Adam Godley

Adam Godley (born 22 July 1964) is a British-American 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, Rain Man in 2008, 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), and the children's films Around the World in 80 Days (2004), Nanny McPhee (2005), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). He also has recurring roles as Elliott Schwartz in AMC's Breaking Bad, Demyan Lukich in the BBC's A Young Doctor's Notebook (2012-13), Phinneus Pogo in Netflix's The Umbrella Academy (2019 to present), and the Archbishop in Hulu's The Great (2020–present). Godley was born to Jewish parents on 22 July 1964 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. His father was a solicitor, and his mother was a magistrate. He grew up near Watford, Hertfordshire, and went to Rickmansworth School.