Rudi Goodman

Rudi Valentine Goodman (born 20 March 2003) is a British television, film, and theatre actor. He is known for portraying Peter Van Pels in A Small Light (2023), Thomas Powell in Breathless (2013), and Richard Grey, the son of Rebecca Ferguson’s Elizabeth Woodville, in The White Queen (2013). Rudi was also seen in Parade’s End (2012), as Michael, the son of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Christopher Tietjens, and in Masters of the Air (2024) beside Austin Butler.

As a child, Rudi started his career in musical theatre, on the West End, with roles in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and in Billy Elliot, alongside Tom Holland and Dean-Charles Chapman. In 2013, he joined Tom Hiddleston and Mark Gatiss in the cast of Coriolanus, at the Donmar Warehouse, as Young Martius. Following that, in 2015, he joined The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company at the Garrick Theatre, as Mamillius in The Winter’s Tale, alongside Judi Dench.

He was last seen on the West End in 2016, as Young Harry Potter in the original cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.