HENRY GOODMAN

Henry Goodman is an acclaimed actor who has worked in theatre, television, film and radio. He has recently starred as Constant Coquelin in the Richmond Theatre’s Edmond de Bergerac, and played Lucian Freud in Looking at Lucian in Ustinov Studio, Bath.

Henry has acted at the RSC multiple times, including playing the title characters in Volpone and Richard III. He has also had starring roles in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Duchess Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre), The Winslow Boy (Old Vic), Holy Rosenburgs (National Theatre) and in Yes, Prime Minister (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End). Other credits include Duet for One with Juliet Stevenson, Fiddler on the Roof, The Birthday Party with Eileen Atkins and Chicago in the West End, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, After the Fall, Broken Glass, Guys and Dolls, Summerfolk and Trevor Nunn’s production of The Merchant of Venice for which he won the Olivier Actor of the Year Award at the National Theatre.
He won the Best Supporting Actor Award in 1992 for his performance as the original Roy Cohn in Angels in America, the Olivier Award as Best Actor in a Musical in 1993 for Assassins, and in 1994 was nominated as Best Actor of the Year for his performance in Hysteria at the Royal Court. Broadway credits include Art and Tarfuffe. Recent TV and film work includes the highly acclaimed Yes, Prime Minister, The Damned United and Taking Woodstock.