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.
132 movies · 53 shows
500 Miles
2026·0.0
Bulk
2026·5.0
Shelter
2026·7.8
This Is the Beginning
2025·1.0
That Christmas
2024·7.1
Joy
2024·6.9
The Wild Robot
2024·8.3
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
2024·6.9
10 Lives
2024·7.7
The First Omen
2024·6.8
The Beautiful Game
2024·6.3
Role Play
2023·6.0
Darkling
2023·0.0
Spectre of the Bear
2023·0.0
Bloody Fury
2023·0.0
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
2022·7.0
Living
2022·7.0
Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens
2021·0.0
Lotus: A New Dawn
2021·6.0
Buckley's Chance
2021·6.2
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
2020·8.3
Minamata
2020·6.9
Emma.
2020·7.0
The Kindness of Strangers
2019·6.3
StarDog and TurboCat
2019·7.1
Hope Gap
2019·6.4
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
2019·6.9
Sometimes Always Never
2019·6.4
The Bookshop
2017·6.5
Red Nose Day Actually
2017·7.0
Their Finest
2017·6.6
The Limehouse Golem
2016·6.3
Dad's Army
2016·5.0
Norm of the North
2016·4.7
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015·7.1
Pride: The True Story
2015·0.0
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2015·6.4
Pride
2014·7.7
National Theatre Live: Skylight
2014·8.9
Salting the Battlefield
2014·6.3
Turks & Caicos
2014·6.3
I, Frankenstein
2014·5.4
About Time
2013·7.9
The World's End
2013·6.8
The Hungry Corpse
2013·0.0
Great White Shark
2013·6.2
Jack the Giant Slayer
2013·5.9
Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene
2013·1.0
London: The Modern Babylon
2012·6.4
Total Recall
2012·6.0
Wrath of the Titans
2012·5.8
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2012·7.0
Arthur Christmas
2011·6.8
Page Eight
2011·6.6
Astonish Me
2011·8.0
Real Creatures of Dirt
2011·3.5
The Man with the Stolen Heart
2011·0.0
Rango
2011·6.9
Chalet Girl
2011·6.4
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010·7.7
Wild Target
2010·6.5
Glorious 39
2009·6.0
Astro Boy
2009·6.3
G-Force
2009·5.5
The Boat That Rocked
2009·7.2
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
2009·6.5
Valkyrie
2008·7.0
Slapper
2008·3.5
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
2007·0.0
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007·7.3
Hot Fuzz
2007·7.6
Notes on a Scandal
2006·7.1
Flushed Away
2006·6.3
Stormbreaker
2006·5.2
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006·7.4
We Love Cigarettes
2006·0.0
Underworld: Evolution
2006·6.6
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006·4.0
Gideon's Daughter
2005·6.4
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'
2005·0.0
The Constant Gardener
2005·7.0
Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
2005·9.0
The Girl in the Café
2005·7.1
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005·6.7
The Magic Roundabout
2005·5.4
Bottom Mindless Violence
2004·10.0
Enduring Love
2004·5.8
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
2004·7.3
Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews
2004·0.0
Shaun of the Dead
2004·7.5
Burst
2004·0.0
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
2003·7.5
The Young Visiters
2003·5.3
Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates
2003·4.0
Underworld
2003·6.9
Love Actually
2003·7.1
I Capture the Castle
2003·6.7
Lawless Heart
2002·5.2
AKA
2002·5.7
Lucky Break
2001·6.2
Blow Dry
2001·5.9
Longitude
2000·7.4
Guest House Paradiso
1999·6.1
The Bass Player
1999·0.0
Still Crazy
1998·6.8
FairyTale: A True Story
1997·6.4
True Blue
1996·6.2
Alive and Kicking
1996·5.4
Being Human
1994·5.1
The Maitlands
1993·0.0
Don't Leave Me This Way
1993·7.3
Unnatural Causes
1993·6.8
A Masculine Ending
1992·8.0
Absolute Hell
1991·6.0
Antonia and Jane
1990·5.4
The Phantom of the Opera
1989·5.7
Mack the Knife
1989·6.6
Thirteen at Dinner
1985·5.8
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985·4.9
The Little Drummer Girl
1984·5.6
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983·4.6
Easter 2016
1982·9.0
Under the Skin
1982·0.0
Eye of the Needle
1981·6.7
Standing in for Henry
1980·0.0
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980·7.3
Fox
1980·1.0
Death Watch
1980·6.3
Dreams of Leaving
1980·7.0
Deasey (Desperate)
1979·9.0
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1978·0.0
Occupy!
1976·10.0