Bill Nighy
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. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Nighy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: 12 December 1949
Played In
Ride or Die
The Director
500 Miles
Bulk
The Voice
Shelter
Manafort
Harlan Coben's Lazarus
Doctor Lazarus 'Dr L'
& Sons
Andrew
This Is the Beginning
That Christmas
Lighthouse Bill (voice)
Joy
Patrick Steptoe
The Wild Robot
Longneck (voice)
Kent: Garden of England
Self - Narrator (voice)
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
Conrad (voice)
10 Lives
Professor Craven (voice)
The First Omen
Cardinal Lawrence
The Beautiful Game
Mal
Role Play
Bob
Darkling
Spectre of the Bear
Bennett (voice)
Bloody Fury
Bloody's Consciousness (voice)
Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
Self
Living
Williams
LIGHT & MAGIC
Self (archive footage)
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Thomas Jerome Newton
Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens
Self - Narrator (voice)
Lotus: A New Dawn
Self - Narrator (voice)
Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge
Self - Narrator (voice)
Buckley's Chance
Spencer
Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty
Self - Narrator (voice)
World's Most Scenic River Journeys
Self - Narrator (voice)
Natural History Museum: World of Wonder
Self - Narrator
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Self
Minamata
Robert "Bob" Hayes
Emma.
Mr. Woodhouse
The Kindness of Strangers
Timofey
StarDog and TurboCat
Sinclair (voice)
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
Narrator (voice)
Hope Gap
Edward
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Howard Clifford
Sometimes Always Never
Alan
Ordeal by Innocence
Leo Argyll
The Bookshop
Mr. Brundish
Castlevania
Saint Germain (voice)
Red Nose Day Actually
Billy Mack
Their Finest
Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank
The Limehouse Golem
John Kildare
Dad's Army
Sergeant Wilson
Norm of the North
Socrates (voice)
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Douglas Ainslie
Pride
Cliff
National Theatre Live: Skylight
Tom Sergeant
Salting the Battlefield
Johnny Worricker
Turks & Caicos
Johnny Worricker
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
I, Frankenstein
Naberius
About Time
Dad
The World's End
The Network (voice)
The Hungry Corpse
The Hungry Corpse
Great White Shark
Self - Narrator (voice)
Jack the Giant Slayer
General Fallon
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
Graham Greene (voice)
London: The Modern Babylon
Spoken Quotations (voice)
Total Recall
Matthias
Wrath of the Titans
Hephaestus
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Douglas Ainslie
Arthur Christmas
Grandsanta (voice)
Page Eight
Johnny Worricker
Astonish Me
The Professor
Real Creatures of Dirt
Self / Rattlesnake Jake
The Man with the Stolen Heart
Narrator
Rango
Rattlesnake Jake (voice)
Chalet Girl
Richard Madsen
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Rufus Scrimgeour
Wild Target
Victor Maynard
10 Minute Tales
Mr Jellaby
Glorious 39
Alexander Keyes
Astro Boy
Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)
Live from Studio Five
Self
G-Force
Leonard Saber
The Big Art Project
Narrator
The Boat That Rocked
Quentin
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Viktor
Valkyrie
Friedrich Olbricht
Slapper
Arnold Percy
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
Self
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Davy Jones
Hot Fuzz
Met Chief Inspector
Notes on a Scandal
Richard Hart
Flushed Away
Whitey (voice)
Stormbreaker
Alan Blunt
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Davy Jones
We Love Cigarettes
Narrator
Underworld: Evolution
Viktor
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Self
Gideon's Daughter
Gideon Warner
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
Meerkat Manor
Narrator
The Constant Gardener
Sir Bernard Pellegrin
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
Self
The Girl in the Café
Lawrence
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Slartibartfast
Doctor Who
Dr Black
The Magic Roundabout
Dylan (voice)
Bottom Mindless Violence
Mr. Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Enduring Love
Robin
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Phil Parish
Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews
Self - Narrator
He Knew He Was Right
Colonel Osborne
Shaun of the Dead
Phillip
Burst
Maxwell's Fan 22
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Self - Narrator
The Young Visiters
Earl of Clincham
Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates
Grumpy Old Men
Self
Underworld
Viktor
Canterbury Tales
James
Love Actually
Billy Mack
State of Play
Cameron Foster
I Capture the Castle
James Mortmain
The Lost Prince
Stamfordham
Timeshift
self (voice)
Lawless Heart
Dan
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Lockwood
AKA
Uncle Louis Gryffoyn
Richard & Judy
Self
Lucky Break
Roger
Blow Dry
Ray Robertson
Black Books
Man at bar
Longitude
Lord Sandwich
Longitude
Lord Sandwich
Guest House Paradiso
Mr. Johnson
The Bass Player
People Like Us
Will Rushmore
Still Crazy
Ray Simms
Parkinson
Self
FairyTale: A True Story
Edward Gardner
True Blue
Jeremy Saville
Alive and Kicking
Tristan
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Belshazzar (voice)
Kavanagh Q.C.
Giles Culpepper QC
Wycliffe
David Cleeve
Being Human
Julian
The Maitlands
Roger Maitland
Don't Leave Me This Way
John Tracey
Peak Practice
Alan Sinclair
Eye of the Storm
Tom Frewen
Unnatural Causes
Oliver Latham
A Masculine Ending
John Tracey
Absolute Hell
Hugh Marriner
Performance
Roger Maitland
Performance
Hugh Marriner
Antonia and Jane
Howard Nash
Making News
Sam Courtney
Chillers
Tom Dickenson
The Phantom of the Opera
Martin Barton
Mack the Knife
Tiger Brown
South of the Border
Tony Freason
This Morning
Self
Thirteen at Dinner
Ronald Marsh
The Last Place on Earth
Cecil Meares
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Helmut Hoffmann
The Little Drummer Girl
Al
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Jeffrey Grainger
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Goschen
Curse of the Pink Panther
ENT Doctor
Easter 2016
Connor Mullan
Under the Skin
Dave
Eye of the Needle
Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
Standing in for Henry
Bruno
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Officer
Fox
Colin Street
Fox
Colin Street
Death Watch
Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)
Dreams of Leaving
William
Deasey (Desperate)
Deasy
Minder
Oates
Agony
Vincent Fish
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
Bill
Occupy!
Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Playhouse
Bruno
Play for Today
Dave
Welcome to Paradise
Hooker Duck Host (voice)
Heart of Darkness
(voice)
The Turning Door
(voice)
A Town in Nova Scotia
Leon
Ibelin
Mats Steen
Caine
California Avenue
Jerry