Nicholas Woodeson

Nicholas Woodeson

  • Birthday: 1949-11-30
  • Place of birth: England, UK
  • Also know as: Николас Вудесон

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).

Filmography

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

1999

As Mr. Dian

On the Beaches

2019

As Albert Einstein

Bad Girl

1992

As Geoff Harris

Hannah Arendt

2012

As William Shawn

The Eichmann Show

2015

As Yaakov Jonilowicz

Ramona & The Chair

2016

As Priest

My Kingdom for a Horse

1991

As Robin 'Jacko' Jackman

Disobedience

2018

As Rabbi Goldfarb

The Hustle

2019

As Albert

Firebird

2021

As Colonel Kuznetsov

Men of the Month

1994

As Keith

The Danish Girl

2015

As Dr. Buson

Hedda Gabler

1993

As Jorgen Tesman

Max and Helen

1990

As Martin Greenbaum

Piaf

1984

As Emil / Jacko

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

2008

As Harman Grisewood

Loving Miss Hatto

2012

As Erich

Maria's Child

1993

As Roland

Mad Cows

1999

As Detective Slynne

The Blackheath Poisonings

1992

As Bertie Williams

A Paris Proposal

2023

As Jacques

Pope Joan

2009

As Arighis

Skyfall

2012

As Doctor Hall

The Russia House

1990

As Niki Landau

Titanic Town

1998

As Jeremy Immonger

The Avengers

1998

As Dr. Darling

A Fatal Inversion

1992

As Inspector Winder

Great Expectations

1999

As Wemmick

The Woman In White

1997

As Asylum Proprietor

The Pelican Brief

1993

As Stump

Christine

2004

As Gerald Leyman

Heaven's Gate

1980

As Small man

Poppy Shakespeare

2008

As Professor

Conspiracy

2001

As Hofmann

John Carter

2012

As Dalton

Topsy-Turvy

1999

As Mr. Seymour

Amazing Grace

2006

As Harrison

Paddington 2

2017

As Insurance Company CEO

Hysteria

2011

As Dr. Richardson

Shooting Fish

1997

As Mr Collyns

The Limehouse Golem

2016

As Toby Dosett

The Death of Stalin

2017

As Boris Bresnavich, Conductor #2

Beirut

2018

As Herzerg

Mr. Turner

2014

As Gentleman Critic

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