More Bill Nighy - the younger years

Another update in the filmography section:

Bill Nighy - Oliver Latham in Unnatural Causes
Bill Nighy as Alan Sinclair in Peak Practise: Growing Pains
Bill Nighy as Roger Maitland in Performance: The Maitlands
Bill Nighy as David Cleeve in Wycliffe: The Four Jacks
A big thank you to you know who you are!
And if you hadn’t noticed yet, there is […]

Do the doodle. Bill Nighy did!

Bill Nighy doodle 2008 (used with permission of NDD)
It’s doodle time again, The National Doodle day is coming up and celebrities have been doodling like crazy. Bill Nighy contributed with another one of his masterpieces too.
There is much more Doodle reading on the National Doodle Day website
You can vote for Bill’s doodle there (with your […]

Happy Birthday to Bill Nighy

Everybody’s favourite actor is celebrating his 58th birthday today. And with a new G-Force, the Underworld prequel and a role in the new Richard Curtis The boat that rocked it seems that there are a lot of Nighy delights waiting for us.
Happy Birthday Bill!
A couple of new images have been added to the filmography section. […]

Bill Nighy supports RSPCA’s firework campaign

Bill supports the RSPCA’s firework campaign that should make people aware of the distress fireworks causes to animals. With Bonfire Night coming up in the UK this weekend this seems an important issue.
In a new radio ad, David Schneider is trying to put earplugs in his cat’s ears to protect it from firework noise. Bill […]

Bill Nighy about Coping Strategies

The Guardian has more information about Coping Strategies, and a lovely and passionate interview (audio) with everybody’s favourite actor.
Hear Bill about wearing “a very bad jumper”, about working alongside people with learning disabilities and the effect of doing plays or film on people with those difficulties.
Read the article on the Guardian.
Hear Bill talking about the […]

Bill Nighy is pushing the envelope

“Snow snored, like a big dog, all over town”
(Click the image for a larger version of Bill’s work)
Bill Nighy has again created one of his artistic masterpieces for the Pushing The Envelope charity auction.
Bill Nighy and a host of other celebrities have been using their creativity to design envelopes and raise money for the National […]

Bill Nighy all tied up

From the Telegraph:
A recent convert to the tie is Bill Nighy, the star of Pirates of the Caribbean, Love Actually and Notes on A Scandal.
“I never used to wear a tie when I was younger because you never got the girl if you did,” he said. “But I have just taken up ties because its […]

Bill Nighy: His tentacles can reach for any role

“It is quite something that he has an emotional journey,” Nighy says. “I almost get a love scene, and for a squid that’s very good.”
Nighy glibly points out he also costarred in last year’s Notes On A Scandal, another against-Davy-Jones-type part. “I got to play a regular person with trousers and shoes in a movie,” […]

Bill Nighy interview at moviehole.net

The most interesting part of the interview are clearly his thoughts about writing a book:
“Now I’ve reached an age where people start to ask you that and I have been asked, I don’t know, a dozen times if I’ll write a book. I was actually asked the other day if I would sit down with […]

Bill Nighy in the magazines

Harper’s Bazaar has a nice interview with and even nicer pictures of Bill Nighy in May’s edition.
Here is a Nighy classic from that interview:
“I’m not famous for holiday-making. I don’t really understand it,” he says. “Apparently, it is now compulsory to wear shorts – and yet there are only three people in the world who […]

Interview with Bill Nighy, about nearly everything

Pirates III, Notes on a Scandal, Hot Fuzz, Lawless Heart, Enduring Love, Still Crazy you name it, it’s in there.
C: It’s funny you say that–and I don’t want to get into a discussion of process necessarily–but you do endow your characters with a physicality that I’m really not used to seeing. Like in THE […]

The Australian: Second billing brings actor to the fore

The Australian has a nice interview with Bill Nighy about Notes on a Scandal, and acting in general.
Nighy is a joker, and relentlessly self-deprecating. What he does as an actor is not rocket science, he says.
“It is really only pretending, like you did when you were a kid,” he says. “You don’t go into an […]

More Bill Nighy on the radio

KCRW radio program The Business has a 7 minute interview with Bill Nighy about his career, Pirates.
Tune in, and hear it here.

Bill Nighy on Charlie Rose - the full hour

It’s here, the full hour of Bills interview with Charlie Rose is now available on Google video : An Hour with Bill Nighy.
Make a cup of Yorkshire tea, sit down and indulge.
The official site for Notes on a Scandal has another extra film clip with Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy about filming Notes.
(Hat tip to […]

More Nighy News on Notes and The Vertical Hour

A shortish interview with Bill Nighy about Pirates and Notes on a Scandal in Dailynews.
About playing Richard in Notes on a Scandal:
“When we shot the scene where I confront her with the affair, I hit a level of anger I’m not accustomed to reaching for.”
WNYC has a wonderful audio interview with Bill Nighy about Notes […]