Nicholas Robin Frank Woodeson was born on 30 November 1949 and is an English film, television and theatre actor, and Drama Desk and Olivier award nominee.
18 Facts About Nicholas Woodeson
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Nicholas Woodeson later moved to England, where he started performing at prep school in Sussex, and Marlborough College.
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Nicholas Woodeson 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.
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Nicholas Woodeson participated in the 1970 National Student Drama Festival.
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Nicholas Woodeson's first work after drama school was a season at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, in a company that included Jonathan Pryce, Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite and Bill Nighy.
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Nicholas Woodeson has worked in regional theatre in the UK and US, at the Hampstead Theatre, the Young Vic and Almeida Theatre in London, and at the Manhattan Theatre Club.
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Nicholas Woodeson joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and remained there seven years.
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Nicholas Woodeson appeared in the West End production of Funny Peculiar, in Good, as Bonesy in Jumpers, as Mussabini in Chariots of Fire, and as Harold Wilson in The Audience.
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Nicholas Woodeson acted 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.
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Nicholas Woodeson's first film work was a role in Heaven's Gate, released in 1980.
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Nicholas Woodeson has appeared in, among others, The Russia House, The Pelican Brief, Shooting Fish, The Man Who Knew Too Little Titanic Town, The Avengers, Mad Cows, Topsy-Turvy, Dreaming of Joseph Lees, Amazing Grace, Hannah Arendt, the James Bond film Skyfall, Mr Turner, The Danish Girl, Race, Disobedience, The Death of Stalin and The Hustle.
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Nicholas Woodeson played killer Michael Hennessy in the very first episode of Cracker, starring Robbie Coltrane.
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Nicholas Woodeson portrayed Harman Grisewood, in the 2008 TV programme Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story.
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Nicholas Woodeson has guest starred on series such as Miami Vice, Midsomer Murders, A Touch of Frost, and Poirot.
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Nicholas Woodeson appeared in Agatha Christie's Poirot "Dead Man's Folly" as Detective Sergeant Hoskins.
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In 2016, Nicholas Woodeson played the role of Reverend Matthew Denning in the BBC TV series The Living and the Dead.
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Nicholas Woodeson has appeared in episodes of New Tricks, George Gently and Holby City.
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Nicholas Woodeson played the lawyer, Thoyt in the BBC One 2017 television drama series Taboo.