |
| 2011 | Hysteria · as Dr. Richardson |
| 2011 | The Hour · as Professor Beckett |
| 2011 | Borgia · as Alonso Pimental |
| 2011 | Friday Night Dinner · as Rabbi |
| 2011 | Silk · as Professor Stephen Nyman |
| 2010 | Borgen · as Alexander Grozin |
| 2009 | Pope Joan · as Arighis |
| 2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 · as Michael WarrenSur Plex |
| 2009 | |
| 2008 | Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story · as Harman Grisewood |
| 2008 | Poppy Shakespeare · as Professor |
| 2007 | Inspector George Gently · as Norman |
| 2006 | Amazing Grace · as Harrison |
| 2006 | |
| 2005 | Rome · as Posca |
| 2005 | Diamond Geezer · as Russian Ambassador |
| 2004 | Christine · as Gerald Leyman |
| 2004 | Shameless · as IsaacSur Plex |
| 2004 | Doc Martin · as Victor |
| 2003 | The Last Detective · as Gerald LeymanSur Plex |
| 2003 | New Tricks · as Viktor Proust |
| 2002 | Foyle's War · as Josef Novak |
| 2002 | Helen West · as Brian Redwood |
| 2001 | Conspiracy · as Otto Hofmann |
| 2000 | One of the Hollywood Ten · as Bill |
| 2000 | Animated Tales of the World · as Greengrocer |
| 2000 | Waking the Dead · as Reese Dickson, Solicitor |
| 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 |
| 1999 | Great Expectations · as Wemmick |
| 1999 | Holby City · as Artem Chernik |
| 1998 | Animated Epics: Beowulf · as Aschere |
| 1998 | The Mrs Bradley Mysteries · as John Forrester |
| 1998 | The Avengers · as Dr. Darling |
| 1998 | Titanic Town · as Jeremy Immonger |
| 1997 | The Man Who Knew Too Little · as SergeiSur Plex |
| 1997 | Shooting Fish · as Mr CollynsSur Plex |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders · as Avery PhillipsSur Plex |
| 1997 | The Woman In White · as Asylum Proprietor |
| 1996 | Silent Witness · as Derek Galton |
| 1995 | The Last Englishman · as Air Commodore Boyle |
| 1994 | Pie in the Sky · as Maurice Plummer |
| 1993 | Cracker · as HennessySur Plex |
| 1993 | The Pelican Brief · as Stump |
| 1993 | Mr. Wroe's Virgins · as Brother Moses |
| 1993 | A Fatal Inversion · as Inspector Winder |
| 1992 | The Blackheath Poisonings · as Bertie Williams |
| 1992 | A Touch of Frost · as Anton CaldwellSur Plex |
| 1992 | A Fatal Inversion · as Inspector Winder |
| 1991 | Performance · as Jorgen Tesman |
| 1991 | For the Greater Good · as Michael Parke-Walsh Mp |
| 1990 | The Russia House · as Niki Landau |
| 1990 | The Chief (1990) · as Milverton |
| 1990 | Max and Helen · as Martin Greenbaum |
| 1989 | Blackeyes · as Stilk |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot · as Detective Sergeant Hoskins |
| 1986 | Casualty · as Jack Clayton |
| 1986 | Screenplay (1986) · as Geoff Harris |
| 1984 | Screen Two · as Keith |
| 1984 | Miami Vice · as Artie Cross |
| 1982 | The Hound of the Baskervilles · as Sir Henry Baskerville |
| 1981 | Kiss Me, Petruchio · as Biondello |
| 1980 | Heaven's Gate · as Small ManSur Plex |
| 1980 | A Rumor of War · as Cpl. Kazmarak |
| 1980 | Here's Boomer · as Theo |