Acting credits
149
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Bradley Whitford
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
3.9
Moderate attention
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Movies: 77Series: 73Crew credits: 7
TMDB ID: 11367
IMDb ID: nm0925966
Known for: Acting
Born: October 10, 1959
Age: 66
Place of birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2026
Years active: 83
Average TMDB rating: 6.73
Wikidata: Q352180
Other jobs
Director (2)Executive Producer (2)Producer (2)Writer (1)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Bradley Whitford.
Office Romance
as Peter Vance
2026 Movie
Reminders of Him
as Patrick Landry
2026 Movie
For Worse
as Dave
2026 Movie
FruitHead
as Richard
2025 Movie
The Big Everything
as God
2025 Movie
I'll Be Right There
as Henry
2024 Movie
SHARE?
as #006395873
2023 Movie
Don't Touch My Hair
as "The Suit"
2023 Movie
Rosaline
as Adrian Capulet
2022 Movie
tick, tick... BOOM!
as Stephen Sondheim
2021 Movie
Not Going Quietly
Executive Producer
2021 Movie
How It Ends
as Kenny
2021 Movie
Songbird
as William Griffin
2020 Movie
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
as Josh Lyman
2020 Movie
The Call of the Wild
as Judge Miller
2020 Movie
Sergio
as Paul Bremer
2020 Movie
The Last Full Measure
as Carlton Stanton
2020 Movie
Transparent: Musicale Finale
as Magnus
2019 Movie
Godzilla: King of The Monsters- The Antarctic Base
2019 Movie
Phil
as Michael Fisk
2019 Movie
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
as Dr. Rick Stanton
2019 Movie
Destroyer
as DiFranco
2018 Movie
The Darkest Minds
as President Gray
2018 Movie
The Post
as Arthur Parsons
2017 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Bradley Whitford.
Death by Lightning
as James Blaine • 4 eps
2025 Series
#1 Happy Family USA
as Principal (voice) • 1 eps
2025 Series
The Madness
as Stu Magnusson • 8 eps
2024 Series
Parish
as Anton Valmont • 3 eps
2024 Series
The Diplomat
as Todd Penn • 11 eps
2023 Series
The U.S. and the Holocaust
as Thomas Wolfe (voice) • 1 eps
2022 Series
We Baby Bears
as Glen (voice) • 1 eps
2022 Series
The Wonder Years
as Alan Van Der Kamp • 1 eps
2021 Series
What If...?
as Colonel Flynn (voice) • 1 eps
2021 Series
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
as Mitch (voice) • 5 eps
2020 Series
Perfect Harmony
as Arthur Cochran • 13 eps
2019 Series
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self • 2 eps
2019 Series
Infinity Train
as Agent Sieve (voice) • 5 eps
2019 Series
Human Discoveries
as Leader Elk (voice) • 1 eps
2019 Series
Flack
as Calvin Cooper • 1 eps
2019 Series
Valley of the Boom
as James L. Barksdale • 6 eps
2019 Series
The Handmaid's Tale
as Joseph Lawrence • 35 eps
2017 Series
Chicago Justice
as Albert Forest • 1 eps
2017 Series
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
as Self • 1 eps
2016 Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest • 7 eps
2015 Series
HAPPYish
as Jonathan Cooke • 10 eps
2015 Series
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2015 Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
Transparent
as Magnus • 2 eps
2014 Series