Tom Goodman-Hill

Tom Goodman-Hill is an English actor of radio, stage film and television. Goodman-Hill portrays Joe Hawkins in AMC's *Humans.*

## Early life

Born as **Tom Hill** in Enfield, and brought up near Newcastle upon Tyne, he qualified as a teacher before turning to acting. During his time in Newcastle, he regularly acted in amateur performances at the People's Theatre.

He earned a BA in Drama and English with a teaching qualification from the University of Warwick, where he took an active role in student drama. He spent a year as a supply teacher in Coventry before moving to London to pursue a full-time acting career.

## Career

### **Television**

Goodman-Hill is known for playing the Police Constable in *Ideal*. He appeared as Jeff in the *Jonathan Creek* episode "Miracle in Crooked Lane", an episode of *Murder in Mind*, Series 5 of BBC One's *Hustle* as Alfie Baron, and the Reverend Golightly in*Doctor Who* episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp".

He has had recurring parts in several comedies, including *The Office* as Ray, *Broken News* and *The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*.

In 2007 he played Richard Helm in an episode of ITV's Lewis. In 2008, Goodman-Hill played John Lilburne in Channel 4's period drama, *The Devil's Whore*. Goodman-Hill can trace his father's family back to Lilburne's Uncle Joseph, through 16 generations. In 2011 he played "Neil Hunter" in drama *Case Histories* starring Jason Isaacs, and in 2011 in *Spy*. In 2013, Goodman-Hill played Mr Roger Grove in the ITV1 series *Mr Selfridge* and Dr Mawsley in *The Thirteenth Tale* for the BBC. He has also appeared in episode 4 of season one of *Call the Midwife*, and as Maurice Jones in a 2014 episode of ITV's Foyle's War entitled The Russian House. In 2015 he starred in Channels 4 Humans.

### **Radio**

Goodman-Hill has played numerous roles in various BBC Radio 4 productions, including: Jesus in *Witness: Five Plays from the Gospel of Luke*; Anton in *Another Case of Milton Jones*; Ron, the security guard, in *Self-Storage*; Archie in *Hut 33*; Claudius in *I, Claudius*; Martin in the episode "Newcastle" in the third series of *Cabin Pressure* and Mason in *My First Planet*.

### **Theatre**

Goodman-Hill started his professional career in the theatre. He has since appeared in productions such as *Pete and Dud: Come Again*, as Peter Cook, and *The Cosmonaut's Last Message To The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union* as Eric. He received an Laurence Olivier Award nomination for the Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his performance as Sir Lancelot (and other roles, mostly those played by John Cleese in the original film *Monty Python and the Holy Grail*), in the London production of *Spamalot*.

In 2009, he played Andrew Fastow, the former real-life CFO of Enron in Lucy Prebble's *ENRON* at Chichester and the Royal Court Theatre. The production transferred to the Noël Coward Theatre in January 2010 and in the interim he replaced Mark Gatiss in *Darker Shores* at the Hampstead Theatre during December 2009.

He is a patron of Scene & Heard.

## Personal life

Goodman-Hill has two teenage children from his marriage to Kerry Bradley. After meeting during the 2010 National Theatre's production of *Earthquakes in London*, his partner is now actress Jessica Raine.

## Quotes

* "(Humans) It’s absolutely the kind of domestic family drama that you would enjoy watching, but there’s this strange, oddly socially, politically relevant thriller bubbling beneath it the whole time" (source)

 Trivia

* Born in Enfield but raised in Newcastle-on-Tyne, he qualified as a teacher before turning to acting.
* He was nominated for an Olivier Award for playing Sir Lancelot in the Monty Python musical SPAMalot, in London's Palace Theatre. [May 2007]

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