500 Miles
2026 · Movie
Bill Nighy
1949-12-12
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Caterham, Surrey, England, UK
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.
Filmography
& Sons
2026 · Movie
as Andrew
Shelter
2026 · Movie
as Manafort
Bulk
2026 · Movie
as The Voice
Ride or Die
2026 · TV Show
as The Director
This Is the Beginning
2025 · Movie
Harlan Coben's Lazarus
2025 · TV Show
as Doctor Lazarus 'Dr L'
10 Lives
2024 · Movie
as Professor Craven (voice)
The First Omen
2024 · Movie
as Cardinal Lawrence
Joy
2024 · Movie
as Patrick Steptoe
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
2024 · Movie
as Conrad (voice)
The Wild Robot
2024 · Movie
as Longneck (voice)
That Christmas
2024 · Movie
as Lighthouse Bill (voice)
The Beautiful Game
2024 · Movie
as Mal
Kent: Garden of England
2024 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Role Play
2023 · Movie
as Bob
Darkling
2023 · Movie
Spectre of the Bear
2023 · Movie
as Bennett (voice)
Bloody Fury
2023 · Movie
as Bloody's Consciousness (voice)
Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country
2023 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
2022 · Movie
as Self
Living
2022 · Movie
as Williams
The Man Who Fell to Earth
2022 · TV Show
as Thomas Jerome Newton
LIGHT & MAGIC
2022 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens
2021 · Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Buckley's Chance
2021 · Movie
as Spencer
Lotus: A New Dawn
2021 · Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
World's Most Scenic River Journeys
2021 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty
2021 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge
2021 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Natural History Museum: World of Wonder
2021 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator
Emma.
2020 · Movie
as Mr. Woodhouse
Minamata
2020 · Movie
as Robert "Bob" Hayes
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
2020 · Movie
as Self
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019 · Movie
as Howard Clifford
The Kindness of Strangers
2019 · Movie
as Timofey
Hope Gap
2019 · Movie
as Edward
Sometimes Always Never
2019 · Movie
as Alan
StarDog and TurboCat
2019 · Movie
as Sinclair (voice)
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
2019 · TV Show
as Narrator (voice)
Ordeal by Innocence
2018 · TV Show
as Leo Argyll
Their Finest
2017 · Movie
as Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank
The Bookshop
2017 · Movie
as Mr. Brundish
Red Nose Day Actually
2017 · Movie
as Billy Mack
Castlevania
2017 · TV Show
as Saint Germain (voice)
Norm of the North
2016 · Movie
as Socrates (voice)
Dad's Army
2016 · Movie
as Sergeant Wilson
The Limehouse Golem
2016 · Movie
as John Kildare
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2015 · Movie
as Douglas Ainslie
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015 · Movie
as Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'
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Pride: The True Story
2015 · Movie
as Himself
I, Frankenstein
2014 · Movie
as Naberius
Pride
2014 · Movie
as Cliff
Turks & Caicos
2014 · Movie
as Johnny Worricker
Salting the Battlefield
2014 · Movie
as Johnny Worricker
National Theatre Live: Skylight
2014 · Movie
as Tom Sergeant
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Jack the Giant Slayer
2013 · Movie
as General Fallon
The World's End
2013 · Movie
as The Network (voice)
About Time
2013 · Movie
as Dad
Great White Shark
2013 · Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013 · Movie
as Graham Greene (voice)
The Hungry Corpse
2013 · Movie
as The Hungry Corpse
Total Recall
2012 · Movie
as Matthias
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2012 · Movie
as Douglas Ainslie
Wrath of the Titans
2012 · Movie
as Hephaestus
London: The Modern Babylon
2012 · Movie
as Spoken Quotations (voice)
Rango
2011 · Movie
as Rattlesnake Jake (voice)
Arthur Christmas
2011 · Movie
as Grandsanta (voice)
Real Creatures of Dirt
2011 · Movie
as Self / Rattlesnake Jake
Page Eight
2011 · Movie
as Johnny Worricker
Chalet Girl
2011 · Movie
as Richard Madsen
Astonish Me
2011 · Movie
as The Professor
The Man with the Stolen Heart
2011 · Movie
as Narrator
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Movie
as Rufus Scrimgeour
Wild Target
2010 · Movie
as Victor Maynard
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
2009 · Movie
as Viktor
Glorious 39
2009 · Movie
as Alexander Keyes
Astro Boy
2009 · Movie
as Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)
The Boat That Rocked
2009 · Movie
as Quentin
G-Force
2009 · Movie
as Leonard Saber
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The Big Art Project
2009 · TV Show
as Narrator
Live from Studio Five
2009 · TV Show
as Self
10 Minute Tales
2009 · TV Show
as Mr Jellaby
Valkyrie
2008 · Movie
as Friedrich Olbricht
Slapper
2008 · Movie
as Arnold Percy
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007 · Movie
as Davy Jones
Hot Fuzz
2007 · Movie
as Met Chief Inspector
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
2007 · Movie
as Self
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006 · Movie
as Davy Jones
Notes on a Scandal
2006 · Movie
as Richard Hart
Underworld: Evolution
2006 · Movie
as Viktor
Flushed Away
2006 · Movie
as Whitey (voice)
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006 · Movie
as Self
Stormbreaker
2006 · Movie
as Alan Blunt
We Love Cigarettes
2006 · Movie
as Narrator
The Constant Gardener
2005 · Movie
as Sir Bernard Pellegrin
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · Movie
as Slartibartfast
The Girl in the Café
2005 · Movie
as Lawrence
The Magic Roundabout
2005 · Movie
as Dylan (voice)
Gideon's Daughter
2005 · Movie
as Gideon Warner
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
2005 · Movie
as Self
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 · Movie
as Self
Meerkat Manor
2005 · TV Show
as Narrator
Doctor Who
2005 · TV Show
as Dr Black
Shaun of the Dead
2004 · Movie
as Phillip
Enduring Love
2004 · Movie
as Robin
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
2004 · Movie
as Phil Parish
Burst
2004 · Movie
as Maxwell's Fan 22
Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews
2004 · Movie
as Self - Narrator
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004 · Movie
as Mr. Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
He Knew He Was Right
2004 · TV Show
as Colonel Osborne
Underworld
2003 · Movie
as Viktor
Love Actually
2003 · Movie
as Billy Mack
Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates
2003 · Movie
I Capture the Castle
2003 · Movie
as James Mortmain
The Young Visiters
2003 · Movie
as Earl of Clincham
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
2003 · Movie
as Self - Narrator
State of Play
2003 · TV Show
as Cameron Foster
The Lost Prince
2003 · TV Show
as Stamfordham
Grumpy Old Men
2003 · TV Show
as Self
Canterbury Tales
2003 · TV Show
as James
Lawless Heart
2002 · Movie
as Dan
AKA
2002 · Movie
as Uncle Louis Gryffoyn
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002 · TV Show
as Lockwood
Timeshift
2002 · TV Show
as self (voice)
Lucky Break
2001 · Movie
as Roger
Blow Dry
2001 · Movie
as Ray Robertson
Richard & Judy
2001 · TV Show
as Self
Longitude
2000 · Movie
as Lord Sandwich
Black Books
2000 · TV Show
as Man at bar
Longitude
2000 · TV Show
as Lord Sandwich
Guest House Paradiso
1999 · Movie
as Mr. Johnson
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The Bass Player
1999 · Movie
People Like Us
1999 · TV Show
as Will Rushmore
Still Crazy
1998 · Movie
as Ray Simms
Parkinson
1998 · TV Show
as Self
FairyTale: A True Story
1997 · Movie
as Edward Gardner
True Blue
1996 · Movie
as Jeremy Saville
Alive and Kicking
1996 · Movie
as Tristan
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996 · TV Show
as Belshazzar (voice)
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · TV Show
as Giles Culpepper QC
Being Human
1994 · Movie
as Julian
Wycliffe
1994 · TV Show
as David Cleeve
Unnatural Causes
1993 · Movie
as Oliver Latham
The Maitlands
1993 · Movie
as Roger Maitland
Don't Leave Me This Way
1993 · Movie
as John Tracey
Peak Practice
1993 · TV Show
as Alan Sinclair
Eye of the Storm
1993 · TV Show
as Tom Frewen
A Masculine Ending
1992 · Movie
as John Tracey
Absolute Hell
1991 · Movie
as Hugh Marriner
Performance
1991 · TV Show
as Roger Maitland, Hugh Marriner
The Men's Room
1991 · TV Show
as Prof. Mark Carleton
Antonia and Jane
1990 · Movie
as Howard Nash
No image
Making News
1990 · TV Show
as Sam Courtney
Chillers
1990 · TV Show
as Tom Dickenson
No image
TECX
1990 · TV Show
Mack the Knife
1989 · Movie
as Tiger Brown
The Phantom of the Opera
1989 · Movie
as Martin Barton
South of the Border
1988 · TV Show
as Tony Freason
This Morning
1988 · TV Show
as Self
Thirteen at Dinner
1985 · Movie
as Ronald Marsh
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985 · Movie
as Helmut Hoffmann
The Last Place on Earth
1985 · TV Show
as Cecil Meares
The Little Drummer Girl
1984 · Movie
as Al
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983 · Movie
as ENT Doctor
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983 · TV Show
as Jeffrey Grainger
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983 · TV Show
as Goschen
Storyboard
1983 · TV Show
as Sam
Easter 2016
1982 · Movie
as Connor Mullan
Under the Skin
1982 · Movie
as Dave
Eye of the Needle
1981 · Movie
as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980 · Movie
as Officer
No image
Fox
1980 · Movie
as Colin Street
Dreams of Leaving
1980 · Movie
as William
Death Watch
1980 · Movie
as Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)
Standing in for Henry
1980 · Movie
as Bruno
Fox
1980 · TV Show
as Colin Street
Deasey (Desperate)
1979 · Movie
as Deasy
Minder
1979 · TV Show
as Oates
Agony
1979 · TV Show
as Vincent Fish
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1978 · Movie
as Bill
No image
Premiere
1977 · TV Show
as Deasey
Occupy!
1976 · Movie
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Playhouse
1974 · TV Show
as Bruno
Play for Today
1970 · TV Show
as Dave
Welcome to Paradise
· Movie
as Hooker Duck Host (voice)
Heart of Darkness
· Movie
as (voice)
No image
The Turning Door
· Movie
as (voice)
No image
A Town in Nova Scotia
· Movie
as Leon
No image
Ibelin
· Movie
as Mats Steen
Caine
· Movie
No image
California Avenue
· TV Show
as Jerry
No image
The Portrait of a Lady
· TV Show
as Mr Daniel Touchett
