Douglas Hodge

Writing Hodge wrote a musical with Aschlin Ditta, temporarily called Meantime. Josefina Gabrielle, Denis Lawson and several others participated in a cast recording, and actors including Rory Kinnear, Indira Varma and Cillian Murphy participated in a reading of the book.

He wrote the music and lyrics for the musical 101 Dalmatians, based on the novel by Dodie Smith with a book by Johnny McKnight (from a stage adaptation by Zinnie Harris) at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. The musical was due to open in May 2020, however was postponed to July 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Directing Hodge has parallel careers as a writer, director and composer, most recently directing Torch Song Trilogy at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2012. He was associate director at the Donmar Theatre directing Dimetos in 2009, Absurdia in 2007.

He directed the world premiere of Last Easter by Bryony Lavery at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and See How They Run.

He also directed the Millennium Dome Show in the year 2000.

Awards Hodge has received Olivier Award nominations for Best Actor for Inadmissible Evidence in 2012 and Best Actor in a Musical for Guys and Dolls in 2006, winning Best Actor in a Musical for La Cage aux Folles in 2010. He was also nominated for Best Actor in the 2005 Evening Standard Awards for his role in Dumbshow at the Royal Court.

Hodge starred as Albin in the Broadway transfer of La Cage aux Folles, for which his performance won him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He originally played the role in London in 2008 at the Menier Chocolate Factory and then at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End.

Television With Peter Searles, Hodge co-wrote Pacha Mama's Blessing and Forest People, about the Amazon rainforest, performed by the National Youth Theatre on BBC Television in 1989. He appeared in the BBC's production Middlemarch, adapted by Andrew Davies from the novel by George Eliot and directed by Anthony Page. In the US it aired on Masterpiece Theatre in 1994.

His other TV appearances include leading roles in Behaving Badly (1989); Capital City (1989–1990); A Fatal Inversion (1992); Bliss (1995); Only Fools and Horses (1996) The Uninvited (1997); The Scold's Bridle (1998); Shockers: Dance (1999); The Law (2000); the BBC serial adaptation of Trollope's The Way We Live Now (2001), as Roger Carbury; The Russian Bride (2001); Red Cap (2003–2004); Spooks (2005); ITV's 2007 adaptation of Mansfield Park, as Sir Thomas Bertram; and the made-for-TV film Lift, directed by James Hawes, a 2007 Hartswood Films production for BBC Four, as Paul Sykes, "a constantly exasperated, highly-strung middle-aged businessman with commitments.".

In 2010, he appeared in the episode "The Restaurant" of the third series of the BBC sitcom Outnumbered as Brick Bolenger, an American therapist who is married to Auntie Angela (played by Samantha Bond). The character was involved in a story line of the fourth series in 2011, but never appeared on screen. In 2012, Hodge had a role in the BBC drama One Night, as well as appearing in the conspiracy thriller miniseries Secret State, and the ITV-1 drama The Town.

In 2016, he featured as Rex Mayhew in the BBC adaptation of John le Carré's The Night Manager. In 2017, he appeared in "Black Museum", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror. He appeared as Inspector Bartholomew Rusk in the series Penny Dreadful. He played Grimes in a BBC adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, alongside Jack Whitehall, Stephen Graham and David Suchet.

From 2020 to 2023, Hodge played the role of General Velementov, head of Catherine the Great's armies in The Great, alongside Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult.

Music Doug Hodge released two albums of his own compositions: "Cowley Road Songs" in 2005, and "Nightbus" in 2009. He won the Stiles and Drewe 2012 Best New Song Award for his song 'Powercut' from "Meantime", the musical he co-wrote with Aschlin Ditta.

"I've been writing songs all my life but — apart from the occasional girlfriend late at night — I'd never sung them to anyone. Then last year I finally started playing at various venues in and around Oxford. Each time I wrote a new song I'd go down the Ex [on Cowley Road] and sing it... Then Rightback Records asked me to record them. We went into the Blue Moon Studios in Banbury for just four days. This [Cowley Road Songs] is what we came out with..." – Douglas Hodge

Personal life Until 2013, Hodge was in a relationship with actress Tessa Peake-Jones with whom he has two children. He subsequently married American wigmaker Amanda Miller.

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