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Nicholas Woodeson 
Woodeson as serial killer "Sweeney" in CrackerBorn 30 November 1949
England, United KingdomNicholas Woodeson (born 30 November 1949) is an English film and television actor.
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Education
Woodeson attended Marlborough College and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.[1]
Film
Woodeson's first film work was a minor role in Heaven's Gate in 1980. He played Niki Landau in "The Russia House"(1990), The Avengers (1998) and appeared in Topsy Turvy (1999). Woodeson's acting versatility has won him minor roles in many films, including Titanic Town, The Pelican Brief and The Man Who Knew Too Little.
Television
Woodeson is a veteran television actor, appearing in a variety of roles. Woodeson played Sir Henry Baskerville in the 1982 BBC production of Hound of the Baskervilles and SS-Gruppenführer (Lieutenant General) Otto Hoffman in BBC/HBO production Conspiracy (2001), and guest starred on series such as Touch of Frost, EastEnders, and Miami Vice.
He portrayed Harman Grisewood, Assistant Director General of the BBC, in the 2008 TV programme Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story.[2]
More recently, Woodeson played Posca, the personal slave, confidant, and aide-de-camp of Julius Caesar, in the HBO/BBC television production of Rome. In 2008 he appeared as a guest star in Foyle's War.
Theatre
As member of Sussex University's dramatic society Woodeson took part in the National Student Drama Festival for 1975, before securing a place at RADA.[3] His first professional engagements were in repertory at The Lyceum, Crewe, taking small roles and as ASM. Subsequently he has appeared in the West End, in New York, with the Royal Shakespeare Company ("memorably" finding the humour in the name part in King John of 1988) and the Royal National Theatre.[3][4] In 1995 he replaced Kenneth Cranham during the New York run of National Theatre's An Inspector Calls[5] and its subsequent transfer to the Wyndham's Theatre, a role he reprised to critical acclaim in 2009 in the Novello Theatre.[6]
Trivia
Rome is the second time Woodeson has worked with Ciarán Hinds. They both appeared in the 1998 film Titanic Town, though they were never in the same scene. They also appeared together in the Michael Apted film Amazing Grace, about the life and achievements of William Wilberforce. This time they did appear in scenes together, in particular those set in The Houses of Parliament, which were shot at Chatham Docks in Kent.
References
- ^ Obituary: Hugh Cruttwell. By Claire Armitstead. Thursday 29 August 2002. The Guardian [1]
- ^ IMDB - Harman Grisewood (Character) from Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008) (TV)
- ^ a b Trowbridge, Simon (2008). Stratfordians, A Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Oxford, England: Editions Albert Creed. pp. 527–528. ISBN 978-0-9559830-1-6. OCLC 334209106.
- ^ Dickson, Andrew (2008). "King John". The Rough Guide to Shakespeare (2 ed.). London: Rough Guides. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-85828-443-9.
- ^ "Nicholas Woodeson". Internet Broadway Database. New York. http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=72173. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
- ^ Cavendish, Dominic (28 September 2009). "Stephen Daldry's radical re-visioning of Priestley's An Inspector Calls returns to the West End". Daily Telegraph (UK). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/6239688/An-Inspector-Calls-at-the-Novello-Theatre-review.html. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
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Categories:- 1949 births
- English actors
- Old Marlburians
- Living people
- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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