Patrick Baladi

Acting

Born December 25, 1971, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England, UK

Patrick Bashir Baladi is an English actor. He is best known for playing Neil Godwin in the BBC sitcom The Office, Michael Jackson in the Sky 1 drama Stella, and Stephen Holmes in the ITV thriller Marcella. Patrick Bashir Baladi was born in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. His father was a Syrian gynaecologist and obstetrician, and his mother a midwife. Baladi was brought up in Libya and educated at Stonyhurst College. After school he went on to train as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Baladi is known for his portrayal of David Brent's nemesis, Neil Godwin, in the BBC's hit comedy-mockumentary series, The Office. He appeared in the second and final series of the award-winning show, as well as the subsequent The Office Christmas Special. In addition to The Office, Baladi has appeared in various films and television shows, including Bodies, Kidnap and Ransom, as Philip Shaffer, ITV (2011), Alpha Male, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Beyond The Pole, POW, Lady Audley's Secret, Grafters, Silent Witness, The International, Party Animals, Mistresses, Rev., Sensitive Skin, Privates, Stella, Line of Duty, A Touch of Frost and Midsomer Murders. Baladi portrayed Dodi Al-Fayed in the 2007 television docudrama Diana: Last Days of a Princess. In 2008 he had a small role in the romantic comedy Last Chance Harvey, appearing alongside Emma Thompson. He is also a stage actor who has appeared in numerous productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company, such as Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing. He starred in the comedy No Heroics as Excelsor.

Filmography

• 2025An Enemy Within — Robert Foresight
• Little Disasters — Andrew
• The Hack — John Whitingdale
• The War Between the Land and the Sea — Sir Keith Spears
• Boarders — Alfie Watlington-Geese
• Douglas Is Cancelled — Tilson
• The Way — Hector
• 2023A Kind of Kidnapping — Richard Hardy
• DI Ray — DI Patrick Holden
• Sister Boniface Mysteries — Lesley Canon
• 2022Spinning — Ian
• Breeders — Darren
• Semi-Detached — Ted
• Ted Lasso — John Wingsnight
• Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators — Alfred D'Angelo
• Berlin Station — Dominic Kingsbury
• Marcella — Stephen Holmes
• 2016The Windmill Massacre — Douglas
• 2015Chasing Robert Barker — Olly Clifford
• No Offence — Lionel Dirkin
• 2013Eve — Editor
• It's Kevin — Various
• Jo
• 2013N.F.A. (No Fixed Abode) — Adam
• Privates — Captain Gulliver
• 2013Rush — John Hogan
• Line of Duty — Jimmy Lakewell
• 2012Now Is Good — Richard
• Ripper Street — Sidney Ressler
• Stella — Michael Jackson
• The Poison Tree — Francis
• Death in Paradise — Louis Nelson
• 2011Demons Never Die — Hudson
• 2011Honeymoon for One — Greg
• 2011Last Flight of the Space Shuttle — Narrator
• 2011The Growing Pains of a Teenage Genius — Narrator
• Vera — Ross Varsey
• 2010Beyond the Pole — Robert
• 2010StreetDance 3D — Mr Harding
• Vexed — Mark Armstrong
• Big Top
• Garrow's Law — General Picton
• 2009Jubilee — Nick Bright
• Law & Order: UK — Richard McGrath
• 2009Octavia — Jeremy West
• 2009The International — Martin White
• The Old Guys — Reverend Phil
• 2008Consuming Passion — Dr Grant / Dr Steele
• 2008Last Chance Harvey — Simon
• Mistresses — Richard Dunlop
• No Heroics — Excelsor
• 2007Diana: Last Days of a Princess — Dodi Al Fayed
• Lewis — Robert Fraser
• Party Animals — James Northcote
• 2007World of Wrestling — Rollerball
• 2006Alpha Male — Clive Lamis
• 2006The Only Boy for Me — Mack
• Waterloo Road — Julian Noble
• Sensitive Skin — Michael Dorkins
• Bodies — Roger Hurley
• 2004Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason — Steward
• Hustle — DI Sid Fisk
• New Tricks
• P.O.W.
• The Afternoon Play — Peter Hamilton
• 2001High Heels and Low Lifes — Car Driver
• Messiah — Jonathan
• 2001The Merchant of Venice — Italian Video Suiter
• The Office — Neil Godwin
• 2000Lady Audley's Secret — Sir Harry Towers
• My Family
• Perfect World — Jeremy
• Ivanhoe — Joseph
• Midsomer Murders — Steve Ramsey
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Anthony Wilkes
• Silent Witness — Peter Ellis, Ron Radford
• Sharman — George
• A Touch of Frost — Edward D'arblay
• Heartbeat — Ray Thompson, Guy Maitland
• Soldier Soldier — Orderly Sergeant
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Rowley Cloade
• Casualty — Gary Rix, Sam Fulton
• Number 10
• hangovers aren't real — Mark