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Bill Nighy

Bill Nighy

Birthday: 1949-12-12 | Place of Birth: Caterham, Surrey, England, United Kingdom

William Francis "Bill" Nighy (pronounced /ˈnaɪ/ ny) is a British actor and comedian. He worked in theatre and television before his first cinema role in 1981, and made his name in television with The Men's Room in 1991, in which he played the womanizer Prof. Mark Carleton, whose extra-marital affairs kept him "vital". He became known around the world in 2003 as Billy Mack, the aging pop star in Love Actually, and in the same year played James Mortmain, the eccentric husband struggling to keep his family afloat in a decaying English castle, in I Capture the Castle. He is also known for his roles in the films Underworld, Shaun of the Dead, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Pirates of the Caribbean, Hot Fuzz, Valkyrie, G-Force and provided voice talents in the films The Magic Roundabout, Flushed Away and Rango. He recently played Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bill Nighy is a Patron and supporter of the artistic collective The Factory Theatre Company alongside other actors such as Mark Rylance, Ewan McGregor and Richard Wilson. Other notable members include founder Alex Hassell, Catherine Bailey and Alan Morrissey. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Nighy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
The Wild Robot

as    Longneck (voice)

2024
Gioco di ruolo

as    Bob

2024
The First Omen

as    Cardinal Lawrence

2024
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue

as    Conrad (voice)

2024
That Christmas

as    Lighthouse Bill (voice)

2024
The Beautiful Game

as    Mal

2024
Kent: Garden of England

as    Narrator

2024
Joy

as    Patrick Steptoe

2024
Shaun of the Dead

as    Phillip

2024
10 Lives

as    Professor Craven (voice)

2023
Spectre of the Bear

as    Bennett (voice)

2023
Bloody Fury

as    Bloody's Consciousness (voice)

2023
Role Play

as    Bob

2023
2022
The Man Who Fell to Earth

as    Thomas Jerome Newton

2022
Living

as    Williams

2021
2021
2021
Minamata

as    Robert "Bob" Hayes

2021
Lotus: A New Dawn

as    Self - Narrator

2021
Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens

as    Self - Narrator

2021
Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2021
Buckley's Chance

as    Spencer

2021
Iberia's Woodlands

as    他自己

2020
Emma.

as    Mr. Woodhouse

2020
StarDog and TurboCat

as    Sinclair (voice)

2020
The Kindness of Strangers

as    Timofey