Bill Nighy
Known for Acting · 187 credits
- Born
- 1949-12-12 (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.
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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Known For
TV Shows (50)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
Doctor Who
2005
as Dr Black
Play for Today
1970
as Dave
Minder
1979
as Oates
Peak Practice
1993
as Alan Sinclair
Wycliffe
1994
as David Cleeve
Playhouse
1974
as Bruno
Richard & Judy
2001
as Self
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002
as Lockwood
Castlevania
2017
as Saint Germain (voice)
Parkinson
1998
as Self
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
as Giles Culpepper QC
Performance
1991
as Roger Maitland / Hugh Marriner
Black Books
2000
as Man at bar
The Man Who Fell to Earth
2022
as Thomas Jerome Newton
Timeshift
2002
as self (voice)
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
as Goschen
LIGHT & MAGIC
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Harlan Coben's Lazarus
2025
as Doctor Lazarus 'Dr L'
State of Play
2003
as Cameron Foster
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
as Jeffrey Grainger
Meerkat Manor
2005
as Narrator
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as Belshazzar (voice)
South of the Border
1988
as Tony Freason
Ordeal by Innocence
2018
as Leo Argyll
Chillers
1990
as Tom Dickenson
10 Minute Tales
2009
as Mr Jellaby
Canterbury Tales
2003
as James
Ride or Die
2026
as The Director
Longitude
2000
as Lord Sandwich
People Like Us
1999
as Will Rushmore
He Knew He Was Right
2004
as Colonel Osborne
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
2019
as Narrator (voice)
Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge
2021
as Self - Narrator (voice)
This Morning
1988
as Self
The Last Place on Earth
1985
as Cecil Meares
Agony
1979
as Vincent Fish
Fox
1980
as Colin Street
Grumpy Old Men
2003
as Self
World's Most Scenic River Journeys
2021
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Eye of the Storm
1993
as Tom Frewen
The Lost Prince
2003
as Stamfordham
Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty
2021
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Making News
1990
as Sam Courtney
Live from Studio Five
2009
as Self
Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Kent: Garden of England
2024
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Big Art Project
2009
as Narrator
Natural History Museum: World of Wonder
2021
as Self - Narrator
California Avenue
as Jerry
Movies (137)
Shelter
2026
as Manafort
The Wild Robot
2024
as Longneck (voice)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006
as Davy Jones
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Rufus Scrimgeour
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007
as Davy Jones
Rango
2011
as Rattlesnake Jake (voice)
About Time
2013
as Dad
Love Actually
2003
as Billy Mack
Jack the Giant Slayer
2013
as General Fallon
Shaun of the Dead
2004
as Phillip
Flushed Away
2006
as Whitey (voice)
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019
as Howard Clifford
Total Recall
2012
as Matthias
Hot Fuzz
2007
as Met Chief Inspector
Wrath of the Titans
2012
as Hephaestus
Underworld
2003
as Viktor
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
2009
as Viktor
Emma.
2020
as Mr. Woodhouse
Underworld: Evolution
2006
as Viktor
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
as Slartibartfast
Valkyrie
2008
as Friedrich Olbricht
The World's End
2013
as The Network (voice)
The First Omen
2024
as Cardinal Lawrence
Arthur Christmas
2011
as Grandsanta (voice)
Astro Boy
2009
as Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)
G-Force
2009
as Leonard Saber
500 Miles
2026
I, Frankenstein
2014
as Naberius
The Constant Gardener
2005
as Sir Bernard Pellegrin
Notes on a Scandal
2006
as Richard Hart
The Boat That Rocked
2009
as Quentin
Chalet Girl
2011
as Richard Madsen
10 Lives
2024
as Professor Craven (voice)
Minamata
2020
as Robert "Bob" Hayes
Pride
2014
as Cliff
That Christmas
2024
as Lighthouse Bill (voice)
Role Play
2023
as Bob
Stormbreaker
2006
as Alan Blunt
Their Finest
2017
as Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank
Dad's Army
2016
as Sergeant Wilson
Wild Target
2010
as Victor Maynard
Blow Dry
2001
as Ray Robertson
The Limehouse Golem
2016
as John Kildare
Bulk
2026
as The Voice
Page Eight
2011
as Johnny Worricker
Living
2022
as Williams
Eye of the Needle
1981
as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
Being Human
1994
as Julian
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2012
as Douglas Ainslie
Hope Gap
2019
as Edward
Still Crazy
1998
as Ray Simms
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980
as Officer
Joy
2024
as Patrick Steptoe
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
as Edward Gardner
Norm of the North
2016
as Socrates (voice)
Fox
1980
as Colin Street
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983
as ENT Doctor
The Bookshop
2017
as Mr. Brundish
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2015
as Douglas Ainslie
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
2024
as Conrad (voice)
The Magic Roundabout
2005
as Dylan (voice)
Salting the Battlefield
2014
as Johnny Worricker
Guest House Paradiso
1999
as Mr. Johnson
StarDog and TurboCat
2019
as Sinclair (voice)
Enduring Love
2004
as Robin
& Sons
2025
as Andrew
Thirteen at Dinner
1985
as Ronald Marsh
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015
as Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'
Glorious 39
2009
as Alexander Keyes
Turks & Caicos
2014
as Johnny Worricker
Red Nose Day Actually
2017
as Billy Mack
The Kindness of Strangers
2019
as Timofey
The Little Drummer Girl
1984
as Al
The Beautiful Game
2024
as Mal
Death Watch
1980
as Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)
I Capture the Castle
2003
as James Mortmain
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1978
as Bill
Lucky Break
2001
as Roger
Heart of Darkness
as (voice)
Longitude
2000
as Lord Sandwich
Mack the Knife
1989
as Tiger Brown
The Phantom of the Opera
1989
as Martin Barton
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'
2005
as Self
The Girl in the Café
2005
as Lawrence
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
2003
as Self - Narrator
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
as Helmut Hoffmann
The Young Visiters
2003
as Earl of Clincham
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
as Self
True Blue
1996
as Jeremy Saville
AKA
2002
as Uncle Louis Gryffoyn
Slapper
2008
as Arnold Percy
A Masculine Ending
1992
as John Tracey
Sometimes Always Never
2019
as Alan
Dreams of Leaving
1980
as William
London: The Modern Babylon
2012
as Spoken Quotations (voice)
Don't Leave Me This Way
1993
as John Tracey
Occupy!
1976
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Lotus: A New Dawn
2021
as Self - Narrator (voice)
National Theatre Live: Skylight
2014
as Tom Sergeant
Bloody Fury
2023
as Bloody's Consciousness (voice)
The Turning Door
as (voice)
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
2022
as Self
The Maitlands
1993
as Roger Maitland
Gideon's Daughter
2005
as Gideon Warner
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
2004
as Phil Parish
Easter 2016
1982
as Connor Mullan
Antonia and Jane
1990
as Howard Nash
Unnatural Causes
1993
as Oliver Latham
Absolute Hell
1991
as Hugh Marriner
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
2005
as Self
Buckley's Chance
2021
as Spencer
Burst
2004
as Maxwell's Fan 22
Alive and Kicking
1996
as Tristan
Great White Shark
2013
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
2020
as Self
Real Creatures of Dirt
2011
as Self / Rattlesnake Jake
Lawless Heart
2002
as Dan
Under the Skin
1982
as Dave
Ibelin
as Mats Steen
Welcome to Paradise
as Hooker Duck Host (voice)
About 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… With 187 credits spanning from 1970 to 2026, Bill Nighy has appeared in 137 films and 50 TV shows.
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- Shelter (2026) — as Manafort
- The Wild Robot (2024) — as Longneck (voice)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) — as Davy Jones
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) — as Rufus Scrimgeour
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) — as Davy Jones
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