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 Pinters The Birthday Party, playing McCann at the National Theatre in 1994, and Goldberg in the Lyric Hammersmiths 50th centenary production in 2008, and two productions of Pinters 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 theatres tour of Death of a Salesman, for which he was nominated for a UK Theatre Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role.Woodesons first film work was a role in Heavens 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).
Robin 'Jacko' Jackman
Film 1991
Jacques
Film 2023
Geoff Harris
Film 1992
Priest
Film 2016
William Shawn
Film 2012
Keith
Film 1994
Jorgen Tesman
Film 1993
Inspector Winder
Film 1992
Yaakov Jonilowicz
Film 2015
Bertie Williams
Film 1992
Martin Greenbaum
Film 1990
Steven
Film 2025
Mr. Brimsby
Film
Erich
Film 2012
Jeremy Immonger
Film 1998
Bill
Film 2002
Albert Einstein
Film 2019
Colonel Kuznetsov
Film 2021
Gerald Leyman
Film 2004
Tv 1991
Tv 1993
Allen Billington
Tv 2016
Tv 2009
Hennessy
Tv 1993
Reese Dickson, Solicitor
Tv 2001
Viktor Proust
Tv 2004
Michael Parke-Walsh, MP
Tv 1991
Tv 2006
Dr. William Corcoran
Tv 2012
Maurice Plummer
Tv 1994
Reverend Matthew Denning
Tv 2016
Sir Henry Baskerville
Tv 1982
Brian Redwood
Tv 2002
Brother Moses
Tv 1993
Father Brian
Tv 2023
Derek Galton
Tv 1996
Nicholas Hilliard QC
Tv 2020
Jack Clayton
Tv 1986
Artie Cross
Tv 1984
Detective Sergeant Hoskins
Tv 1989
George Balfour QC
Tv 2013
Robert Thoyt
Tv 2017
Diarmid
Tv 2022
Alexander Grozin
Tv 2010