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Ilan Goodman

British actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ19560588 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ilan Goodman is an English actor who trained at RADA. He is the son of English actor Henry Goodman. He has appeared extensively on stage in the UK including the UK premieres of Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel, and Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews.

He is also the producer and host of the podcast NOUS, where he interviews philosophers, neuroscientists and psychiatrists.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ilan Goodman” as british actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 65-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ilan, Goodman and British can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as british actor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19560588. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ilan Goodman”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ilan Goodman primary sources, Ilan Goodman archive and Ilan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ilan Goodman”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Ilan Goodman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.