Bill Nighy 1949 75
Bill Nighy 1949 75
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).
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2025 Untitled Jason Statham Action-Thriller
2025 & Sons
2025 500 Miles
2024 That Christmas as Lighthouse Bill (voice)
2024 Joy as Patrick Steptoe
2024 The Wild Robot as Longneck (voice)
2024 Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue as Conrad (voice)
2024 10 Lives as Professor Craven (voice)
2024 The First Omen as Cardinal Lawrence
2024 The Beautiful Game as Mal
2023 Role Play as Bob
2023 Darkling
2023 Spectre of the Bear as Bennett (voice)
2023 Bloody Fury as Bloody's Consciousness (voice)
2022 The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special as Self
2022 Living as Williams
2021 Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021 Lotus: A New Dawn as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021 Buckley's Chance as Spencer
2020 Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular as Self
2020 Minamata as Robert "Bob" Hayes
2020 Emma. as Mr. Woodhouse
2019 The Kindness of Strangers as Timofey
2019 StarDog and TurboCat as Sinclair (voice)
2019 Hope Gap as Edward
2019 Pokémon Detective Pikachu as Howard Clifford
2019 Sometimes Always Never as Alan Executive Producer
2017 The Bookshop as Mr. Brundish
2017 Red Nose Day Actually as Billy Mack
2017 Their Finest as Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank
2016 The Limehouse Golem as John Kildare
2016 Dad's Army as Sergeant Wilson
2016 Norm of the North as Socrates (voice)
2015 A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman as Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'
2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Douglas Ainslie
2014 Pride as Cliff
2014 National Theatre Live: Skylight as Tom Sergeant
2014 Salting the Battlefield as Johnny Worricker
2014 Turks & Caicos as Johnny Worricker
2014 I, Frankenstein as Naberius
2013 About Time as Dad
2013 The World's End as The Network (voice)
2013 The Hungry Corpse as The Hungry Corpse
2013 Great White Shark as Self - Narrator (voice)
2013 Jack the Giant Slayer as General Fallon
2013 Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene as Graham Greene (voice)
2012 London: The Modern Babylon as Spoken Quotations (voice)
2012 Total Recall as Matthias
2012 Wrath of the Titans as Hephaestus
2012 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Douglas Ainslie
2011 Arthur Christmas as Grandsanta (voice)
2011 Page Eight as Johnny Worricker Executive Producer
2011 Astonish Me as The Professor
2011 Real Creatures of Dirt as Self / Rattlesnake Jake
2011 Rango as Rattlesnake Jake (voice)
2011 Chalet Girl as Richard Madsen
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Rufus Scrimgeour
2010 Wild Target as Victor Maynard
2009 Glorious 39 as Alexander Keyes
2009 Astro Boy as Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)
2009 G-Force as Leonard Saber
2009 The Boat That Rocked as Quentin
2009 Underworld: Rise of the Lycans as Viktor
2008 Valkyrie as Friedrich Olbricht
2008 Slapper as Arnold Percy
2008 A Fox's Tale as Ringmaster (voice)
2007 Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz as Self
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as Davy Jones
2007 Hot Fuzz as Met Chief Inspector
2006 Notes on a Scandal as Richard Hart
2006 Flushed Away as Whitey (voice)
2006 Stormbreaker as Alan Blunt
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as Davy Jones
2006 We Love Cigarettes as Narrator
2006 Underworld: Evolution as Viktor
2006 Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener as Self
2005 Gideon's Daughter as Gideon Warner
2005 The Constant Gardener as Sir Bernard Pellegrin
2005 Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as Self
2005 The Girl in the Café as Lawrence
2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Slartibartfast
2004 Enduring Love as Robin
2004 The Magic Roundabout as Dylan (voice)
2004 Ready When You Are, Mr McGill as Phil Parish
2004 Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews as Self - Narrator
2004 Shaun of the Dead as Phillip
2004 Burst as Maxwell's Fan 22
2003 Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher as Narrator
2003 The Young Visiters as Earl of Clincham
2003 Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates
2003 Underworld as Viktor
2003 Love Actually as Billy Mack
2003 I Capture the Castle as James Mortmain
2002 Lawless Heart as Dan
2002 AKA as Uncle Louis Gryffoyn
2001 Lucky Break as Roger
2001 Blow Dry as Ray Robertson
2000 Longitude as Lord Sandwich
1999 Guest House Paradiso as Mr. Johnson
1999 The Bass Player
1998 Still Crazy as Ray Simms
1997 FairyTale: A True Story as Edward Gardner
1996 True Blue as Jeremy Saville
1996 Alive and Kicking as Tristan
1994 Being Human as Julian
1993 The Maitlands as Roger Maitland
1993 Don't Leave Me This Way as John Tracey
1993 Unnatural Causes as Oliver Latham
1992 A Masculine Ending as John Tracey
1991 Absolute Hell as Hugh Marriner
1990 Antonia and Jane as Howard Nash
1989 The Phantom of the Opera as Martin Barton
1989 Mack the Knife as Tiger Brown
1985 Thirteen at Dinner as Ronald Marsh
1985 Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil as Helmut Hoffmann
1984 The Little Drummer Girl as Al
1983 Curse of the Pink Panther as ENT Doctor
1982 Easter 2016 as Connor Mullan
1982 Under the Skin as Dave
1981 Eye of the Needle as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
1980 Standing in for Henry as Bruno
1980 Little Lord Fauntleroy as Officer
1980 Fox as Colin Street
1980 Death Watch as Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)
1980 Dreams of Leaving as William
1979 Deasey (Desperate) as Deasy
1978 Soldiers Talking, Cleanly as Bill
1976 Occupy! as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
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