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Douglas Hodge

For the businessman, see Douglas Hodge (businessman).

Douglas William Hodge (born 25 February 1960) is an English actor, director and musician. He has had an extensive career in theatre, as well as film and television where he has appeared in Robin Hood (2010), Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return and Diana (both 2013), Penny Dreadful (2016), Catastrophe (2018), Joker and Lost in Space (both 2019), and The Great (2020–2023).

Douglas Hodge
Born
Douglas William Hodge

(1960-02-25) 25 February 1960 (age 64)
Plymouth, Devon, England
EducationThe Howard School, Kent
Alma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
  • musician
Years active1985–present
PartnerTessa Peake-Jones (1984–2013)[1]
Children2[1]

Early life

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Hodge was born on 25 February 1960 in Plymouth, Devon.[2] When he was young, his family moved to Wigmore, Gillingham, Kent.[3] He attended Fairview Primary School and The Howard School in Rainham, Kent. He was awarded a position as student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA),[4] in London, but was not happy and left before graduating.[5] This never affected his desire to be an actor.[5]

Career

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Theatre

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Hodge has acted in plays by Harold Pinter, including No Man's Land at the Comedy Theatre in February 1993; Moonlight at the Almeida Theatre in September 1993; A Kind of Alaska,The Lover; The Collection at the Donmar Warehouse in May 1998; as Jerry in Betrayal at the Royal National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre, in November 1998; and as Aston in The Caretaker at the Comedy Theatre in November 2000, co-starring Michael Gambon (Davies) and Rupert Graves (Mick), directed by Patrick Marber – for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.[6] For the National Theatre in May 1994 Hodge played the title role in Phyllida Lloyd's Olivier Theatre staging of Shakespeare's Pericles and Al in Stephen Poliakoff's Blinded by the Sun directed by Ron Daniels at the Cottesloe Theatre in May 1997.

In 2002, Hodge played Leontes in an RSC revival of The Winter's Tale at the Roundhouse.[7] In April 2003 he portrayed Andrei in Michael Blakemore's revival of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Playhouse Theatre. In 2004, he made his Royal Court debut as Barry in Joe Penhall's study of entrapment journalism Dumb Show, directed by Terry Johnson.[8] Hodge's directorial debut came in 2004, at the Oxford Playhouse in a double bill of The Dumb Waiter and Other Pieces.[5] Hodge appeared in the 2005 revival of Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre playing Nathan Detroit opposite Ewan McGregor playing Sky Masterson.[9] He received an Olivier Award nomination for his performance.

During the summer of 2006, he acted the title role in Titus Andronicus, at Shakespeare's Globe.[10] Simultaneously, he made his West End directorial debut with See How They Run, a 1940s wartime farce by Philip King, preceded by a UK tour.[11] When his production opened in the West End, Nancy Carroll took over from Hattie Morahan in the role of the vicar's young wife.[12] In May 2007 he displayed a lyric tenor voice as Frank, the neurosurgeon in A Matter of Life and Death with the Kneehigh Theatre company at the National Theatre, a production with music, based on events in the film of the same name.[13] Also in 2007 he guest starred in the Doctor Who audio dramas Urban Myths and Son of the Dragon. In 2008, Hodge starred as Albin in the London revival of La Cage aux Folles which played originally at the Menier Chocolate Factory.[14] He later reprised this role at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End and won the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical.[15][6]

In 2010, The London production of La Cage aux Folles transferred to Broadway, at the Longacre Theatre, with Hodge as Albin, and Kelsey Grammer as Georges. Hodge won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his performance.[6] A 2011 revival of John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence at the Donmar Theatre, London, offered Hodge another role, as Maitland, the lawyer in crisis.[16] Hodge received an Olivier Award nomination for his performance. In 2012, Hodge returned to Broadway when he starred as Cyrano de Bergerac in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Cyrano de Bergerac at the American Airlines Theatre.[17] In October 2012, Hodge was cast as Willy Wonka in the musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane London.[18]

In 2015, Hodge made his debut as a Broadway director, helming a revival of Pinter's 1971 play Old Times, which starred Clive Owen, Eve Best and Kelly Reilly, and opened at the American Airlines Theatre.[19]

Writing

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Hodge wrote a musical with Aschlin Ditta, temporarily called Meantime. Josefina Gabrielle, Denis Lawson and several others participated in a cast recording, and actors including Rory Kinnear, Indira Varma and Cillian Murphy participated in a reading of the book.[20]

He wrote the music and lyrics for the musical 101 Dalmatians, based on the novel by Dodie Smith with a book by Johnny McKnight (from a stage adaptation by Zinnie Harris) at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. The musical was due to open in May 2020, however was postponed to July 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Directing

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Hodge has parallel careers as a writer, director and composer, most recently directing Torch Song Trilogy at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2012.[21] He was Associate Director at the Donmar Theatre directing Dimetos in 2009,[22] Absurdia in 2007.[23]

He directed the world premiere of Last Easter by Bryony Lavery at Birmingham Repertory Theatre,[24] and See How They Run.[25]

He also directed the Millennium Dome Show in the year 2000.

Awards

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Hodge has received Olivier Award nominations for Best Actor for Inadmissible Evidence in 2012[26] and Best Actor in a Musical for Guys and Dolls in 2006,[27] winning Best Actor in a Musical for La Cage aux Folles in 2010.[15] He was also nominated for Best Actor in the 2005 Evening Standard Awards for his role in Dumbshow at the Royal Court.[28]

Douglas starred as Albin in the Broadway transfer of La Cage aux Folles, for which his performance won him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical,[29] a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical,[30] and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical.[31] He originally played the role in London in 2008 at the Menier Chocolate Factory and then at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End.[32]

Television

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With Peter Searles, Hodge co-wrote Pacha Mama's Blessing and Forest People, about the Amazon Rainforest, performed by the National Youth Theatre on BBC Television in 1989. He appeared in the BBC's production Middlemarch, adapted by Andrew Davies from the novel by George Eliot and directed by Anthony Page. In the US it aired on Masterpiece Theatre in 1994.

His other TV appearances include leading roles in Behaving Badly (1989); Capital City (1989–1990); A Fatal Inversion (1992); Bliss (1995); Only Fools and Horses (1996) The Uninvited (1997); The Scold's Bridle (1998); Shockers: Dance (1999); The Law (2000); the BBC serial adaptation of Trollope's The Way We Live Now (2001), as Roger Carbury; The Russian Bride (2001); Red Cap (2003–2004);[33] Spooks (2005); ITV's 2007 adaptation of Mansfield Park, as Sir Thomas Bertram; and the made-for-TV film Lift, directed by James Hawes, a 2007 Hartswood Films production for BBC Four, as Paul Sykes, "a constantly exasperated, highly-strung middle-aged businessman with commitments.".[34]

In 2010, he appeared in the episode "The Restaurant" of the third series of the BBC sitcom Outnumbered as Brick Bolenger, an American therapist who is married to Auntie Angela (played by Samantha Bond). The character was involved in a story line of the fourth series in 2011, but never appeared on screen. In 2012, Hodge had a role in the BBC drama One Night, as well as appearing in the conspiracy thriller miniseries Secret State, and the ITV-1 drama The Town.

In 2016, he featured as Rex Mayhew in the BBC adaptation of John le Carré's The Night Manager. In 2017, he appeared in "Black Museum", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.[35] He appeared as Inspector Bartholomew Rusk in the series Penny Dreadful.[36] He played Grimes in a BBC adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, alongside Jack Whitehall, Stephen Graham and David Suchet.[37]

From 2020 to 2023, Hodge played the role of General Velementov, head of Catherine the Great's armies in The Great, alongside Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult.[38]

Music

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Doug Hodge released two albums of his own compositions: "Cowley Road Songs" in 2005,[39] and "Nightbus" in 2009.[40] He won the Stiles and Drewe 2012 Best New Song Award for his song 'Powercut' from "Meantime", the musical he co-wrote with Aschlin Ditta.[41]

"I've been writing songs all my life but — apart from the occasional girlfriend late at night — I'd never sung them to anyone. Then last year I finally started playing at various venues in and around Oxford. Each time I wrote a new song I'd go down the Ex [on Cowley Road] and sing it... Then Rightback Records asked me to record them. We went into the Blue Moon Studios in Banbury for just four days. This [Cowley Road Songs] is what we came out with..." – Douglas Hodge[42]

Personal life

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Until 2013, Hodge was in a relationship with actress Tessa Peake-Jones with whom he has two children.[1] He subsequently married American wigmaker Amanda Miller.[38]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1988 Salome's Last Dance John the Baptist / Lord Alfred "Bosey" Douglas
1989 Dealers Patrick Skill
Diamond Skulls Jamie Skinner
1991 Buddy's Song Bobby Rosen
1993 The Trial Inspector
1996 Hollow Reed Hannah's barrister
2000 The Magic of Vincent Dr. Robert Blake Short film
2004 Vanity Fair Pitt Crawley
Out of Time Michael Short film
2006 Scenes of a Sexual Nature Brian
2009 The Descent Part 2 Dan
2010 Robin Hood Sir Robert Loxley
2012 Bert & Dickie John Bushnell
2013 Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return Fruit Striped Lawyer Voice
Diana Paul Burrell
2014 Serena Horace Kephart
2016 The Complete Walk: The Tempest Prospero Short film
The Dancer Taylor
2017 Tulip Fever Nicholas Steen
2018 Beirut Sully
Red Sparrow Maxim Volontov
Wanderland Dr. Rock Positano
Jonathan Hans
2019 The Report Dr. James Mitchell
Joker Alfred Pennyworth
Gemini Man Jack Willis
2020 The Devil All the Time Tater Brown
2022 The Curse of Bridge Hollow Old Man
A Grand Romantic Gesture Simon [43]
2024 We Live in Time Reginald
TBA Vindication Swim Post-production[44]
G20 Post-production[45]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1985 Alas Smith and Jones Unknown Episode #2.1
1986 Sorry! Geoffrey Episode: "Every Clown Wants to Play Hamlet"
1988 Me and My Girl Tarzan Episode: "Question Time"
Ten Great Writers of the Modern World Stage Manager / Son / Ordolfo / Raskolnikov 2 episodes
London's Burning Bobby Episode #1.5
King and Castle Detective Sergeant Episode: "Cons"
Rumpole of the Bailey Nigel Timson Episode: "Rumpole and the Barrow Boy"
1989 Behaving Badly Giles
1989–1990 Capital City Declan McConnochie
1992 A Fatal Inversion Adam 3 episodes
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Young Gerald Middleton 3 episodes
1994 Middlemarch Dr. Tertius Lydgate
Broken Lives Unknown TV film
Open Fire DC Peter Finch TV film
1994–1995 Screen Two Michael Cooper / Leslie Bliss / Tracey 3 episodes
1995 It Could Be You Bob TV film
1996 True Love James TV film
Only Fools and Horses Adult Damien Episode: "Heroes and Villains"
1997 The Uninvited Steve Blake
Rules of Engagement Moorhead TV film
1998 The Scold's Bridle Jack Blankeney 2 episodes
1999 Shockers: Dance Mike Swift TV film
2000 The Law DI Jack Raleigh TV film
The Canterbury Tales Unknown Episode: "The Journey Back"
Voice role
2001 The Way We Live Now Roger Carbury
The Russian Bride Eddie Brennan TV film
2001, 2003–2004 Red Cap Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Burns
2002 Blue Heelers Ray Barry Episode: "Private Lives"
2005 Spooks Gary Hicks Episode #4.5
2007 The Lift Paul Sykes TV film
Mansfield Park Sir Thomas Bertram TV film
The Whistleblowers DI Bell Episode: "Ghosts"
2009 Unforgiven Michael Belcombe 3 episodes
2010 Arena Various characters Episode: "Harold Pinter: A Celebration"
Skins Edward Jones Episode: "JJ"
Outnumbered Brick Episode: "The Restaurant"
2012 One Night Ted
Secret State Anthony Fossett 3 episodes
The Town Inspector Chris Franks
2015–2016 Penny Dreadful Bartholomew Rusk 13 episodes
2016 The Good Wife Damon Stryk Episode: "Tracks"
The Night Manager Rex Mayhew 5 episodes
Falling Water H. Robert Arnot, CEO White Sand Equity 5 episodes
2017 Death in Paradise Daniel Langham Episode: "Errupting in Murder"
Unforgotten Paul Nixon 4 episodes
Decline and Fall Grimes
Maigret in Montmartre Fred Alfonsi TV film
Black Mirror Rolo Haynes Episode: "Black Museum"
2017–2019 Catastrophe Douglas 7 episodes
2018 Elementary Sydney Place Episode: "Our Time Is Up"
Watergate Richard Nixon
2019 Curfew Tom Weston Episode #1.4
2019–2021 Lost in Space Alistair Hastings 6 episodes
2020 The Undoing Robert Adelman 2 episodes
2020–2023 The Great General Velementov
2022 I Hate Suzie Too Bailey Quinn Episode #2.1
2023 Extrapolations Hendricks 1 episode

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Work Result Reference
2001 Laurence Olivier Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Caretaker Nominated [6]
2006 Best Actor in a Musical Guys and Dolls Nominated [27][6]
2009 La Cage aux Folles Won [15][6]
2010 Tony Award Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Won [6]
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actor in a Musical Won [6]
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Actor in a Musical Won [6]
2012 Laurence Olivier Award Best Actor Inadmissible Evidence Nominated [26][6]
2014 Whatsonstage.com Awards Best Actor in a Musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Nominated [6]
Laurence Olivier Award Best Actor in a Musical Nominated
2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series The Great Nominated

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Only Fools And Horses actors Tessa Peake-Jones and Douglas Hodge split". independent.co.uk. 6 February 2013.
  2. ^ Who's Who. A & C Black. December 2011.
  3. ^ "Douglas Hodge's'My London'". standard.co.uk. 31 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Student & graduate profiles - Douglas Hodge". RADA. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  5. ^ a b c "One of the Girls". arts.guardian.co.uk. 16 January 2008.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Douglas Hodge Awards and nominations". broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  7. ^ "The Winter's Tale review". BritishTheatreGuide.info. 20 February 2012.
  8. ^ "Dumb Show". britishtheatreguide.info. 2004.
  9. ^ Fisher, Philip, "Guys and Dolls" Archived 20 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine British Theatre Guide, 2005. Retrieved 8 June 2009
  10. ^ "Titus Andronicus". theguardian.com. 1 June 2006.
  11. ^ Thaxter, John, "See How They Run" Archived 7 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine British Theatre Guide, 2006. Retrieved 8 June 2009
  12. ^ Austen, Jeremy, "See How They Run" Archived 7 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine The Stage, 6 July 2006. Retrieved 8 June 2009
  13. ^ Thaxter, John, "A Matter of Life and Death" Archived 12 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine The Stage, 11 May 2007. Retrieved 8 June 2009
  14. ^ "La Cage Aux Folles". thestage.co.uk. 10 January 2008. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012.
  15. ^ a b c Mark Brown (3 February 2009). "La Cage aux Folles steals the spotlight at theatre's Olivier nominations". The Guardian.
  16. ^ "Review Round-up: Hodge Receives Judgement at Donmar". Whats on stage. 20 October 2011. Archived from the original on 23 October 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2011.
  17. ^ "Cyrano de Bergerac". Roundabout Theatre Company. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  18. ^ "Willy Wonka cast in Sam Mendes musical". BBC. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  19. ^ "Old Times". theatermania.com. 6 October 2015.
  20. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 April 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  21. ^ "Tony Winner Douglas Hodge to Direct Torch Song Trilogy at Menier; Merrily We Roll Along & More on Tap". broadway.com.
  22. ^ "Dimetos, with Jonathan Pryce, Begins Donmar Run March 19". Playbill. 19 March 2009. Archived from the original on 9 December 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  23. ^ "London's Donmar Announces Absurdia Cast". Playbill. 21 June 2007. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  24. ^ "The week in theatre: Last Easter, Birmingham Rep – Jenufa, Arcola, London E8". The Guardian. 28 October 2007.
  25. ^ "Wartime Favorite See How They Run to Return to the West End". Playbill. 28 April 2006. Archived from the original on 9 December 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
  26. ^ a b "Matilda leads 2012 Olivier nominations – Laurence Olivier Awards". Archived from the original on 9 December 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-09.
  27. ^ a b "2006 Laurence Olivier Nominations Announced; Billy Elliot Leads Pack with Nine Nominations". Playbill. 18 January 2006.
  28. ^ "No dumb actor: Douglas Hodge has been nominated for Best Actor for his role". London Evening Standard. 10 April 2012.
  29. ^ "Broadway Newcomer Douglas Hodge Takes Home Tony for La Cage aux Folles". Broadway.com.
  30. ^ BWW News Desk. "Hodge Wins Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Musical for La Cage!". BroadwayWorld.com.
  31. ^ "Memphis, La Cage, Zeta-Jones, Finneran and More Are Outer Critics Circle Award Winners". Playbill. 17 May 2010.
  32. ^ "Menier La Cage Opens at West End's Playhouse Theatre Oct. 30". Playbill. 30 October 2008.
  33. ^ "Drama – Red Cap". BBC. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  34. ^ "BBC Four finds itself in a Tight Spot" Archived 22 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine BBC, 16 February 2007. Retrieved 8 June 2009
  35. ^ Haring, Bruce (25 August 2017). "'Black Mirror': Season 4 Cast & Episode Info, Teaser Trailer Released By Netflix". Deadline. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  36. ^ "Patti LuPone and Douglas Hodge join Penny Dreadful season 2". Digital Spy. 8 September 2014.
  37. ^ "Decline and Fall". IMDb.
  38. ^ a b "Douglas Hodge: 'I almost had to head-butt Harold Pinter'". theguardian.com. 13 November 2019.
  39. ^ "Amazon.com: Cowley Road Songs: Doug Hodge: MP3 Downloads". Amazon.
  40. ^ "Amazon.com: Douglas Hodge: Night Bus: Music". Amazon.
  41. ^ "Mercury Musicals | Nurturing New Musical Theatre Writing". Archived from the original on 21 November 2014.
  42. ^ "Cowley Road inspires actor". Oxford Mail. 22 March 2005. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  43. ^ "Bodyguard' star Gina McKee, Douglas Hodge of 'Catastrophe' join 'A Grand Romantic Gesture' (exclusive)". Screen Daily. 18 July 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  44. ^ "Elliott Hasler's 'Vindication Swim' Biopic Casts Douglas Hodge, James Wilby". variety.com. 28 January 2022.
  45. ^ Grobar, Matt (22 January 2024). "Anthony Anderson, Marsai Martin, Ramón Rodríguez, Antony Starr & More Join G20, Viola Davis-Led Action Thriller From Amazon, MRC". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
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