Nighy has twice won the Evening Standard's Peter Sellers Award for Best Comedy Performance: in 1998's hit ensemble comedy Still Crazy and in 2004 for Love, Actually. He also received the Los Angeles Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor in I Capture the Castle, Love, Actually, AKA and The Lawless Heart.His work in Peter Cattaneo's Lucky Break brought him a Best Supporting Actor nomination from the British Independent Film Awards, as did his chilling performance in Fernando Mireilles' The Constant Gardener in 2005.
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In the same year, he won a BAFTA Best Actor TV Award for the series State of Play. This performance won him a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He appeared in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and David Hare's Skylight and Blue/Orange at the National Theatre, and he played the role of Sam Gamgee in the original BBC radio production of The Lord of the Rings.īill Nighy delighted international audiences with his scene-stealing turn as aging rocker Billy Mack in Richard Curtis' Love, Actually, which also starred Nighy's future Pirates of the Caribbean co-star Keira Knightley. Originally determined to become a journalist, he switched careers after he trained at the Guildford School of Dance and Drama, soon winning roles on stage, screen and radio. Of part Irish descent, Nighy was brought up as a Roman Catholic, serving as an altar boy. His mother, Catherine Josephine Nighy (née Whittaker), was a psychiatric nurse who was born in Glasgow, and his father, Alfred Martin Nighy, managed a car garage after working in the family chimney sweeping business. Nighy was born in Caterham, Surrey, England. 1.3.2.1 Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean.Bill Nighy portrayed Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean film sequels Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, as well as the Disneyland ride and the Disney Infinity video game. His performances were also acclaimed in the State of Play series and in the TV films The Girl in the Café, Gideon's Daughter and Page Eight, for which he earned Golden Globe nominations, winning one for Gideon's Daughter. He was also known for his roles in the films Lawless Heart, I Capture the Castle, Shaun of the Dead, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hot Fuzz, Valkyrie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Rango and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. His other notable role in cinema include his portrayal of Viktor in the Underworld film series. Nighy became known around the world in 2003 for his critically acclaimed performance as aging rocker Billy Mack in Love Actually. Mark Carleton, whose extra-marital affairs kept him "vital".
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 womaniser Prof. William Francis Nighy (born December 12, 1949), better known as Bill Nighy, is an English actor and comedian. You know, we asked him to wear the unsettling computer gray 'pajamas' on set, and we couldn't really show him what it was going to look like when it was done, but he dove right in there and delivered these great performances, created an amazing character and gave us fantastic material to work with." ― John Knoll That was a really great partnership with Bill Nighy, who gave a fantastic performance on set, and all that without any real proof of concept. of all three pictures, probably the most fun aspect of any of them has been our involvement in the creation of Davy Jones.
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