Nicholas Woodeson

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 197274 His first work after drama school was a season at the Everyman Theatre Liverpool 197475 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 OffBroadway 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 PigottSmith 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 TopsyTurvy 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