Portrait of Bradley Whitford

Bradley Whitford

Acting

Biography

Bradley Whitford (born October 10, 1959) is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his portrayal of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman in the NBC television political drama The West Wing (1999–2006), for which he was nominated for three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards from 2001 to 2003, winning in 2001. The role earned him three consecutive Golden Globe Award nominations. In addition to The West Wing, Whitford played Danny Tripp in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy-comedy The Good Guys, Timothy Carter, a character who was believed to be Red John, in the CBS series The Mentalist, antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison, Arthur Parsons in The Post, Dean Armitage in the horror film Get Out, Roger Peralta in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, President Gray in the dystopian science fiction film The Darkest Mindsand Rick Stanton in the monster film Godzilla: King of the Monsters. In 2015, he won a second Primetime Emmy Award for his role as Marcy in Transparent and later garnered a fifth nomination for portraying Magnus Hirschfeld in the same series. Since 2018, Whitford has portrayed Commander Joseph Lawrence in the Hulu dystopian drama The Handmaid's Tale, for which he won his third Primetime Emmy Award in 2019. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bradley Whitford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: October 10, 1959

Place of Birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Filmography

2026
Reminders of Him

as Patrick Landry

2025
Death by Lightning

as James Blaine

2025
FruitHead

as Richard

2025
#1 Happy Family USA

as Principal (voice)

2024
The Madness

as Stu Magnusson

2024
Parish

as Anton Valmont

2023
SHARE?

as #006395873

2023
The Diplomat

as Todd Penn

2022
Rosaline

as Adrian Capulet

2022
We Baby Bears

as Glen (voice)

2021
tick, tick... BOOM!

as Stephen Sondheim

2021
The Wonder Years

as Alan Van Der Kamp

2021
What If...?

as Colonel Flynn (voice)

2021
How It Ends

as Kenny

2020
Songbird

as William Griffin

2020
The Call of the Wild

as Judge Miller

2020
Sergio

as Paul Bremer

2020
The Last Full Measure

as Carlton Stanton

2019
Perfect Harmony

as Arthur Cochran

2019
Infinity Train

as Agent Sieve (voice)

2019
Human Discoveries

as Leader Elk (voice)

2019
Phil

as Michael Fisk

2019
2019
Flack

as Calvin Cooper

2019
Valley of the Boom

as James L. Barksdale

2018
Destroyer

as DiFranco

2018
The Darkest Minds

as President Gray

2017
The Post

as Arthur Parsons

2017
2017
2017
2017
The Handmaid's Tale

as Joseph Lawrence

2017
Chicago Justice

as Albert Forest

2017
Get Out

as Dean Armitage

2016
Other People

as Norman Mulcahey

2016
All the Way

as Hubert Humphrey

2016
I Saw the Light

as Fred Rose

2015
HAPPYish

as Jonathan Cooke

2014
Transparent

as Magnus

2014
2014
2013
Saving Mr. Banks

as Don DaGradi

2013
CBGB

as Nicky Grant

2013
Trophy Wife

as Pete Harrison

2013
Mom

as Mitch

2013
Brooklyn Nine-Nine

as Roger Peralta

2013
Drunk History

as William Jennings Bryan

2013
Savannah

as Jack Cay

2013
Alpha House

as Senator (Ned)

2012
Go On

as Hughie

2012
The Cabin in the Woods

as Steve Hadley

2011
Shameless

as Abraham Paige

2010
Law & Order: LA

as Attorney Miklin

2010
The Good Guys

as Dan Stark

2009
Parks and Recreation

as Councilman Pillner

2008
The Mentalist

as Timothy Carter (uncredited)

2008
Bottle Shock

as Professor Saunders

2008
Burn Up

as Mack

2008
In Plain Sight

as Adam Wilson / Adam Roston

2007
An American Crime

as Prosecutor

2007
The Sarah Silverman Program.

as Toby Grossnickel

2006
2005
2005
2002
Monk

as Dean Berry

2001
Kate & Leopold

as J.J. Camden

2001
2000
Malcolm in the Middle

as Meg's Husband

1999
1999
The West Wing

as Josh Lyman

1999
1999
The Muse

as Hal

1999
Countdown: The Sky's on Fire

as John Morgan, KTML News

1999
Behind the Mask

as Brian Shushan

1998
Felicity

as Tom Anderson (uncredited)

1997
Red Corner

as Bob Ghery

1997
Cloned

as Rick Weston

1997
Masterminds

as Miles Lawrence

1997
The View

as Self

1997
In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory

as Tom LaSalle (credited as Brad Whitford)

1996
My Fellow Americans

as Carl Witnaur

1996
Wildly Available

as Professor

1995
MADtv

as Self

1995
Nothing But the Truth

as 'Mack' McCarthy

1995
Billy Madison

as Eric Gordon

1994
The Desperate Trail

as Tommy Donnelly

1994
Touched by an Angel

as Steve Bell

1994
ER

as Sean O'Brien

1994
The Client

as Thomas Fink

1994
Web of Deception

as Larry Lake

1994
Ellen

as Doug

1993
Philadelphia

as Jamey Collins

1993
A Perfect World

as Bobby Lee

1993
My Life

as Paul Ivanovich

1993
NYPD Blue

as Norman Gardner

1993
Frasier

as Stu (voice)

1993
The X-Files

as Daniel Trepkos

1993
RoboCop 3

as Fleck

1992
1990
Awakenings

as Dr. Tyler

1990
Young Guns II

as Charles Phalen

1990
Presumed Innocent

as Jamie Kemp

1990
Vital Signs

as Dr. Donald Ballentine

1987
1987
1986
C.A.T. Squad

as Leon Trepper

1986
Doorman

as Terry Reilly

1985
The Equalizer

as Dillart

1980
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee