BRADLEY WHITFORD, a classically trained stage actor, gained fame as “Josh Lyman,” on NBC’s The West Wing, which earned him his first Emmy Award in 2001. He went on to win Emmys in 2015 and 2019 for his work in Transparent and The Handmaids Tale and is grateful to have had the opportunity last year to direct the show’s fifth season penultimate episode, “Allegiance”. He is looking forward to getting back to Gilead for The Handmaids Tale’s sixth and final season.

Whitford recently wrapped shooting on the independent film I’ll Be Right There with Edie Falco, AMC’s upcoming limited series Parish with Giancarlo Esposito, and the Netflix limited series The Madness opposite Colman Domingo.

He is also known for his work in the Oscar-nominated films Get Out, Billy Madison, The Post, Scent of a Woman and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick, tick… BOOM! Whitford also produced the documentary, Not Going Quietly, about the life of progressive activist Ady Barkan. Other notable film credits include Warner Bros’ Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks, and HBO’s Lyndon B. Johnson biopic, All The Way, among others.

TV credits include Apple TV+’s Echo 3, NBC’s Perfect Harmony, which he executive produced and starred in; FOX/Netflix’s Brookline Nine- Nine, Showtime’s Happy-ish, ABC’s Trophy Wife, CBS’ The Mentalist, and FOX’s The Good Guys, and NBC’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, among others.

Growing up in Wisconsin, Whitford studied theatre and English literature at Wesleyan University and attended the Juilliard Theatre Center. He has appeared on Broadway in Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men and in Boeing Boeing with Mark Rylance. Off-Broadway credits include Curse of the Starving Class, Measure for Measure at Lincoln Center, and Three Days of Rain at Manhattan Theatre Club. Regional credits include the title role in Coriolanus at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. and Oberon and Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Hartford Stage. In 2021, Whitford starred in the Old Vic’s production of A Christmas Carol at the Ahmanson in Los Angeles as “Ebenezer Scrooge.” He is thrilled to be back on stage.