Julian Wadham


Julian Neil Rohan 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.

Background

Wadham attended Ampleforth College and the Central School of Speech and Drama

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.
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, 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.
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. Other National Theatre work includes productions directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner of The Madness of King George, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, Polixenes in The Winter's Tale, Tartuffe, The Changeling and Mountain Language.
Other theatre includes Antonio in The Tempest at the Haymarket, as Duke Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre, Marshall Dorfling in The Prince of Homburg at the Donmar Warehouse, Raymond Brock in Plenty for the Almeida at the Albery, Elyot in Private Lives, The Good Samaritan, A Letter of Resignation at the Comedy, and When We Are Married at the Whitehall.
Television roles include The Casual Vacancy, Silk, Midsomer Murders, Lewis, Middlemarch, The Trial of 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.

Works

Film