Bradley Whitford
American actor (born 1959)
Bradley Whitford is an American actor who won an Emmy Award in 2001 as Josh Lyman, the quick-talking deputy chief of staff on The West Wing. He added two more Emmy Awards as a guest actor, for Transparent and for Commander Joseph Lawrence on The Handmaid's Tale. His film work spans Scent of a Woman and Billy Madison to the horror favourites The Cabin in the Woods and Get Out, where he played the unsettling Dean Armitage.
Bradley Whitford appears in 11 films and 2 TV series in The Rerun, from 1990 to 2020. Most of that work is in drama, thriller and comedy. Frequent collaborators in The Rerun: Tom Hanks (3), Harrison Ford (2), Stephen Root (2), John Spencer (2), Clint Eastwood (2).
Known for
- The West Wing (1999), Josh Lyman. The quick-witted, combative deputy chief of staff, earning an Emmy Award in 2001.
- Get Out (2017), Dean Armitage. The genial neurosurgeon father hiding something sinister in Jordan Peele’s thriller.
- The Handmaid’s Tale (2017), Commander Joseph Lawrence. An enigmatic architect of Gilead, bringing a guest actor Emmy Award in 2019.
- The Cabin in the Woods (2011), Steve Hadley.
- Transparent (2014), Marcy. A guest role in the Amazon series that won him an Emmy Award in 2015.
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Quick answers
- What movies and TV shows has Bradley Whitford been in?
- Bradley Whitford appears in The Call of the Wild (2020), The Post (2018), The Handmaid’s Tale (2017), Get Out (2017), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), The Cabin in the Woods (2011), The West Wing (1999), A Perfect World (1993), RoboCop 3 (1993), Philadelphia (1993), Scent of a Woman (1992) and Young Guns II (1990) on The Remote.
- When was Bradley Whitford born?
- Bradley Whitford was born on 10 October 1959.
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