Bill Nighy
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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- Born:
- Dec 12, 1949 In Caterham, Surrey, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 189
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Pink Sky at Night
- Latest Project:
- Movie Shelter 2026-01-30
Known For
Filmography
| Series | Ride or Die | The Director | 2026 |
| Movie | Shelter | 2026-01-30 | |
| Series | California Avenue | Jerry | 2026 |
| Movie | Heart of Darkness | (voice) | 2026 |
| Movie | Welcome to Paradise | Hooker Duck Host (voice) | 2026 |
| Movie | Pink Sky at Night | Man | 2026 |
| Movie | 500 Miles | 2026 | |
| Movie | Bulk | (voice) | 2025-08-14 |
| Series | Harlan Coben's Lazarus | Doctor Lazarus 'Dr L' | 2025-10-22 |
| Movie | This is the Beginning | 2025-08-17 | |
| Movie | Lazarus | Unknown | 2025-10-22 |
| Movie | & Sons | Andrew | 2025-09-07 |
| Movie | The Beautiful Game | Mal | 2024-03-22 |
| Movie | The First Omen | Cardinal Lawrence | 2024-04-03 |
| Series | Kent: Garden of England | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2024-09-11 |
| Movie | That Christmas | Lighthouse Bill (voice) | 2024-11-27 |
| Movie | Joy | Patrick Steptoe | 2024-11-15 |
| Movie | The Wild Robot | Longneck (voice) | 2024-09-12 |
| Movie | 10 Lives | Professor Craven (voice) | 2024-04-18 |
| Movie | Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue | Conrad (voice) | 2024-05-01 |
| Movie | Dragonkeeper | Danzi (voice) | 2024-04-11 |
| Movie | Bloody Fury | Bloody's Consciousness (voice) | 2023-09-23 |
| Movie | Role Play | Bob | 2023-12-14 |
| Movie | Darkling | 2023-10-23 | |
| Movie | Spectre of the Bear | Bennett (voice) | 2023-10-07 |
| Series | Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2023-09-06 |
| Movie | The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special | Self | 2022-11-29 |
| Movie | Living | Williams | 2022-11-04 |
| Series | LIGHT & MAGIC | Self (archive footage) | 2022-07-27 |
| Series | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Thomas Jerome Newton | 2022-04-24 |
| Movie | Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2021-12-14 |
| Series | Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2021-06-29 |
| Series | World's Most Scenic River Journeys | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2021-04-02 |
| Movie | Lotus: A New Dawn | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2021-07-28 |
| Movie | Buckley's Chance | Spencer | 2021-06-24 |
| Series | Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2021-06-05 |
| Movie | Minamata | Robert "Bob" Hayes | 2020-03-13 |
| Movie | Emma. | Mr. Woodhouse | 2020-02-13 |
| Movie | Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular | Self | 2020-12-01 |
| Movie | Hope Gap | Edward | 2019-10-03 |
| Movie | The Kindness of Strangers | Timofey | 2019-12-12 |
| Movie | StarDog and TurboCat | Sinclair (voice) | 2019-12-06 |
| Series | World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys | Narrator (voice) | 2019-10-25 |
| Movie | Pokémon Detective Pikachu | Howard Clifford | 2019-05-03 |
| Movie | Sometimes Always Never | Alan | 2019-03-14 |
| Series | Ordeal by Innocence | Leo Argyll | 2018-04-01 |
| Series | The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale | Himself | 2018-02-18 |
| Movie | The Bookshop | Mr. Brundish | 2017-11-10 |
| Series | Castlevania | Saint Germain (voice) | 2017-07-07 |
| Movie | Red Nose Day Actually | Billy Mack | 2017-03-24 |
| Movie | Their Finest | Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank | 2017-02-19 |
| Movie | Dad's Army | Sergeant Wilson | 2016-02-05 |
| Movie | Norm of the North | Socrates (voice) | 2016-01-14 |
| Movie | The Limehouse Golem | John Kildare | 2016-10-18 |
| Movie | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Douglas Ainslie | 2015-02-26 |
| Movie | A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman | Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas' | 2015-12-26 |
| Movie | Pride | Cliff | 2014-09-12 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: Skylight | Tom Sergeant | 2014-07-24 |
| Movie | I, Frankenstein | Naberius | 2014-01-22 |
| Movie | Salting the Battlefield | Johnny Worricker | 2014-03-27 |
| Movie | Turks & Caicos | Johnny Worricker | 2014-03-20 |
| Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
| Movie | The Hungry Corpse | The Hungry Corpse | 2013-06-26 |
| Movie | About Time | Dad | 2013-09-04 |
| Movie | The World's End | The Network (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | Great White Shark | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2013-05-24 |
| Movie | Jack the Giant Slayer | General Fallon | 2013-02-27 |
| Movie | Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene | Graham Greene (voice) | 2013-01-01 |
| Movie | Total Recall | Matthias | 2012-08-02 |
| Movie | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Douglas Ainslie | 2012-02-23 |
| Movie | Wrath of the Titans | Hephaestus | 2012-03-28 |
| Movie | London: The Modern Babylon | Spoken Quotations (voice) | 2012-08-03 |
| Movie | Arthur Christmas | Grandsanta (voice) | 2011-11-10 |
| Movie | Page Eight | Johnny Worricker | 2011-08-28 |
| Movie | Real Creatures of Dirt | Self / Rattlesnake Jake | 2011-07-15 |
| Movie | Rango | Rattlesnake Jake (voice) | 2011-03-02 |
| Movie | Chalet Girl | Richard Madsen | 2011-02-02 |
| Movie | Astonish Me | The Professor | 2011-07-26 |
| Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Rufus Scrimgeour | 2010-11-17 |
| Movie | Wild Target | Victor Maynard | 2010-06-17 |
| Series | Live from Studio Five | Self | 2009-09-14 |
| Movie | G-Force | Leonard Saber | 2009-07-24 |
| Movie | Glorious 39 | Alexander Keyes | 2009-11-20 |
| Movie | Astro Boy | Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice) | 2009-10-15 |
| Series | The Big Art Project | Narrator | 2009-05-10 |
| Movie | The Boat That Rocked | Quentin | 2009-04-01 |
| Movie | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans | Viktor | 2009-01-22 |
| Series | 10 Minute Tales | Unknown | 2009-12-21 |
| Movie | Slapper | Arnold Percy | 2008-06-21 |
| Movie | Valkyrie | Friedrich Olbricht | 2008-12-25 |
| Movie | A Fox's Tale | Ringmaster (voice) | 2008-04-17 |
| Movie | Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz | Self | 2007-06-11 |
| Movie | Hot Fuzz | Met Chief Inspector | 2007-02-14 |
| Movie | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Davy Jones | 2007-05-19 |
| Movie | Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self | 2006-01-10 |
| Movie | We Love Cigarettes | Narrator | 2006-06-29 |
| Movie | Underworld: Evolution | Viktor | 2006-01-12 |
| Movie | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Davy Jones | 2006-07-06 |
| Movie | Notes on a Scandal | Richard Hart | 2006-12-25 |
| Movie | Flushed Away | Whitey (voice) | 2006-10-22 |
| Movie | Stormbreaker | Alan Blunt | 2006-07-21 |
| Series | The One Show | Self | 2006-08-14 |
| Series | Doctor Who | Dr Black | 2005-03-26 |
| Movie | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Slartibartfast | 2005-04-28 |
| Movie | 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 | 2005-09-05 |
| Movie | Gideon's Daughter | Gideon Warner | 2005-10-21 |
| Series | Meerkat Manor | Narrator | 2005-09-02 |
| Movie | The Constant Gardener | Sir Bernard Pellegrin | 2005-08-31 |
| Movie | The Girl in the Café | Lawrence | 2005-06-25 |
| Movie | Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' | Self | 2005-07-05 |
| Movie | Burst | Maxwell's Fan 22 | 2004-01-01 |
| Movie | Ready When You Are, Mr McGill | Phil Parish | 2004-09-01 |
| Movie | The Magic Roundabout | Dylan (voice) | 2004-10-24 |
| Movie | Enduring Love | Robin | 2004-10-29 |
| Movie | Shaun of the Dead | Phillip | 2004-04-09 |
| Movie | Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews | Self - Narrator | 2004-04-22 |
| Series | He Knew He Was Right | Colonel Osborne | 2004-04-18 |
| Movie | I Capture the Castle | James Mortmain | 2003-05-09 |
| Series | State of Play | Cameron Foster | 2003-05-18 |
| Series | The Lost Prince | Stamfordham | 2003-01-19 |
| Movie | Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher | Self - Narrator | 2003-12-29 |
| Series | Grumpy Old Men | Self | 2003-10-10 |
| Movie | Underworld | Viktor | 2003-09-19 |
| Movie | The Young Visiters | Earl of Clincham | 2003-12-26 |
| Series | Canterbury Tales | James | 2003-09-11 |
| Movie | Love Actually | Billy Mack | 2003-09-07 |
| Movie | Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates | 2003-12-02 | |
| Movie | AKA | Uncle Louis Gryffoyn | 2002-01-19 |
| Series | Timeshift | self (voice) | 2002-10-10 |
| Movie | Lawless Heart | Dan | 2002-06-28 |
| Series | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Lockwood | 2002-04-08 |
| Movie | Blow Dry | Ray Robertson | 2001-03-01 |
| Series | Richard & Judy | Self | 2001-11-26 |
| Movie | Lucky Break | Roger | 2001-08-24 |
| Series | Black Books | Man at bar | 2000-09-29 |
| Movie | Longitude | Lord Sandwich | 2000-01-02 |
| Series | Longitude | Lord Sandwich | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | The Bass Player | 1999-10-01 | |
| Series | Total Recall 2070 | Matthias Lair | 1999-01-05 |
| Series | People Like Us | Will Rushmore | 1999-09-20 |
| Movie | Guest House Paradiso | Mr. Johnson | 1999-12-03 |
| Movie | Still Crazy | Ray Simms | 1998-10-30 |
| Series | Parkinson | Self | 1998-01-09 |
| Movie | FairyTale: A True Story | Edward Gardner | 1997-10-24 |
| Movie | True Blue | Jeremy Saville | 1996-11-15 |
| Series | Testament: The Bible in Animation | Belshazzar (voice) | 1996-10-16 |
| Movie | Alive and Kicking | Tristan | 1996-11-08 |
| Series | Kavanagh Q.C. | Giles Culpepper QC | 1995-01-03 |
| Movie | Being Human | Julian | 1994-05-06 |
| Series | Wycliffe | David Cleeve | 1994-07-24 |
| Series | Eye of the Storm | Tom Frewen | 1993-01-08 |
| Movie | Don't Leave Me This Way | John Tracey | 1993-05-30 |
| Series | Peak Practice | Alan Sinclair | 1993-05-10 |
| Movie | The Maitlands | Roger Maitland | 1993-11-13 |
| Movie | Unnatural Causes | Oliver Latham | 1993-01-02 |
| Movie | A Masculine Ending | John Tracey | 1992-04-12 |
| Series | Performance | Hugh Marriner | 1991-10-05 |
| Movie | Absolute Hell | Hugh Marriner | 1991-10-05 |
| Series | Making News | Sam Courtney | 1990-01-16 |
| Movie | Antonia and Jane | Howard Nash | 1990-07-18 |
| Series | Chillers | Tom Dickenson | 1990-04-14 |
| Movie | The Phantom of the Opera | Martin Barton | 1989-11-04 |
| Movie | Mack the Knife | Tiger Brown | 1989-11-01 |
| Series | This Morning | Self | 1988-10-03 |
| Series | South Of The Border | Tony Freason | 1988-10-25 |
| Series | The Last Place on Earth | Cecil Meares | 1985-02-18 |
| Movie | Thirteen at Dinner | Ronald Marsh | 1985-09-19 |
| Movie | Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil | Helmut Hoffmann | 1985-02-17 |
| Movie | The Little Drummer Girl | Al | 1984-10-19 |
| Series | Reilly: Ace of Spies | Goschen | 1983-09-05 |
| Movie | Curse of the Pink Panther | ENT Doctor | 1983-08-12 |
| Series | Auf Wiedersehen, Pet | Jeffrey Grainger | 1983-11-11 |
| Movie | Under the Skin | Dave | 1982-01-19 |
| Movie | Easter 2016 | Connor Mullan | 1982-05-18 |
| Series | Bergerac | Barry | 1981-10-18 |
| Movie | Eye of the Needle | Squadron Leader Blenkinsop | 1981-07-24 |
| Movie | Fox | Colin Street | 1980-03-10 |
| Movie | Standing in for Henry | Bruno | 1980-12-19 |
| Movie | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Officer | 1980-12-01 |
| Series | Fox | Colin Street | 1980-03-10 |
| Movie | Death Watch | Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited) | 1980-01-23 |
| Movie | Dreams of Leaving | William | 1980-01-17 |
| Series | Minder | Oates | 1979-10-29 |
| Movie | Deasey (Desperate) | Deasy | 1979-12-06 |
| Series | Agony | Vincent Fish | 1979-03-11 |
| Movie | Soldiers Talking, Cleanly | Bill | 1978-12-05 |
| Movie | Occupy! | Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool | 1976-01-01 |
| Series | Playhouse | Bruno | 1974-03-13 |
| Series | Play for Today | Dave | 1970-10-15 |