Bill Nighy

Actor

Born December 12, 1949 in Caterham, Surrey, England, UK

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.

Filmography

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& Sons

Andrew

Coming soon

Ride or Die

The Director

Welcome to Paradise

Hooker Duck Host (voice)

Heart of Darkness

(voice)

Caine

500 Miles

Bulk

The Voice

Shelter

Manafort

Harlan Coben's Lazarus

Doctor Lazarus 'Dr L'

This Is the Beginning

That Christmas

Lighthouse Bill (voice)

Joy

Patrick Steptoe

The Wild Robot

Longneck (voice)

Kent: Garden of England

Self - Narrator (voice)

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 - Narrator (voice)

The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special

Self

Living

Williams

LIGHT & MAGIC

Self (archive footage)

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Thomas Jerome Newton

Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens

Self - Narrator (voice)

Lotus: A New Dawn

Self - Narrator (voice)

Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge

Self - Narrator (voice)

Buckley's Chance

Spencer

Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty

Self - Narrator (voice)

World's Most Scenic River Journeys

Self - Narrator (voice)

Natural History Museum: World of Wonder

Self - Narrator

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

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 - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'

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

About Time

Dad

The World's End

The Network (voice)

The Hungry Corpse

Great White Shark

Self - Narrator (voice)

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

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

Glorious 39

Alexander Keyes

Astro Boy

Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)

Live from Studio Five

Self

G-Force

Leonard Saber

The Boat That Rocked

Quentin

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Viktor

Valkyrie

Friedrich Olbricht

Slapper

Arnold Percy

Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz

Self

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Davy Jones

Hot Fuzz

Met Chief Inspector

Notes on a Scandal

Richard Hart

Flushed Away

Whitey (voice)

Stormbreaker

Alan Blunt

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Davy Jones

We Love Cigarettes

Narrator

Underworld: Evolution

Viktor

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener

Self

Gideon's Daughter

Gideon Warner

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

Meerkat Manor

Narrator

The Constant Gardener

Sir Bernard Pellegrin

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

Self

The Girl in the Café

Lawrence

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Slartibartfast

Doctor Who

Dr Black

The Magic Roundabout

Dylan (voice)

Bottom Mindless Violence

Mr. Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)

Enduring Love

Robin

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

Phil Parish

Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews

Self - Narrator

He Knew He Was Right

Colonel Osborne

Shaun of the Dead

Phillip

Burst

Maxwell's Fan 22

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher

Self - Narrator

The Young Visiters

Earl of Clincham

Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates

Grumpy Old Men

Self

Underworld

Viktor

Canterbury Tales

James

Love Actually

Billy Mack

State of Play

Cameron Foster

I Capture the Castle

James Mortmain

The Lost Prince

Stamfordham

Timeshift

self (voice)

Lawless Heart

Dan

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

Lockwood

AKA

Uncle Louis Gryffoyn

Richard & Judy

Self

Lucky Break

Roger

Blow Dry

Ray Robertson

Black Books

Man at bar

Longitude

Lord Sandwich

Longitude

Lord Sandwich

Guest House Paradiso

Mr. Johnson

People Like Us

Will Rushmore

Still Crazy

Ray Simms

Parkinson

Self

FairyTale: A True Story

Edward Gardner

True Blue

Jeremy Saville

Alive and Kicking

Tristan

Testament: The Bible in Animation

Belshazzar (voice)

Kavanagh Q.C.

Giles Culpepper QC

Wycliffe

David Cleeve

Being Human

Julian

The Maitlands

Roger Maitland

Don't Leave Me This Way

John Tracey

Peak Practice

Alan Sinclair

Eye of the Storm

Tom Frewen

Unnatural Causes

Oliver Latham

A Masculine Ending

John Tracey

Absolute Hell

Hugh Marriner

Performance

Roger Maitland

Antonia and Jane

Howard Nash

Chillers

Tom Dickenson

The Phantom of the Opera

Martin Barton

Mack the Knife

Tiger Brown

South of the Border

Tony Freason

This Morning

Self

Thirteen at Dinner

Ronald Marsh

The Last Place on Earth

Cecil Meares

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Helmut Hoffmann

The Little Drummer Girl

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Jeffrey Grainger

Reilly: Ace of Spies

Goschen

Curse of the Pink Panther

ENT Doctor

Storyboard

Sam

Easter 2016

Connor Mullan

Under the Skin

Dave

Eye of the Needle

Squadron Leader Blenkinsop

Standing in for Henry

Bruno

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Officer

Fox

Colin Street

Death Watch

Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)

Dreams of Leaving

William

Deasey (Desperate)

Deasy

Minder

Oates

Agony

Vincent Fish

Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

Bill

Occupy!

Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool

Playhouse

Bruno

Play for Today

Dave