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:
- 180
- First Appeared:
- In the series Ride or Die
- Latest Project:
- Movie 500 Miles 2026
Known For
Filmography
| Series | Ride or Die | The Director | 2026 |
| Movie | 500 Miles | Unknown | 2026 |
| Series | Lazarus | Doctor Lazarus ' Dr L' | 2026 |
| Movie | Untitled Jason Statham Action-Thriller | Unknown | 2026 |
| Movie | & Sons | Unknown | 2026 |
| Movie | Dragonkeeper | Danzi (voice) | 2024-04-11 |
| Movie | The First Omen | Cardinal Lawrence | 2024-04-03 |
| Movie | 10 Lives | Professor Craven (voice) | 2024-04-18 |
| Movie | The Beautiful Game | Mal | 2024-03-22 |
| Movie | The Wild Robot | Longneck (voice) | 2024-09-12 |
| Movie | Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue | Conrad (voice) | 2024-05-01 |
| Movie | Joy | Patrick Steptoe | 2024-11-15 |
| Movie | That Christmas | Lighthouse Bill (voice) | 2024-11-27 |
| Series | Kent: Garden of England | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2024-09-11 |
| Movie | Bloody Fury | Bloody's Consciousness (voice) | 2023-09-23 |
| Series | Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2023-09-06 |
| Movie | Darkling | Unknown | 2023-10-23 |
| Movie | Role Play | Bob | 2023-12-14 |
| Movie | Spectre of the Bear | Bennett (voice) | 2023-10-07 |
| Series | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Thomas Jerome Newton | 2022-04-24 |
| 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 | World's Most Scenic River Journeys | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2021-04-02 |
| Series | Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2021-06-05 |
| Movie | Lotus: A New Dawn | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2021-07-28 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Buckley's Chance | Spencer | 2021-06-24 |
| Movie | Emma. | Mr. Woodhouse | 2020-02-13 |
| Movie | Minamata | Robert "Bob" Hayes | 2020-03-13 |
| Movie | Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular | Self | 2020-12-01 |
| Movie | Sometimes Always Never | Alan | 2019-03-14 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale | Himself | 2018-02-18 |
| Series | Ordeal by Innocence | Leo Argyll | 2018-04-01 |
| Movie | Their Finest | Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank | 2017-02-19 |
| 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 | 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 | I, Frankenstein | Naberius | 2014-01-22 |
| Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
| Movie | Turks & Caicos | Johnny Worricker | 2014-03-20 |
| Movie | Pride | Cliff | 2014-09-12 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: Skylight | Tom Sergeant | 2014-07-24 |
| Movie | Salting the Battlefield | Johnny Worricker | 2014-03-27 |
| Movie | Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene | Graham Greene (voice) | 2013-01-01 |
| Movie | Jack the Giant Slayer | General Fallon | 2013-02-27 |
| Movie | The Hungry Corpse | The Hungry Corpse | 2013-06-26 |
| Movie | The World's End | The Network (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | About Time | Dad | 2013-09-04 |
| Movie | Great White Shark | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2013-05-24 |
| Movie | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Douglas Ainslie | 2012-02-23 |
| Movie | London: The Modern Babylon | Spoken Quotations (voice) | 2012-08-03 |
| Movie | Wrath of the Titans | Hephaestus | 2012-03-28 |
| Movie | Total Recall | Matthias | 2012-08-02 |
| 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 | Astonish Me | The Professor | 2011-07-26 |
| Movie | Page Eight | Johnny Worricker | 2011-08-28 |
| Movie | Arthur Christmas | Grandsanta (voice) | 2011-11-10 |
| Movie | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Rufus Scrimgeour | 2010-11-17 |
| Movie | Wild Target | Victor Maynard | 2010-06-17 |
| Movie | The Boat That Rocked | Quentin | 2009-04-01 |
| Series | The Big Art Project | Narrator | 2009-05-10 |
| Movie | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans | Viktor | 2009-01-22 |
| Series | 10 Minute Tales | Unknown | 2009-12-21 |
| Movie | Glorious 39 | Alexander Keyes | 2009-11-20 |
| Movie | Astro Boy | Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice) | 2009-10-15 |
| Series | Live from Studio Five | Self | 2009-09-14 |
| Movie | G-Force | Leonard Saber | 2009-07-24 |
| Movie | Valkyrie | Friedrich Olbricht | 2008-12-25 |
| Movie | Slapper | Arnold Percy | 2008-06-21 |
| 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 | Underworld: Evolution | Viktor | 2006-01-12 |
| 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 | Flushed Away | Whitey (voice) | 2006-10-22 |
| Movie | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Davy Jones | 2006-07-06 |
| Movie | Notes on a Scandal | Richard Hart | 2006-12-25 |
| Series | The One Show | Self | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | Stormbreaker | Alan Blunt | 2006-07-21 |
| Movie | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Slartibartfast | 2005-04-28 |
| Series | Doctor Who | Dr Black | 2005-03-26 |
| Movie | The Girl in the Café | Lawrence | 2005-06-25 |
| Movie | Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' | Self | 2005-07-05 |
| Movie | Gideon's Daughter | Gideon Warner | 2005-10-21 |
| 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 |
| Series | Meerkat Manor | Narrator | 2005-09-02 |
| Movie | The Constant Gardener | Sir Bernard Pellegrin | 2005-08-31 |
| Movie | Burst | Maxwell's Fan 22 | 2004-01-01 |
| Movie | Shaun of the Dead | Phillip | 2004-04-09 |
| Movie | Enduring Love | Robin | 2004-10-29 |
| Series | He Knew He Was Right | Colonel Osborne | 2004-04-18 |
| Movie | Ready When You Are, Mr McGill | Phil Parish | 2004-09-01 |
| Movie | The Magic Roundabout | Dylan (voice) | 2004-10-24 |
| Movie | Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews | Self - Narrator | 2004-04-22 |
| Movie | Love Actually | Billy Mack | 2003-09-07 |
| Series | State of Play | Cameron Foster | 2003-05-18 |
| Movie | I Capture the Castle | James Mortmain | 2003-05-09 |
| Series | The Lost Prince | Stamfordham | 2003-01-19 |
| Series | Canterbury Tales | James | 2003-09-11 |
| Movie | Underworld | Viktor | 2003-09-19 |
| Movie | The Young Visiters | Earl of Clincham | 2003-12-26 |
| Movie | Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher | Narrator | 2003-12-29 |
| Movie | Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates | Unknown | 2003-12-02 |
| Series | Grumpy Old Men | Self | 2003-10-10 |
| Movie | AKA | Uncle Louis Gryffoyn | 2002-01-19 |
| Series | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Lockwood | 2002-04-08 |
| Series | Timeshift | self (voice) | 2002-10-10 |
| Movie | Lawless Heart | Dan | 2002-06-28 |
| Movie | Blow Dry | Ray Robertson | 2001-03-01 |
| Movie | Lucky Break | Roger | 2001-08-24 |
| Series | Richard & Judy | Self | 2001-11-26 |
| Series | Black Books | Man at bar | 2000-09-29 |
| Series | Longitude | Lord Sandwich | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | Longitude | Lord Sandwich | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | Guest House Paradiso | Mr. Johnson | 1999-12-03 |
| Series | People Like Us | Will Rushmore | 1999-09-20 |
| Movie | The Bass Player | Unknown | 1999-10-01 |
| Series | Total Recall 2070 | Matthias Lair | 1999-01-05 |
| Movie | Still Crazy | Ray Simms | 1998-10-30 |
| Series | Parkinson | Self | 1998-01-09 |
| Movie | FairyTale: A True Story | Edward Gardner | 1997-10-24 |
| Series | Testament: The Bible in Animation | Belshazzar (voice) | 1996-12-11 |
| Movie | True Blue | Jeremy Saville | 1996-11-15 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Unnatural Causes | Oliver Latham | 1993-01-02 |
| Series | Eye of the Storm | Tom Frewen | 1993-01-08 |
| Series | Peak Practice | Alan Sinclair | 1993-05-10 |
| Movie | Don't Leave Me This Way | John Tracey | 1993-05-30 |
| Movie | The Maitlands | Roger Maitland | 1993-11-13 |
| Movie | A Masculine Ending | John Tracey | 1992-04-12 |
| Movie | Absolute Hell | Hugh Marriner | 1991-10-05 |
| Series | Performance | Hugh Marriner | 1991-02-22 |
| Series | Chillers | Tom Dickenson | 1990-04-14 |
| Series | Making News | Sam Courtney | 1990-01-16 |
| Movie | Antonia and Jane | Howard Nash | 1990-01-01 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Thirteen at Dinner | Ronald Marsh | 1985-09-19 |
| Series | The Last Place on Earth | Cecil Meares | 1985-02-18 |
| Movie | Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil | Helmut Hoffmann | 1985-02-17 |
| 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 | Dreams of Leaving | William | 1980-01-17 |
| Movie | Death Watch | Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited) | 1980-01-23 |
| Movie | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Officer | 1980-12-01 |
| Movie | Standing in for Henry | Bruno | 1980-12-19 |
| Movie | Fox | Colin Street | 1980-03-10 |
| Series | Fox | Colin Street | 1980-03-10 |
| Series | Agony | Vincent Fish | 1979-03-11 |
| Series | Minder | Oates | 1979-10-29 |
| Movie | Deasey (Desperate) | Deasy | 1979-12-06 |
| Movie | Soldiers Talking, Cleanly | Bill | 1978-12-05 |
| Movie | Occupy! | Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool | 1976-01-01 |
| Series | Play for Today | Dave | 1970-10-15 |