---
name: "Adam Woodyatt"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/adam-woodyatt"
fi1m_id: "adam-woodyatt"
imdb_id: "nm0941052"
tmdb_id: 1225295
wikidata_id: "Q4356390"
roles: []
born: "28 June 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T16:30:31.418602+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Adam Woodyatt

## Identity

Adam Woodyatt

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adam-woodyatt
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** adam-woodyatt
- **IMDb ID:** nm0941052
- **TMDB ID:** 1225295
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4356390
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Woodyatt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4356390, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941052/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1225295

Actor. Born 28 June 1968 in Walthamstow, London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Born:** 28 June 1968, Walthamstow, London, England, UK
- **Also known as:** Adam Brinley Woodyatt
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 70 (1), 2000s 85 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Woodyatt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4356390, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941052/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1225295

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Adam Woodyatt is an English actor. He was born on 28 June 1968 in Walthamstow, London.

Woodyatt has played Ian Beale in the BBC soap opera *EastEnders* since its first episode in 1985, making him the show's longest-serving cast member alongside Jane Slaughter. He trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and appeared in earlier television roles including *The Baker Street Boys* (1983). In 2013 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Soap Awards.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, as Ian Beale — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Would I Lie to You?* (2007), Fi1m 85, as Self — [page](https://film.one/tv/would-i-lie-to-you.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Lock-In* (2022), as Ian Beale
- *The Big Night In* (2020), as Ian Beale
- *EastEnders: Last Tango in Walford* (2010), as Ian Beale
- *The Podge and Rodge Show* (2006), series, Actor
- *Celebrity Mastermind* (2003), series, Actor
- *My Brother David* (1989), as Ian Beale (EastEnders - Archive footage) (Uncredited)
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, as Ian Beale — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *The Witches and the Grinnygog* (1983), as Dave Firkettle
- *The Witches and the Grinnygog* (1983), series, as David 'Dave' Firkettle
- *The Baker Street Boys* (1983), series, as Shiner

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