Bill Nighy
127 movies · 43 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 12, 1949 (age 76)
- Place of birth
- Caterham, Surrey, England, UK
- Also known as
- William Francis Nighy · ויליאם פרנסיס "ביל" ניי
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.
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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).
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Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Film
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★ 7.4 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006 · Film
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★ 7.3 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007 · Film
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★ 7.5 Shaun of the Dead
2004 · Film
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★ 7.9 About Time
2013 · Film
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★ 7.6 Hot Fuzz
2007 · Film
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★ 7.1 Love Actually
2003 · Film
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★ 6.9 Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019 · Film
Bill Nighy: movies and TV shows
Acting (170)
- Upcoming The Last Dinosaur
as (voice)
- Upcoming Heart of Darkness
as The Manager
- Upcoming The Turning Door
as (voice)
- Upcoming A Town in Nova Scotia
as Leon
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2026 & Sons
as Andrew
- 2026
- 2026 Welcome to Paradise
as Hooker Duck Host (voice)
- 2026 500 Miles
as John
- 2026 Bulk
as The Voice
- 2026 Shelter
as Manafort
- 2025
- 2025
- 2025 Pirates of the Caribbean | Disneyland Resort
as Davy Jones (voice)
- 2024 That Christmas
as Lighthouse Bill (voice)
- 2024 JOY
as Patrick Steptoe
- 2024 The Wild Robot
as Longneck (voice)
- 2024 Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
as Conrad (voice)
- 2024 10 Lives
as Professor Craven (voice)
- 2024 The First Omen
as Cardinal Lawrence
- 2024 The Beautiful Game
as Mal
- 2023 Role Play
as Bob
- 2023
- 2023 Spectre of the Bear
as Bennett (voice)
- 2023 Bloody Fury
as Bloody's Consciousness (voice)
- 2022 Living
as Williams
- 2022
- 2021 Buckley's Chance
as Spencer
- 2020 Minamata
as Robert "Bob" Hayes
- 2020 Emma.
as Mr. Woodhouse
- 2019 The Kindness of Strangers
as Timofey
- 2019 StarDog and TurboCat
as Sinclair (voice)
- 2019
- 2019 Hope Gap
as Edward
- 2019 Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Howard Clifford
- 2019 Sometimes Always Never
as Alan
- 2018
- 2017 The Bookshop
as Mr. Brundish
- 2017
- 2017 Red Nose Day Actually
as Billy Mack
- 2017 Their Finest
as Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank
- 2016 The Limehouse Golem
as John Kildare
- 2016 Dad's Army
as Sergeant Wilson
- 2016 Norm of the North
as Socrates (voice)
- 2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Douglas Ainslie
- 2014 Pride
as Cliff
- 2014 National Theatre Live: Skylight
as Tom Sergeant
- 2014 Salting the Battlefield
as Johnny Worricker
- 2014 Turks & Caicos
as Johnny Worricker
- 2014 I, Frankenstein
as Naberius
- 2013 The World's End
as The Network (voice)
- 2013 About Time
as Dad
- 2013 The Hungry Corpse
as The Hungry Corpse
- 2013 Jack the Giant Slayer
as General Fallon
- 2013 Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
as Graham Greene (voice)
- 2012 London: The Modern Babylon
as Spoken Quotations (voice)
- 2012 Total Recall
as Matthias
- 2012 Wrath of the Titans
as Hephaestus
- 2012 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Douglas Ainslie
- 2011 Arthur Christmas
as Grandsanta (voice)
- 2011 Page Eight
as Johnny Worricker
- 2011 Astonish Me
as The Professor
- 2011 The Man with the Stolen Heart
as Narrator
- 2011 Rango
as Rattlesnake Jake (voice)
- 2011 Chalet Girl
as Richard Madsen
- 2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Rufus Scrimgeour
- 2010 Wild Target
as Victor Maynard
- 2009
- 2009 Glorious 39
as Alexander Keyes
- 2009 Astro Boy
as Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)
- 2009 G-Force
as Leonard Saber
- 2009
- 2009 The Boat That Rocked
as Quentin
- 2009 Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
as Viktor
- 2008 Valkyrie
as Friedrich Olbricht
- 2008 Slapper
as Arnold Percy
- 2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
as Davy Jones
- 2007 Hot Fuzz
as Met Chief Inspector
- 2006 Notes on a Scandal
as Richard Hart
- 2006 Flushed Away
as Whitey (voice)
- 2006 Stormbreaker
as Alan Blunt
- 2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
as Davy Jones
- 2006 We Love Cigarettes
as Narrator
- 2006 Underworld: Evolution
as Viktor
- 2005 Gideon's Daughter
as Gideon Warner
- 2005
- 2005 The Constant Gardener
as Sir Bernard Pellegrin
- 2005 The Girl in the Café
as Lawrence
- 2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Slartibartfast
- 2005
- 2005 The Magic Roundabout
as Dylan (voice)
- 2004 Bottom Mindless Violence
as Mr. Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2004 Enduring Love
as Robin
- 2004 Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
as Phil Parish
- 2004
- 2004 Shaun of the Dead
as Phillip
- 2004 Burst
as Maxwell's Fan 22
- 2003 The Young Visiters
as Earl of Clincham
- 2003
- 2003 Underworld
as Viktor
- 2003
- 2003 Love Actually
as Billy Mack
- 2003
- 2003 I Capture the Castle
as James Mortmain
- 2003
- 2002 Lawless Heart
as Dan
- 2002
- 2002 AKA
as Uncle Louis Gryffoyn
- 2001 Lucky Break
as Roger
- 2001 Blow Dry
as Ray Robertson
- 2000
- 2000 Longitude
as Lord Sandwich
- 2000
- 1999 Guest House Paradiso
as Mr. Johnson
- 1999
- 1999
- 1998 Still Crazy
as Ray Simms
- 1997 FairyTale: A True Story
as Edward Gardner
- 1997
- 1996 True Blue
as Jeremy Saville
- 1996 Alive and Kicking
as Tristan
- 1996
- 1995
- 1994
- 1994 Being Human
as Julian
- 1993 The Maitlands
as Roger Maitland
- 1993 Don't Leave Me This Way
as John Tracey
- 1993
- 1993
- 1993 Unnatural Causes
as Oliver Latham
- 1992 A Masculine Ending
as John Tracey
- 1991 Absolute Hell
as Hugh Marriner
- 1991
- 1991
- 1990 Antonia and Jane
as Howard Nash
- 1990
- 1990
- 1990
- 1989 The Phantom of the Opera
as Martin Barton
- 1989 Mack the Knife
as Tiger Brown
- 1988
- 1986
- 1985 Thirteen at Dinner
as Ronald Marsh
- 1985
- 1985 Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
as Helmut Hoffmann
- 1984 The Little Drummer Girl
as Al
- 1983
- 1983
- 1983 Curse of the Pink Panther
as ENT Doctor
- 1983
- 1982 Easter 2016
as Connor Mullan
- 1982 Under the Skin
as Dave
- 1981 Eye of the Needle
as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
- 1980 Standing in for Henry
as Bruno
- 1980 Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Officer
- 1980 Fox
as Colin Street
- 1980
- 1980 Death Watch
as Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)
- 1980 Dreams of Leaving
as William
- 1979 Deasey (Desperate)
as Deasy
- 1979
- 1979
- 1978 Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
as Bill
- 1977
- 1976 Occupy!
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
- 1974
- 1970
Behind the camera (3)
- Upcoming
- 2019 Sometimes Always Never
Executive Producer
- 2011 Page Eight
Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (29)
- 2024 Kent: Garden of England
5 episodes
- 2023 Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country
6 episodes
- 2022
- 2022 LIGHT & MAGIC
1 episode
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021 Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge
2 episodes
- 2021 Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty
13 episodes
- 2021 World's Most Scenic River Journeys
16 episodes
- 2021 Natural History Museum: World of Wonder
4 episodes
- 2020
- 2015
- 2015
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
1 episode
- 2013
- 2011
- 2009 Live from Studio Five
1 episode
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
- 2003
- 2003 Grumpy Old Men
14 episodes
- 2002 Timeshift
1 episode
- 2001 Richard & Judy
1 episode
- 1998 Parkinson
1 episode
- 1988 This Morning
1 episode