Adam Godley

Born: 1964-07-22

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).


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as Mr. Teavee
Released: 2005-07-13

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

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as Dr. Nogrady
Released: 2012-04-11

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

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as Mr Trench
Released: 2003-09-07

Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with...

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Nanny McPhee

as Vicar
Released: 2005-10-21

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

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The BFG

as Manhugger / Lout #1
Released: 2016-06-01

The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for...

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Missing Link

as Lord Bilge (voice)
Released: 2019-04-04

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

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Around the World in 80 Days

as Mr. Sutton
Released: 2004-06-16

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

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The Theory of Everything

as Senior Doctor - Cambridge Hospital
Released: 2014-11-26

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

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The X Files: I Want to Believe

as Father Ybarra
Released: 2008-07-24

Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is...

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The People We Hate at the Wedding

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2022-11-17

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

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Elizabeth: The Golden Age

as William Walsingham
Released: 2007-09-09

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

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The Forger

as Pinkus
Released: 2011-03-09

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

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Son of Rambow

as Brethren Leader
Released: 2007-01-22

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

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No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad

as Self
Released: 2013-11-26

A documentary about the making of season five of the acclaimed AMC series Breaking Bad.

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Hawking

as Frank Hawking
Released: 2004-12-10

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

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Thunderpants

as Placido P. Placeedo
Released: 2002-05-24

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

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Nightmare Cinema

as Dr. Salvadore
Released: 2018-06-21

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

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The Prime Minister

as Chief of security
Released: 2016-03-02

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

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An Ungentlemanly Act

as P.C. Anton Livermore
Released: 1992-06-13

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

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The Special Relationship

as Jonathan Powell
Released: 2010-05-29

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

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Cabaret

as Clifford Bradshaw
Released: 1993-12-09

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

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The Old Curiosity Shop

as Samson Brass
Released: 2007-12-26

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

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Sword of Honour

as Apthorpe
Released: 2001-01-02

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

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Cor, Blimey!

as Kenneth Williams
Released: 2000-04-24

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

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War Game

as uncredited
Released: 2002-02-11

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

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The Young Visiters

as Procurio
Released: 2003-12-26

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

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The Stronger

as Waiter
Released: 2007-10-04

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

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Margery and Gladys

as Graham Heywood
Released: 2003-09-21

When wealthy, recently-widowed suburban housewife, Margery (PENELOPE KEITH), and her ‘rough...

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National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

as Mayer Lehman
Released: 2019-07-25

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

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Breaking Bad

as Elliott Schwartz
First aired: 2008-01-20

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a...

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The Good Wife

as Leland Carlisle
First aired: 2009-09-22

Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce...

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Succession

as Darwin Perry
First aired: 2018-06-03

Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father...

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Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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The Blacklist

as Silas Gouldsberry
First aired: 2013-09-23

Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI...

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Suburgatory

as Mr. Jacobs
First aired: 2011-09-28

Single father George Altman is doing his best to raise his sixteen-year-old daughter Tessa in...

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Suits

as Nigel Nesbitt
First aired: 2011-06-23

While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips...

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Agatha Christie's Marple

as Lomax
First aired: 2004-12-12

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St...

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Mad Men

as uncredited
First aired: 2007-07-19

Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the...

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The Great North

as Dick Chateau (voice)
First aired: 2021-01-03

Follow the Alaskan adventures of the Tobin family as a single dad does his best to keep his...

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The Great North

as Archie (voice)
First aired: 2021-01-03

Follow the Alaskan adventures of the Tobin family as a single dad does his best to keep his...

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Merlin

as Jonas
First aired: 2008-09-20

The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers,...

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The Umbrella Academy

as Pogo
First aired: 2019-02-15

A dysfunctional family of superheroes comes together to solve the mystery of their father's...

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Perception

as Teddy Brennan
First aired: 2012-07-09

Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government...

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

as The Scientist
First aired: 2008-01-13

The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and...

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Numb3rs

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-01-23

Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and...

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Dollhouse

as Clyde Randolph
First aired: 2009-02-13

Echo is a member of a highly illegal and underground group of individuals whose personalities...

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Casualty

as Alan Decker
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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The Great

as Archbishop
First aired: 2020-05-15

A genre-bending, anti-historical ride through 18th century Russia following the rise of...

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Manhattan

as Dr. Adelman
First aired: 2014-07-27

Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science...

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The Detectives

as D.C. Dominic Boyle
First aired: 1993-01-27

The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence -...

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Lodge 49

as uncredited
First aired: 2018-08-06

Dud is a deadbeat but charming ex-surfer who joins a fraternal order hoping to reclaim the...

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The Bill

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-10-16

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the...

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Powers

as Emile Cross
First aired: 2015-03-10

Two homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, are assigned to investigate cases...

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A Young Doctor's Notebook

as The Feldsher
First aired: 2012-12-06

A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of...

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Spies of Warsaw

as Julius Halbach
First aired: 2013-01-09

A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and...

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Class Act

as Graham
First aired: 1994-04-07

Class Act was a short-lived British comedy drama series produced in the early to mid-1990s by...

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Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

as Gustave Gilbert
First aired: 2006-09-25

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, is a BBC documentary film series consisting of three one-hour films...

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Fallet

as Tom Brown
First aired: 2017-04-07

A Swedish detective and her timid British colleague's attempt to solve a gruesome murder case...

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