Adam Godley
Also Known As: آدام گادلی
Biography: Adam Godley (born 22 July 1964) is a British actor. He has been nominated for two Tony Awards and four Laurence Olivier Awards for his performances on the New York and London stages which include, Private Lives in 2001, The Pillowman in 2002, Anything Goes in 2011, and The Lehman Trilogy in 2019. He made his Broadway debut in 2002 in a revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives for which he earned a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway debut. In 2011 he returned to Broadway in the musical Anything Goes for which he earned a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical nomination. In 2021, The Lehman Trilogy made its Broadway transfer to great critical acclaim, and securing Godley another Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Play. His film roles include Love Actually (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Elizabeth The Golden Age (2007) and The Theory Of Everything (2014). He has also had recurring roles as Elliot Schwartz in AMC's Breaking Bad, Nigel Nesbit in USA's Suits (2013), Phinneus Pogo in Netflix's The Umbrella Academy (2019 to present), and Archie the Archbishop in Hulu's The Great (2020–present).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Amersham, England, UK
Birthday: July 22, 1964
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Gender: Male
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Around the World in 80 Days
Overview: A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-16
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The X Files: I Want to Believe
Overview: Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-24
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-26
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The Special Relationship
Overview: A dramatisation that follows Tony Blair's journey from political understudy waiting in the wings of the world arena to accomplished prime minister standing confidently in the spotlight of centre stage. It is a story about relationships, between two powerful men (Blair and Bill Clinton), two powerful couples, and husbands and wives.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-29
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The Stronger
Overview: Based on a dramatic monologue by August Strindberg, the short film follows a married woman as she confronts her husband's lover after bumping into her in a café on Christmas eve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-04
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Cor, Blimey!
Overview: Dramatisation of the love affair between Sidney James and Barbara Windsor, played out against the backdrop of the 'Carry On' films during the 1960s and 1970s.
Genres: Comedy Documentary Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-24
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The Young Visiters
Overview: The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious perception and inadvertent social satire.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-26
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The Forger
Overview: While staying at a picturesque village, a teen encounters the underground world of art forgery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-09
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Cabaret
Overview: Filmed live from the 1993 revival, Sam Mendes' directorial debut takes place at the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End. Jane Horrocks stars as cabaret girl Sally Bowles, Adam Godley as the bicurious Cliff, and Alan Cumming as the eccentric Emcee. Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally and the impish Emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside, a notorious political party grows into a brutal force.
Genres: Romance Music Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-09
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Thunderpants
Overview: An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-24
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War Game
Overview: Based on the picture book by Michael Foreman, WAR GAME tells the story of Will, Lacey and Freddie – three young Suffolk lads who leave their idyllic country lives to fight in the trenches of World War I. Surrounded by the chaos and confusion of war, they can only dream of their football team, their friends and the families they have left behind.
Genres: Animation Drama Family War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-11
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Battleship
Overview: When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-11
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The Theory of Everything
Overview: The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-26
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Hawking
Overview: The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years. It is 1963, and our young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday. At the party is a new friend, Jane Wilde - there is a strong attraction between the two. Jane is intrigued by Stephen's talk of stars and the Universe. But she realises that there is something very wrong when Stephen suddenly finds that he is unable to stand up.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-10
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Sword of Honour
Overview: Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is not rewarded, he never has any chance to join any real fighting, circumstances always prevent it. Instead he finds himself in the middle of an army full of cowards, incompetents and a few outright evil men. They of course reap the fortunes of war, promotions and fame, but never Crouchback. His war is just an endless list of transfers and an hopeless but noble quest for righteousness.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-02
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Overview: When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard the lives of her people.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-09
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The People We Hate at the Wedding
Overview: A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Love Actually
Overview: Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-07
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The Prime Minister
Overview: The Belgian PM is abducted and he finds his wife and children taken hostage. If he wants to see them again – alive – he has to kill the person he is meeting later that day. And that person is no less than... the president of the United States.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-03-02
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The BFG
Overview: An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-01
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An Ungentlemanly Act
Overview: Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which eventually lead to the Falklands War. As the Argentine forces land on the main island and make their way towards Government House, the handful of British defenders batten down the hatches and prepare to defend Governor Rex Hunt, his family, and their fellow islanders from the invaders.
Genres: War History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-13
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Overview: A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-13
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Nanny McPhee
Overview: Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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Margery and Gladys
Overview: When wealthy, recently-widowed suburban housewife, Margery (PENELOPE KEITH), and her ‘rough diamond’ of a cleaner, Gladys (JUNE BROWN), disturb a house burglar, they knock him unconscious, panic and leave him for dead, fleeing in the cleaner’s wrecked old car. What follows is a comedy of misunderstandings in which these two very different, mature ladies are led on an unfortunate series of incidents which snowballs into a crime spree. They prove to be more than a match for the unlikely pair of policemen, DI Woolley (Roger Lloyd Pack) and DS Stringer (Martin Freeman), who are left to solve the ladies disappearance and puzzling string of crimes which follow. As the police net tightens around them, the two very different, mature ladies are propelled on a shared voyage of self-discovery as skeletons fall from the closets forcing both women to reflect on their past lives.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-21
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Nightmare Cinema
Overview: A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-21
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Missing Link
Overview: The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Trouble is, none of his small-minded, high-society peers seems to recognize this. Hoping to finally gain acceptance from these fellow adventurers, Sir Lionel travels to the Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature known as the missing link.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-04
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National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
Overview: On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and triggers the largest financial crisis in history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-25
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Son of Rambow
Overview: Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-22
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The Last Sacrifice
Overview: The Last Sacrifice delves into the real-life 1945 witchcraft killing of Charles Walton—the terrifying event that inspired The Wicker Man and birthed the folk horror genre. This unsettling true-crime interrogation probes into the eerie, enigmatic cultural undercurrents that shaped 1970's folk horror genre, leaving an indelible mark on cinema and public psyche. The Last Sacrifice uncovers an unflinching portrayal of Britain's profound identity crisis, both during the tumultuous early 1970s and the resurgence of folk horror today, ominously coinciding with yet another national descent into madness. Its conclusion: The Wicker Man is more fact than fiction.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-29
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