1. Adam N Godley was born on 22 July 1964 and is an English actor.
16 Facts About Adam Godley
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Adam Godley has been nominated for two Tony Awards and four Laurence Olivier Awards for his performances on the New York and London stages, including Private Lives in 2001, The Pillowman in 2002, Anything Goes in 2011, and The Lehman Trilogy in 2019.
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Adam Godley made his Broadway debut in 2002 in a revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives, for which he earned a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway debut.
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Adam Godley has had television roles as Elliott Schwartz in Breaking Bad, Nigel Nesbitt in Suits, Phinneus Pogo in The Umbrella Academy, and Archie the Archbishop in The Great.
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Adam Godley was born to Jewish parents in Amersham on 22 July 1964, the son of a magistrate mother and solicitor father.
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Adam Godley grew up near Watford and went to Rickmansworth School in Croxley Green.
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Adam Godley began his acting career at the age of nine in a BBC radio production of Hemingway's My Old Man.
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In 1986, Adam Godley joined Alan Ayckbourn's theatre company in Scarborough, where he stayed for three seasons.
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Adam Godley spent one season as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, before creating the role of Cliff in Sam Mendes's production of Cabaret at the Donmar Warehouse in 1993.
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Several major productions followed, including Mouth to Mouth at the Royal Court, The Front Page at the Donmar, and The Rivals in the West End, after which Adam Godley went on to create a series of roles at the National, including Kenneth Williams in Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick; and the title role in Howard Davies' production of Paul.
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Adam Godley continued acting in films such as the Christmas classic Love Actually, Around the World in 80 Days, Nanny McPhee, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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In 2002 he starred as Victor Prynne alongside Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan in a revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives at the Richard Rogers Theatre in New York City, where Adam Godley made his Broadway debut.
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Adam Godley had recurring roles as Elliott Schwartz in AMC's Breaking Bad and Jocelyn Pugh in Lodge 49.
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Adam Godley appeared in BBC's A Young Doctor's Notebook, CBS's The Good Wife, USA Networks's Suits, Showtime's Homeland, and NBC's The Blacklist.
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Adam Godley married Alex Belcourt in 1999, and they divorced in 2004.
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Adam Godley is currently in a relationship with writer Jon Hartmere, with whom he lives in California.