He played Jerry in Harold Pinter's Betrayal in 1991 at the Almeida Theatre. As Bernard Nightingale, an unscrupulous university don, in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (1993), he engaged in witty exchanges with Felicity Kendal, who played Hannah Jarvis, an author. Nighy's most acclaimed stage performances were in National Theatre productions. At the National Theatre, he acted in productions alongside Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Harriet Walter, Rufus Sewell, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. He was cast in two David Hare premieres A Map of The World and Pravda, also at the National.Īfter he made his debut, he steadily gained acclaim with his performances in David Hare's Pravda in 1985, William Shakespeare's King Lear in 1986 and Anton Chekov's The Seagull in 1994.
It opened the new Cottesloe Theatre on 4 March 1977. When Nighy told him that he was an actor, Campbell hired him on the spot. He made his London stage debut at the National Theatre in an epic staging of Ken Campbell and Chris Langham's Illuminatus!, after he met Campbell at a bar in London. He was also a member of the travelling theatre group Van Load which included one of Nighy's most frequent collaborators, writer and director David Hare. During his time at the Everyman he worked alongside fellow actors Julie Walters and Pete Postlethwaite, and writers Ken Campbell and Willy Russell. During his audition he kept asking to start again about five times, according to fellow actor Jonathan Pryce, who said that he was "either he was a very good actor, or a madman". Career Early work Īfter working in various regional theatre productions during his early twenties in theatres such as, the Cambridge Arts Theatre and Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, a friend of Nighy's suggested that he audition for the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. He applied for a place at RADA but was rejected and instead enrolled at the Guildford School of Acting to train for stage. First to the Persian Gulf, only reaching as far as Marseille at age 15 and then to Paris at age 16 "to write the great English novel".Īfter leaving the school with two O-levels, he worked as a messenger for The Croydon Advertiser. During his teenage years, he fled home twice. He attended the John Fisher School, a Roman Catholic grammar school in Purley, where he was nicknamed "Knucks" because of his hands and was a member of the theatre group.Īs a child he was known to be insecure and shy by many and as a teenager he became an avid reader, particularly enjoying the works of Ernest Hemingway and F. He has two older siblings, Martin and Anna. Nighy was brought up as a Roman Catholic and served as an altar boy, however he gave up "being a practicing Catholic" as a teenager. His father managed a car garage after working in the family chimney sweeping business his mother was a psychiatric nurse of Irish descent born in Glasgow, Scotland William Francis Nighy was born on 12 December 1949 in Caterham, Surrey, to Alfred Martin Nighy and Catherine Josephine, née Whittaker. He's also known for his roles in HBO's The Girl in the Café (2006) and PBS's Page Eight (2012).
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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). 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. 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). His breakout role was in Love Actually (2003), which earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. His early film roles include the comedies Still Crazy (1998) and Blow Dry (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. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in Blue/Orange in 2001. 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 started his career with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and made his London debut with the Royal National Theatre starting with The Illuminatus! in 1977. William Francis Nighy ( / n aɪ/ born 12 December 1949) is an English actor and voice actor.
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