Bill Nighy Bio: Pirate Radio Actor

release date:	Friday November 13, 2009 Tuesday April 13, 2010 (dvd/video)
genre:	Comedy
running time:	115 min.
director:	Richard Curtis
studio:	Alliance Films
producer(s):	Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan, Hilary Bevan Jones
screenplay:	Richard Curtis
cast:	Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, January Jones, Gemma Arterton
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Bill Nighy Biography

BILL NIGHY

Date of Birth: December 12, 1949

Already a critically acclaimed theater actor before he made his first television appearance with a regular role in the British series Agony from 1980 to 1981, Bill Nighy has won a number of awards and nominations, including the Best Actor award at the Barclay's Theatre Awards for David Hare's Skylight as well as the Peter Sellers Comedy Award for his role as Ray Simms in Still Crazy (1998). Born in Surrey, England, Nighy first made the transition to film with a role in Eye of the Needle (1981), starring Donald Sutherland. Other film roles include playing a doctor in Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) starring David Niven, Barton in The Phantom of the Opera (1989), Tiger in Mack the Knife (1990) starring Raul Julia and Richard Harris, and Julian in Being Human (1993) starring Robin Williams.

In 2003, he appeared as Viktor in the box office hit Underworld (2003), and appeared as an aging rock star in Love Actually (2003) opposite a slew of A-list British and American actors such as Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley, Laura Linney, Billy Bob Thornton and Emma Thompson.

In 2007 he won his first Golden Globe for his performance in the TV movie Gideon's Daughter (2005).

Nighy and his wife, British actress Diana Quick, have a daughter together.

Filmography:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (2010)
Rango (2011)
Pirate Radio (2009)
Wild Target (2009)
Astro Boy (2009) (voice)
Glorious 39 (2009)
G-Force (2009)
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
Valkyrie (2008)
Pirates of the Carribbean: At World's End (2007)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Flushed Away (2006) (voice)
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Underworld: Evolution (2006)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Enduring Love (2004)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Love Actually (2003)
Underworld (2003)
I Capture the Castle (2003)
Lucky Break (2003)
AKA (2002)
The Lawless Heart (2001)
Blow Dry (2001)
Guest House Paradiso (1999)
Still Crazy (1998)
FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
Indian Summer (1996)
True Blue (1996)
Being Human (1993)
Antonia and Jane (1991)
Mack the Knife (1990)
The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Eye of the Needle (1981)