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