Cast
Bill Nighy
Acting
Cast
Bill Nighy
Known for
Acting
Born
1949-12-12
From
Caterham, Surrey, England, UK
Also known as William Francis Nighy, ויליאם פרנסיס "ביל" ניי
Biography
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.
★7.8
MOVIE2026
Shelter
as Manafort
★8.3
MOVIE2024
The Wild Robot
as Longneck (voice)
★7.4
MOVIE2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
as Davy Jones
★7.7
MOVIE2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Rufus Scrimgeour
★7.3
MOVIE2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
as Davy Jones
★7.9
MOVIE2013
About Time
as Dad
★6.9
MOVIE2011
Rango
as Rattlesnake Jake (voice)
★6.9
MOVIE2019
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
as Howard Clifford
★5.9
MOVIE2013
Jack the Giant Slayer
as General Fallon
★7.5
MOVIE2004
Shaun of the Dead
as Phillip
★5.8
MOVIE2012
Wrath of the Titans
as Hephaestus
★6.3
MOVIE2006
Flushed Away
as Whitey (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2012
Total Recall
as Matthias
★6.9
MOVIE2003
Underworld
as Viktor
★7.1
MOVIE2003
Love Actually
as Billy Mack
★7.6
MOVIE2007
Hot Fuzz
as Met Chief Inspector
★6.8
MOVIE2013
The World's End
as The Network (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE2008
Valkyrie
as Friedrich Olbricht
★6.8
MOVIE2024
The First Omen
as Cardinal Lawrence
★6.5
MOVIE2009
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
as Viktor
★6.6
MOVIE2006
Underworld: Evolution
as Viktor
★7.0
MOVIE2020
Emma.
as Mr. Woodhouse
★6.7
MOVIE2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Slartibartfast
★6.5
MOVIE2017
The Bookshop
as Mr. Brundish
★7.7
MOVIE2014
Pride
as Cliff
★6.8
MOVIE2011
Arthur Christmas
as Grandsanta (voice)
★7.1
MOVIE2024
That Christmas
as Lighthouse Bill (voice)
★5.4
MOVIE2014
I, Frankenstein
as Naberius
★7.1
MOVIE2006
Notes on a Scandal
as Richard Hart
★7.0
MOVIE2005
The Constant Gardener
as Sir Bernard Pellegrin
★7.2
MOVIE2009
The Boat That Rocked
as Quentin
★7.0
MOVIE2012
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Douglas Ainslie
★6.3
MOVIE2009
Astro Boy
as Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2023
Role Play
as Bob
★6.3
MOVIE2016
The Limehouse Golem
as John Kildare
★7.7
MOVIE2024
10 Lives
as Professor Craven (voice)
★5.5
MOVIE2009
G-Force
as Leonard Saber
★7.0
MOVIE2017
Red Nose Day Actually
as Billy Mack
★4.6
MOVIE2016
Norm of the North
as Socrates (voice)
★5.0
MOVIE2026
Bulk
as The Voice
MOVIE2026
500 Miles
★6.9
MOVIE2020
Minamata
as Robert "Bob" Hayes
★5.4
MOVIE2005
The Magic Roundabout
as Dylan (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE2015
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Douglas Ainslie
★6.6
MOVIE2011
Page Eight
as Johnny Worricker
★6.7
MOVIE1981
Eye of the Needle
as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
★4.6
MOVIE1983
Curse of the Pink Panther
as ENT Doctor
★6.6
MOVIE2017
Their Finest
as Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank
★6.4
MOVIE2011
Chalet Girl
as Richard Madsen
★7.3
MOVIE1980
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Officer
★6.9
MOVIE2024
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
as Conrad (voice)
★5.6
MOVIE1984
The Little Drummer Girl
as Al
★6.6
MOVIE1989
Mack the Knife
as Tiger Brown
★6.1
MOVIE1999
Guest House Paradiso
as Mr. Johnson
★6.0
MOVIE1991
Absolute Hell
as Hugh Marriner
★5.8
MOVIE1985
Thirteen at Dinner
as Ronald Marsh
★6.4
MOVIE1997
FairyTale: A True Story
as Edward Gardner
★5.2
MOVIE2006
Stormbreaker
as Alan Blunt
★7.1
MOVIE2019
StarDog and TurboCat
as Sinclair (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE2014
Turks & Caicos
as Johnny Worricker
MOVIE2015
Pride: The True Story
as Himself
★6.9
MOVIE2024
Joy
as Patrick Steptoe
MOVIE2026
& Sons
as Andrew
★1.0
MOVIE1980
Fox
as Colin Street
★6.5
MOVIE2010
Wild Target
as Victor Maynard
★7.0
MOVIE2022
Living
as Williams
★5.0
MOVIE2016
Dad's Army
as Sergeant Wilson
★5.7
MOVIE1989
The Phantom of the Opera
as Martin Barton
MOVIE1993
The Maitlands
as Roger Maitland
★6.3
MOVIE2019
Sometimes Always Never
as Alan
★6.3
MOVIE1980
Death Watch
as Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE2019
Hope Gap
as Edward
★8.0
MOVIE1992
A Masculine Ending
as John Tracey
★3.5
MOVIE2008
Slapper
as Arnold Percy
★6.3
MOVIE2014
Salting the Battlefield
as Johnny Worricker
★5.3
MOVIE2003
The Young Visiters
as Earl of Clincham
★6.3
MOVIE2019
The Kindness of Strangers
as Timofey
MOVIE2023
Bloody Fury
as Bloody's Consciousness (voice)
MOVIETBA
Caine
★5.9
MOVIE2001
Blow Dry
as Ray Robertson
MOVIETBA
A Town in Nova Scotia
as Leon
★6.3
MOVIE2024
The Beautiful Game
as Mal
★6.0
MOVIE2009
Glorious 39
as Alexander Keyes
★6.7
MOVIE2003
I Capture the Castle
as James Mortmain
MOVIETBA
Welcome to Paradise
as Hooker Duck Host (voice)
★7.4
MOVIE2000
Longitude
as Lord Sandwich
★7.1
MOVIE2005
The Girl in the Café
as Lawrence
★1.0
MOVIE2025
This Is the Beginning
★9.0
MOVIE1982
Easter 2016
as Connor Mullan
★5.4
MOVIE1990
Antonia and Jane
as Howard Nash
★5.1
MOVIE1996
Alive and Kicking
as Tristan
★6.4
MOVIE2005
Gideon's Daughter
as Gideon Warner
★5.2
MOVIE1994
Being Human
as Julian
★8.0
MOVIE2011
Astonish Me
as The Professor
★6.2
MOVIE2013
Great White Shark
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★10.0
MOVIE1976
Occupy!
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
★5.8
MOVIE2004
Enduring Love
as Robin
★6.8
MOVIE1998
Still Crazy
as Ray Simms
MOVIETBA
Heart of Darkness
as (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE1993
Don't Leave Me This Way
as John Tracey
MOVIE1978
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
as Bill
★4.9
MOVIE1985
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
as Helmut Hoffmann
MOVIETBA
The Turning Door
as (voice)
MOVIETBA
Ibelin
as Mats Steen
★6.4
MOVIE2012
London: The Modern Babylon
as Spoken Quotations (voice)
★6.2
MOVIE2001
Lucky Break
as Roger
★7.1
MOVIE2015
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
as Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'
★6.2
MOVIE2021
Buckley's Chance
as Spencer
★7.0
MOVIE2022
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
as Self
MOVIE1980
Standing in for Henry
as Bruno
★5.2
MOVIE2002
Lawless Heart
as Dan
MOVIE1999
The Bass Player
MOVIE2023
Spectre of the Bear
as Bennett (voice)
MOVIE2005
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'
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2021
Lotus: A New Dawn
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★3.5
MOVIE2011
Real Creatures of Dirt
as Self / Rattlesnake Jake
★7.3
MOVIE2004
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
as Phil Parish
★8.9
MOVIE2014
National Theatre Live: Skylight
as Tom Sergeant
★6.8
MOVIE1993
Unnatural Causes
as Oliver Latham
★9.0
MOVIE2005
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1979
Deasey (Desperate)
as Deasy
MOVIE2011
The Man with the Stolen Heart
as Narrator
★10.0
MOVIE2004
Bottom Mindless Violence
as Mr. Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE1982
Under the Skin
as Dave
MOVIE2004
Burst
as Maxwell's Fan 22
★1.0
MOVIE2013
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
as Graham Greene (voice)
MOVIE2007
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1980
Dreams of Leaving
as William
★6.2
MOVIE1996
True Blue
as Jeremy Saville
★5.7
MOVIE2002
AKA
as Uncle Louis Gryffoyn
MOVIE2023
Darkling
MOVIE2021
Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2013
The Hungry Corpse
as The Hungry Corpse
★7.5
MOVIE2003
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
as Self - Narrator
MOVIE2006
We Love Cigarettes
as Narrator
★4.0
MOVIE2006
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
as Self
★4.0
MOVIE2003
Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates
MOVIE2004
Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews
as Self - Narrator
★8.3
MOVIE2020
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
as Self