
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

Battleship

Love Actually

The BFG

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

The Theory of Everything

Around the World in 80 Days

Nanny McPhee

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Missing Link

The People We Hate at the Wedding

Son of Rambow

Nightmare Cinema

Cabaret

Thunderpants

The Special Relationship

The Forger

Hawking

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

The Old Curiosity Shop

War Game

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Different Faces, Different Flavors

Sword of Honour

The Prime Minister

An Ungentlemanly Act

Wilde Salomé

The Young Visiters

National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

The Last Sacrifice

Margery and Gladys

The Stronger

Cor, Blimey!
TV Shows

Mad Men

Casualty

The Bill

Homeland

Private Practice

Numb3rs

Tony Awards

Lie to Me

Succession

Agatha Christie's Marple

Merlin

The Great North

The Umbrella Academy

Perception

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

The Great

Suburgatory

Dollhouse

Harry's Law

Manhattan

The Copenhagen Test

Powers

Lodge 49

The Detectives

Down Cemetery Road

A Young Doctor's Notebook

Case Histories

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

Thomas & Sarah

Class Act

Fallet




