Bill Nighy

Compleanno:
12/12/1949
Luogo di nascita:
Caterham, Surrey, England, UK:
Biografia:
William Francis Nighy (nato il 12 dicembre 1949) è un attore inglese. Conosciuto per il suo lavoro sullo schermo e sul palcoscenico, ha ricevuto numerosi premi, tra cui due BAFTA Awards, un Golden Globe e nomination per un Academy Award e un Tony Award. Nighy ha iniziato la sua carriera con l'Everyman Theatre di Liverpool e ha fatto il suo debutto a Londra con il Royal National Theatre iniziando con The Illuminatus! nel 1977. Lì ha ottenuto consensi per i suoi ruoli in Pravda di David Hare nel 1985, Tradimento di Harold Pinter nel 1991, Arcadia di Tom Stoppard nel 1993 e Il gabbiano di Anton Chekov nel 1994. Ha ricevuto una nomination al Laurence Olivier Award come miglior attore per la sua interpretazione. in Blue/Orange nel 2001. Ha fatto il suo debutto a Broadway in The Vertical Hour di Hare nel 2006, ed è tornato nel revival del 2015 di Hare's Skylight ottenendo una nomination al Tony Award come miglior attore in un'opera teatrale. I primi ruoli cinematografici includono le commedie Still Crazy (1998) e Blow Dry (1999) prima del suo ruolo da protagonista in Love Actually (2003) che gli è valso un BAFTA Award come miglior attore non protagonista. Ben presto ha ottenuto il riconoscimento interpretando Davy Jones nella serie di film Pirati dei Caraibi (2006-2007) e Viktor nella serie di film Underworld (2003-2009). Altri film includono L'alba dei morti dementi (2004), Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), Diario di uno scandalo (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), Valkyrie (2008), Harry Potter e i Doni della Morte - Parte 1 (2010), Il miglior esotico Marigold Hotel (2012), About Time (2013), Emma (2020) e Living (2022), l'ultimo di questi gli è valso la sua prima nomination all'Oscar in carriera. Nighy ha ottenuto consensi per i suoi ruoli in televisione, guadagnandosi un British Academy Television Award come miglior attore per la sua interpretazione nella serie della BBC One State of Play (2003) e un Golden Globe come miglior attore per il film della BBC Gideon's Daughter (2007). È noto anche per i suoi ruoli in The Girl in the Café (2006) della HBO e Page Eight (2012) della PBS.

That Christmas (2024)
Lighthouse Bill (voice)
Joy (2024)
Patrick Steptoe
The Wild Robot (2024)
Longneck (voice)
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue (2024)
Conrad (voice)
10 Lives (2024)
Professor Craven (voice)
The First Omen (2024)
Cardinal Lawrence
The Beautiful Game (2024)
Mal
Role Play (2023)
Bob
Darkling (2023)
Spectre of the Bear (2023)
Bennett (voice)
Bloody Fury (2023)
Bloody's Consciousness (voice)
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special (2022)
Self
Living (2022)
Williams
Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens (2021)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Lotus: A New Dawn (2021)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Buckley's Chance (2021)
Spencer
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular (2020)
Self
Minamata (2020)
Robert "Bob" Hayes
Emma. (2020)
Mr. Woodhouse
The Kindness of Strangers (2019)
Timofey
StarDog and TurboCat (2019)
Sinclair (voice)
Hope Gap (2019)
Edward
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
Howard Clifford
Sometimes Always Never (2019)
Alan
La librería (2017)
Mr. Brundish
Red Nose Day Actually (2017)
Billy Mack
Their Finest (2017)
Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank
The Limehouse Golem (2016)
John Kildare
Dad's Army (2016)
Sergeant Wilson
Norm of the North (2016)
Socrates (voice)
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman (2015)
Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
Douglas Ainslie
Pride (2014)
Cliff
National Theatre Live: Skylight (2014)
Tom Sergeant
Salting the Battlefield (2014)
Johnny Worricker
Turks & Caicos (2014)
Johnny Worricker
I, Frankenstein (2014)
Naberius
About Time (2013)
Dad
The World's End (2013)
The Network (voice)
The Hungry Corpse (2013)
The Hungry Corpse
Great White Shark (2013)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
General Fallon
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene (2013)
Graham Greene (voice)
London: The Modern Babylon (2012)
Spoken Quotations (voice)
Total Recall (2012)
Matthias
Wrath of the Titans (2012)
Hephaestus
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)
Douglas Ainslie
Arthur Christmas (2011)
Grandsanta (voice)
Page Eight (2011)
Johnny Worricker
Astonish Me (2011)
The Professor
Real Creatures of Dirt (2011)
Self / Rattlesnake Jake
Rango (2011)
Rattlesnake Jake (voice)
Chalet Girl (2011)
Richard Madsen
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Rufus Scrimgeour
Wild Target (2010)
Victor Maynard
Glorious 39 (2009)
Alexander Keyes
Astro Boy (2009)
Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)
G-Force (2009)
Leonard Saber
The Boat That Rocked (2009)
Quentin
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
Viktor
Valkyrie (2008)
Friedrich Olbricht
Slapper (2008)
Arnold Percy
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz (2007)
Self
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Davy Jones
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Met Chief Inspector
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Richard Hart
Flushed Away (2006)
Whitey (voice)
Stormbreaker (2006)
Alan Blunt
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Davy Jones
We Love Cigarettes (2006)
Narrator
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Viktor
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener (2006)
Self
Gideon's Daughter (2005)
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' (2005)
Self
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Sir Bernard Pellegrin
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (2005)
Self
The Girl in the Café (2005)
Lawrence
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Slartibartfast
Enduring Love (2004)
Robin
The Magic Roundabout (2004)
Dylan (voice)
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill (2004)
Phil Parish
Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews (2004)
Self - Narrator
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Phillip
Burst (2004)
Maxwell's Fan 22
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher (2003)
Narrator
The Young Visiters (2003)
Earl of Clincham
Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates (2003)
Underworld (2003)
Viktor
Love Actually (2003)
Billy Mack
I Capture the Castle (2003)
James Mortmain
Lawless Heart (2002)
Dan
AKA (2002)
Uncle Louis Gryffoyn
Lucky Break (2001)
Roger
Blow Dry (2001)
Ray Robertson
Longitude (2000)
Lord Sandwich
Guest House Paradiso (1999)
Mr. Johnson
The Bass Player (1999)
Still Crazy (1998)
Ray Simms
FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
Edward Gardner
True Blue (1996)
Jeremy Saville
Indian Summer (1996)
Tristan
Being Human (1994)
Julian
The Maitlands (1993)
Roger Maitland
Don't Leave Me This Way (1993)
John Tracey
Unnatural Causes (1993)
Oliver Latham
A Masculine Ending (1992)
John Tracey
Absolute Hell (1991)
Hugh Marriner
Antonia and Jane (1990)
Howard Nash
The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
Martin Barton
Mack the Knife (1989)
Tiger Brown
Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
Ronald Marsh
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985)
Helmut Hoffmann
The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
Al
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
ENT Doctor
Easter 2016 (1982)
Connor Mullan
Under the Skin (1982)
Dave
Eye of the Needle (1981)
Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
Standing in for Henry (1980)
Bruno
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
Officer
Fox (1980)
Colin Street
La Mort en direct (1980)
Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)
Dreams of Leaving (1980)
William
Deasey (Desperate) (1979)
Deasy
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly (1978)
Bill
Occupy! (1976)
Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
500 Miles
& Sons
Welcome to Paradise
Hooker Duck Host (voice)
Untitled Jason Statham Action-Thriller