Theatre Woodeson's first work after drama school was a season at the
Everyman Theatre,
Liverpool (1974–75), in a company that included
Jonathan Pryce (artistic director),
Julie Walters,
Pete Postlethwaite and
Bill Nighy. He has worked in regional theatre in the UK and US, at the
Hampstead Theatre, the
Young Vic and
Almeida Theatre in London, and at the
Manhattan Theatre Club. He joined the
Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and remained there seven years. starring
Robbie Coltrane. In 1998, Woodeson appeared in the
Midsomer Murders episode "Death of a Hollow Man" as Avery Philips. He played SS-Gruppenführer Otto Hoffman in the acclaimed BBC/HBO production
Conspiracy (2001), starring
Kenneth Branagh,
Stanley Tucci and
Colin Firth. He portrayed
Harman Grisewood, in the 2008 TV programme
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story. He has guest starred on series such as
Miami Vice, Midsomer Murders,
A Touch of Frost, and
Poirot. In the two 2005–06
HBO/
BBC TV series of
Rome, he played
Posca, the personal slave of
Julius Caesar. In 2007, he played Joseph Novak in "Broken Souls", an episode of ''
Foyle's War. In 2010, he appeared as Alexander Grozin, president of the fictional Eastern European state of Turgisia, in DR television production of Borgen
. In 2013, he played William Corcoran, a proponent of Lamarckism, in the episode "Am I not Monstrous?" of Ripper Street. He also appeared in Agatha Christie's Poirot'' "Dead Man's Folly" as Detective Sergeant Hoskins. In 2014, he appeared as Volkov in the American miniseries
The Assets, and as Algernon Wyse in a
BBC TV adaptation of
E. F. Benson's
Mapp and Lucia. In 2014, he played Yaakov in
The Eichmann Show for the BBC. In 2016, Woodeson played the role of Reverend Matthew Denning in the BBC TV series
The Living and the Dead. He has also appeared in episodes of
New Tricks,
George Gently and
Holby City. Woodeson played the lawyer, Thoyt in the
BBC One 2017
television drama series Taboo. == Personal life ==