Julian Wadham

Julian Wadham is an English actor of stage, film and television. He was educated at Ampleforth College and the Central School of Speech and Drama, third son of Rohan Nicholas Wadham DFC and Juliana Wadham, née Macdonald Walker.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3] 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 Richard Eyre) and Mountain Language (directed by Harold Pinter).

Other theatre includes Antonio in The Tempest at the Haymarket (directed by Trevor Nunn with Ralph Fiennes), as 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), 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.^[4]

Film

• Maurice (1987)
• The Madness of King George (1994, as Pitt the Younger)
• The Secret Agent (1996)
• The English Patient - included in a 1996 nomination for Best Cast for the film (1996)
• Preaching to the Perverted (1997)
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
• The Commissioner (1998)
• High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)
• Gypsy Woman (2001)
• A Different Loyalty (2004)
• Exorcist: The Beginning (2005)
• Wah-Wah (2005)
• Goya's Ghosts (2006)
• Outpost (2007)
• Fake Identity (2008)
• Legacy (2009)
• War Horse (2010)
• Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2010)
• The Iron Lady (2011)
• Outpost: Black Sun (2011)
• Now Is Good (2011)
• Scapegoat (2011)
• The Riot Club (2013)
• Queen and Country (2013)
• The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2014)

Television

• Country (1981)
• Blind Justice (1988)
• Casualty (1988)
• Bergerac (1990)
• Agatha Christie's Poirot - "The Plymouth Express" (1991)
• Middlemarch (1994)
• The Trial of Lord Lucan - Lord Lucan (1997)
• A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
• Highlander: The Raven - "The Ex-Files" (1999)
• Midsomer Murders - Episode 2 No. 1, "Death's Shadow" (1999)
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries - "Payment In Blood" (2001)
• Island at War (2004)
• Rosemary & Thyme - Episode 2.13 (2004)
• Tom Brown's Schooldays as Squire Brown (2005)
• Dalziel and Pascoe - Series 9 "Dust Thou Art" (2005)
• Egypt - Episodes 1 and 2, as Lord Carnarvon (2005)
• The Government Inspector - Jonathan Powell (2005)
• Agatha Christie's Marple - "Sleeping Murder" (2006)
• Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (2006)
• Ghostboat (2006)
• My Boy Jack (2007)
• Foyle's War - "Plan of Attack" (2008)
• Lewis - "The Point of Vanishing" (2009)
• Downton Abbey - Episode 2.3 (2012)
• Father Brown - "The Flying Stars" (2013)
• Silk (2013)
• The Casual Vacancy (2015)

Theatre

• Another Country, Queens Theatre
• When We Are Married, Whitehall Theatre
• Falkland Sound, Royal Court
• Serious Money, Royal Court
• Our Country's Good, Royal Court
• The Recruiting Officer, Royal Court
• Carrington, Royal National Theatre
• Mountain Language, Royal National Theatre
• The Changeling, Royal National Theatre
• Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens, Royal National Theatre
• The Madness of George III, Royal National Theatre
• Plenty, Almeida at the Albery
• The Good Samaritan, Hampstead Theatre
• The Winter's Tale, Royal National Theatre
• Tartuffe, Royal National Theatre
• Private Lives, Theatre Royal Bath
• That Face, Royal Court
• Much Ado About Nothing, Royal National Theatre
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rose Theatre, Kingston
• The Prince of Homburg, Donmar Warehouse
• The Tempest, Theatre Royal Haymarket
• This House, Royal National Theatre
• Another Country, Theatre Royal Bath/Chichester Festival Theatre/Trafalgar Studio

Education

Wadham attended Ampleforth College and the Central School of Speech and Drama^[5]

Personal life

Divorced from Shirley Cassedy, four sons of the marriage.^[6]

References

External links

• Julian Wadham at the Internet Movie Database
• Julian Wadham CV at The Artists Partnership