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