Tony is a versatile English actor, whose career spans, television film and theatre. He trained at the Royal Welsh College and in his graduation year was awarded the speech prize and represented the college at the William Poel Festival.
'Tony Wadham's, MacMurphy rolls in like a massive cockney wrecking ball, inspiring his fellow patients with anti-authoritarian audacity in the face of Miss Ratchet's tyranny. Wadham's performance is electrifying, bringing an infectious energy to the roll'
TIME OUT - PARIS
'Tony Wadham, makes his character eminently human and credible and above all makes us understand the ambiguity, that by wanting to give them back their freedom, he hurts them deeply'
- LES TROIS COUPS
'The piece is a drum beating dance, triggering laughs, embarrasement and exultation.
Where MacMurphy (the brilliant Tony Wadham) leads the sick to diobedience and rebellion, only to discover too late that a psychiatric hospital is a penitentiary'
- CULTURE BOX.FR
Tony played Pete Preston in Channel 4's cult comedy Peep Show. Charlie Ward in several episodes of primetime cop show the The Bill and was a core member of the Mappa Mundi Theatre Group. Where his roles included: Titus Andronicus, Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Touchstone.
He plays a central role in Asitha Ameresekere's, Bafta nominated short film, 14. Is a member of Footsbarn Travelling Theatre, where he played MacMurphy, in one Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Oberon and Flute in a Midsummer Nights Dream and Pan and The Old Woman, in The Crock Of Gold.
He plays Old Major, Boxer and Fredericks, in the TNT/ADGE & Theatre Du Heron, production of Animal Farm, which toured to fourteen countries and won best adaptation at the 2023 London Pub Theatre Awards. He can soon be seen in, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story. Which stars Lucy Boynton and Toby Jones, playing Ruth Ellis's father Arthur Neilson. He will also be popping up in Season 5 of Grace, playing Chris Haddock. He is currently producing and performing in Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse by Carole Fréchette and you can catch the show at The White Bear Kennigton - October 22 - November 2 - 2024.