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Adam Godley (born 22 July 1964) is an English actor who portrayed Jonas, the servant of Lady Catrina, the troll in the two-parter episode Beauty and the Beast of the BBC series Merlin (2008-2012).

Adam Godley has appeared in numerous movies, playing characters such as Mr. Trench from Love Actually (2003), William Walsingham from Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Mr. Teavee from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). On stage he has received three Olivier Award nominations, most recently for the role of Charlie Babbitt in the West End production of Rain Man (2008). He was also nominated for Mouth to Mouth at The Royal Court Theatre, and as Kenneth Williams in Terry Johnson's Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick (1998) at the National Theatre. Other London stage work includes Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman (2003), Paul (2005), Cabaret (1993), The Rivals (1994), June Moon (1992), The Importance of Being Earnest (1999), and, on Broadway, Private Lives (2002), for which he won a Theatre World Award. He is currently featured in the Broadway revival of Anything Goes as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. He recently starred in the film Battleship (2012) as the doctor who discovers the alien invasion.

Some of Godley's TV movie roles include Kenneth Williams from Cor, Blimey! (2000), Sampson Brass from The Old Curiosity Shop (2007), and Frank Hawking from Hawking. Other examples of his roles in TV include Gustave Gilbert from Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (2006), Demyan Lukich from A Young Doctor's Notebook (2012-2013), Julius Halbech from Spies of Warsaw (2013), Captain Emile Cross from Powers (2015-2016), DCI Tom Brown from Fallet (2017), Pogo from The Umbrella Academy (2019-present), and Archbishop from The Great (2020-present).

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