Julian Wadham

Julian Wadham
Born Julian Neil Rohan Wadham
(1958-08-07) 7 August 1958
Nationality British
Education Ampleforth College
Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupation Actor
Years active 1981–present

Julian Wadham is an English actor of stage, film and television. He was educated at Ampleforth and the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Career

His theatre work includes playing Barclay, soon after leaving the Central School, in the original West End production of Julian Mitchell's Another Country at the Queens Theatre with Rupert Everett and Kenneth Branagh. In 2014 he played Vaughan Cunningham, a visitor to the school, in the Trafalgar Studio revival of the play.[1]

For The English Stage Company at The Royal Court he was directed by Max Stafford-Clark in Falkland Sound/Voces de Malvinas, as Lieutenant David Tinker RN (with Paul Jesson, Lesley Manville, and Marion Bailey), as Captain Plume in George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer, as Lt. Ralph Clark in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, and as Jake in Caryl Churchill's Serious Money (with Linda Bassett, Lesley Manville, Alfred Molina, Gary Oldman, and Meera Syal).

For director Jeremy Herrin he appeared with Lindsay Duncan, Matt Smith and Felicity Jones as Hugh in Polly Stenham's That Face, both at The Royal Court and at the Duke of York's Theatre. Herrin also directed him in the National Theatre production of James Graham's This House, as Humphrey Atkins, in both Cottesloe and Olivier theatres, and in the recent West End revival of Another Country, in which he played Vaughan Cunningham.[2] Other National Theatre work includes productions directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner of The Madness of King George (in which he played Prime Minister William Pitt opposite Sir Nigel Hawthorne's King George), Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing (with Simon Russell Beale and Zoe Wanamaker), Polixenes (with Alex Jennings, Deborah Findlay, and Claire Skinner) in The Winter's Tale, Tartuffe (with Martin Clunes, David Threlfall, and Maggie Tyzack), The Changeling (with Miranda Richardson, directed by Sir Richard Eyre), and Mountain Language (directed by Harold Pinter).

Other theatre includes Antonio in The Tempest at The Haymarket (directed by Sir Trevor Nunn with Ralph Fiennes), as Duke Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Rose Theatre (with Dame Judi Dench, and directed by Sir Peter Hall), Marshall Dorfling in The Prince of Homburg at the Donmar Warehouse, Raymond Brock in Plenty (with Cate Blanchett) for The Almeida at The Albery, Elyot in Private Lives (Theatre Royal Bath), The Good Samaritan (Hampstead), A Letter of Resignation at The Comedy (with Edward Fox and Claire Higgins), and When We Are Married at The Whitehall.

Television roles include The Casual Vacancy, Silk, Midsomer Murders, Lewis, Middlemarch, The Trial of Lord Lucan (as Lord Lucan), Rosemary and Thyme, and Dalziel and Pascoe.

In December 2014 he finished filming for Miramax The 9th Life of Louis Drax scripted by Max Minghella, with Aaron Paul, Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon, Oliver Platt, Molly Parker and Barbara Hershey.

As at December 2015 he is continuing to recreate the role of John Steed in Big Finish's audio series The Avengers - The Lost Episodes.[3]

Film

Television

Theatre

Education

Wadham attended Ampleforth College and The Central School of Speech and Drama[4]

Personal life

Divorced from Shirley Cassedy, four sons of the marriage.[5]

References

  1. Sierz, Aleks (4 April 2014). "Another Country, Trafalgar Studios". The Arts Desk. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  2. Evans, Lloyd (19 April 2014). "Another Country could almost be a YouTube advert for Eton". The Spectator. The Spectator (1828) Ltd. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  3. "The Avengers". The Avengers. Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  4. White, Peter. "Julian Wadham: A Patient Englishman". Isle of Wight Life. visitilife.com. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  5. "Julian Wadham biography". IMDb. Retrieved 2 December 2015.

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