
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

Around the World in 80 Days

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Cabaret

Thunderpants

The People We Hate at the Wedding

Son of Rambow

Nightmare Cinema

The Forger

The Special Relationship

Hawking

The Prime Minister

War Game

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Young Visiters

An Ungentlemanly Act

Wilde Salomé

The Last Sacrifice

Margery and Gladys

Sword of Honour

National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

The Stronger

Cor, Blimey!
TV Shows

Mad Men

The Good Wife

Succession

Casualty

Numb3rs

Tony Awards

Private Practice

Agatha Christie's Marple

The Umbrella Academy

Merlin

Lie to Me

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

The Great

Dollhouse

The Great North

Perception

Suburgatory

The Bill

The Copenhagen Test

Harry's Law

Down Cemetery Road

Manhattan

Powers

Lodge 49

The Detectives

Case Histories

A Young Doctor's Notebook

Class Act

Fallet





