Working with Tom Hardy on Taboo was my first experience of a collaborative atmosphere on a film set. To be in the eye of a storm and still be able to take a moment to play and have a genuine conversation about what we were about to film was a gift.

As the Austrian Ambassador in Ridley Scott’s forthcoming epic Napoleon. Rumours fly that it’s his last film and if true it would be a fitting coda to his first. Being on set with him was a career milestone.

In ENRON at the Noel Coward Theatre, West End

Rupert Goold - Director of ENRON and Artistic Director of Almeida Theatre:

“All I can say is that your theatre sensibility and pleasure have been at the heart of making this show. You’re a special talent”

The Woman in Black, Fortune Theatre West End

Robin Herford, Director: “Tom is an intelligent, instinctive and totally committed actor, who never gives less than 100% and whose intelligence is matched by a physicality onstage which gives additional authenticity and power to his creations”

Peter Wilson, CEO PW Productions: “Tom and his father Chris played in The Woman In Black in the West End in 2015. What a pleasure to see two great thoroughbreds together - equally talented, equally generous and inventive, and as gracious a pair of actors as any theatre and any producer would be proud to call colleagues”

As the town carpenter in Hugo Blick’s forthcoming The English. A BBC/Amazon and Drama Republic TV series starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer set in the brutal world of 1890’s Wyoming

As Biondello in Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare’s Globe

‘The humour in Toby Frow’s production is bawdy, dished out with glee…but outstanding are the clowning Tom Godwin, thrumming “Go Johnny Go” on a lute and Samantha Spiro’s many layered Kate”

Independent on Sunday review

As Pimlick Hightopp in Alice Through The Looking Glass. The Hightopp Family was made up of myself, Rhys Ifans, Siobhan Redmond, Frederick Warner, Simone Kirby, Joe Hurst, Eve Hedderwick, and Johnny Depp. We definitely should have had our own spin-off.

As The Watcher in Joe All Alone, a CBBC adaptation of the best selling novel by Joanna Nadim. The director Beryl Richards and cinematographer Oona Menges made powerful choices with their storytelling and choice of visual palette. It’s heartening to know that drama that packs an artistic punch is still being made for young people.

I created the role of Phil Spector and was privileged to share a stage with Adrienne Warren and the original cast of Tina! The Musical in the world premiere at the Aldwych Theatre.

Phyllida Lloyd - Director: “Tom is a chameleon, a maverick. Full of intelligence and musicianship”

I had the honour of appearing with Adrienne Warren in the 2018 Royal Variety Performance. Adrienne blew the roof off the Palladium with her rendition of River Deep Mountain High. Meeting Prince Harry & Megan was a special moment, as was following in the footsteps of some of the giants who have performed at the Palladium and the RVP.

Anthony van Laast - Choreographer on Tina! The Musical and the Royal Variety Performance: “ The exciting thing about working with Tom on Tina was his amazing facility to totally embody each of the various roles he was required to play. His cameo moments turned into some of the highlights of the musical”

My highlight was being surrounded by such talented, loving and supportive people. And meeting Tina Turner. Twice.

In The Hollow Crown: Henry VI as one of the Shepherds who find the King wandering loin-cloth naked. Another great experience working with my father Chris Godwin and the first time we appeared as father and son on screen.

Jon Plowman- Formerly Head of Comedy at the BBC, Producer of Ab Fab, Dibley etc…:

“The best illusion that the Illusion Brothers pulled off was that the illusion they were creating was easily created. In fact - be under no illusion about the skill, artistry and comic wit that went into all their work. I loved it. It was very funny.”

As The Illusion Brothers at the Edinburgh Festival and as one half of Blow Up Theatre with Dominic Burdess, we won a Total Theatre Award for Best Newcomers. We were lucky to work with and have Kathy Burke as the recorded voice of the Narrator. We performed several times at the Spiegeltent and were also invited to make a guest appearance on BBC 1’s “My Dad’s the Prime Minister”. Making a splash at the Edinburgh Festival is always challenging and The Scotsman’s review was a particular highlight for us.

As Bumblehole with Imogen Doel in the Royal Court’s production of Get Santa! Another positive example of how important it is to be able to find things in the rehearsal room through play that become entwined with the writing. Writer and director Anthony Neilson manages to combine the playful with the experimental to great effect. He also persuaded me to recreate the Mission Impossible abseiling scene from the top of the Royal Court.

Michael Billington’s Guardian review of Get Santa at the Royal Court Theatre:

“It is all put across with great elan…Tom Godwin turns the sadly named Bumbehole into a scraggy Dickensian eccentric with peroxided hair and a bilious green suit”

As Drew Spellman in Coronation Street. Having the opportunity to play a character over 9 episodes of this legendary drama was a special moment, and one of the nicest on-set atmospheres I have ever experienced.

Working with Christopher Guest on this was a big moment. I love his films and attitude to the serious business of making comedy work in all the human dimensions that it can inhabit. I was too shy to tell him what an uberfan I am but just being on-set with him was a professional dream come true. And I even got to be in a scene with Michael McKean watching and laughing at me on television for a change.

I love James Woods’ angle on comedy and it was a delight to be asked to appear in the first episode of Quacks as Mr.Smiles. It was also my first real experience of prosthetics, something that became useful to get me through my days in the make-up truck in Netflix’s The Irregulars

As Gilmer in To Kill a Mockingbird in Tim Sheader’s production at Regent’s Park Open Air. Working outside creates a robust camaraderie, and that company was incredible. I love the Park for the dogged and beautiful insistence that we all keep pretending we’re in Alabama whilst the audience sit under umbrellas.

Earthquakes in London at the National came hot on the heels of ENRON. Working with Rupert Goold and dear Scott Ambler again, this time as his Movement assistant, was a joy. You’d learn a lot just being directed by Scott, and the way he plaited together choreography generated in the room chimed beautifully with Rupert’s collaborative style. There aren’t many men I would agree to wear green hot pants for, but Scott was definitely one of them. Dance in Peace

Macbeth - Park Avenue Armoury - New York Times Review by Ben Brantley

“…The good guys in Macbeth are generally bores and stiffs…and I even enjoyed the drunken Porter (Tom Godwin), often a tedious lout, who here emerges as a sour and sullied creature, the jester that his time deserves”

Rob Ashford - Co-Director with Sir Ken Branagh of Macbeth

“Tom has a very clever way of combining comic timing and his physical life. These two things are often at odds, but not with Tom. He can consistently get a laugh, even in a serious play like Macbeth”

As the Rev.John Frome in Knockers written and directed by Lucy Cohen. A feature length BBC/BFI/Dorothy St. Pictures project filmed and set in Cornwall, Knockers blends 90’s childhood nostalgia with a supernatural twist. A story that unfolds the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell to protect our children.