Bill Nighy

Acting · 4.7 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: At World's End

20077.3

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

20067.4

About Time

20137.9

Love Actually

20037.1

Flushed Away

20066.3

Rango

20116.9

Total Recall

20126.0

Hot Fuzz

20077.6

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

20196.9

Wrath of the Titans

20125.8

Shaun of the Dead

20047.5

Jack the Giant Slayer

20135.9

Underworld

20036.9

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

20056.7

The First Omen

20246.8

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

20096.5

The World's End

20136.8

Astro Boy

20096.3

Underworld: Evolution

20066.6

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

The Constant Gardener

20057.0

Notes on a Scandal

20067.1

Their Finest

20176.6

Pride

20147.7

I, Frankenstein

20145.4

Living

20227.0

Hope Gap

20196.4

The Boat That Rocked

20097.2

Wild Target

20106.5

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

20127.0

The Limehouse Golem

20166.3

Curse of the Pink Panther

19834.6

Blow Dry

20015.9

Chalet Girl

20116.4

Norm of the North

20164.7

Page Eight

20116.6

Joy

20246.9

Dad's Army

20165.0

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

20156.4

Stormbreaker

20065.2

Red Nose Day Actually

20177.0

500 Miles

20265.0

Eye of the Needle

19816.7

Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue

20246.9

The Beautiful Game

20246.3

The Magic Roundabout

20055.4

Little Lord Fauntleroy

19807.3

Minamata

20206.9

Guest House Paradiso

19996.1

StarDog and TurboCat

20197.1

Caine

2026

The Kindness of Strangers

20196.3

& Sons

2026

Sometimes Always Never

20196.4

Still Crazy

19986.8

Mack the Knife

19896.6

The Little Drummer Girl

19845.6

Enduring Love

20045.8

Thirteen at Dinner

19855.8

Being Human

19945.1

Turks & Caicos

20146.3

Glorious 39

20096.0

Bulk

20265.0

The Phantom of the Opera

19895.7

Bloody Fury

2023

Absolute Hell

19916.0

FairyTale: A True Story

19976.4

Fox

19801.0

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

19854.9

Salting the Battlefield

20146.3

I Capture the Castle

20036.7

Longitude

20007.4

Astonish Me

20118.0

Gideon's Daughter

20056.4

Lucky Break

20016.2

Occupy!

197610.0

The Maitlands

1993

Death Watch

19806.3

Alive and Kicking

19965.4

The Girl in the Café

20057.1

Great White Shark

20136.2

Real Creatures of Dirt

20113.5

Slapper

20083.5

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

20157.1

The Young Visiters

20035.3

Easter 2016

19829.0

Don't Leave Me This Way

19937.3

The Turning Door

2026

London: The Modern Babylon

20126.4

National Theatre Live: Skylight

20148.9

Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

1978

Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz

2007

Antonia and Jane

19905.4

Heart of Darkness

2026

Buckley's Chance

20216.2

Ibelin

2026

Welcome to Paradise

2026

True Blue

19966.2

Pride: The True Story

2015

Spectre of the Bear

2023

AKA

20025.7

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

20047.3

A Town in Nova Scotia

2026

Bottom Mindless Violence

200410.0

Unnatural Causes

19936.8

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

Lotus: A New Dawn

20216.0

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

20208.3

Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates

20034.0

The Bass Player

1999

Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens

2021

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

20227.0

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

20059.0

Lawless Heart

20025.2

This Is the Beginning

20251.0

Darkling

2023

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher

20037.5

Burst

2004

A Masculine Ending

19928.0

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

20064.0

Standing in for Henry

1980

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

20131.0

Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews

2004

The Man with the Stolen Heart

2011

Dreams of Leaving

19807.0

Under the Skin

1982

We Love Cigarettes

2006

Deasey (Desperate)

19799.0

The Hungry Corpse

2013