Bill Nighy
- Acting
- December 12, 1949 · Caterham, Surrey, England, UK
Biography
William Francis Nighy (/naɪ/; born 12 December 1949) is a British actor. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has received various accolades, including two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Laurence Olivier Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. 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. 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 Chekhov's The Seagull in 1994. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor nomination for his role in Blue/Orange in 2001. He acted on Broadway in the David Hare plays The Vertical Hour (2006) and Skylight (2015), earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for the latter. Nighy's early film roles include the comedies Still Crazy (1998), Guest House Paradiso (1999) and Blow Dry (2001). He rose to international stardom with his role in Love Actually (2003), for which he won a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He went on to portray Viktor in the Underworld film series (2003–2009) and Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2006–2007). His 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), Wild Target (2010), 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 which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Nighy has gained acclaim for his television roles, earning a BAFTA Award for his role in the BBC One series State of Play (2003), and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the BBC film Gideon's Daughter (2007). He is also known for his roles in The Girl in the Café (2006), the BBC's Worricker trilogy, which includes Page Eight (2012), Turks & Caicos (2014), and Salting the Battlefield (2014), and the BBC's Ordeal by Innocence (2018). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Nighy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- The Last Dinosaur · Voice
- & Sons · Andrew
- Ride or Die · The Director
- Welcome to Paradise · Hooker Duck Host (Voice)
- 500 Miles · John
- Bulk · The Voice
- Shelter · Manafort
- Harlan Coben's Lazarus · Doctor Lazarus 'Dr L'
- This Is the Beginning
- Pirates of the Caribbean | Disneyland Resort · Davy Jones (Voice)
- That Christmas · Lighthouse Bill (Voice)
- JOY · Patrick Steptoe
- The Wild Robot · Longneck (Voice)
- Kent: Garden of England · Self
- Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue · Conrad (Voice)
- 10 Lives · Professor Craven (Voice)
- The First Omen · Cardinal Lawrence
- The Beautiful Game · Mal
- Role Play · Bob
- Darkling
- Spectre of the Bear · Bennett (Voice)
- Bloody Fury · Bloody's Consciousness (Voice)
- Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country · Self
- The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special · Self
- Living · Williams
- LIGHT & MAGIC · Self
- The Man Who Fell to Earth · Thomas Newton
- Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens · Self
- Lotus: A New Dawn · Self
- Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge · Self
- Buckley's Chance · Spencer
- Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty · Self
- World's Most Scenic River Journeys · Self
- Natural History Museum: World of Wonder · Self
- Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular · Self
- Minamata · Robert "Bob" Hayes
- Emma. · Mr. Woodhouse
- The Kindness of Strangers · Timofey
- StarDog and TurboCat · Sinclair (Voice)
- World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys · Narrator (Voice)
- Hope Gap · Edward
- Pokémon Detective Pikachu · Howard Clifford
- Sometimes Always Never · Alan, Executive producer
- Ordeal by Innocence · Leo Argyll
- The Bookshop · Mr. Brundish
- Castlevania · Saint Germain (Voice)
- Red Nose Day Actually · Billy Mack
- Their Finest · Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank
- The Limehouse Golem · John Kildare
- Dad's Army · Sergeant Wilson
- Norm of the North · Socrates (Voice)
- A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman · Self
- Pride: The True Story · Self
- The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel · Douglas Ainslie
- Pride · Cliff
- National Theatre Live: Skylight · Tom Sergeant
- Salting the Battlefield · Johnny Worricker
- Turks & Caicos · Johnny Worricker
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- I, Frankenstein · Naberius
- The World's End · The Network (Voice)
- About Time · Dad
- The Hungry Corpse · The Hungry Corpse
- Great White Shark · Self
- Jack the Giant Slayer · General Fallon
- Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene · Graham Greene (Voice)
- London: The Modern Babylon · Spoken Quotations (Voice)
- Total Recall · Matthias
- Wrath of the Titans · Hephaestus
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel · Douglas Ainslie
- Arthur Christmas · Grandsanta (Voice)
- Page Eight · Johnny Worricker, Executive producer
- Astonish Me · The Professor
- Real Creatures of Dirt · Self / Rattlesnake Jake
- The Man with the Stolen Heart · Narrator
- Rango · Rattlesnake Jake (Voice)
- Chalet Girl · Richard Madsen
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 · Rufus Scrimgeour
- Wild Target · Victor Maynard
- 10 Minute Tales · Mr Jellaby