Bill Nighy

William Francis Nighy (born 12 December 1949) is an English actor. Known for his work on screen and stage, he has received numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Tony Award. Nighy started his career with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and made his London debut with the Royal National Theatre starting with The Illuminatus! in 1977. There he gained acclaim for his roles in David Hare's Pravda in 1985, Harold Pinter's Betrayal in 1991, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1993, and Anton Chekov's The Seagull in 1994. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in Blue/Orange in 2001. He made his Broadway debut in Hare's The Vertical Hour in 2006, and returned in the 2015 revival of Hare's Skylight earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. Early film roles include in the comedies Still Crazy (1998), and Blow Dry (1999) before his breakout role in Love Actually (2003) which earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He soon gained recognition portraying Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2006-2007), and Viktor in the Underworld film series (2003-2009). Other films include Shaun of the Dead (2004), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), Valkyrie (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), About Time (2013), Emma (2020), and Living (2022), the last of these earning him his first career Academy Award nomination. Nighy has gained acclaim for his roles in television earning a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in BBC One series State of Play (2003), and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the BBC film Gideon's Daughter (2007). He's also known for his roles in HBO's The Girl in the Café (2006) and PBS's Page Eight (2012).

Known For: Acting

Born: Caterham, Surrey, England, UK, 1949-12-12

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1980	Dreams of Leaving	William	70
2	1980	Fox	Colin Street	10
3	1983	Curse of the Pink Panther	ENT Doctor	46
4	1991	Absolute Hell	Hugh Marriner	57
5	1992	A Masculine Ending	John Tracey	0
6	1993	Don't Leave Me This Way	John Tracey	70
7	1993	The Maitlands	Roger Maitland	0
8	1994	Being Human	Julian	51
9	2003	Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher	Narrator	60
10	2004	Burst	Maxwell's Fan 22	0
11	2004	Ready When You Are, Mr McGill	Phil Parish	73
12	2006	We Love Cigarettes	Narrator	0
13	2007	Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz	Self	0
14	2008	Slapper	Arnold Percy	35
15	2011	Astonish Me	The Professor	80
16	2012	London: The Modern Babylon	Spoken Quotations (voice)	65
17	2014	National Theatre Live: Skylight	Tom Sergeant	89
18	2015	A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman	Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'	70
19	2016	Norm of the North	Socrates (voice)	46
20	2016	Dad's Army	Sergeant Wilson	50
21	2016	The Limehouse Golem	John Kildare	62
22	2017	Their Finest	Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank	66
23	2017	Red Nose Day Actually	Billy Mack	70
24	2017	The Bookshop	Mr. Brundish	65
25	2021	Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
26	2022	The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special	Self	40
27	2023	Bloody Fury	Bloody's Consciousness (voice)	0
28	2023	Spectre of the Bear	Bennett (voice)	0
29	2023	Darkling		0
30	2024	The Wild Robot	Longneck (voice)	83
31		500 Miles		0
32	2024	That Christmas	Lighthouse Bill (voice)	72
33		& Sons		0
34	1976	Occupy!	Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool	0
35	1978	Soldiers Talking, Cleanly	Bill	0
36	1979	Deasey (Desperate)	Deasy	0
37	1980	Death Watch	Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)	63
38	1980	Little Lord Fauntleroy	Officer	74
39	1980	Standing in for Henry	Bruno	0
40	1981	Eye of the Needle	Squadron Leader Blenkinsop	66
41	1982	Under the Skin	Dave	0
42	1982	Easter 2016	Connor Mullan	0
43	1984	The Little Drummer Girl	Al	55
44	1985	Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil	Helmut Hoffmann	49
45	1985	Thirteen at Dinner	Ronald Marsh	57
46	1989	Mack the Knife	Tiger Brown	66
47	1989	The Phantom of the Opera	Martin Barton	56
48	1990	Antonia and Jane	Howard Nash	55
49	1993	Unnatural Causes	Oliver Latham	0
50	1996	Alive and Kicking	Tristan	49
51	1996	True Blue	Jeremy Saville	61
52	1997	FairyTale: A True Story	Edward Gardner	64
53	1998	Still Crazy	Ray Simms	67
54	1999	The Bass Player		0
55	1999	Guest House Paradiso	Mr. Johnson	61
56	2000	Longitude	Lord Sandwich	73
57	2001	Blow Dry	Ray Robertson	59
58	2001	Lucky Break	Roger	62
59	2002	AKA	Uncle Louis Gryffoyn	56
60	2002	Lawless Heart	Dan	51
61	2003	I Capture the Castle	James Mortmain	68
62	2003	Love Actually	Billy Mack	71
63	2003	Underworld	Viktor	68
64	2003	Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates		40
65	2003	The Young Visiters	Earl of Clincham	54
66	2004	Shaun of the Dead	Phillip	75
67	2004	Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews	Self - Narrator	0
68	2004	The Magic Roundabout	Dylan (voice)	54
69	2004	Enduring Love	Robin	57
70	2005	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Slartibartfast	67
71	2005	The Girl in the Café	Lawrence	71
72	2005	Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'	Self	0
73	2005	The Constant Gardener	Sir Bernard Pellegrin	70
74	2005	Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'	Self	0
75	2005	Gideon's Daughter	Gideon Warner	62
76	2006	Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener	Self	40
77	2006	Underworld: Evolution	Viktor	66
78	2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Davy Jones	74
79	2006	Stormbreaker	Alan Blunt	52
80	2006	Flushed Away	Whitey (voice)	63
81	2006	Notes on a Scandal	Richard Hart	71
82	2007	Hot Fuzz	Met Chief Inspector	76
83	2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Davy Jones	73
84	2008	Valkyrie	Friedrich Olbricht	69
85	2009	Underworld: Rise of the Lycans	Viktor	65
86	2009	The Boat That Rocked	Quentin	72
87	2009	G-Force	Leonard Saber	55
88	2009	Astro Boy	Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)	63
89	2009	Glorious 39	Alexander Keyes	60
90	2010	Wild Target	Victor Maynard	64
91	2010	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1	Rufus Scrimgeour	77
92	2011	Chalet Girl	Richard Madsen	64
93	2011	Rango	Rattlesnake Jake (voice)	69
94	2011	Real Creatures of Dirt	Self / Rattlesnake Jake	60
95	2011	Page Eight	Johnny Worricker	66
96	2011	Arthur Christmas	Grandsanta (voice)	68
97	2012	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Douglas Ainslie	69
98	2012	Wrath of the Titans	Hephaestus	57
99	2012	Total Recall	Matthias	60
100	2013	Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene	Graham Greene (voice)	10
101	2013	Jack the Giant Slayer	General Fallon	59
102	2013	Great White Shark	Self - Narrator (voice)	62
103	2013	The Hungry Corpse	The Hungry Corpse	0
104	2013	The World's End	The Network (voice)	68
105	2013	About Time	Dad	79
106	2014	I, Frankenstein	Naberius	54
107	2014	Turks & Caicos	Johnny Worricker	63
108	2014	Salting the Battlefield	Johnny Worricker	63
109	2014	Pride	Cliff	77
110	2015	The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Douglas Ainslie	64
111	2019	Sometimes Always Never	Alan	63
112	2019	Pokémon Detective Pikachu	Howard Clifford	69
113	2019	Hope Gap	Edward	63
114	2019	StarDog and TurboCat	Sinclair (voice)	70
115	2019	The Kindness of Strangers	Timofey	64
116	2020	Emma.	Mr. Woodhouse	70
117	2020	Minamata	Robert "Bob" Hayes	69
118	2020	Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular	Self	85
119	2021	Buckley's Chance	Spencer	62
120	2021	Lotus: A New Dawn	Self - Narrator (voice)	60
121	2022	Living	Williams	70
122	2023	Role Play	Bob	60
123	2024	The Beautiful Game	Mal	64
124	2024	The First Omen	Cardinal Lawrence	69
125	2024	10 Lives	Professor Craven (voice)	78
126	2024	Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue	Conrad (voice)	68
127	2024	Joy	Patrick Steptoe	69
128		Untitled Jason Statham Action-Thriller		0
129		Welcome to Paradise	Hooker Duck Host (voice)	0
130		Heart of Darkness	(voice)	0
131		Pink Sky at Night	Man	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	Play for Today	Dave	63
2	1974	Playhouse	Bruno	70
3	1979	Agony	Vincent Fish	65
4	1979	Minder	Oates	68
5	1980	Fox	Colin Street	57
6	1983	Reilly: Ace of Spies	Goschen	70
7	1983	Auf Wiedersehen, Pet	Jeffrey Grainger	79
8	1985	The Last Place on Earth	Cecil Meares	68
9	1988	This Morning	Self	52
10	1988	South Of The Border	Tony Freason	0
11	1990	Making News	Sam Courtney	60
12	1990	Chillers	Tom Dickenson	62
13	1991	Performance	Roger Maitland	60
14	1991	Performance	Hugh Marriner	60
15	1993	Eye of the Storm	Tom Frewen	80
16	1993	Peak Practice	Alan Sinclair	61
17	1994	Wycliffe	David Cleeve	60
18	1995	Kavanagh Q.C.	Giles Culpepper QC	70
19	1996	Testament: The Bible in Animation	Belshazzar (voice)	64
20	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
21	1999	People Like Us	Will Rushmore	79
22	2000	Longitude	Lord Sandwich	70
23	2000	Black Books	Man at bar	81
24	2001	Richard & Judy	Self	29
25	2002	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Lockwood	71
26	2002	Timeshift	self (voice)	70
27	2003	The Lost Prince	Stamfordham	71
28	2003	State of Play	Cameron Foster	75
29	2003	Canterbury Tales	James	69
30	2003	Grumpy Old Men	Self	72
31	2004	He Knew He Was Right	Colonel Osborne	78
32	2005	Doctor Who	Dr Black	76
33	2005	Meerkat Manor	Narrator	78
34	2006	The One Show	Self	45
35	2009	The Big Art Project	Narrator	0
36	2009	Live from Studio Five	Self	33
37	2009	10 Minute Tales		75
38	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
39	2017	Castlevania	Saint Germain (voice)	83
40	2018	Ordeal by Innocence	Leo Argyll	70
41	2019	World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys	Narrator (voice)	81
42	2021	World's Most Scenic River Journeys	Self - Narrator (voice)	80
43	2021	Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty	Self - Narrator (voice)	95
44	2021	Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge	Self - Narrator (voice)	100
45	2022	The Man Who Fell to Earth	Thomas Jerome Newton	74
46	2023	Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
47		Lazarus	Doctor Lazarus ' Dr L'	0
48	2024	Kent: Garden of England	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
49		Ride or Die	The Director	0
50		California Avenue	Jerry	0

Bill Nighy

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