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Bill Nighy

Bill Nighy
William Francis "Bill" Nighy (born 12 December 1949) is an English 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.





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Bill Nighy - news / articles


  • Nighy feared he'd injure Dench with bad driving - 13 February 2012
    -Bill Nighy was petrified he'd accidentally injure Dame Judi Dench while filming their latest movie, because he was convinced his bad driving would cause a nasty motorcycle accident.-The Love Actually star admits he "became a legend of bad driving" due to the amount


  • Nighy stunned by London poverty crisis - 30 September 2011
    -Actor Bill Nighy has urged the government to create better social equality after witnessing the plight of hundreds of Londoners living in poverty.-The Love Actually star recently volunteered at a food bank in the affluent area of Fulham, and he was stunned by the a


  • Nighy joins star-studded Total Recall cast - 2 June 2011
    -Actor Bill Nighy has joined the cast of the Total Recall revamp, opposite Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale.-The Pirate Radio star will reteam with Underworld and Underworld: Evolution director Len Wiseman on the project, in which he'll play resistance leader Kuato

Bill Nighy - what members say


  • Shaun Of The Dead
  • Shaun Of The Dead review by A customer from Wales
    Rated - 4.0 stars A gem of a film 15 November 2004
    ...I only got this out because Bill Nighy was plugging it on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, and who isn?t a fan of Bill Nighy? Well, actually he hardly gets to do anything i...   Read customer review
  • State of Play - Series 1
  • State of Play - Series 1 review by A customer from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars This is what we pay our licence fee for! 31 May 2005
    ...this is just outrageously fantastic! The script, the directing, the acting (Bill Nighy!), everything!! I could go on and on about it, but if you haven't seen it yet...   Read customer review
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Hot Fuzz review by mynameissue from Altrincham
    Rated - 3.0 stars A crackin' comedy 10 February 2008
    ...e action than John McClane in Die Hard. Superb cameos too from Steve Coogan and Bill Nighy; well worth seeing. Bring the noise! ...   Read customer review

Bill Nighy - filmography


  • About Time (2013)
    Starring: Domhnall Gleeson,  Rachel McAdams,  Bill Nighy
    Director: Richard Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    At the age of 21, Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) discovers he can travel in time... The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father (Bill Nighy) tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 2 members
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  • Jack the Giant Killer (2012)
    Starring: Nicholas Hoult,  Ewan McGregor,  Bill Nighy
    Director: Bryan Singer
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A modern day fairy tale in which the long-standing peace between men and giants is threatened, as a young farmer leads an expedition into the giants' kingdom in hopes of rescuing a kidnapped princess.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 73 members
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  • The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Maggie Smith,  Judi Dench
    Director: John Madden
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel follows a group of British retirees who decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 15,537 members
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  • Total Recall on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Colin Farrell,  Kate Beckinsale,  Bill Nighy
    Director: Len Wiseman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    As the nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai vie for supremacy, a factory worker (Farrell) begins to suspect that he's a spy, though he is unaware which side of the fight he's on.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 10,455 members
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  • Chalet Girl on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Sophia Bush,  Brooke Shields
    Director: Phil Traill
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Kim Matthews, a pretty and cocky 16 year-old from Essex, has the world at her feet, winning skateboarding competitions with an unrivalled skill and panache. 3 years later, however, and not quite; sheÂ’s working in a burger bar, her skateboarding days ... Read More...a distant dream as she struggles ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 11,864 members
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  • Page 8 on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Andrew Cleaver,  Richard Lintern
    Director: David Hare
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Made-for-TV intelligence thriller starring Bill Nighy, Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz. Long-serving MI5 officer Johnny Worricker (Nighy)'s life is thrown into turmoil when his friend and superior, Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon), dies in mysterious circumstances. As well as dealing with the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 422 members
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  • Arthur Christmas on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Jim Broadbent,  Bill Nighy,  Matt Lucas
    Director: Barry Cook,  Sarah Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    "Arthur Christmas" at last reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the heart of the film is a story with ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 3,992 members
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  • Chalet Girl - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Sophia Bush,  Brooke Shields
    Director: Phil Traill
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Kim Matthews, a pretty and cocky 16 year-old from Essex, has the world at her feet, winning skateboarding competitions with an unrivalled skill and panache. 3 years later, however, and not quite; sheÂ’s working in a burger bar, her skateboarding days ... Read More...a distant dream as she struggles ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,002 members
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  • Rango - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Isla Fisher,  Stephen Root
    Director: Gore Verbinski
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Children's CGI-animated adventure featuring the voice talents of Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy and Timothy Olyphant. Rango (voiced by Depp), a pet chameleon who has long harboured dreams of being a swashbuckling hero, is offered a chance to prove himself when he becomes stranded in the Mojave Desert ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 9,650 members
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  • Rango on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Maile Flanagan,  John Cothran Jr.,  Hemky Madera
    Director: Gore Verbinski
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Get ready to tango with RANGO, a winner with critics and audiences that's "like nothing you've ever seen before"; (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). Johnny Depp is spectacular as Rango, a kooky pet chameleon who gets tossed into a wild and raucous town in desperate need of a hero. Refreshingly ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 24,587 members
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  • Arthur Christmas - 3D Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: James McAvoy,  Jim Broadbent,  Bill Nighy
    Director: Sarah Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This animated seasonal family comedy is co-produced by Aardman Studios. The film shows the inner workings of the high-tech operation run at the North Pole by Santa (voiced by Jim Broadbent) and his sons, which enables them to get all the world's presents delivered in just one night. But behind this ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 379 members
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  • Wild Target - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Rupert Everett,  Sia Berkeley
    Director: Jonathan Lynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    British crime caper starring Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt. Victor Maynard (Nighy) is a lonely, uptight middle-aged mummy's boy who also happens to be a lethally efficient professional hitman. His last assignment before he retires is to take out con artist Rose (Blunt) for gangster client Ferguson (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 92 members
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  • Astro Boy on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Freddie Highmore,  Kristen Bell,  Charlize Theron
    Director: David Bowers
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist named Dr. Tenma. Powered by positive "blue" energy, Astro Boy is endowed with super strength, x-ray vision, unbelievable speed and the ability to fly. Embarking on a journey in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 7,439 members
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  • Wild Target on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Emily Blunt,  Rupert Grint
    Director: Jonathan Lynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Bill Nighy is Victor Maynard, a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother, Louisa (Eileen Atkins), despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 8,899 members
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  • Ten Minute Tales on DVD (2010)
    Starring: ,  ,  
    Director: Neil Gaiman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Eleven silent short films, originally screened nightly over the Christmas period in 2009 on Sky One, featuring performances by actors including Timothy Spall, Natasha McElhone, Bill Nighy, Peter Capaldi, Mackenzie Crook and Ross Kemp. Films included are: 'Deep and Crisp and Even', 'That Synching ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 70 members
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  • Astro Boy - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Freddie Highmore,  Kristen Bell,  Charlize Theron
    Director: David Bowers
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist named Dr. Tenma. Powered by positive "blue" energy, Astro Boy is endowed with super strength, x-ray vision, unbelievable speed and the ability to fly. Embarking on a journey in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,630 members
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  • G-Force on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Will Arnett,  Nicolas Cage,  Kelli Garner
    Director: Hoyt Yeatman,  Hoyt Yeatman Jr.
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Disney adventure using a mixture of live action and CGI animation to tell the story of a team of secret agent guinea pigs which has been trained in espionage techniques and armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment in order to take on a covert mission for the US government. The team, known by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 16,024 members
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  • Glorious 39 on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Romola Garai,  Bill Nighy,  Julie Christie
    Director: Stephen Poliakoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    1939 is set between present-day London and the idyllic British countryside in the time before the beginning of the Second World War. At a time of uncertainty and high tension, the story revolves around the formidable Keyes family, who are keen to uphold and preserve their very traditional way of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 10,169 members
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  • The Boat That Rocked on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Rhys Ifans,  Philip Seymour Hoffman,  Nick Frost
    Director: Richard Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Richard Curtis writes and directs this ensemble comedy set in the world of the pop music and pirate radio stations of 1960s Britain. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as The Count, a larger-than-life American rock 'n' roll DJ who - along with fellow broadcasters Dave (Nick Frost), Simon (Chris O'Dowd), ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 57,940 members
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  • Meerkat Manor - Series 3 (4 discs) on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Bill Nighy
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    All thirteen episodes from the third series of the popular wildlife programme. Narrated by Bill Nighy, the series follows a group of meerkats living in the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. With no humans featured, film crews were housed in specially built sheds and successfully filmed inside a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 75 members
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  • Hot Fuzz on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Tim Barlow,  Bill Ni,  Jim
    Director: Edgar Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 105,438 members
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  • Underworld: Evolution - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Tony Curran,  Danny McBride
    Director: Len Wiseman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Thriller sequel starring Kate Beckinsale. In the Underworld, Vampires are a secret clan of modern aristocratic sophisticates whose mortal enemies are the Lycans (werewolves), a shrewd gang of street thugs who prowl the city's underbelly. No one knows the origin of their bitter blood feud, but the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 3,439 members
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  • Stormbreaker on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Mickey Rourke,  Alicia Silverstone,  Ewan McGregor
    Director: Geoffrey Sax
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Alex Rider is a 14-year-old orphan who has been unwittingly trained all his life by his uncle with the skills to become a secret agent -- scuba diving, mountaineering, martial arts and so on. When his guardian, an MI6 agent, is killed, Rider learns the truth and finds himself forced against his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 28,712 members
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  • Stormbreaker - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Mickey Rourke,  Alicia Silverstone,  Ewan McGregor
    Director: Geoffrey Sax
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the first of the best-selling series of Alex Rider novels by Anthony Horowitz. Alex Rider (Alex Pettyfer) is a normal school boy, with a normal life. Until his uncle Ian (Ewan McGregor) dies. Alex's life changes forever, as he discovers that his uncle was not, as he thought a banker, but a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 420 members
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  • Underworld: Evolution on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Tony Curran,  Danny McBride
    Director: Len Wiseman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Thriller sequel starring Kate Beckinsale. In the Underworld, Vampires are a secret clan of modern aristocratic sophisticates whose mortal enemies are the Lycans (werewolves), a shrewd gang of street thugs who prowl the city's underbelly. No one knows the origin of their bitter blood feud, but the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 55,721 members
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  • The Girl In The Cafe on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Anton Lesser,  Corin Redgrave
    Director: David Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    BBC romantic drama written by Richard Curtis and starring Bill Nighy and Kelly MacDonald. Lawrence (Nighy) is a middle-aged civil servant who meets a mysterious young girl called Gina (Macdonald) in a café near Downing Street. As the mismatched couple start to fall in love, Lawrence invites Gina to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 5,126 members
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  • The Constant Gardener (2005)
    Starring: Ralph Fiennes,  Rachel Weisz,  Danny Huston
    Director: Fernando Meirelles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hard-hitting political thriller based on the novel by John Le Carre, and the first English-speaking feature from director Fernando Meirelles. When political activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz, in an Oscar-winning performance) is found brutally murdered in Kenya, her widowed husband, unassuming ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 85,564 members
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  • He Knew He Was Right (2 discs) on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Geoffrey Palmer,  Laura Fraser
    Director: Tom Vaughan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Four-part BBC adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel. Louis Trevelyan (Oliver Dimsdale) is unable to believe that his wife Emily (Laura Fraser) is faithful to him. Suspicious beyond reason that she is having an affair with Colonel Osbourne (Bill Nighy), a man of dubious reputation, he forces his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 745 members
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  • Shaun Of The Dead on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Simon Pegg,  Nick Frost,  Kate Ashfield
    Director: Edgar Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    On Friday, Shaun is in a rut. At 29, he's coasted through life--and still hasn't gotten very far, usually winding up at the local pub, the Winchester. His roommate Ed looks up to him--when he can take his eyes off the TV, that is. Liz is re-evaluating their relationship, particularly after Shaun ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 100,509 members
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  • Enduring Love (2004)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Rhys Ifans,  Samantha Morton
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 28,728 members
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  • Shaun Of The Dead - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Simon Pegg,  Nick Frost,  Kate Ashfield
    Director: Edgar Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Shaun (Simon Pegg) is not quite your average twentysomething. Lacking any real ambition and drifting along in a job that he hates, he drives his long-suffering girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), up the wall. Despite being a very decent chap, Shaun suddenly gets a very rude wake up call when the undead ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 1,726 member
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  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2004)
    Starring: Martin Freeman,  Sam Rockwell,  Mos Def
    Director: Garth Jennings
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Sci-fi adventure based on the novel by Douglas Adams. Earthman Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is having a very bad day. His house is about to be bulldozed, he discovers that his best friend is an alien and to top things off, Planet Earth is about to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 69,545 members
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  • Underworld on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Erwin Leder,  Richard
    Director: Len Wiseman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    For centuries, two races have evolved hidden deeply within human culture - the aristocratic, sophisticated Vampires, and the brutal, feral Lycans (werewolves). To humanity, their existence is no more than a whisper of a myth. But to each other, they are lifelong mortal rivals, sworn to wage a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 43,656 members
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  • Love Actually on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Joanna Page,  Lucia Moniz,  a
    Director: Richard Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Richard Curtis (writer of 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' and 'Notting Hill') turns his hand to directing with this British rom-com. Eight stories involving the love lives of more than a dozen characters are brought together over one Christmas and climax on Christmas Eve; from the recent widower ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 83,924 members
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  • Love Actually - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Liam Neeson,  Colin Firth
    Director: Richard Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Richard Curtis (writer of 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' and 'Notting Hill') turns his hand to directing with this British rom-com. Eight stories involving the love lives of more than a dozen characters are brought together over one Christmas and climax on Christmas Eve; from the recent widower ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 844 members
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  • Canterbury Tales (2 discs) on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  John Simm,  Andrew Lincoln
    Director: Marc Munden,  Julia,  Marc Munden
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The BBC's highly-acclaimed modern retelling of six of Chaucer's classic tales. In 'The Miller's Tale', young wannabe popstar (Billie Piper) thinks that her dreams have come true when smooth-talking Nick (James Nesbitt) arrives in a flash car, inciting the jealousy of her husband John (Dennis ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,915 member
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  • I Capture The Castle on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Rose Byrne,  Romola Garai
    Director: Tim Fywell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the romantic novel by Dodie Smith (author of '101 Dalmatians'), this coming-of-age drama follows 17-year-old Cassandra (Romola Garai) and her eccentric family as they struggle to survive in a draughty and decrepit castle. Cassandra's father (played by Bill Nighy) is the author of a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 5,543 members
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  • State of Play - Series 1 (2 discs) on DVD (2003)
    Starring: David Morrissey,  John Simm,  Bill Nighy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Stephen Collins is an ambitious politician. Cal McAffrey is a well-respected investigative journalist and Stephen's ex-campaign manager. En route to work one morning, Stephen's research assistant mysteriously falls to her death on the London Underground. It's not long before revelations of their ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 4,849 members
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  • Underworld - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Erwin Leder,  Richard
    Director: Len Wiseman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Len Wiseman's directorial debut sees vampires battle with werewolves. Two underground communities, the sophisticated Death Dealers (vampires), and the feral Lycans (werewolves), have been battling for supremacy and hidden from the mortal world for centuries. That is until one night when one of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 2,945 members
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  • Lawless Heart on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Clementine Celarie,  Joseph
    Director: Neil Hunter,  Tom Hunsinger
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    British comedy about the intertwined relationships of a group of friends, lovers and relatives who assemble for the funeral of a much-loved member of their clan in a sleepy seaside town in Essex. Told in flashback, the story is broken into three segments, each viewing events from a different ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 978 members
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  • Lucky Break on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Ron Cook,  Olivia Williams
    Director: Peter Cattaneo
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Following a failed bank robbery, affable crooks Jimmy (James Nesbitt) and Rudy (Lennie James) find themselves locked up for a lengthy stretch in HM Prison Long Rudford. The pair soon discover that the prison governer has written a musical based on the life of Nelson, and offer to stage the show for ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 752 members
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  • Blow Dry on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Alan Rickman,  Bill Nighy,  Rosemary Harris
    Director: Paddy Breathnach
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Ray Roberts (Bill Nighy) arrives in small-town Keighley to take part in the Annual British Hairdressing Championship, he seeks out his old colleague Phil (Alan Rickman), a former golden boy of the competition circuit who inexplicably left styling behind to become an ordinary barber. Phil ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,719 member
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  • Guest House Paradiso on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Vincent Cassel,  Adrian Edmondson
    Director: Adrian Edmondson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Richie (Rik Mayall) and Eddie (Adrian Edmondson) are the owners of Guest House Paradiso, a squalid and empty B? located next to a nuclear power plant. Business isn't exactly booming for the pair of them, but things improve when the Nice family move in - or at least they do until Richie is caught ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 3,881 members
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  • Still Crazy on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Stephen Rea,  Billy Connolly
    Director: Brian Gibson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Rock band Strange Fruit split up in 1977 after a disastrous concert performance, but twenty-one years later keyboardist Tony (Stephen Rea) is asked to reform the group for a reunion gig. He manages to trace bassist Les (Jimmy Nail), drummer Beano (Timothy Spall), singer Ray (Bill Nighy) and manager ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,202 members
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  • The Men's Room on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Harriet Walter
    Director: Antonia Bird
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bill Nighy, Harriet Walter, Amanda Redman, Charlotte Cornwell and James Aubrey star in this BBC drama, first shown in 1991. Charity Walton seems to have everything she could want: a husband, four children, a lovely house in London, and a successful career as a sociologist. Then she meets Mark ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 5 members
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  • Hitler's SS on DVD (1985)
    Starring: David Warner,  Bill Nighy,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Jim Goddard,  Jim Goddard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Brother against brother in this gripping saga of the rise and fall of the Third Reich, portraying the rise of the Nazi regime through the experience of two ordinary brothers who find themselves on opposite sides during the second world war. Helmut the brilliant but opportunistic student, and Karl, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 153 members
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  • Hitler's SS - Portrait in Evil on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Lucy Gutteridge,  John Shea
    Director: Jim Goddard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This 1985 made-for-TV film tells the story of brothers, Helmut (Bill Nighy) and Karl Hoffmann (John Shea). Both come of age at the start of Hitler's power in Germany in 1931. Helmut, the brilliant but opportunistic student, joins the SS and eventually becomes a successful flag rank officer. Karl, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 44 members
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  • Jemima Shore Investigates (1983)
    Starring: Bill Nighy,  Tom Baker,  Patricia Hodge
    Director: Alan Grint
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All 12 episodes of the early 1980s TV drama series starring Patricia Hodge as the crime-fighting TV journalist. Although she has her own investigative show, when the lights go down, coolly assured amateur sleuth Jemima Shore sets out on her own inquiries, usually involving those who move in high ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 26% from 3 members
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Bill Nighy facts

5 most recent films

About Time - 2.5 stars
I, Frankenstein - 3 stars
Jack the Giant Killer - 3.5 stars
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - 4.0 stars
Jack the Giant Killer - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

State of Play - Series 1 - 4.5 stars
Meerkat Manor - Series 3 - 4.0 stars
Shaun Of The Dead - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Hot Fuzz - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

I, Frankenstein - 3 stars
Jemima Shore Investigates - 1.5 stars
About Time - 2.5 stars
The Young Visiters or Mr. Salteena's Plan - 3.0 stars
Hitler's SS - Portrait in Evil - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

John Simm - 16 times - show films
Kelly MacDonald - 16 times - show films
David Morrissey - 15 times - show films
Philip Glenister - 12 times - show films
Martin Freeman - 11 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Yates - 18 times - show films
Len Wiseman - 8 times - show films
Gore Verbinski - 7 times - show films
Richard Curtis - 6 times - show films
Edgar Wright - 6 times - show films