He has had an extensive career in theatre, as well as film and television where he has appeared in Robin Hood (2010), Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return and Diana (both 2013), Penny Dreadful (2016), Catastrophe (2018), Joker and Lost in Space (both 2019), and The Great (2020–2023).
In 2004, he made his Royal Court debut as Barry in Joe Penhall's study of entrapment journalism Dumb Show, directed by Terry Johnson.
[10] Simultaneously, he made his West End directorial debut with See How They Run, a 1940s wartime farce by Philip King, preceded by a UK tour.
In 2008, Hodge starred as Albin in the London revival of La Cage aux Folles which played originally at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
[15][6] In 2010, The London production of La Cage aux Folles transferred to Broadway, at the Longacre Theatre, with Hodge as Albin, and Kelsey Grammer as Georges.
[6] A 2011 revival of John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence at the Donmar Theatre, London, offered Hodge another role, as Maitland, the lawyer in crisis.
[18] In 2015, Hodge made his debut as a Broadway director, helming a revival of Pinter's 1971 play Old Times, which starred Clive Owen, Eve Best and Kelly Reilly, and opened at the American Airlines Theatre.
Hodge has parallel careers as a writer, director and composer, most recently directing Torch Song Trilogy at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2012.
[32] With Peter Searles, Hodge co-wrote Pacha Mama's Blessing and Forest People, about the Amazon Rainforest, performed by the National Youth Theatre on BBC Television in 1989.
His other TV appearances include leading roles in Behaving Badly (1989); Capital City (1989–1990); A Fatal Inversion (1992); Bliss (1995); Only Fools and Horses (1996) The Uninvited (1997); The Scold's Bridle (1998); Shockers: Dance (1999); The Law (2000); the BBC serial adaptation of Trollope's The Way We Live Now (2001), as Roger Carbury; The Russian Bride (2001); Red Cap (2003–2004);[33] Spooks (2005); ITV's 2007 adaptation of Mansfield Park, as Sir Thomas Bertram; and the made-for-TV film Lift, directed by James Hawes, a 2007 Hartswood Films production for BBC Four, as Paul Sykes, "a constantly exasperated, highly-strung middle-aged businessman with commitments.".
[34] In 2010, he appeared in the episode "The Restaurant" of the third series of the BBC sitcom Outnumbered as Brick Bolenger, an American therapist who is married to Auntie Angela (played by Samantha Bond).
[36] He played Grimes in a BBC adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, alongside Jack Whitehall, Stephen Graham and David Suchet.