Bill Nighy

Bill Nighy

Birthday: 1949-12-12

Place of birth: Caterham, Surrey, England, UK

Also known as: William Francis Nighy, ויליאם פרנסיס "ביל" ניי, بیل نای

imdb_id: nm0631490

Biography:

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).

Played in movies:

National Theatre Live: Skylight

Score: 9.1

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

Score: 8.5

The Wild Robot

Score: 8.3

Astonish Me

Score: 8.0

About Time

Score: 7.9

10 Lives

Score: 7.8

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Score: 7.7

Pride

Score: 7.7

Hot Fuzz

Score: 7.6

Shaun of the Dead

Score: 7.5

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Score: 7.4

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Score: 7.4

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

Score: 7.3

Longitude

Score: 7.3

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Score: 7.3

The Boat That Rocked

Score: 7.2

That Christmas

Score: 7.2

The Girl in the Café

Score: 7.1

Love Actually

Score: 7.1

Notes on a Scandal

Score: 7.1

StarDog and TurboCat

Score: 7.1

Red Nose Day Actually

Score: 7.1

Emma.

Score: 7.0

Dreams of Leaving

Score: 7.0

Don't Leave Me This Way

Score: 7.0

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

Score: 7.0

Joy

Score: 7.0

The Constant Gardener

Score: 7.0

Living

Score: 7.0

Valkyrie

Score: 6.9

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Score: 6.9

Minamata

Score: 6.9

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Score: 6.9

Rango

Score: 6.9

The First Omen

Score: 6.9

Underworld

Score: 6.8

The World's End

Score: 6.8

I Capture the Castle

Score: 6.8

Arthur Christmas

Score: 6.8

Eye of the Needle

Score: 6.7

Their Finest

Score: 6.7

Still Crazy

Score: 6.7

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Score: 6.7

Page Eight

Score: 6.6

Mack the Knife

Score: 6.6

Underworld: Evolution

Score: 6.6

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Score: 6.5

The Bookshop

Score: 6.5

London: The Modern Babylon

Score: 6.5

Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue

Score: 6.5

Wild Target

Score: 6.4

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Score: 6.4

Chalet Girl

Score: 6.4

FairyTale: A True Story

Score: 6.4

The Kindness of Strangers

Score: 6.4

The Beautiful Game

Score: 6.3

Death Watch

Score: 6.3

Astro Boy

Score: 6.3

Flushed Away

Score: 6.3

Sometimes Always Never

Score: 6.3

Turks & Caicos

Score: 6.3

Hope Gap

Score: 6.3

The Limehouse Golem

Score: 6.2

Buckley's Chance

Score: 6.2

Great White Shark

Score: 6.2

Salting the Battlefield

Score: 6.2

Lucky Break

Score: 6.2

Guest House Paradiso

Score: 6.2

Gideon's Daughter

Score: 6.2

True Blue

Score: 6.1

Total Recall

Score: 6.0

Lotus: A New Dawn

Score: 6.0

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher

Score: 6.0

Real Creatures of Dirt

Score: 6.0

Glorious 39

Score: 6.0

Role Play

Score: 6.0

Blow Dry

Score: 5.9

Jack the Giant Slayer

Score: 5.9

Wrath of the Titans

Score: 5.7

Absolute Hell

Score: 5.7

Enduring Love

Score: 5.7

The Phantom of the Opera

Score: 5.6

AKA

Score: 5.6

Thirteen at Dinner

Score: 5.6

The Little Drummer Girl

Score: 5.5

Antonia and Jane

Score: 5.5

G-Force

Score: 5.5

The Magic Roundabout

Score: 5.4

Lawless Heart

Score: 5.4

I, Frankenstein

Score: 5.4

Stormbreaker

Score: 5.2

Being Human

Score: 5.1

The Young Visiters

Score: 5.1

Dad's Army

Score: 5.0

Alive and Kicking

Score: 4.9

Curse of the Pink Panther

Score: 4.6

Norm of the North

Score: 4.6

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Score: 4.5

The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special

Score: 4.0

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener

Score: 4.0

Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates

Score: 4.0

Slapper

Score: 3.5

A Fox's Tale

Score: 1.7

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

Score: 1.0

Fox

Score: 1.0

Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews

Score: 0.0

Untitled Jason Statham Action-Thriller

Score: 0.0

The Bass Player

Score: 0.0

Standing in for Henry

Score: 0.0

Deasey (Desperate)

Score: 0.0

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'

Score: 0.0

Occupy!

Score: 0.0

Under the Skin

Score: 0.0

Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

Score: 0.0

The Hungry Corpse

Score: 0.0

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

Score: 0.0

We Love Cigarettes

Score: 0.0

A Masculine Ending

Score: 0.0

& Sons

Score: 0.0

Burst

Score: 0.0

Bloody Fury

Score: 0.0

Spectre of the Bear

Score: 0.0

500 Miles

Score: 0.0

Darkling

Score: 0.0

Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz

Score: 0.0

The Maitlands

Score: 0.0

Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens

Score: 0.0

Easter 2016

Score: 0.0

Unnatural Causes

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge

Score: 10.0

Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty

Score: 9.0

Castlevania

Score: 8.3

World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys

Score: 8.1

Black Books

Score: 8.1

Eye of the Storm

Score: 8.0

World's Most Scenic River Journeys

Score: 8.0

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Score: 7.9

People Like Us

Score: 7.9

He Knew He Was Right

Score: 7.8

10 Minute Tales

Score: 7.5

Doctor Who

Score: 7.5

State of Play

Score: 7.5

Meerkat Manor

Score: 7.5

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Score: 7.4

Grumpy Old Men

Score: 7.2

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

Score: 7.1

Reilly: Ace of Spies

Score: 7.0

Timeshift

Score: 7.0

Longitude

Score: 7.0

Kavanagh Q.C.

Score: 7.0

The Lost Prince

Score: 7.0

Ordeal by Innocence

Score: 7.0

Canterbury Tales

Score: 6.9

Minder

Score: 6.8

The Last Place on Earth

Score: 6.8

Bergerac

Score: 6.6

Agony

Score: 6.5

Testament: The Bible in Animation

Score: 6.4

Play for Today

Score: 6.3

Chillers

Score: 6.2

Peak Practice

Score: 6.1

Performance

Score: 6.0

Making News

Score: 6.0

Performance

Score: 6.0

Wycliffe

Score: 6.0

Fox

Score: 5.7

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

This Morning

Score: 5.2

The One Show

Score: 4.5

Live from Studio Five

Score: 3.3

Richard & Judy

Score: 2.9

Ride or Die

Score: 0.0

Parkinson

Score: 0.0

Kent: Garden of England

Score: 0.0

Lazarus

Score: 0.0

South Of The Border

Score: 0.0

Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country

Score: 0.0

The Big Art Project

Score: 0.0