Tom Godwin
Acting
Biography
Thomas Tyndale Godwin (born 19th December 1975 in Scarborough) is an actor and movement specialist. Tom trained in Paris at the École International de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. In TV and Film, upcoming projects include The English (Hugo Blick), Knockers (Lucy Cohen), and Ridley Scott's Napoleon. Recent Theatre credits include playing Andy Warhol, Bobby Kennedy and Enoch Powell in Best of Enemies at the Young Vic, which will soon transfer to the Noel Coward Theatre in London's West End. In '96 after two years studying with Jacques Lecoq, Tom spent another five working and creating theatre abroad in Barcelona, Tokyo, Tashkent, Porto and New York. On relocating back to London he set about creating new work as part of Blow Up Theatre, taking shows to the Edinburgh Festival and touring the UK. Early roles in TV and Theatre kept him afloat as did teaching movement in many of the UK's top drama schools until he was cast as part of the original company of ENRON produced by Headlong Theatre. This in turn lead to an ongoing creative partnership with his agents, Scott Marshall Partners and new work at the National Theatre, Royal Court, Young Vic, Shakespeare's Globe, Park Avenue Armory NYC and West End Theatres, including originating the part of Phil Spector in Tina! The Tina Turner Musical. Alongside his acting training at the Lecoq school he later studied at the L.E.M with Pascal Lecoq and Grikor Belekian and continues to teach Movement as well as working as a Movement Director and Movement Consultant. This movement work is varied and wide ranging and includes motion capture at the Imaginarium Studios, assisting the inspirational Scott Ambler at the National Theatre and Movement Coaching stunt performers on Disney's The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.
Known For
A century before the events of Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros: a young, naive but courageous knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, and his diminutive squire, Egg. Set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne and the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory, great destinies, powerful foes, and dangerous exploits await these improbable and incomparable friends.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
Waking the Dead
Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly mystery and forbidden romance when a magical book shows up in an Oxford library.
A Discovery of Witches
Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Taboo
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
About Time
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
Alice Through the Looking Glass
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
The Hollow Crown
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
Napoleon
Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.
My Mad Fat Diary
An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the American West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.
The English
Five strangers receive blackmail notes from an anonymous source, leading them on a dark and surreal journey as their lives unravel, featuring bizarre characters like a man-child, a one-handed clown, and a blind millionaire.
Psychoville
In a fantasy world where magic is being superceded by technology, an orphaned teen discovers her destiny to become a dragonslayer.
The Last Dragonslayer
In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.
National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies
Shakespeare’s most outrageous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew introduces one of theatre’s great screwball double-acts, a couple hell-bent on confusing and outwitting each other right up to the play’s equivocal and controversial conclusion.