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:
- 191
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Turning Door
- Latest Project:
- Movie Shelter 2026-01-28
Known For
Filmography
| Series | California Avenue | Jerry | 2026 |
| Movie | Welcome to Paradise | Hooker Duck Host (voice) | 2026 |
| Movie | The Turning Door | (voice) | 2026 |
| Movie | Heart of Darkness | (voice) | 2026 |
| Movie | Shelter | 2026-01-28 | |
| Series | Ride or Die | The Director | 2026 |
| Movie | 500 Miles | 2026 | |
| Movie | Pink Sky at Night | Man | 2026 |
| Series | Harlan Coben's Lazarus | Doctor Lazarus 'Dr L' | 2025-10-22 |
| Movie | & Sons | Andrew | 2025-09-07 |
| Movie | This Is the Beginning | 2025-08-17 | |
| Movie | Bulk | (voice) | 2025-08-14 |
| Movie | The First Omen | Cardinal Lawrence | 2024-04-03 |
| Movie | The Beautiful Game | Mal | 2024-03-22 |
| 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 | Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue | Conrad (voice) | 2024-05-01 |
| Movie | 10 Lives | Professor Craven (voice) | 2024-04-18 |
| Movie | Dragonkeeper | Danzi (voice) | 2024-04-11 |
| Series | Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2023-09-06 |
| Movie | Role Play | Bob | 2023-12-14 |
| Movie | Darkling | 2023-10-23 | |
| Movie | Spectre of the Bear | Bennett (voice) | 2023-10-07 |
| Movie | Bloody Fury | Bloody's Consciousness (voice) | 2023-09-23 |
| Movie | Living | Williams | 2022-11-04 |
| Movie | The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special | Self | 2022-11-29 |
| Series | LIGHT & MAGIC | Self (archive footage) | 2022-07-27 |
| Series | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Thomas Jerome Newton | 2022-04-24 |
| Movie | Lotus: A New Dawn | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2021-07-28 |
| Movie | Buckley's Chance | Spencer | 2021-06-24 |
| Series | Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2021-06-29 |
| Movie | Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2021-12-14 |
| Series | Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2021-06-05 |
| Series | World's Most Scenic River Journeys | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2021-04-02 |
| 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 | Pokémon Detective Pikachu | Howard Clifford | 2019-05-03 |
| 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 | Hope Gap | Edward | 2019-10-03 |
| Movie | Sometimes Always Never | Alan | 2019-03-14 |
| Series | The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale | Himself | 2018-02-18 |
| Series | Ordeal by Innocence | Leo Argyll | 2018-04-01 |
| 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 | Norm of the North | Socrates (voice) | 2016-01-14 |
| Movie | Dad's Army | Sergeant Wilson | 2016-02-05 |
| Movie | The Limehouse Golem | John Kildare | 2016-10-18 |
| Movie | A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman | Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas' | 2015-12-26 |
| Movie | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Douglas Ainslie | 2015-02-26 |
| Movie | Salting the Battlefield | Johnny Worricker | 2014-03-27 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: Skylight | Tom Sergeant | 2014-07-24 |
| Movie | Turks & Caicos | Johnny Worricker | 2014-03-20 |
| Movie | I, Frankenstein | Naberius | 2014-01-22 |
| Movie | Pride | Cliff | 2014-09-12 |
| Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
| Movie | Great White Shark | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2013-05-24 |
| Movie | About Time | Dad | 2013-09-04 |
| Movie | The World's End | The Network (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | The Hungry Corpse | The Hungry Corpse | 2013-06-26 |
| 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 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Douglas Ainslie | 2012-02-23 |
| Movie | Wrath of the Titans | Hephaestus | 2012-03-28 |
| Movie | Total Recall | Matthias | 2012-08-02 |
| 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 | Astonish Me | The Professor | 2011-07-26 |
| Movie | The Man with the Stolen Heart | Narrator | 2011-07-14 |
| Movie | Rango | Rattlesnake Jake (voice) | 2011-03-02 |
| Movie | Chalet Girl | Richard Madsen | 2011-02-02 |
| Movie | Real Creatures of Dirt | Self / Rattlesnake Jake | 2011-07-15 |
| Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Rufus Scrimgeour | 2010-11-17 |
| Movie | Wild Target | Victor Maynard | 2010-06-17 |
| Series | The Big Art Project | Narrator | 2009-05-10 |
| Series | 10 Minute Tales | Unknown | 2009-12-21 |
| Movie | Glorious 39 | Alexander Keyes | 2009-11-20 |
| Series | Live from Studio Five | Self | 2009-09-14 |
| Movie | The Boat That Rocked | Quentin | 2009-04-01 |
| Movie | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans | Viktor | 2009-01-22 |
| Movie | Astro Boy | Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice) | 2009-10-15 |
| Movie | G-Force | Leonard Saber | 2009-07-24 |
| Movie | A Fox's Tale | Ringmaster (voice) | 2008-04-17 |
| Movie | Valkyrie | Friedrich Olbricht | 2008-12-25 |
| Movie | Slapper | Arnold Percy | 2008-06-21 |
| Movie | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Davy Jones | 2007-05-19 |
| Movie | Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz | Self | 2007-06-11 |
| Movie | Hot Fuzz | Met Chief Inspector | 2007-02-14 |
| Movie | Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self | 2006-01-10 |
| Movie | Underworld: Evolution | Viktor | 2006-01-12 |
| Movie | Flushed Away | Whitey (voice) | 2006-10-22 |
| Movie | Notes on a Scandal | Richard Hart | 2006-12-25 |
| Movie | We Love Cigarettes | Narrator | 2006-06-29 |
| Series | The One Show | Self | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | Stormbreaker | Alan Blunt | 2006-07-21 |
| Movie | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Davy Jones | 2006-07-06 |
| Movie | Gideon's Daughter | Gideon Warner | 2005-10-21 |
| Series | Doctor Who | Dr Black | 2005-03-26 |
| Series | Meerkat Manor | Narrator | 2005-09-02 |
| 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 | The Constant Gardener | Sir Bernard Pellegrin | 2005-08-31 |
| Movie | Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' | Self | 2005-07-05 |
| Movie | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Slartibartfast | 2005-04-28 |
| Movie | The Girl in the Café | Lawrence | 2005-06-25 |
| 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 | Bottom Mindless Violence | Mr. Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2004-11-22 |
| Movie | I Capture the Castle | James Mortmain | 2003-05-09 |
| Series | The Lost Prince | Stamfordham | 2003-01-19 |
| Movie | Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher | Self - Narrator | 2003-12-29 |
| Movie | Underworld | Viktor | 2003-09-19 |
| Series | Grumpy Old Men | Self | 2003-10-10 |
| Movie | Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates | 2003-12-02 | |
| Movie | The Young Visiters | Earl of Clincham | 2003-12-26 |
| Movie | Love Actually | Billy Mack | 2003-09-07 |
| Series | State of Play | Cameron Foster | 2003-05-18 |
| Series | Canterbury Tales | James | 2003-09-11 |
| 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 | Alive and Kicking | Tristan | 1996-11-08 |
| Series | Testament: The Bible in Animation | Belshazzar (voice) | 1996-10-16 |
| Movie | True Blue | Jeremy Saville | 1996-11-15 |
| Series | Kavanagh Q.C. | Giles Culpepper QC | 1995-01-03 |
| Series | Wycliffe | David Cleeve | 1994-07-24 |
| Movie | Being Human | Julian | 1994-05-06 |
| Movie | The Maitlands | Roger Maitland | 1993-11-13 |
| Movie | Unnatural Causes | Oliver Latham | 1993-01-02 |
| Movie | Don't Leave Me This Way | John Tracey | 1993-05-30 |
| Series | Eye of the Storm | Tom Frewen | 1993-01-08 |
| Series | Peak Practice | Alan Sinclair | 1993-05-10 |
| Movie | A Masculine Ending | John Tracey | 1992-04-12 |
| Series | Chillers | Tom Dickenson | 1992-01-07 |
| Movie | Absolute Hell | Hugh Marriner | 1991-10-05 |
| Series | Performance | Hugh Marriner | 1991-10-05 |
| Series | Making News | Sam Courtney | 1990-01-16 |
| Movie | Antonia and Jane | Howard Nash | 1990-07-18 |
| Movie | Mack the Knife | Tiger Brown | 1989-11-01 |
| Movie | The Phantom of the Opera | Martin Barton | 1989-11-04 |
| Series | South Of The Border | Tony Freason | 1988-10-25 |
| Series | This Morning | Self | 1988-10-03 |
| Series | The Last Place on Earth | Cecil Meares | 1985-02-18 |
| Movie | Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil | Helmut Hoffmann | 1985-02-17 |
| Movie | Thirteen at Dinner | Ronald Marsh | 1985-09-19 |
| Movie | The Little Drummer Girl | Al | 1984-10-19 |
| Series | Auf Wiedersehen, Pet | Jeffrey Grainger | 1983-11-11 |
| Series | Reilly: Ace of Spies | Goschen | 1983-09-05 |
| Movie | Curse of the Pink Panther | ENT Doctor | 1983-08-12 |
| 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 | Death Watch | Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited) | 1980-01-23 |
| Series | Fox | Colin Street | 1980-03-10 |
| Movie | Fox | Colin Street | 1980-03-10 |
| Movie | Dreams of Leaving | William | 1980-01-17 |
| Movie | Standing in for Henry | Bruno | 1980-12-19 |
| Movie | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Officer | 1980-12-01 |
| Movie | Deasey (Desperate) | Deasy | 1979-12-06 |
| Series | Minder | Oates | 1979-10-29 |
| 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 |