
Adam Godley
Born July 22, 1964 · Amersham, England, UK
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).
Notable Appearances
Movies

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Love Actually

Battleship

The BFG

Nanny McPhee

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

The Theory of Everything

Missing Link

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Around the World in 80 Days

Thunderpants

Cabaret

The People We Hate at the Wedding

Son of Rambow

Nightmare Cinema

The Forger

The Special Relationship

Hawking

The Prime Minister

War Game

The Young Visiters

The Old Curiosity Shop

An Ungentlemanly Act

Wilde Salomé

The Last Sacrifice

Sword of Honour

National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

Cor, Blimey!

Margery and Gladys

The Stronger
TV Shows

The Good Wife

Mad Men

Succession

Tony Awards

Agatha Christie's Marple

Numb3rs

Casualty

Private Practice

Lie to Me

Merlin

The Umbrella Academy

The Great

Perception

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Dollhouse

The Great North

The Bill

Suburgatory

The Copenhagen Test

Harry's Law

Down Cemetery Road

Manhattan

Lodge 49

Powers

The Detectives

Case Histories

A Young Doctor's Notebook

Class Act

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial





