
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 Theory of Everything

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Around the World in 80 Days

Missing Link

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

The People We Hate at the Wedding

Nightmare Cinema

Son of Rambow

Cabaret

Thunderpants

The Forger

War Game

Hawking

The Old Curiosity Shop

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

Sword of Honour

The Special Relationship

Wilde Salomé

The Prime Minister

The Young Visiters

National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Different Faces, Different Flavors

An Ungentlemanly Act

Margery and Gladys

Cor, Blimey!

The Stronger

The Last Sacrifice
TV Shows

Casualty

Homeland

Mad Men

Numb3rs

Private Practice

Tony Awards

The Bill

Lie to Me

Succession

Agatha Christie's Marple

Merlin

The Great North

Perception

The Umbrella Academy

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Suburgatory

Harry's Law

Dollhouse

The Great

Manhattan

The Detectives

Lodge 49

Powers

Down Cemetery Road

The Copenhagen Test

Case Histories

A Young Doctor's Notebook

Class Act

Thomas & Sarah

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

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