
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).
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Credits and photos from TMDB.
The titles people know Adam from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.
as Frederick Schiff · 7 episodes
as Joe Silverman · 2 episodes
as Narrator (voice)
as Archie (voice) · 2 episodes
as Archbishop · 30 episodes

as Mayer Lehman
as Lord Bilge (voice)
as Pogo (voice) · 16 episodes
as Jocelyn Pugh · 4 episodes
as Dr. Salvadore
as Darwin Perry · 1 episode
as Tom Brown · 8 episodes
as Manhugger / Lout #1
as Leland Carlisle · 1 episode
as Clyde Randolph · 1 episode
as Sandy Baxter · 1 episode
as Jonas · 2 episodes
as Father Ybarra
as Elliott Schwartz · 3 episodes
as The Scientist · 1 episode
as Samson Brass

as Graham · 1 episode
as Clifford Bradshaw
as D.C. Dominic Boyle · 1 episode
as PC Anton Livermore

as Tomlinson · 1 episode
The people who keep turning up in Adam’s titles.









