
Bradley Whitford
Department: 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.
Known For

Bicentennial Man
1999

The Client
1994

Awakenings
1990

Billy Madison
1995

RoboCop 3
1993

Presumed Innocent
1990

Kate & Leopold
2001

The Cabin in the Woods
2012

Masterminds
1997

Red Corner
1997

Scent of a Woman
1992

Young Guns II
1990

SHARE?
2023

A Perfect World
1993

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2005

An American Crime
2007

Philadelphia
1993

Bottle Shock
2008

My Life
1993

Adventures in Babysitting
1987

The Muse
1999

I'll Be Right There
2024

Little Manhattan
2005

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
1987

The Desperate Trail
1994

My Fellow Americans
1996

Fathers and Sons
2005

Countdown: The Sky's on Fire
1999

Have a Little Faith
2011

Saving Mr. Banks
2013

CBGB
2013

Don't Touch My Hair
—

Savannah
2013

Decoding Annie Parker
2014

Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
2013

Doorman
1986

Cloned
1997

The Betty Ford Story
1987

C.A.T. Squad
1986

Nothing But the Truth
1995

I Saw the Light
2016

All the Way
2016

Behind the Mask
1999

The Asset
2012

Unveiling the Horror of Get Out
2017

Wildly Available
1996

Other People
2016

Three Christs
2017

Get Out
2017

Megan Leavey
2017

A Happening of Monumental Proportions
2017

Unicorn Store
2017

The Last Full Measure
2020

Vital Signs
1990

Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019

The Post
2017

Destroyer
2018

The Darkest Minds
2018

Phil
2019

Sergio
2020

tick, tick... BOOM!
2021

The Call of the Wild
2020

Transparent: Musicale Finale
2019

Web of Deception
1994

In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory
1997

A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
2020

Songbird
2020

How It Ends
2021

Rosaline
2022

The Spittin' Image
—

Godzilla: King of The Monsters- The Antarctic Base
2019

For Worse
2026

Office Romance
—

Reminders of Him
2026

FruitHead
2025

Cobb
1994

Tales from the Darkside
1984

Ellen
1994

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

Touched by an Angel
1994

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006

Monk
2002

Malcolm in the Middle
2000

Tracey Takes On...
1996

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

The X-Files
1993

The Equalizer
1985

The Colbert Report
2005

MADtv
1995

ER
1994

Burn Up
2008

Banzai
2001

High Incident
1996

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

The Secret Lives of Men
1998

Black Tie Affair
1993

The Good Guys
2010

Trophy Wife
2013

Saturday Night Live
1975

What If...?
2021

The West Wing
1999

HAPPYish
2015

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015

Frasier
1993

Law & Order: LA
2010

Transparent
2014

Transparent
2014

Real Time with Bill Maher
2003

The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022

Valley of the Boom
2019

Go On
2012

Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2013

Mom
2013

Chicago Justice
2017

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

We Baby Bears
2022

Who Do You Think You Are?
2010

NYPD Blue
1993

Parish
2024

The View
1997

Flack
2019

The Wonder Years
2021

Perfect Harmony
2019

Felicity
1998

A Capitol Fourth
1980

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

Parks and Recreation
2009

Death by Lightning
2025

Drunk History
2013

Human Discoveries
2019

Shameless
2011

Alpha House
2013

The Sarah Silverman Program.
2007

Infinity Train
2019

The Mentalist
2008

The Megan Mullally Show
2006

Golden Globe Awards
1944

The Madness
2024

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019

#1 Happy Family USA
2025

The Handmaid's Tale
2017

In Plain Sight
2008

The Diplomat
2023

Transparent
2014

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

The Colbert Report
2005