1949-11-30 ( 75 years old ) in 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).
Movies
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
2025-01-13
A Paris Proposal
2023-02-11
Firebird
2021-10-29
On the Beaches
2019-11-19
The Hustle
2019-05-09
Disobedience
2018-04-24
Beirut
2018-04-11
Paddington 2
2017-11-09
The Death of Stalin
2017-10-20
The Limehouse Golem
2016-10-18
Race
2016-02-19
Ramona & The Chair
2016-01-01
The Danish Girl
2015-11-27
The Eichmann Show
2015-01-20
Mr. Turner
2014-10-31
Loving Miss Hatto
2012-12-23
Skyfall
2012-10-24
Hannah Arendt
2012-09-11
John Carter
2012-03-07
Hysteria
2011-06-06
Pope Joan
2009-10-22
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
2009-02-28
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2008-05-27
Poppy Shakespeare
2008-03-31
Amazing Grace
2006-09-16
Christine
2004-02-13
One of the Hollywood Ten
2002-06-07
Conspiracy
2001-05-19
Topsy-Turvy
1999-12-15
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999-10-29
Mad Cows
1999-10-29
Great Expectations
1999-04-12
The Avengers
1998-08-13
Titanic Town
1998-08-08
The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997-11-14
Shooting Fish
1997-08-22
The Woman In White
1997-01-01
Men of the Month
1994-05-25
The Pelican Brief
1993-09-17
Maria's Child
1993-03-28
Hedda Gabler
1993-03-27
The Blackheath Poisonings
1992-12-07
Bad Girl
1992-07-14
A Fatal Inversion
1992-05-10
My Kingdom for a Horse
1991-03-12
The Russia House
1990-12-21
Max and Helen
1990-01-08
Piaf
1984-06-10
Heaven's Gate
1980-11-19
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