Bradley Whitford

What I admire most about Bradley Whitford is how he made fast-talking idealism feel like a personality trait rather than a writing trick. His Josh Lyman on The West Wing remains, for me, the definitive portrait of political ambition tangled up with genuine conviction, and that 2001 Emmy was richly deserved. But his later career interests me even more: the comedy guest Emmy in 2015 proved he could weaponize that same nervous energy for laughs. A Wesleyan-educated Wisconsin kid who reads as both brainy and approachable — that combination is rarer in Hollywood than people think, and Whitford has built a decades-long career on it.

Name (English)

Bradley Whitford

Name (Japanese)

ブラッドリー・ウィットフォード

Reading

ぶらっどりー・うぃっとふぉーど

Born

October 10, 1959 (age 66)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Boar

Origin

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / screenwriter / television producer / stage actor

High school

Madison East High School

University

Wesleyan University

Awards & achievements

• 2001 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
• 2002 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
• 2001 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
• 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bradleywhitford/
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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89

Tags

• Wisconsin
• television actor
• film actor
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-11

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