Nicholas Woodeson

Also Known As: 니콜라스 우드슨

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).

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: England, UK

Adult: No

Birthday: November 30, 1949

Age: 75 years old

Gender: Male

Popularity:

1.82%

Known For:

My Kingdom for a Horse
Heaven's Gate
A Paris Proposal
The Man Who Knew Too Little
The Avengers
Beirut
Skyfall
Bad Girl
Ramona & The Chair
Hannah Arendt
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Maria's Child
Men of the Month
Hedda Gabler
A Fatal Inversion
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
The Eichmann Show
Piaf
The Blackheath Poisonings
Max and Helen
The Russia House
Conspiracy
Pope Joan
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
The Danish Girl
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
Race
Great Expectations
Savage House
John Carter
Loving Miss Hatto
Poppy Shakespeare
Mr. Turner
Shooting Fish
Topsy-Turvy
Amazing Grace
The Limehouse Golem
Hysteria
Paddington 2
The Death of Stalin
Disobedience
Titanic Town
Mad Cows
The Woman In White
The Hustle
The Pelican Brief
One of the Hollywood Ten
On the Beaches
Firebird
Christine