Bill Nighy
Acting
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).
& Sons
Andrew
500 Miles
Bulk
The Voice
Shelter
Manafort
This Is the Beginning
That Christmas
Lighthouse Bill (voice)
Joy
Patrick Steptoe
The Wild Robot
Longneck (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)
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
Self
Living
Williams
Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens
Self - Narrator (voice)
Lotus: A New Dawn
Self - Narrator (voice)
Buckley's Chance
Spencer
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Self
Minamata
Robert "Bob" Hayes
Emma.
Mr. Woodhouse
The Kindness of Strangers
Timofey
StarDog and TurboCat
Sinclair (voice)
Hope Gap
Edward
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Howard Clifford
Sometimes Always Never
Alan
The Bookshop
Mr. Brundish
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
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
Glorious 39
Alexander Keyes
Astro Boy
Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)
G-Force
Leonard Saber
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
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
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
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
Underworld
Viktor
Love Actually
Billy Mack
I Capture the Castle
James Mortmain
Lawless Heart
Dan
AKA
Uncle Louis Gryffoyn
Lucky Break
Roger
Blow Dry
Ray Robertson
Longitude
Lord Sandwich
Guest House Paradiso
Mr. Johnson
The Bass Player
Still Crazy
Ray Simms
FairyTale: A True Story
Edward Gardner
True Blue
Jeremy Saville
Alive and Kicking
Tristan
Being Human
Julian
The Maitlands
Roger Maitland
Don't Leave Me This Way
John Tracey
Unnatural Causes
Oliver Latham
A Masculine Ending
John Tracey
Absolute Hell
Hugh Marriner
Antonia and Jane
Howard Nash
The Phantom of the Opera
Martin Barton
Mack the Knife
Tiger Brown
Thirteen at Dinner
Ronald Marsh
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Helmut Hoffmann
The Little Drummer Girl
Al
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
Death Watch
Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)
Dreams of Leaving
William
Deasey (Desperate)
Deasy
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
Bill
Occupy!
Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool