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Julian Wadham | |
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| Born | Julian Neil Rohan Wadham 7 August 1958 Ware, Hertfordshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Ampleforth College Central School of Speech and Drama |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1981–present |
Julian Neil Rohan Wadham (born 7 August 1958) is an English actor of stage, film and television.
The third son of Rohan Nicholas Wadham DFC and Juliana Wadham (née Macdonald Walker), Wadham was educated at Ampleforth College and the Central School of Speech and Drama, [1] [2]
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. [3]
For the English Stage Company at the Royal Court he was directed by Max Stafford-Clark in Falkland Sound, 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 West End revival of Another Country, in which he played Vaughan Cunningham. [4] His other National Theatre work includes roles in 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 Zoë 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 Richard Eyre) and Mountain Language (directed by Harold Pinter).
His other theatre roles include: Antonio in The Tempest at the Haymarket (directed by Trevor Nunn with Ralph Fiennes); Duke Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre (with Judi Dench and directed by 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). He also appeared in: 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.
He has had roles in several television productions, including The Casual Vacancy, Silk, Midsomer Murders, Lewis, Middlemarch, Father Brown, The Trial of Lord Lucan (as Lord Lucan), Rosemary and Thyme and Dalziel and Pascoe.
In December 2014 he finished filming Miramax’s 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 was continuing to recreate the role of John Steed in Big Finish's audio series The Avengers – The Lost Episodes. [5]
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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| 1997 | 3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (shared with the cast) | Nominated | |
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