
Biography
Bradley Whitford (born October 10, 1959) is an American actor and producer. From 1999 to 2006, Whitford starred as Josh Lyman, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, in NBC's political drama television series The West Wing. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the role in 2001. 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 Minds and Rick Stanton in the monster film Godzilla: King of the Monsters. In 2015, he won a second Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Marcy in Transparent and later garnered a fifth Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying Magnus Hirschfeld in the same series. From 2018 to 2025, Whitford portrayed Commander Joseph Lawrence in 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.
Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series · 2015
- Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series · 2002
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series · 2001
- Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series · 2001
- Satellite Award — Best Actor – Television Series Drama · 2006 · nominated
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- Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series · 2006 · nominated
- Writers Guild of America Award — Television: Dramatic Series · 2006 · nominated
- Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series · 2005 · nominated
- Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series · 2004 · nominated
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series · 2003 · nominated
- Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series · 2003 · nominated
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series · 2002 · nominated
- Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series · 2002 · nominated
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series · 2001 · nominated
- Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series · 2001 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles

Nothing But the Truth

Malcolm in the Middle

Infinity Train

The Mentalist

The X-Files

The U.S. and the Holocaust

The West Wing

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Shameless

What If...?

The Handmaid's Tale

Parks and Recreation

Monk

A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

ER

Scent of a Woman

Awakenings

Reminders of Him

Frasier

Philadelphia

The Diplomat

tick, tick... BOOM!

Get Out

The Call of the Wild

A Perfect World

Death by Lightning

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

We Baby Bears

The Last Full Measure

Megan Leavey

Mom

Saving Mr. Banks

An American Crime

Bicentennial Man

Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter

Alpha House

The Good Guys

Little Manhattan

Touched by an Angel

Rosaline

In Plain Sight

Mad TV

NYPD Blue

Not Going Quietly

The Wonder Years

The Darkest Minds

The Post

American Dad!

The Colbert Report