Bill Nighy
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.
Known For

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Doctor Who

Shelter

Play for Today

Peak Practice

The Wild Robot

Minder

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
All Movies (138)
- 500 Miles2026
- Bulk2026 · as The Voice
- Shelter2026 · as Manafort
- & Sons2025 · as Andrew
- This Is the Beginning2025
- That Christmas2024 · as Lighthouse Bill (voice)
- Joy2024 · as Patrick Steptoe
- The Wild Robot2024 · as Longneck (voice)
- Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue2024 · as Conrad (voice)
- 10 Lives2024 · as Professor Craven (voice)
- The First Omen2024 · as Cardinal Lawrence
- The Beautiful Game2024 · as Mal
- Role Play2023 · as Bob
- Darkling2023
- Spectre of the Bear2023 · as Bennett (voice)
- Bloody Fury2023 · as Bloody's Consciousness (voice)
- The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special2022 · as Self
- Living2022 · as Williams
- Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens2021 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Lotus: A New Dawn2021 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Buckley's Chance2021 · as Spencer
- Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular2020 · as Self
- Minamata2020 · as Robert "Bob" Hayes
- Emma.2020 · as Mr. Woodhouse
- The Kindness of Strangers2019 · as Timofey
- StarDog and TurboCat2019 · as Sinclair (voice)
- Hope Gap2019 · as Edward
- Pokémon Detective Pikachu2019 · as Howard Clifford
- Sometimes Always Never2019 · as Alan
- The Bookshop2017 · as Mr. Brundish
- Red Nose Day Actually2017 · as Billy Mack
- Their Finest2017 · as Ambrose Hilliard / Uncle Frank
- The Limehouse Golem2016 · as John Kildare
- Dad's Army2016 · as Sergeant Wilson
- Norm of the North2016 · as Socrates (voice)
- A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman2015 · as Self - 'Flushed Away' and 'Arthur Christmas'
- The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel2015 · as Douglas Ainslie
- Pride2014 · as Cliff
- National Theatre Live: Skylight2014 · as Tom Sergeant
- Salting the Battlefield2014 · as Johnny Worricker
- Turks & Caicos2014 · as Johnny Worricker
- I, Frankenstein2014 · as Naberius
- About Time2013 · as Dad
- The World's End2013 · as The Network (voice)
- The Hungry Corpse2013 · as The Hungry Corpse
- Great White Shark2013 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Jack the Giant Slayer2013 · as General Fallon
- Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene2013 · as Graham Greene (voice)
- London: The Modern Babylon2012 · as Spoken Quotations (voice)
- Total Recall2012 · as Matthias
- Wrath of the Titans2012 · as Hephaestus
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel2012 · as Douglas Ainslie
- Arthur Christmas2011 · as Grandsanta (voice)
- Page Eight2011 · as Johnny Worricker
- Astonish Me2011 · as The Professor
- Real Creatures of Dirt2011 · as Self / Rattlesnake Jake
- The Man with the Stolen Heart2011 · as Narrator
- Rango2011 · as Rattlesnake Jake (voice)
- Chalet Girl2011 · as Richard Madsen
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 12010 · as Rufus Scrimgeour
- Wild Target2010 · as Victor Maynard
- Glorious 392009 · as Alexander Keyes
- Astro Boy2009 · as Dr. Elefun / Robotsky (voice)
- G-Force2009 · as Leonard Saber
- The Boat That Rocked2009 · as Quentin
- Underworld: Rise of the Lycans2009 · as Viktor
- Valkyrie2008 · as Friedrich Olbricht
- Slapper2008 · as Arnold Percy
- Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz2007 · as Self
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End2007 · as Davy Jones
- Hot Fuzz2007 · as Met Chief Inspector
- Notes on a Scandal2006 · as Richard Hart
- Flushed Away2006 · as Whitey (voice)
- Stormbreaker2006 · as Alan Blunt
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest2006 · as Davy Jones
- We Love Cigarettes2006 · as Narrator
- Underworld: Evolution2006 · as Viktor
- Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener2006 · as Self
- Gideon's Daughter2005 · as 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 · as Self
- The Constant Gardener2005 · as Sir Bernard Pellegrin
- Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'2005 · as Self
- The Girl in the Café2005 · as Lawrence
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy2005 · as Slartibartfast
- The Magic Roundabout2005 · as Dylan (voice)
- Bottom Mindless Violence2004 · as Mr. Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Enduring Love2004 · as Robin
- Ready When You Are, Mr McGill2004 · as Phil Parish
- Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews2004 · as Self - Narrator
- Shaun of the Dead2004 · as Phillip
- Burst2004 · as Maxwell's Fan 22
- Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher2003 · as Self - Narrator
- The Young Visiters2003 · as Earl of Clincham
- Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates2003
- Underworld2003 · as Viktor
- Love Actually2003 · as Billy Mack
- I Capture the Castle2003 · as James Mortmain
- Lawless Heart2002 · as Dan
- AKA2002 · as Uncle Louis Gryffoyn
- Lucky Break2001 · as Roger
- Blow Dry2001 · as Ray Robertson
- Longitude2000 · as Lord Sandwich
- Guest House Paradiso1999 · as Mr. Johnson
- The Bass Player1999
- Still Crazy1998 · as Ray Simms
- FairyTale: A True Story1997 · as Edward Gardner
- True Blue1996 · as Jeremy Saville
- Alive and Kicking1996 · as Tristan
- Being Human1994 · as Julian
- The Maitlands1993 · as Roger Maitland
- Don't Leave Me This Way1993 · as John Tracey
- Unnatural Causes1993 · as Oliver Latham
- A Masculine Ending1992 · as John Tracey
- Absolute Hell1991 · as Hugh Marriner
- Antonia and Jane1990 · as Howard Nash
- The Phantom of the Opera1989 · as Martin Barton
- Mack the Knife1989 · as Tiger Brown
- Thirteen at Dinner1985 · as Ronald Marsh
- Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil1985 · as Helmut Hoffmann
- The Little Drummer Girl1984 · as Al
- Curse of the Pink Panther1983 · as ENT Doctor
- Easter 20161982 · as Connor Mullan
- Under the Skin1982 · as Dave
- Eye of the Needle1981 · as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
- Standing in for Henry1980 · as Bruno
- Little Lord Fauntleroy1980 · as Officer
- Fox1980 · as Colin Street
- Death Watch1980 · as Katherine's Co-worker (uncredited)
- Dreams of Leaving1980 · as William
- Deasey (Desperate)1979 · as Deasy
- Soldiers Talking, Cleanly1978 · as Bill
- Occupy!1976 · as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
- Welcome to Paradise— · as Hooker Duck Host (voice)
- Heart of Darkness— · as (voice)
- The Turning Door— · as (voice)
- A Town in Nova Scotia— · as Leon
- Ibelin— · as Mats Steen
- Caine—
All TV Shows (51)
- Ride or Die2026 · as The Director
- Harlan Coben's Lazarus2025 · as Doctor Lazarus 'Dr L'
- Kent: Garden of England2024 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country2023 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- LIGHT & MAGIC2022 · as Self (archive footage)
- The Man Who Fell to Earth2022 · as Thomas Jerome Newton
- Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge2021 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty2021 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- World's Most Scenic River Journeys2021 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Natural History Museum: World of Wonder2021 · as Self - Narrator
- World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys2019 · as Narrator (voice)
- Ordeal by Innocence2018 · as Leo Argyll
- Castlevania2017 · as Saint Germain (voice)
- Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self
- 10 Minute Tales2009 · as Mr Jellaby
- Live from Studio Five2009 · as Self
- The Big Art Project2009 · as Narrator
- Meerkat Manor2005 · as Narrator
- Doctor Who2005 · as Dr Black
- He Knew He Was Right2004 · as Colonel Osborne
- Grumpy Old Men2003 · as Self
- Canterbury Tales2003 · as James
- State of Play2003 · as Cameron Foster
- The Lost Prince2003 · as Stamfordham
- Timeshift2002 · as self (voice)
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries2002 · as Lockwood
- Richard & Judy2001 · as Self
- Black Books2000 · as Man at bar
- Longitude2000 · as Lord Sandwich
- People Like Us1999 · as Will Rushmore
- Parkinson1998 · as Self
- Testament: The Bible in Animation1996 · as Belshazzar (voice)
- Kavanagh Q.C.1995 · as Giles Culpepper QC
- Wycliffe1994 · as David Cleeve
- Peak Practice1993 · as Alan Sinclair
- Eye of the Storm1993 · as Tom Frewen
- Performance1991 · as Roger Maitland
- Performance1991 · as Hugh Marriner
- Making News1990 · as Sam Courtney
- Chillers1990 · as Tom Dickenson
- South of the Border1988 · as Tony Freason
- This Morning1988 · as Self
- The Last Place on Earth1985 · as Cecil Meares
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet1983 · as Jeffrey Grainger
- Reilly: Ace of Spies1983 · as Goschen
- Fox1980 · as Colin Street
- Minder1979 · as Oates
- Agony1979 · as Vincent Fish
- Playhouse1974 · as Bruno
- Play for Today1970 · as Dave
- California Avenue— · as Jerry