BRADLEY WHITFORD

Bradley Whitford, a classically trained stage actor who has received critical acclaim for his roles in theater, film and on television, gained overnight fame as the sarcastic yet vulnerable Josh Lyman on NBC’s critically acclaimed and Emmy® Award-winning series The West Wing.

Whitford’s film credits include Kate and Leopold, The Muse, Bicentennial Man, Scent of a Woman, A Perfect World, Philadelphia, The Client, My Life, Red Corner, Presumed Innocent and My Fellow Americans.

The West Wing, created by Aaron Sorkin, marked Whitford’s debut as a series regular on network television and earned him a 2001Golden Globe® Award nomination. Whitford’s additional television credits include guest-starring roles in NBC’s ER (in the critically acclaimed Love’s Labor Lost episode), The X-Files and NYPD Blue.

Reared in Wisconsin, Whitford studied theater and English literature at Wesleyan University and attended the Juilliard Theater Center. His professional performance debut was in the off-Broadway production of Curse of the Starving Class, opposite Kathy Bates. Among his other theater credits are productions of Three Days of Rain at The Manhattan Theatre Club, Measure for Measure at Lincoln Center, and the title role in Coriolanus at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.