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 Un ... iversity 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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Rome
as Posca
Episodes: 22
First Aired: Aug 28, 2005
The Living and the Dead
as Reverend Matthew Denning
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Jun 28, 2016
Taboo
as Robert Thoyt
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Jan 07, 2017
Secret State
as Lord Justice Holbeck
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Nov 07, 2012
Blackeyes
as Stilk
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Nov 29, 1989
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Sir Henry Baskerville
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Oct 03, 1982
Mr. Wroe's Virgins
as Brother Moses
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Feb 24, 1993
For the Greater Good
as Michael Parke-Walsh, MP
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Mar 20, 1991
Mapp and Lucia
as Algernon Wyse
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Dec 29, 2014
Helen West
as Brian Redwood
Episodes: 3
First Aired: May 06, 2002
The Blackheath Poisonings
as Bertie Williams
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Feb 14, 1993
The Escape Artist
as George Balfour QC
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Oct 29, 2013
Waking the Dead
as Reese Dickson, Solicitor
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jun 18, 2001
A Rumor of War
as Cpl. Kazmarak
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 24, 1980
Quiz
as Nicholas Hilliard QC
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Apr 13, 2020
Delicious
as Allen Billington
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 30, 2016
Cracker
as Hennessy
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 27, 1993
New Tricks
as Viktor Proust
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 01, 2004
Ripper Street
as Dr. William Corcoran
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 30, 2012
Pie in the Sky
as Maurice Plummer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 13, 1994
Beyond Paradise
as Father Brian
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 24, 2023
Silent Witness
as Derek Galton
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 21, 1996
Casualty
as Jack Clayton
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 06, 1986
Miami Vice
as Artie Cross
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 16, 1984
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Detective Sergeant Hoskins
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 08, 1989
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Diarmid
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 01, 2022
Borgen
as Alexander Grozin
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 26, 2010
The Wolvis Family
Episodes: 6
First Aired: May 04, 1991
Bonjour la Classe
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Feb 15, 1993
Red Riding
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 12, 2009
Eleventh Hour
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 19, 2006
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