Bill Nighy
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).
Filmography (183 Appearances)
500 Miles
& Sons
A Town in Nova Scotia
California Avenue
Heart of Darkness
The Turning Door
Welcome to Paradise
Bulk
Shelter
Harlan Coben's Lazarus
This Is the Beginning
That Christmas
Joy
The Wild Robot
Kent: Garden of England
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
10 Lives
The First Omen
The Beautiful Game
Role Play
Darkling
Spectre of the Bear
Bloody Fury
Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
Living
LIGHT & MAGIC
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens
Lotus: A New Dawn
Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge
Buckley's Chance
Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty
World's Most Scenic River Journeys
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Minamata
Emma.
The Kindness of Strangers
StarDog and TurboCat
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
Hope Gap
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Sometimes Always Never
Ordeal by Innocence
The Bookshop
Castlevania
Red Nose Day Actually
Their Finest
The Limehouse Golem
Dad's Army
Norm of the North
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Pride
National Theatre Live: Skylight
Salting the Battlefield
Turks & Caicos
Late Night with Seth Meyers
I, Frankenstein
About Time
The World's End
The Hungry Corpse
Great White Shark
Jack the Giant Slayer
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
London: The Modern Babylon
Total Recall
Wrath of the Titans
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Arthur Christmas
Page Eight
Astonish Me
Real Creatures of Dirt
The Man with the Stolen Heart
Rango
Chalet Girl
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Wild Target
10 Minute Tales
Glorious 39
Astro Boy
Live from Studio Five
G-Force
The Big Art Project
The Boat That Rocked
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Valkyrie
Slapper
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Hot Fuzz
Notes on a Scandal
Flushed Away
Stormbreaker
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
We Love Cigarettes
Underworld: Evolution
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Gideon's Daughter
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'
Meerkat Manor
The Constant Gardener
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
The Girl in the Café
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Doctor Who
The Magic Roundabout
Bottom Mindless Violence
Enduring Love
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews
Shaun of the Dead
Burst
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
The Young Visiters
Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates
Grumpy Old Men
Underworld
Canterbury Tales
Love Actually
State of Play
I Capture the Castle
The Lost Prince
Timeshift
Lawless Heart
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
AKA
Richard & Judy
Lucky Break
Blow Dry
Black Books
Longitude
Longitude
Guest House Paradiso
The Bass Player
People Like Us
Still Crazy
Parkinson
FairyTale: A True Story
True Blue
Alive and Kicking
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Kavanagh Q.C.
Wycliffe
Being Human
The Maitlands
Don't Leave Me This Way
Peak Practice
Eye of the Storm
Unnatural Causes
A Masculine Ending
Performance
Absolute Hell
Antonia and Jane
Making News
Chillers
The Phantom of the Opera
Mack the Knife
South of the Border
This Morning
Thirteen at Dinner
The Last Place on Earth
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
The Little Drummer Girl
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Curse of the Pink Panther
Easter 2016
Under the Skin
Eye of the Needle
Standing in for Henry
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Fox
Fox
Death Watch
Dreams of Leaving
Deasey (Desperate)
Minder
Agony
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
Occupy!
Playhouse
Play for Today