# Douglas Hodge

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).

## Early life

Hodge was born on 25 February 1960 in Plymouth, Devon. When he was young, his family moved to Wigmore, Gillingham, Kent. 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), in London, but was not happy and left before graduating. This never affected his desire to be an actor.

## Career
### Theatre

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. 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. 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. Hodge's directorial debut came in 2004, at the Oxford Playhouse in a double bill of The Dumb Waiter and Other Pieces. Hodge appeared in the 2005 revival of Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre playing Nathan Detroit opposite Ewan McGregor playing Sky Masterson. 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. 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. When his production opened in the West End, Nancy Carroll took over from Hattie Morahan in the role of the vicar's young wife. 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. 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. 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.
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. A 2011 revival of John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence at the Donmar Theatre, London, offered Hodge another role, as Maitland, the lawyer in crisis. 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. 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.
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.

#### Writing

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.
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

Hodge has parallel careers as a writer, director and composer, most recently directing Torch Song Trilogy at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2012. He was Associate Director at the Donmar Theatre directing Dimetos in 2009, Absurdia in 2007.
He directed the world premiere of Last Easter by Bryony Lavery at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and See How They Run.
He also directed the Millennium Dome Show in the year 2000.

#### Awards

Hodge has received Olivier Award nominations for Best Actor for Inadmissible Evidence in 2012 and Best Actor in a Musical for Guys and Dolls in 2006, winning Best Actor in a Musical for La Cage aux Folles in 2010. He was also nominated for Best Actor in the 2005 Evening Standard Awards for his role in Dumbshow at the Royal Court.
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, a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He originally played the role in London in 2008 at the Menier Chocolate Factory and then at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End.

### Television

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); 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.".
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. He appeared as Inspector Bartholomew Rusk in the series Penny Dreadful. He played Grimes in a BBC adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, alongside Jack Whitehall, Stephen Graham and David Suchet.
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.

### Music

Doug Hodge released two albums of his own compositions: "Cowley Road Songs" in 2005, and "Nightbus" in 2009. 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.
   "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

## Personal life

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

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1988 | Salome's Last Dance | John the Baptist / Lord Alfred "Bosey" Douglas | |
| 1989 | Dealers | Patrick Skill | |
| 1989 | 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 | |
| 2004 | 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 |
| 2013 | Diana | Paul Burrell | |
| 2014 | Serena | Horace Kephart | |
| 2016 | The Complete Walk: The Tempest | Prospero | Short film |
| 2016 | The Dancer | Taylor | |
| 2017 | Tulip Fever | Nicholas Steen | |
| 2018 | Beirut | Sully | |
| 2018 | Red Sparrow | Maxim Volontov | |
| 2018 | Wanderland | Dr. Rock Positano | |
| 2018 | Jonathan | Hans | |
| 2019 | The Report | Dr. James Mitchell | |
| 2019 | Joker | Alfred Pennyworth | |
| 2019 | Gemini Man | Jack Willis | |
| 2020 | The Devil All the Time | Tater Brown | |
| 2022 | The Curse of Bridge Hollow | Old Man | |
| 2022 | A Grand Romantic Gesture | Simon | |
| 2024 | We Live in Time | Reginald | |
| 2025 | G20 | Oliver Everett | Post-production |
| TBA | Vindication Swim | TBA | Post-production |
| TBA | Untitled Jack Ryan film | TBA | Filming |

### Television

| 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" |
| 1988 | Ten Great Writers of the Modern World | Stage Manager / Son / Ordolfo / Raskolnikov | 2 episodes |
| 1988 | London's Burning | Bobby | Episode #1.5 |
| 1988 | King and Castle | Detective Sergeant | Episode: "Cons" |
| 1988 | 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 |
| 1992 | Anglo-Saxon Attitudes | Young Gerald Middleton | 3 episodes |
| 1994 | Middlemarch | Dr. Tertius Lydgate | |
| 1994 | Broken Lives | Unknown | TV film |
| 1994 | 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 |
| 1996 | Only Fools and Horses | Adult Damien | Episode: "Heroes and Villains" |
| 1997 | The Uninvited | Steve Blake | |
| 1997 | 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 |
| 2000 | The Canterbury Tales | Unknown | Episode: "The Journey Back" Voice role |
| 2001 | The Way We Live Now | Roger Carbury | |
| 2001 | 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 |
| 2007 | Mansfield Park | Sir Thomas Bertram | TV film |
| 2007 | The Whistleblowers | DI Bell | Episode: "Ghosts" |
| 2009 | Unforgiven | Michael Belcombe | 3 episodes |
| 2010 | Arena | Various characters | Episode: "Harold Pinter: A Celebration" |
| 2010 | Skins | Edward Jones | Episode: "JJ" |
| 2010 | Outnumbered | Brick | Episode: "The Restaurant" |
| 2012 | One Night | Ted | |
| 2012 | Secret State | Anthony Fossett | 3 episodes |
| 2012 | The Town | Inspector Chris Franks | |
| 2015–2016 | Penny Dreadful | Bartholomew Rusk | 13 episodes |
| 2016 | The Good Wife | Damon Stryk | Episode: "Tracks" |
| 2016 | The Night Manager | Rex Mayhew | 5 episodes |
| 2016 | Falling Water | H. Robert Arnot, CEO White Sand Equity | 5 episodes |
| 2017 | Death in Paradise | Daniel Langham | Episode: "Errupting in Murder" |
| 2017 | Unforgotten | Paul Nixon | 4 episodes |
| 2017 | Decline and Fall | Grimes | |
| 2017 | Maigret in Montmartre | Fred Alfonsi | TV film |
| 2017 | Black Mirror | Rolo Haynes | Episode: "Black Museum" |
| 2017–2019 | Catastrophe | Douglas | 7 episodes |
| 2018 | Elementary | Sydney Place | Episode: "Our Time Is Up" |
| 2018 | 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

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