Education
He attended the Central Foundation Boys" School.
He attended the Central Foundation Boys" School.
In 2010 he played the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the stage version of at the Chichester Festival Gielgud Theatre, in London"s West End from 17 September 2010. He portrayed a HYDRA doctor in the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, though his name was uncredited in the end credits. He played the character again, now named Doctor, on the second season of the television show Agents of South.H.I.E.L.D., and in the 2015 film Avengers: Age of Ultron.
His Awards include Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical playing Charles Guiteau in Assassins at the Donmar Warehouse directed by Sam Mendes in 1993), Olivier Award for Best Actor for Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at the National Theatre directed by Trevor Nunn in 2000.
He has also been nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical (Chicago), London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor (The Merchant of Venice), Theatre Awards United Kingdom for Best in a Play (The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui) in 2015 he will play the title role in Ben Jonson"s Jacobean comedy Volpone at the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Trevor Nunn co-starring Matthew Kelly and Miles Richardson. his last Royal Society of Chemistry appearance was in 2003 as Richard III. In his auto-biography, Antony Sher says Goodman"s Shylock is "quite simply the best". He reprised his role for a Television film which was released in 2004.
One of six children, Goodman is Jewish.