Adam Godley

Adam Godley

Birthday: 1964-07-22

Place of Birth: Amersham, England, UK

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).

Movies

Around the World in 80 Days
Around the World in 80 Days

A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that the...

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The X Files: I Want to Believe
The X Files: I Want to Believe

Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psy...

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The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of d...

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The Special Relationship
The Special Relationship

A dramatisation that follows Tony Blair's journey from political understudy waiting in the wings of ...

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The Stronger
The Stronger

Based on a dramatic monologue by August Strindberg, the short film follows a married woman as she co...

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Cor, Blimey!
Cor, Blimey!

Dramatisation of the love affair between Sidney James and Barbara Windsor, played out against the ba...

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The Young Visiters
The Young Visiters

The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blen...

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The Forger
The Forger

While staying at a picturesque village, a teen encounters the underground world of art forgery....

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Cabaret
Cabaret

Filmed live from the 1993 revival, Sam Mendes' directorial debut takes place at the Donmar Warehouse...

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Thunderpants
Thunderpants

An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, be...

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War Game
War Game

Based on the picture book by Michael Foreman, WAR GAME tells the story of Will, Lacey and Freddie – ...

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Battleship
Battleship

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several ...

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The Theory of Everything
The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the...

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Hawking
Hawking

The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years. It is 1963, and our young cosmologist celebrat...

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Sword of Honour
Sword of Honour

Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of go...

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, ...

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The People We Hate at the Wedding
The People We Hate at the Wedding

A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a f...

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Love Actually
Love Actually

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all se...

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The Prime Minister
The Prime Minister

The Belgian PM is abducted and he finds his wife and children taken hostage. If he wants to see them...

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The BFG
The BFG

An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attemp...

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An Ungentlemanly Act
An Ungentlemanly Act

Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of th...

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the worl...

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Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased...

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Margery and Gladys
Margery and Gladys

Haughty housewife Margery and her cleaner Gladys go on the run after mistakenly believing that they ...

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Nightmare Cinema
Nightmare Cinema

A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, onl...

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Missing Link
Missing Link

The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths ...

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National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy
National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming...

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Son of Rambow
Son of Rambow

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a...

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The Last Sacrifice
The Last Sacrifice

The Last Sacrifice delves into the real-life 1945 witchcraft killing of Charles Walton—the terrifyin...

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