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Nicholas Woodeson

Nicholas Woodeson

Actor · b. 1949 · England, UK

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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  • Movie7.3

    Skyfall

    2012 · 16K votes

  • Movie6.4

    John Carter

    2012 · 6.3K votes

  • Movie7.5

    Paddington 2

    2017 · 2.9K votes

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    The Hustle

    2019 · 2.7K votes

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    The Pelican Brief

    1993 · 1.8K votes

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    Savage House

    2026 · 44 votes

  • Movie7.5

    The Danish Girl

    2015 · 6K votes

  • Movie7.3

    Race

    2016 · 1.6K votes

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    The Death of Stalin

    2017 · 2.2K votes

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    The Avengers

    1998 · 813 votes

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    Disobedience

    2018 · 1.3K votes

  • Movie7.3

    Conspiracy

    2001 · 506 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Firebird

    2021 · 248 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Heaven's Gate

    1980 · 432 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Beirut

    2018 · 627 votes

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    The Russia House

    1990 · 339 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Die Päpstin

    Pope Joan

    2009 · 367 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Mr. Turner

    2014 · 598 votes

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  • Movie6.9

    Amazing Grace

    2006 · 331 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Limehouse Golem

    2016 · 754 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Hannah Arendt

    2012 · 296 votes

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    Topsy-Turvy

    1999 · 167 votes

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  • TV6.2

    Casualty

    1986 · 88 votes

  • TV8.2

    Agatha Christie's Poirot

    1989 · 584 votes

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  • TV7.4

    Miami Vice

    1984 · 541 votes

  • TV7.6

    Silent Witness

    1996 · 113 votes

  • TV7.5

    Shameless

    2004 · 158 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Agency

    2024 · 293 votes

  • TV7.6

    A Touch of Frost

    1992 · 79 votes

  • TV7.9

    Foyle's War

    2002 · 111 votes

  • TV7.2

    Waking the Dead

    2001 · 45 votes

  • TV7.3

    New Tricks

    2004 · 67 votes

  • TV8.2

    Rome

    2005 · 1.6K votes

  • TV7.4

    Ripper Street

    2012 · 201 votes

  • TV6.3

    Performance

    1991 · 2 votes

  • TV8.3

    Pie in the Sky

    1994 · 15 votes

  • TV8.1

    Borgen

    2010 · 281 votes

  • TV7.0

    Beyond Paradise

    2023 · 61 votes

  • TV6.0

    ScreenPlay

    1986 · 2 votes

  • TV7.5

    Silk

    2011 · 50 votes

  • TV7.9

    Taboo

    2017 · 1.5K votes

  • TV6.6

    Cracker

    1993 · 121 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Chief

    1990 · 2 votes

  • TV5.9

    Will

    2017 · 29 votes

  • TV7.8

    Friday Night Dinner

    2011 · 174 votes