
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

The Theory of Everything

Around the World in 80 Days

Nanny McPhee

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Missing Link

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Cabaret

Nightmare Cinema

Son of Rambow

Thunderpants

The People We Hate at the Wedding

Hawking

The Forger

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Different Faces, Different Flavors

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Special Relationship

Sword of Honour

The Young Visiters

National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy

War Game

The Last Sacrifice

The Prime Minister

An Ungentlemanly Act

Wilde Salomé

Margery and Gladys

Cor, Blimey!

The Stronger
TV Shows

The Good Wife

Homeland

Casualty

Mad Men

Numb3rs

Tony Awards

Private Practice

Succession

Merlin

The Umbrella Academy

The Great North

Lie to Me

Agatha Christie's Marple

Perception

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

The Great

Suburgatory

Dollhouse

Harry's Law

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

Manhattan

Powers

The Copenhagen Test

Case Histories

The Detectives

Lodge 49

Coming Up

Down Cemetery Road

A Young Doctor's Notebook

The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza

Fallet







