• 'West Wing' star gets BBC gig

Bradley Whitford was born on October 10, 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin. He is an Emmy Award-winning American actor.

He graduated in 1977 and attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he studied Theatre and English Literature, before obtaining a Master's in Theatre at Juilliard.

Months after graduating from Juilliard, Bradley landed his first professional part in Curse of the Starving Class, an off-Broadway production starring Kathy Bates. He appeared on stage in numerous other productions, including Romeo and Juliet at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Three Days of Rain at the Manhattan Theatre Club and Measure for Measure at the Lincoln Center. He also played the title role in Coriolanus at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C.

It was when Bradley starred in the Broadway production of A Few Good Men that he met The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin (Sorkin wrote A Few Good Men).

Notable film appearances include Presumed Innocent, Scent of a Woman, A Perfect World, Philadelphia, The Client, Red Corner and Kate and Leopold. Bradley has also guest-starred in hit US TV series The X-Files, NYPD Blue and twice in ER (his first appearance was in the Emmy Award-winning Season 1 episode "Love's Labor Lost").

During his first four years in The West Wing, Bradley has earned three Golden Globe Nominations and three Emmy Nominations in Supporting Actor categories. He won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2001.

Bradley currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

• Bottle Shock (2008)
• An American Crime (2007)
• "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" (22 episodes, 2006-2007)
• "The West Wing" (150 episodes, 1999-2006)
• Little Manhattan (2005)
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
• Fathers and Sons (2005)
• "Frasier" (1 episode, 2002)
• "Malcolm in the Middle" (1 episode, 2002)
• Kate & Leopold (2001)
• Bicentennial Man (1999)
• The Muse (1999)
• "Felicity" (1 episode, 1999)
• Behind the Mask (1999)
• Wildly Available (1999)
• "The Secret Lives of Men" (1998)
• The Sky's on Fire (1998)
• Red Corner (1997)
• Cloned (1997)
• Masterminds (1997)
• "Tracey Takes On..." (1 episode, 1997)
• In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory (1997)
• The People (1997)
• The Spittin' Image (1997)
• My Fellow Americans (1996)
• "Touched by an Angel" (1 episode, 1996)
• "ER" (2 episodes, 1995)
• The Desperate Trail (1995)
• Nothing But the Truth (1995)
• Billy Madison (1995)
• Cobb (1994)
• "The X Files" (1 episode, 1994)
• "Ellen" (1 episode, 1994)
• "NYPD Blue" (4 episodes, 1994)
• The Client (1994)
• Web of Deception (1994)
• Philadelphia (1993)
• A Perfect World (1993)
• My Life (1993)
• RoboCop 3 (1993)
• The Silent Alarm (1993)
• "Black Tie Affair" (1993)
• Scent of a Woman (1992)
• Awakenings (1990)
• Young Guns II (1990)
• Presumed Innocent (1990)
• Vital Signs (1990)
• "Tales from the Darkside" (1 episode, 1988)
• Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
• Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
• The Betty Ford Story (1987)
• C.A.T. Squad (1986)
• Dead as a Doorman (1986)
• "The Equalizer" (1 episode, 1985)

Awards

• SAG Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series "The West Wing" 2002
• Emmy Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series "The West Wing" 2001
• SAG Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series "The West Wing" 2001
• The Actor Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series "The West Wing" 2001
• Golden Satellite Best Ensemble Television Cast Performance "The West Wing" 2000
• The Actor Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series "The West Wing" 2000