Adam Godley

Adam Godley is an English actor. Godley was born in 1964 to Jewish parents in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. His father was a lawyer and his mother a judge. He grew up near Watford, Hertfordshire, and attended Rickmansworth School. He began acting at the age of 9 in a BBC radio production of Hemingway's My Old Man. He received his first theatrical role at the age of 11 as Prince Giovanni in The White Devil in The Old Vic.

His childhood career also included working at the National Theater, in Watch on the Rhine and Lillian Helman's Close of Play, directed by Harold Pinter Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwrit >> Read More... . Godley gained national notoriety after starring in the 1984 BBC television adaptation of J. Meade Falkner's Moon fleet. He spent a season as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company before creating the role of Cliff in the cabaret production of Sam Mendes Samuel Alexander Mendes better known as Sam Mendes >> Read More... at the Donmar Warehouse. He played Lord Evelyn Oakleigh in the award-winning Broadway revival of Anything Goes and Raymond Babitt in the West End production of Rain Man opposite Josh Hartnett.

He directed a new Dennis Kelly adaptation of Georg Kaiser's 1912 German Expressionist masterpiece, From Morning to Midnight, at the National Theater. Most recently, he was one of the three Lehman brothers in the National Theater's Lehman trilogy. He is Tony Award-nominated and has been nominated four times for the Olivier Award.

He played the role of Mr. Trench in Love Actually (2003), Mr. Sutton in Around The World in 80 Days (2004), Mr. Teavee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Vicar in Nanny McPhee (2005), William Walsingham in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Brethren Leader in Son of Rambow (2007), Father Ybarra in The X-Files: I Want To Believe (2008), Dr. Nogrady in Battleship (2012), Pinkus in The Forger Click to look into! >> Read More... (2012), Senior Doctor of Cambridge Hospital in the Theory of Everything (2014), The Manhugger in The BFG Click to look into! >> Read More... (2016), Doctor Salvador in Nightmare Cinema (2018), Lord Bilge in Missing Link (2019), etc.