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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Films (53)
National Theatre Live: Golden Boy
2026 · Mr. Carp / Barker
La ambición de los Savage
2026 · Mr. Brimsby, Jeweller
Le Cauchemar de Peter Pan
2025 · Steven
Fiancés malgré eux
2023 · Jacques
Secretos de Guerra
2021 · Polkovnik Kuznetsov
On the Beaches
2019 · Albert Einstein
Le coup du siècle
2019 · Albert
Désobéissance
2018 · Rabbi Goldfarb
Opération Beyrouth
2018 · Herzerg
Paddington 2
2017 · Insurance Company CEO
La Mort de Staline
2017 · Boris Bresnavich, Conductor #2
Golem, le tueur de Londres
2016 · Toby Dosett
La Couleur de la victoire
2016 · Fred Rubien
Ramona & The Chair
2016 · Priest
Danish Girl
2015 · Dr. Buson
Eichmann Show
2015 · Yaakov Jonilowicz
M. Turner
2014 · Gentleman Critic
Loving Miss Hatto
2012 · Erich
007 Skyfall
2012 · Doctor Hall
Hannah Arendt
2012 · William Shawn
John Carter: Entre dos mundos
2012 · Dalton
Oh My God !
2011 · Dr. Richardson
The Red Riding Trilogy: 1980
2009 · Michael Warren
La Papesse Jeanne
2009 · Arighis
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2008 · Harman Grisewood
Poppy Shakespeare
2008 · Professor
Amazing Grace
2007 · Harrison
Christine
2004 · Gerald Leyman
Hollywood liste rouge
2002 · Bill
Conspiration
2001 · Otto Hofmann
Topsy-Turvy
1999 · Mr. Seymour
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999 · Mr. Dian
Mad Cows
1999 · Detective Slynne
Great Expectations
1999 · Wemmick
Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir
1998 · Dr. Darling
Titanic Town
1998 · Jeremy Immonger
The Woman In White
1997 · Asylum Proprietor
L'Homme qui en savait trop... peu
1997 · Sergei
Shooting Fish
1997 · Mr Collyns
Men of the Month
1994 · Keith
L'Affaire Pélican
1993 · Stump
Maria's Child
1993 · Roland
Hedda Gabler
1993 · Jorgen Tesman
The Blackheath Poisonings
1992 · Bertie Williams
Bad Girl
1992 · Geoff Harris
A Fatal Inversion
1992 · Inspector Winder
My Kingdom for a Horse
1991 · Robin 'Jacko' Jackman
La Maison Russie
1990 · Niki Landau
Max and Helen
1990 · Martin Greenbaum
Piaf
1984 · Emil / Jacko
Heaven's Gate
1980 · Small man
Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble
· Steven
Untitled Tinkerbell Movie
· Steven
Séries (46)
Falling
2026 · Father Victor
Le Président foudroyé
2025 · Loeffler
The Agency
2024 · Ancient Gem Dealer
Mystères au paradis
2023 · Father Brian
Le Seigneur des anneaux : Les Anneaux de pouvoir
2022 · Diarmid
Quiz
2020 · Nicholas Hilliard QC
Will
2017 · Phillip Henslowe
Taboo
2017 · Robert Thoyt
Delicious
2016 · Allen Billington
The Living and the Dead
2016 · Reverend Matthew Denning
Mapp and Lucia
2014 · Algernon Wyse
Perfect Crime
2013 · George Balfour QC
It's Kevin
2013 · Various
Ripper Street
2012 · Dr. William Corcoran
Secret State
2012 · Lord Justice Holbeck
Friday Night Dinner
2011 · Rabbi
Silk
2011 · Professor Stephen Nyman
Borgen, une femme au pouvoir
2010 · Alexander Grozin
The Red Riding Trilogy
2009
La onzième heure 2005
2006
Roma
2005 · Posca
Shameless
2004 · Isaac
New Tricks
2004 · Viktor Proust
Les enquêtes de Foyle
2002 · Josef Novak
Helen West
2002 · Brian Redwood
Meurtres en sommeil
2001 · Reese Dickson, Solicitor
Great Expectations
1999 · Wemmick
The Woman In White
1997 · Asylum Proprietor
Affaires non classées
1996 · Derek Galton
Pie in the Sky
1994 · Maurice Plummer
Cracker
1993 · Hennessy
Mr. Wroe's Virgins
1993 · Brother Moses
Bonjour la Classe
1993 · Leslie Piper
The Blackheath Poisonings
1993 · Bertie Williams
Inspecteur Frost
1992 · Anton Caldwell
Performance
1991 · Jorgen Tesman
The Wolvis Family
1991
For the Greater Good
1991 · Michael Parke-Walsh MP
The Chief
1990 · Milverton
Blackeyes
1989 · Stilk
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Detective Sergeant Hoskins
Casualty
1986 · Jack Clayton
ScreenPlay
1986 · Geoff Harris
Miami Vice
1984 · Artie Cross
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1982 · Sir Henry Baskerville
A Rumor of War
1980 · Cpl. Kazmarak