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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 30, 1949
Place of Birth
England, UK
Also Known As
- 니콜라스 우드슨
Nicholas Woodeson
0.8 Popularity
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).
Known For
7.5
Loeffler
Death by Lightning
2025
5.8
Steven
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
2025
6.6
Father Brian
Beyond Paradise
2023
6.2
Jacques
A Paris Proposal
2023
7.3
Diarmid
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022
7.3
Polkovnik Kuznetsov
Firebird
2021
6.8
Nicholas Hilliard QC
Quiz
2020
6.0
Albert Einstein
On the Beaches
2019
6.2
Albert
The Hustle
2019
6.9
Rabbi Goldfarb
Disobedience
2018
Credits
Death by Lightning
as Loeffler
2025
7.5
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
as Steven
2025
5.8
Beyond Paradise
as Father Brian
2023
6.6
A Paris Proposal
as Jacques
2023
6.2
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Diarmid
2022
7.3
Firebird
as Polkovnik Kuznetsov
2021
7.3
Quiz
as Nicholas Hilliard QC
2020
6.8
On the Beaches
as Albert Einstein
2019
6.0
The Hustle
as Albert
2019
6.2
Disobedience
as Rabbi Goldfarb
2018
6.9
Beirut
as Herzerg
2018
6.3
Paddington 2
as Insurance Company CEO
2017
7.5
The Death of Stalin
as Boris Bresnavich, Conductor #2
2017
7.0
Taboo
as Robert Thoyt
2017
7.9
Delicious
as Allen Billington
2016
5.9
The Limehouse Golem
as Toby Dosett
2016
6.2
The Living and the Dead
as Reverend Matthew Denning
2016
6.7
Race
as Fred Rubien
2016
7.3
Ramona & The Chair
as Priest
2016
0.0
The Danish Girl
as Dr. Buson
2015
7.6
The Eichmann Show
as Yaakov Jonilowicz
2015
6.6
Mapp and Lucia
as Algernon Wyse
2014
6.3
Mr. Turner
as Gentleman Critic
2014
6.5
The Escape Artist
as George Balfour QC
2013
7.1
It's Kevin
as Various
2013
7.2
Ripper Street
as Dr. William Corcoran
2012
7.4
Loving Miss Hatto
as Erich
2012
7.2
Secret State
as Lord Justice Holbeck
2012
7.1
Skyfall
as Doctor Hall
2012
7.3
Hannah Arendt
as William Shawn
2012
6.9
John Carter
as Dalton
2012
6.4
Hysteria
as Dr. Richardson
2011
6.7
Friday Night Dinner
as Rabbi
2011
7.9
Borgen
as Alexander Grozin
2010
8.0
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Michael Warren
2009
6.9
Pope Joan
as Arighis
2009
6.8
Red Riding
2009
6.7
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
as Harman Grisewood
2008
6.3
Poppy Shakespeare
as Professor
2008
6.8
Amazing Grace
as Harrison
2006
6.9
Eleventh Hour
2006
6.1
Rome
as Posca
2005
8.2
Christine
as Gerald Leyman
2004
6.0
Shameless
as Isaac
2004
7.6
New Tricks
as Viktor Proust
2004
7.4
Foyle's War
as Josef Novak
2002
7.9
One of the Hollywood Ten
as Bill
2002
5.5
Helen West
as Brian Redwood
2002
7.0
Waking the Dead
as Reese Dickson, Solicitor
2001
7.2
Conspiracy
as Otto Hofmann
2001
7.3
Topsy-Turvy
as Mr. Seymour
1999
6.6
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Mr. Dian
1999
6.0
Mad Cows
as Detective Slynne
1999
3.4
Great Expectations
as Wemmick
1999
6.3
Great Expectations
as Wemmick
1999
0.0
The Avengers
as Dr. Darling
1998
4.4
Titanic Town
as Jeremy Immonger
1998
4.7
The Man Who Knew Too Little
as Sergei
1997
6.3
Shooting Fish
as Mr Collyns
1997
6.3
The Woman In White
as Asylum Proprietor
1997
6.6
Silent Witness
as Derek Galton
1996
7.5
Men of the Month
as Keith
1994
0.0
Pie in the Sky
as Maurice Plummer
1994
8.3
Cracker
as Hennessy
1993
6.6
The Pelican Brief
as Stump
1993
6.6
Maria's Child
as Roland
1993
1.0
Hedda Gabler
as Jorgen Tesman
1993
0.0
Mr. Wroe's Virgins
as Brother Moses
1993
4.5
Bonjour la Classe
1993
5.0
The Blackheath Poisonings
as Bertie Williams
1993
6.0
The Blackheath Poisonings
as Bertie Williams
1992
0.0
Bad Girl
as Geoff Harris
1992
10.0
A Fatal Inversion
as Inspector Winder
1992
4.7
Performance
as Jorgen Tesman
1991
6.0
🎬
The Wolvis Family
1991
5.0
For the Greater Good
as Michael Parke-Walsh, MP
1991
0.0
My Kingdom for a Horse
as Robin 'Jacko' Jackman
1991
0.0
The Russia House
as Niki Landau
1990
6.1
The Chief
as Milverton
1990
6.0
Max and Helen
as Martin Greenbaum
1990
6.0
Blackeyes
as Stilk
1989
5.5
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Detective Sergeant Hoskins
1989
8.2
Casualty
as Jack Clayton
1986
6.1
Miami Vice
as Artie Cross
1984
7.5
Piaf
as Emil / Jacko
1984
0.0
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Sir Henry Baskerville
1982
6.2
Heaven's Gate
as Small man
1980
6.7
A Rumor of War
as Cpl. Kazmarak
1980
6.0
Savage House
as Mr. Brimsby
N/A
0.0
Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble
as Steven
N/A
0.0
Untitled Tinkerbell Movie
as Steven
N/A
0.0