
James Nesbitt (born 15 January 1965) is a Northern Irish actor. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Nesbitt grew up in the nearby village of Broughshane, before moving to Coleraine, County Londonderry. He wanted to become a teacher, like his father, so began a degree in French at the University of Ulster. He dropped out after a year when he decided to become an actor, and transferred to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After graduating in 1987, he spent seven years performing in plays that varied from the musical Up on the Roof (1987, 1989) to the political drama Paddywack (1994). He made his feature film debut playing talent agent Fintan O'Donnell in Hear My Song (1991). Nesbitt got his breakthrough television role playing Adam Williams in the romantic comedy-drama Cold Feet (1998–2003), which won him a British Comedy Award, a Television and Radio Industries Club Award, and a National Television Award. His first significant film role came when he appeared as pig farmer "Pig" Finn in Waking Ned (1998). With the rest of the starring cast, Nesbitt was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. In Lucky Break (2001), he made his debut as a film lead playing prisoner Jimmy Hands. The next year, he played Ivan Cooper in the television film Bloody Sunday, about the 1972 shootings in Derry. A departure from his previous "cheeky chappie" roles, the film was a turning point in his career. He won a British Independent Film Award and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. Nesbitt has also starred in Murphy's Law (2001–2007) as undercover detective Tommy Murphy—a role that was created for him by writer Colin Bateman. The role twice gained Nesbitt Best Actor nominations at the Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA). In 2007, he starred in the dual role of Tom Jackman and Mr Hyde in Steven Moffat's Jekyll, which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination in 2008. Nesbitt has since appeared in several more dramatic roles; he starred alongside Liam Neeson in Five Minutes of Heaven (2009), and was one of three lead actors in the television miniseries Occupation (2009) and The Deep (2010). He also starred in the movies Outcast (2010) and Emilio Estevez's The Way (2011), and has been cast in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit (2012/13). Nesbitt is married to former actress Sonia Forbes-Adam, with whom he has two daughters. He is a patron of numerous charities and in 2010 accepted the ceremonial position of Chancellor of the University of Ulster.

Ireland's Rugby Number 10

Stan Lee's Lucky Man: The Bracelet Chronicles

Wall of Silence

James Nesbitt: Disasters That Changed Britain

Occupation

Alex Higgins: The People's Champion

Michael McIntyre's Big Show

Murphy's Law

Cold Feet

ホビット 竜に奪われた王国

Top Gear

Jekyll

ホビット 思いがけない冒険

マッチポイント

ホビット 決戦のゆくえ

Bloody Sunday

Lovejoy

グレアム・ノートン・ショー

The Missing

星の旅人たち

Waking Ned

Monroe

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

ステイ・クロース

Soccer Aid

Ballykissangel

Canterbury Tales

Stan Lee's Lucky Man

Common As Muck

Bloodlands

ランナウェイ

Babylon

Soldier Soldier

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

Welcome to Sarajevo

Millions

Go Now

Gold

Jude

The Secret

Lucky Break

Five Minutes of Heaven

Matching Jack

Resurrection Man

ミッシング・ユー

The Coronation Concert

Lost Lives

Soccer AM

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

DNA Journey

Suspect

The Deep

Coriolanus

Hear My Song

The Friday Night Project

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell

Wild About Harry

This Is the Sea

Blessed

GMTV

処刑人チェリー

Tractor Tom

The Jonathan Ross Show

The Passion

Chris Moyles' Quiz Night

The Most Fertile Man in Ireland

Between the Lines

Midnight Man

The Late Late Show

Women Talking Dirty

Outcast

River Deep, Mountain High: James Nesbitt in New Zealand

The James Gang

The Heist Before Christmas

Playing the Field

The One Show

The Hollywood Greats

The John Bishop Show

The End of the World Man

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Big Dippers

Virtuoso

Love Lies Bleeding

James Nesbitt Presents Eat My Goal

Here Comes the Summer: The Undertones Story

James Ellis: An Actor's Life

The Cry

Occupation

Passer By

Parkinson

Fairy Tales