
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).

Iberia's Woodlands: Life on the Edge

National Theatre Live: Skylight

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

野生の島のロズ

悪魔城ドラキュラ -キャッスルヴァニア-

World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys

ブラック・ブックス

Astonish Me

World's Most Scenic River Journeys

Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty

People Like Us

Eye of the Storm

アバウト・タイム ~愛おしい時間について~

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

ライト&マジック

ハリー・ポッターと死の秘宝 Part1

パレードへようこそ

10 Lives

He Knew He Was Right

ドクター・フー

ミーアキャットの世界

ホット・ファズ - 俺たちスーパーポリスメン!

ショーン・オブ・ザ・デッド

Bottom Mindless Violence

10 Minute Tales

State of Play

The Man Who Fell to Earth

経度への挑戦

Little Lord Fauntleroy

パイレーツ・オブ・カリビアン/デッドマンズ・チェスト

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

パイレーツ・オブ・カリビアン/ワールド・エンド

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

パイレーツ・ロック

あの年のクリスマス

Grumpy Old Men

The Lost Prince

ラブ・アクチュアリー

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

あるスキャンダルの覚え書き

スタードッグ&ターボキャット

The Girl in the Café

Red Nose Day Actually

The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special

Don't Leave Me This Way

Dreams of Leaving

EMMA エマ

Kavanagh Q.C.

Timeshift

Reilly: Ace of Spies

Playhouse

Longitude

ナイロビの蜂

生きる LIVING

MINAMATA―ミナマタ―

マリーゴールド・ホテルで会いましょう

ワルキューレ

名探偵ピカチュウ

Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue

Canterbury Tales

Ordeal by Innocence

ランゴ

アンダーワールド

JOY: 奇跡が生まれたとき

オーメン:ザ・ファースト

ワールズ・エンド/酔っぱらいが世界を救う!

The Last Place on Earth

Minder

アーサー・クリスマスの大冒険

Still Crazy

I Capture the Castle

銀河ヒッチハイク・ガイド

Shelter

アンダーワールド:エボリューション

Mack the Knife

Eye of the Needle

人生はシネマティック!

Page Eight

アンダーワールド ビギンズ

Unnatural Causes

マイ・ブックショップ

幸せの答え合わせ

ターゲット

マリーゴールド・ホテル 幸せへの第二章

Testament: The Bible in Animation

ルーキー・ハウス・ガール

フェアリーテイル

Sometimes Always Never

London: The Modern Babylon

ATOM/アトム

Gideon's Daughter

マウス・タウン ロディとリタの大冒険

La Mort en direct

Play for Today

ビューティフル・ゲーム

Turks & Caicos

ハーラン・コーベン/ラザルス

The Kindness of Strangers

切り裂き魔ゴーレム

Salting the Battlefield

Great White Shark

Buckley's Chance

Chillers

Lucky Break

Peak Practice

Guest House Paradiso

トータル・リコール

ブラック・レコード〜禁じられた記録〜/ヒトラーコード39

Real Creatures of Dirt

Role Play

Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher

Lotus: A New Dawn

Wycliffe

Performance

Blow Dry

ジャックと天空の巨人

タイタンの逆襲

Thirteen at Dinner

Jの悲劇

True Blue

Absolute Hell

Fox

Agony

The Phantom of the Opera

The Little Drummer Girl

スパイアニマル・Gフォース

The Magic Roundabout

The Young Visiters

アイ・フランケンシュタイン

AKA

アレックス・ライダー

レイト・ナイト・ウィズ・セス・マイヤーズ

Being Human

This Morning

Dad's Army

Antonia and Jane

Lawless Heart

Norm of the North

ピンク・パンサー5/クルーゾーは二度死ぬ

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Alive and Kicking

Below Deck: An Interactive History Of Pirates

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener

Live from Studio Five

Slapper

Richard & Judy

Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene

This Is the Beginning

Easter 2016

Christmas Magic at Kew Gardens

The Maitlands

Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz

Darkling

500 Miles

Spectre of the Bear

Bloody Fury

Burst

& Sons

A Masculine Ending

We Love Cigarettes

Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

The Hungry Corpse

Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

Under the Skin

Occupy!

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'

Deasey (Desperate)

Standing in for Henry

Peter Ustinov: The Parkinson Interviews

Welcome to Paradise

Heart of Darkness

Bulk

The Man with the Stolen Heart

Norfolk & Suffolk: Coast & Country

South Of The Border

Kent: Garden of England

Parkinson