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.
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![]() | 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) |
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![]() | Great White Shark (2013) Self - Narrator (voice) |
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![]() | London: The Modern Babylon (2012) Spoken Quotations (voice) |
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![]() | G-Force (2009) Leonard Saber |
![]() | The Boat That Rocked (2009) Quentin |
![]() | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) Viktor |
![]() | Valkyrie (2008) Friedrich Olbricht |
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![]() | Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz (2007) Self |
![]() | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) Davy Jones |
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![]() | Notes on a Scandal (2006) Richard Hart |
![]() | Flushed Away (2006) Whitey (voice) |
![]() | Stormbreaker (2006) Alan Blunt |
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![]() | 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 |
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![]() | Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (2005) Self |
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![]() | The Magic Roundabout (2004) Dylan (voice) |
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![]() | Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews (2004) Self - Narrator |
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![]() | Love Actually (2003) Billy Mack |
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![]() | Dreams of Leaving (1980) William |
![]() | Deasey (Desperate) (1979) Deasy |
![]() | Soldiers Talking, Cleanly (1978) Bill |
![]() | Occupy! (1976) Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool |
![]() | 500 Miles |
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![]() | Welcome to Paradise Hooker Duck Host (voice) |
![]() | Untitled Jason Statham Action-Thriller |