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Bill Nighy (IPA: /naɪ/; born
December 12, 1949) is a Golden Globe and BAFTA-award winning English actor. He
started in television and theatre before his first cinema role in 1981. Notable
films include: Love Actually, the Underworld movies, and Davy Jones in Pirates
of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
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Birth name William Francis Nighy
Born 12 December 1949
Caterham, Surrey, England
Height 6'2" (1.88m)
Official site BillNighy.net
Notable roles Viktor in
Underworld & Underworld: Evolution
Billy Mack in
Love Actually
Davy Jones in
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
Man's Chest & Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
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Biography
Early life
Nighy was born in Caterham in
Surrey, and attended the John Fisher School in Purley. He is the partner of
actress Diana Quick. He once asked her to marry him, but she said, "Don't ask me
again." He calls her his wife in public because "anything else would be too
difficult." They have one daughter, Mary (born 1984). He trained at the
Guildford School of Acting, formerly known as The Guildford School of Dance and
Drama.
Acting career
Nighy has starred in many radio and
television dramas, notably the BBC serial The Men's Room (1991), and more
recently the thriller State of Play (2003) and costume drama He Knew He Was
Right (2004). He played Sam in the 1981 BBC Radio dramatisation of The Lord of
the Rings (where he was credited as William Nighy), and also appeared in the
1980s BBC radio versions of Yes Minister episodes.
In 2003, he played the role of the
Vampire Elder Viktor in the American production Underworld and returned in the
same role for the sequel Underworld: Evolution in 2006.
In February 2004 he was awarded the
BAFTA Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Love Actually, and
followed this up at the British Academy Television Awards in April with the Best
Actor award for State of Play.
In early 2004 the British tabloid
press reported Nighy's partner as saying that he had been offered the coveted
role of the Doctor in the 2005 revival of the BBC television series Doctor Who.
He is alleged to have told reporters that he had considered but ultimately
rejected the offer. The editor of Doctor Who Magazine, Clayton Hickman, had
earlier mentioned to the press that Nighy was the first choice of executive
producer and writer Russell T. Davies. The role was accepted by Christopher
Eccleston some weeks later and Davies subsequently claimed that Eccleston had
always been the first choice for the role.
In 2005, he appeared as
Slartibartfast in the film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
by Douglas Adams and also in the one-off BBC One comedy-drama The Girl in the
Café.
In February 2006 he appeared in
acclaimed scriptwriter Stephen Poliakoff's one-off drama, Gideon's Daughter.
Nighy took the lead character of Gideon, a successful events organiser who
begins to lose touch with the world around him. In January 2007, Nighy received
a Golden Globe award for best performance by an actor in a mini-series or TV
Movie for Gideon's Daughter.
Nighy appears in Pirates of the
Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, where he plays the principal villain, Davy Jones.
He reprises this role in the 2007 sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's
End.
He can currently be seen on
Broadway in The Vertical Hour (a new play by David Hare), also starring Julianne
Moore.
Selected filmography
Agony (1981)
Eye of the Needle (1981)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
The Last Place on Earth (1985) (TV)
The Phantom of the Opera: The
Motion Picture (1989)
Being Human (1993)
FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
Still Crazy (1998)
Guest House Paradiso (1999)
Kiss Me Kate (1998) (TV)
Blow Dry (2001)
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries:
Well Schooled in Murder (2002) (TV)
The Lost Prince (2003) (TV)
State of Play (2003) (TV)
Love Actually (2003)
I Capture the Castle (2003)
Underworld (2003)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
He Knew He Was Right (2004) (TV)
Enduring Love (2004)
The Girl in the Café (2005)(TV)
The Magic Roundabout (2005) (voice)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy (2005)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
Man's Chest (2006)
Flushed Away (2006) (voice)
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Stormbreaker (2006)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At
World's End (2007)
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