Bill Nighy

Acting · 4.9 popularity

Age

Movies

139

Born: December 12, 1949
From: Caterham, Surrey, England, UK
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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.

Works

139 films

Shelter

20267.8

The Wild Robot

20248.3

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

20107.7

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

20067.4

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

20077.3

About Time

20137.9

Love Actually

20037.1

Rango

20116.9

Flushed Away

20066.3

Total Recall

20126.0

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

20196.9

Hot Fuzz

20077.6

Shaun of the Dead

20047.5

Wrath of the Titans

20125.8

Jack the Giant Slayer

20135.9

Underworld

20036.9

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

20096.5

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

20056.7

Astro Boy

20096.3

Underworld: Evolution

20066.6

The First Omen

20246.8

The World's End

20136.8

Emma.

20207.0

Valkyrie

20087.0

G-Force

20095.5

Arthur Christmas

20116.8

10 Lives

20247.7

Role Play

20236.0

The Bookshop

20176.5

That Christmas

20247.1

Notes on a Scandal

20067.1

The Constant Gardener

20057.0

I, Frankenstein

20145.4

Pride

20147.7

Their Finest

20176.6

Wild Target

20106.5

Hope Gap

20196.4

The Boat That Rocked

20097.2

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

20127.0

Living

20227.0

Blow Dry

20015.9

Curse of the Pink Panther

19834.6

Norm of the North

20164.7

Dad's Army

20165.0

Chalet Girl

20116.4

Page Eight

20116.6

The Limehouse Golem

20166.3

Red Nose Day Actually

20177.0

Minamata

20206.9

Stormbreaker

20065.2

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

20156.4

Joy

20246.9

Eye of the Needle

19816.7

Caine

2026

Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue

20246.9

The Magic Roundabout

20055.4

The Kindness of Strangers

20196.3

& Sons

2026

Little Lord Fauntleroy

19807.3

500 Miles

20265.0

Guest House Paradiso

19996.1

The Beautiful Game

20246.3

Enduring Love

20045.8

StarDog and TurboCat

20197.1

Sometimes Always Never

20196.4

Being Human

19945.1

Glorious 39

20096.0

Thirteen at Dinner

19855.8

Turks & Caicos

20146.3

Still Crazy

19986.8

Mack the Knife

19896.6

FairyTale: A True Story

19976.4

Absolute Hell

19916.0

The Little Drummer Girl

19845.6

The Phantom of the Opera

19895.7

Bulk

20265.0

I Capture the Castle

20036.7

Salting the Battlefield

20146.3

Fox

19801.0

Occupy!

197610.0

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

19854.9

Bloody Fury

2023

Don't Leave Me This Way

19937.3

Slapper

20083.5

Alive and Kicking

19965.4

Real Creatures of Dirt

20113.5

Easter 2016

19829.0

Longitude

20007.4

The Maitlands

1993

The Girl in the Café

20057.1

Antonia and Jane

19905.4

The Young Visiters

20035.3

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

20157.1

Astonish Me

20118.0

Great White Shark

20136.2

Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

1978

National Theatre Live: Skylight

20148.9

Lucky Break

20016.2

Death Watch

19806.3

Gideon's Daughter

20056.4

The Turning Door

2026

London: The Modern Babylon

20126.4

Ibelin

2026

Heart of Darkness

2026

Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz

2007

True Blue

19966.2

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

20047.3

AKA

20025.7

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

20227.0

Spectre of the Bear

2023

Bottom Mindless Violence

200410.0

Pride: The True Story

2015

Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates

20034.0

Lotus: A New Dawn

20216.0

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

20059.0

Welcome to Paradise

2026

Buckley's Chance

20216.2

A Town in Nova Scotia

2026

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'

2005

Unnatural Causes

19936.8

This Is the Beginning

20251.0

The Bass Player

1999

Lawless Heart

20025.2

Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens

2021

A Masculine Ending

19928.0

Darkling

2023

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

20208.3

Dreams of Leaving

19807.0

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

20064.0

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher

20037.5

The Man with the Stolen Heart

2011

Standing in for Henry

1980

Burst

2004

Under the Skin

1982

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

20131.0

The Hungry Corpse

2013

Deasey (Desperate)

19799.0

We Love Cigarettes

2006

Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews

2004