Julian Wadham


Julian Neil Rohan Wadham is an English actor of stage, film and television.

Early life

The third son of Rohan Nicholas Wadham DFC and Juliana Wadham, Wadham was educated at Ampleforth College and the Central [School of Speech and Drama].

Career

Wadham's theatre work includes playing Barclay in the original West End production of Julian Mitchell's Another Country at the Queens Theatre with Kenneth Branagh and fellow Old Amplefordian Rupert Everett. 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, 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.
His other National Theatre work includes roles in the following productions directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner: 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 roles include: Antonio in The Tempest at the Haymarket ; 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. He also appeared in The Good Samaritan in Hampstead; A Letter of Resignation at the Comedy ; and When We Are Married at the Whitehall.
He has appeared in numerous television productions, including The Casual Vacancy, Silk, Midsomer Murders, Lewis, Middlemarch, Father Brown, The Trial of Lord Lucan, Rosemary and Thyme, and Dalziel and Pascoe.
In December 2014, he finished filming Miramax's The 9th Life of Louis Drax, scripted by Max Minghella. As of December 2015, he was continuing to recreate the role of John Steed in Big Finish's audio series The Avengers – The Lost Episodes.

Works

Film