Bill Nighy
- Known For: Acting
- Birthday: 12-12-1949
- Gender: Male
- Place of Birth: Caterham, Surrey, England, UK
- Also Known As:
Билл Найи
빌 나이
- Popularity: 37.34
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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).
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| Year | Movie | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | The Girl in the Café | as Lawrence |
| 2010 | Wild Target | as Victor Maynard |
| 2011 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | as Douglas Ainslie |
| 2002 | Lawless Heart | as Dan |
| 2005 | Gideon's Daughter | as Gideon Warner |
| 2014 | Salting the Battlefield | as Johnny Worricker |
| 2014 | Turks & Caicos | as Johnny Worricker |
| 2014 | Pride | as Cliff |
| 1991 | The Men's Room | as Prof. Mark Carleton |
| 2016 | The Limehouse Golem | as John Kildare |
| 1980 | Dreams of Leaving | as William |
| 2006 | We Love Cigarettes | as Narrator |
| 2013 | Great White Shark | as Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2019 | Sometimes Always Never | as Alan |
| 2013 | The Hungry Corpse | as The Hungry Corpse |
| 2022 | Living | as Mr. Williams |
| 2021 | Buckley's Chance | as Spencer |
| 2021 | Lotus: A New Dawn | as Self - Narrator |
| 2003 | Love Actually | as Billy Mack |
| 2009 | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans | as Viktor |
| 2009 | Glorious 39 | as Alexander Keyes |
| 1996 | True Blue | as Jeremy Saville |
| 1985 | Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil | as Helmut Hoffmann |
| 2014 | National Theatre Live: Skylight | as Tom Sergeant |
| 2016 | Dad's Army | as Sergeant Wilson |
| 2003 | Ready When You Are, Mr McGill | as Phil Parish |
| 2011 | Astonish Me | as The Professor |
| 2017 | The Bookshop | as Mr. Brundish |
| 2019 | Hope Gap | as Edward |
| 2013 | Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene | as Graham Greene (voice) |
| 2023 | Dragonkeeper | as Danzi (voice) |
| 2020 | Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular | as Self |
| 1970 | The Beautiful Game | as Mal |
| 1970 | Role Play | as Bob |
| 2006 | Notes on a Scandal | as Richard Hart |
| 2008 | Valkyrie | as Friedrich Olbricht |
| 1999 | Guest House Paradiso | as Mr. Johnson |
| 2011 | Arthur Christmas | as Grandsanta (voice) |
| 2011 | Page Eight | as Johnny Worricker |
| 2014 | I, Frankenstein | as Naberius |
| 2013 | About Time | as Dad |
| 1982 | Easter 2016 | as Connor Mullan |
| 2008 | A Fox's Tale | as Ringmaster (voice) |
| 2003 | Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher | as Narrator |
| 1993 | Don't Leave Me This Way | as John Tracey |
| 2017 | Their Finest | as Ambrose Hilliard/Uncle Frank |
| 1992 | A Masculine Ending | as John Tracey |
| 1990 | Antonia and Jane | as Howard Nash |
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener | as Sir Bernard Pellegrin |
| 1985 | Thirteen at Dinner | as Ronald Marsh |
| 2004 | Enduring Love | as Robin |
| 2011 | Rango | as Rattlesnake Jake (voice) |
| 2003 | I Capture the Castle | as James Mortmain |
| 2009 | The Boat That Rocked | as Quentin |
| 2003 | The Young Visiters | as Earl of Clincham |
| 2011 | Chalet Girl | as Richard Madsen |
| 1989 | The Phantom of the Opera | as Martin Barton |
| 2008 | Slapper | as Arnold Percy |
| 2019 | Pokémon Detective Pikachu | as Howard Clifford |
| 2020 | Minamata | as Robert "Bob" Hayes |
| 2019 | StarDog and TurboCat | as Sinclair (voice) |
| 2022 | The Laughter & Secrets of 'Love Actually': 20 Years Later | as Self |
| 2003 | Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates | |
| 2006 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | as Captain Davy Jones |
| 2003 | Underworld | as Viktor |
| 1998 | Still Crazy | as Ray Simms |
| 2006 | Flushed Away | as Whitey (voice) |
| 2001 | Lucky Break | as Roger |
| 2000 | Longitude | as Lord Sandwich |
| 1993 | Unnatural Causes | as Oliver Latham |
| 2012 | Wrath of the Titans | as Hephaestus |
| 1996 | Alive and Kicking | as Tristan |
| 2015 | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | as Douglas Ainslie |
| 2016 | Norm of the North | as Socrates (voice) |
| 2015 | A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman | as Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas' |
| 1991 | Absolute Hell | as Hugh Marriner |
| 2017 | Red Nose Day Actually | as Billy Mack |
| 1982 | Under the Skin | as Dave |
| 2006 | Underworld: Evolution | as Viktor |
| 2005 | The Magic Roundabout | as Dylan (voice) |
| 2009 | Astro Boy | as Dr. Elefun (voice) |
| 2012 | Total Recall | as Matthias |
| 2001 | Blow Dry | as Ray Robertson |
| 2019 | The Kindness of Strangers | as Timofey |
| 1976 | Occupy! | as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool |
| 1993 | The Maitlands | as Roger Maitland |
| 2023 | 10 Lives | as Professor Craven (voice) |
| 2007 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | as Captain Davy Jones |
| 2004 | Shaun of the Dead | as Phillip |
| 2006 | Stormbreaker | as Alan Blunt |
| 1997 | FairyTale: A True Story | as Edward Gardner |
| 2009 | G-Force | as Leonard Saber |
| 1989 | Mack the Knife | as Tiger Brown |
| 2020 | Emma. | as Mr. Woodhouse |
| 1984 | The Little Drummer Girl | as Al |
| 2012 | London: The Modern Babylon | as Spoken Quotations (voice) |
| 2013 | Jack the Giant Slayer | as General Fallon |
| 2005 | Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' | as Self |
| 2002 | AKA | as Uncle Louis Gryffoyn |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | as Slartibartfast |
| 1994 | Being Human | as Julian |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | as Rufus Scrimgeour |
| 2013 | The World's End | as The Network (voice) |
| 1978 | Soldiers Talking, Cleanly | as Bill |
| 1980 | Fox | as Colin Street |
| 1980 | Death Watch | as Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited) |
| 2004 | Burst | as Maxwell's Fan 22 |
| 1980 | Little Lord Fauntleroy | as Officer (uncredited) |
| 2007 | Killers Kill, Dead Men Die | as The Preacher |
| 1983 | Curse of the Pink Panther | as ENT Doctor |
| 2007 | Hot Fuzz | as Met Chief Inspector |
| 1981 | Eye of the Needle | as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop |
| 2005 | 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 |
| 2011 | Page Eight |