Douglas Hodge

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Douglas Hodge (born 25 February 1960) is an English actor, stage director, and singer who studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Hodge, a member of the National Youth Theatre for whom, in 1989, he co-wrote Pacha Mama's Blessing about the Amazon rain forests staged at the Almeida Theatre.

Personal life

Hodge was born in Plymouth, Devon. He was in a relationship with actress Tessa Peake-Jones, with whom he has two children as of 2013. Amanda Miller, an American wigmaker, married him later.

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Career

Hodge appeared in plays by Harold Pinter, including No Man's Land at the Comedy Theatre in February 1993; in September 1994, Moonlight in Edinburgh's Perpetles; and Al' in Stephen Poliakoff's Blinded by the Sun directed by Ron Daniels at the Cottesloe Theatre in May 1997. The collection at the Donmar Warehouse in May 1998; Jerry in Betrayal at the Royal National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre in November 1998; and Aston in The Caretaker at the Royal National Theatre in November 2000, co-starring Michael Gambon (Davies) and Rupert Graves (Mick), which was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

In a RSC revival of The Winter's Tale at the Roundhouse in April 2002, Hodge played Leontes. In a version of the play that had been originally intended for American production, it was directed by Matthew Warchus. "Shaven-headed Hodge, a tyrannical Leontes chopping up the verse into tiny harmless pieces is a dead-ringer for Orson Welles, bald and stingy in Citizen Kane's penultimate reel, even as he comes on in flat cap and plus-fours as a Chicago heavy dressed for a round of golf."

He portrayed Andrei in Michael Blakemore's revival of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Playhouse Theatre in April 2003. In the entrapment journalism Dumb Show, directed by Terry Johnson, it opened in September 2004 to rave reviews, particularly for Hodge's performance as a television comedian whose career is on the decline. As his directorial debut at the Oxford Playhouse in 2004, Hodge selected The Dumb Waiter and Other Pieces (the 1957 one-act play plus six of Pinter's sketches). Hodge made his debut as a Broadway director in 2015, leading a revival of Pinter's 1971 play Old Times. It opened at the American Airlines Theatre, with Clive Owen, Eve Best, and Kelly Reilly.

Hodge appeared in Guys and Dolls' 2005 revival, as Nathan Ferguson opposite Ewan McGregor, who appeared on Sky Masterson. For his appearance, he was nominated for the Olivier Award.

He played Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe during the summer of 2006. Moreover, he made his West End directorial debut with See How They Run, a 1940s wartime farce by Philip King, preceded by a UK tour. Nancy Carroll took over from Hattie Morahan in the role of the vicar's young wife as his West End debuts.

Frank, the neurosurgeon in A Matter of Life and Death with the Kneehigh Theatre company, a performance with music based on events in the film of the same name, appeared in May 2007. He appeared in the Doctor Who audio dramas Urban Myths and Son of the Dragon in 2007.

Hodge appeared as Albin in the London revival of La Cage aux Folles, which appeared originally at the Menier Chocolate Factory. He reprised his appearance at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End and received the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

The London productions were destined for Broadway, opening at the Longacre Theatre on April 18, 2010; Albin and Georges were born respectively, with Hodge and Kelsey Grammer as Albin and Georges. Hodge received the 2010 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his role.

At the Donmar Theatre, London, a 2011 revival of John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence gave Hodge a new role as Maitland, the advocate in the crisis. For his appearance, Hodge received an Olivier Award.

Hodge appeared in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, which had limited appearances at the American Airlines Theatre from September 2012 to November 25, 2012.

Hodge had been cast in the musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical on the West End in October 2012.

Hodge wrote a musical with Aschlin Ditta, whose title was temporarily titled Meantime. In a cast recording, Josefina Gabrielle, Denis Lawson, and several others appeared in a cast film, and actors such as Rory Kinnear, Indira Varma, and Cillian Murphy all appeared in a reading of the novel.

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

Hodge has worked as a writer, producer, and composer, most recently directing Torch Song Trilogy at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2012. He was Associate Director of the Donmar Theatre, directing Dimetos in 2009, Absurdia in 2007, and a host of lectures and seminars for new and classic works.

After a sell-out tour, he directed Last Easter by Bryony Lavery at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and See How They Run, which went straight to the West End.

Douglas appeared in the Broadway transfer of La Cage aux Folles for which his performance received him the Tony Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He appeared at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London in 2008 and then at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End.

The Amazon Rainforest, a work by the National Youth Theatre in 1989, was co-written by Peter Searles of Pacha Mama's Blessing and Forest People. He appeared in the BBC's Middlemarch, adapted by Andrew Davies from George Eliot's book and directed by Anthony Page. In the United States, it aired on Masterpiece Theatre in 1994.

Bliss (1990); Behaving Badly (1990), Roger Carbury; Only Fools and Horses (1995); Only Fools and Horses (1996); The Uninvited (1995); Only Fools (2000); Roger Carbury's The way We Live Now (2001); a BBC television film version of Sir Thomas Bertram's Bereavement (1990); Only Fools (2002); The Way We Live Today (1999); Only Fools and Horses (1993); Becoming; "My wife died while on vacation in Athens."

Brick Bolenger, an American therapist married to Auntie Angela (played by Samantha Bond), appeared in the episode "The Restaurant" of the third series of the BBC sitcom Outnumbered in 2010. In 2011, the protagonist appeared in a story line for the fourth series, but it never appeared on television. Hodge appeared in the BBC drama One Night, as well as appearing in the conspiracy thriller miniseries Secret State and The Town's ITV-1 drama.

In the BBC version of John le Carré's The Night Manager, he appeared in Rex Mayhew in 2016. In 2017, he appeared in "Black Museum," an anthology film version of Black Mirror. In the film Penny Dreadful, he appeared as Inspector Bartholomew Rusk.

Doug Hodge released two albums of his own compositions, "Cowley Road Songs" in 2005 and "Nightbus" in 2009. He received the Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Award for his album 'Powercut' from "Meantime," the musical he co-wrote with Aschlin Ditta.

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