Spider Island
2026 · Movie
Andy Nyman
1966-04-13
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Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Writers: , Good Omens, ,
Andy Nyman is an English actor and magician. Nyman first came to note with his performance as a hard nosed director in Musical! and then as Keith Whitehead in the cult film of the Martin Amis novel, Dead Babies. He has played lead roles in Jon Avnet's Emmy award winning film Uprising (NBC) as a Polish freedom fighter and in Coney Island Baby as a gay French gun dealer. In 2006, he played Gordon in the cult hit Severance. Most recently he played Patrick, a sleazy reality show producer in Charlie Brooker's E4 horror satire Dead Set, and suffers the most violent death in the series, being decapitated and disembowelled. Nyman currently has four films due for release over the next 18 months: London-based romantic comedy Are You Ready for Love?; a bio-pic of 70s Dutch rock group Herman Brood, Wild Romance; and improvised gangster thriller Played where he stars opposite Vinnie Jones, Val Kilmer and Gabriel Byrne. The film was released by Lionsgate Entertainment in 2007. Nyman appeared as one of the leads in the latest Frank Oz movie, Death at a Funeral. He stars opposite Matthew Macfadyen, Ewen Bremner, and Keeley Hawes. The movie was released by MGM in 2007. Nyman is also a magician and the co-creator and co-writer of the Derren Brown TV shows Derren Brown - Mind Control and Trick of the Mind. He and Brown wrote "Russian Roulette", "Séance", and "Messiah", as well as three series of the "Trick of the Mind" series. He also co-wrote and co-directed four of Brown's stage shows, all of which have toured and played the West End. For "Something Wicked This Way Comes" they were awarded the 2006 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment. Their fourth show Enigma was also nominated for an Olivier Award. Nyman won the award for best actor at the 2006 Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film for his role as Colin Frampton in Shut Up and Shoot Me. He was nominated for Lew Grade Award at the 2007 BAFTA Awards for his work on "Derren Brown: The Heist". He shared the nomination with fellow collaborators Derren Brown, Simon Mills, and Ben Caron. In December 2008 he appeared in BBC Four's supernatural drama series Crooked House. In February 2010 he co-wrote (with Jeremy Dyson), directed and starred in the horror play Ghost Stories. In April 2011 he starred in a new British sitcom, Campus.
Filmography
Captured Souls: In Conversation with Graham Humphreys
2025 · Movie
as Self
Shaun the Sheep: Fleece Navidad
2025 · Movie
as Nuts (voice)
Shaun the Sheep: Shirleyverse
2025 · Movie
as Nuts (voice)
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
2025 · TV Show
as Edwin Bollier
That Christmas
2024 · Movie
as Mr. Beccles (voice)
Wicked
2024 · Movie
as Governor Thropp
A Small Light
2023 · TV Show
as Hermann Van Pels
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022 · Movie
as Self
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
2021 · Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
2021 · Movie
Jungle Cruise
2021 · Movie
as Sir James Hobbs-Coddington
Stars in the House
2020 · TV Show
as Self
Judy
2019 · Movie
as Dan
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
2019 · Movie
as Nuts (voice)
The Capture
2019 · TV Show
as Rowan Gill
Hanna
2019 · TV Show
as Jacobs
Ghost Stories
2018 · Movie
as Professor Goodman
The Commuter
2018 · Movie
as Tony
Wanderlust
2018 · TV Show
as James Marcham
Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day
2017 · Movie
as Nuts
Despicable Me 3
2017 · Movie
as Clive the Robot (voice)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017 · Movie
as Jail Guard
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
2016 · Movie
as Syd
Power Monkeys
2016 · TV Show
as Gerry
The Eichmann Show
2015 · Movie
as David Landor
Bone in the Throat
2015 · Movie
as Ronnie the Rug
Shaun the Sheep Movie
2015 · Movie
as Nuts (voice)
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas
2015 · Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
Minions
2015 · Movie
as Additional Voices (voice)
Unforgotten
2015 · TV Show
as Dean Barton
Ballot Monkeys
2015 · TV Show
as Gerry
Caught on Dashcam
2015 · TV Show
as Narrator (voice)
Automata
2014 · Movie
as Ellis
Why Horror?
2014 · Movie
as Self
Kick-Ass 2
2013 · Movie
as The Tumor
Peaky Blinders
2013 · TV Show
as Winston Churchill
Psychobitches
2013 · TV Show
as Henry VIII
Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains
2012 · Movie
as Self
Playhouse Presents
2012 · TV Show
as Sarah, wife of Abraham
The Glass Man
2011 · Movie
as Martin Pyrite
Campus
2011 · TV Show
as Jonty De Wolfe
Olly The Little White Van
2011 · TV Show
as Bazza
Black Death
2010 · Movie
as Dalywag
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
2010 · Movie
as Self
Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb
2010 · Movie
as Nuts
The Tournament
2009 · Movie
as Tech Eddie
You Have Been Watching
2009 · TV Show
as Self
The Brothers Bloom
2008 · Movie
as Charleston
Dead Set
2008 · TV Show
as Patrick Goad
Chuggington
2008 · TV Show
Crooked House
2008 · TV Show
as Nicholas Duncalfe
Death at a Funeral
2007 · Movie
as Howard
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This Is What It Is
2007 · Movie
as Chris
Shaun the Sheep
2007 · TV Show
as Nuts (voice)
Severance
2006 · Movie
as Gordon
Wild Romance
2006 · Movie
as Leo Leitner
Are You Ready for Love?
2006 · Movie
as Barry Schneider
Shut Up and Shoot Me
2005 · Movie
as Colin Frampton
Zemanovaload
2005 · Movie
as Bruce Robenitz
Coney Island Baby
2002 · Movie
as Franko
Uprising
2001 · Movie
as Calel Wasser
Big Brother's Little Brother
2001 · TV Show
as Self
Uprising
2001 · TV Show
as Calel Wasser
Dead Babies
2000 · Movie
as Keith
The Criminal
1999 · Movie
as Forensic Scientist 1
Peak Practice
1993 · TV Show
as Rob Hallett, Rob Hallet
Archer's Goon
1992 · TV Show
as Museum attendant
Five Children and It
1991 · TV Show
as Baker's Boy
The Woman in Black
1989 · Movie
as Jackie
Birds of a Feather
1989 · TV Show
as John
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The Creep
· Movie
as Dave
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A Blue Butterfly
· Movie
Crew Credits
Ghost Stories
2025 · Movie
Writer, Director
Good Omens
2019 · TV Show
Writer
Ghost Stories
2018 · Movie
Director, Writer, Theatre Play, Executive Producer
Derren Brown: Miracle
2016 · Movie
Writer, Stage Director
Derren Brown: Infamous
2014 · Movie
Director
Magicians
2007 · Movie
Story
Derren Brown: The Heist
2006 · Movie
Writer
Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes
2006 · Movie
Director, Writer
