Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford
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.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
152
Gender
Male
Birthday
1959-10-10 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Acting

2025

#1 Happy Family USA as Principal (voice)

2024

The Madness as Stu Magnusson

2024

Parish as Anton Valmont

2024

I'll Be Right There as Henry

2022

Rosaline as Adrian Capulet

2021

How It Ends as Kenny

2020

Songbird as William Griffin

2019

Flack as Calvin Cooper

2019

Perfect Harmony as Arthur Cochran

2019

Human Discoveries as Leader Elk (voice)

2019

Phil as Michael Fisk

2018

Destroyer as DiFranco

2017

Three Christs as Clyde

2017

Unicorn Store as Gene

2016

Other People as Norman Mulcahey

2016

I Saw the Light as Fred Rose

2014

Decoding Annie Parker as Marshall

2013

CBGB as Nicky Grant

2012

Go On as Hughie

2001

Kate & Leopold as J.J. Camden

1999

The Muse as Hal

1999

Bicentennial Man as Lloyd

1998

The Secret Lives of Men as Not available

1997

Masterminds as Miles Lawrence

1996

My Fellow Americans as Carl Witnaur

1995

MADtv as Self

1995

Billy Madison as Eric Gordon

1994

The Client as Thomas Fink

1993

My Life as Paul Ivanovich

1993

Black Tie Affair as Not available

1990

Young Guns II as Charles Phalen

1990

Awakenings as Dr. Tyler

1990

Vital Signs as Dr. Donald Ballentine

1987

Adventures in Babysitting as Mike Todwell

NaN

Office Romance as Peter Vance

2026

Reminders of Him as Patrick Landry

2025

For Worse as Not available

2023

SHARE? as #006395873

2022

We Baby Bears as Glen (voice)

2021

What If...? as Colonel Flynn (voice)

2021

The Wonder Years as Alan Van Der Kamp

2021

tick, tick... BOOM! as Stephen Sondheim

2020

The Call of the Wild as Judge Miller

2020

The Last Full Measure as Carlton Stanton

2020

Sergio as Paul Bremer

2019

The Kelly Clarkson Show as Not available

2019

Infinity Train as Agent Sieve (voice)

2019

Godzilla: King of the Monsters as Dr. Rick Stanton

2019

Valley of the Boom as James L. Barksdale

2018

The Darkest Minds as President Gray

2017

The Handmaid's Tale as Commander Joseph Lawrence

2017

Get Out as Dean Armitage

2017

The Post as Arthur Parsons

2017

Chicago Justice as Albert Forest

2017

Megan Leavey as Bob

2016

All the Way as Hubert Humphrey

2015

HAPPYish as Jonathan Cooke

2014

Transparent as Magnus

2014

Transparent as Macy

2013

Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Roger Peralta

2013

Mom as Mitch

2013

Drunk History as William Jennings Bryan

2013

Alpha House as Senator (Ned)

2013

Trophy Wife as Pete Harrison

2013

Saving Mr. Banks as Don DaGradi

2013

Savannah as Jack Cay

2012

The Cabin in the Woods as Steve Hadley

2012

The Asset as Leo Maxiell

2011

Shameless as Abraham Paige

2011

Have a Little Faith as Mitch

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

2007

The Sarah Silverman Program. as Toby Grossnickel

2007

An American Crime as Prosecutor

2006

The Megan Mullally Show as Self - Guest

2006

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as Danny Tripp

2005

The Colbert Report as Self

2005

Fathers and Sons as Anthony

2005

Little Manhattan as Adam

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Not available

2002

Monk as Dean Berry

2001

Banzai as Not available

2000

Malcolm in the Middle as Meg's Husband

1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Pence Humphreys

1999

The West Wing as Josh Lyman

1999

Behind the Mask as Brian Shushan

1999

Countdown: The Sky's on Fire as John Morgan, KTML News

1998

Felicity as Tom Anderson (uncredited)

1997

The View as Self

1997

Red Corner as Bob Ghery

1997

Cloned as Rick Weston

1997

In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory as Tom LaSalle (credited as Brad Whitford)

1997

The People as Michael Leary

1996

Tracey Takes On... as Not available

1996

High Incident as Not available

1996

Wildly Available as Professor

1995

Nothing But the Truth as 'Mack' McCarthy

1994

Touched by an Angel as Steve Bell

1994

ER as Sean O'Brien

1994

Ellen as Doug

1994

The Desperate Trail as Tommy Donnelly

1994

Web of Deception as Larry Lake

1993

The X-Files as Daniel Trepkos

1993

Frasier as Stu (voice)

1993

NYPD Blue as Norman Gardner

1993

Philadelphia as Jamey Collins

1993

RoboCop 3 as Fleck

1993

A Perfect World as Bobby Lee

1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Not available

1992

Scent of a Woman as Randy

1990

Presumed Innocent as Jamie Kemp

1987

The Betty Ford Story as Jack Ford

1986

C.A.T. Squad as Leon Trepper

NaN

Death by Lightning as James Blaine

NaN

The Spittin' Image as Not available

1986

Doorman as Terry Reilly

1985

The Equalizer as Dillart

1984

Tales from the Darkside as Tom Dash

1980

A Capitol Fourth as Self

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee

NaN

Don't Touch My Hair as Not available
Crew

2025

For Worse Producer

2021

Not Going Quietly Executive Producer

2019

Perfect Harmony Executive Producer

2017

The Handmaid's Tale Director

2010

The Good Guys Producer

1999

The West Wing Writer