Adam Godley is a film, television and theatre actor. He is a Tony Award nominee and has been nominated three times for the Olivier Award. He began his acting career at the age of 9, in a BBC radio production of Hemingway's My Old Man. His first stage role came at age 11, as Prince Giovanni in The White Devil at The Old Vic. His childhood career also included work at London's National Theatre, in Lillian Helman's Watch on the Rhine, and Close of Play, directed by Harold Pinter.
Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for Anything Goes in 2011. Won Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for Anything Goes in 2011. Nominated for Drama Desk Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for Anything Goes in 2011.
Nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor, for "Rain Man" at The Apollo Theatre, London.
He received a Theatre World Award for "Outstanding Broadway Debut" for his performance as Victor in the Alan Rickman, Lindsay Duncan production of Noel Cowards "Private Lives" at the Richard Rogers Theater.
He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Mouth to Mouth at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs in London.
He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Supporting Performance for his role in Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle, and Dick.
(August 2008) Playing Raymond Babbit opposite Josh Hartnett as Charlie Babbit in the stage production of Rain Man at the Apollo Theater in Londons West End.
(July 2002) Playing Victor on Broadway in the Tony-winning revival of Private Lives.
