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8 March 2006
The Times has a short interview with Bill Nighy about his music taste. And yes they are all there : The Stones, Bob Dylan and Freaky Realistic.
Read the article over at the Times.
Bill Nighy will also attend the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival this year. This short film festival will be held from the 29th of [...]
23 February 2006
Bill Nighy is also narrating the new BBC 2 Docudrama The Armstrongs.
Meet the Armstrongs, the husband and wife business team that make the Borgias look like the Flumps.
Hilarious fly-on-the-wall series about a double-glazing firm run by husband and wife team John and Ann Armstrong, whose stream of priceless quotes make this essential viewing for the [...]
22 February 2006
For the very true Bill Nighy nerds among you : you can hear Bill doing several Vodaphone commercials on Capital Radio London at the moment.Capital Radio can be heard over the internet, so turn on, tune in and cop out – and enjoy that voice.
19 February 2006
Three years ago, Bill Nighy was just another jobbing actor. Now he’s a national pin-up and a rising Hollywood star. And he just can’t believe his luck.
But he is at a loss to explain his recent sky-rocketing fortunes. “The odds are against it, aren’t they?” says Nighy, pushing his thick-rimmed glasses back up on to [...]
8 February 2006
The official site for Flushed Away has been launched, and even though the site doesn’t really contain much yet, it contains a very cool Sneak Peek trailer. The Sneak Peek contains clips from the upcoming film, and short clips with the makers of the film. And yes, you can hear Bill Nighy, as Whitey the [...]
11 January 2006
Animal Planet, or rather Oxford Scientific are working on a second series of the very succesful Meerkat Manor. The second series will premiere later this year on Animal Planet throughout Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
And yes, the series, will be narrated by Bill Nighy again. This is good news for all [...]
8 January 2006
Bill Nighy – Davy Jones – Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead man’s chest (click the image for even more tentacles!)
The people over at chud.com have a very nice closeup picture of Davy Jones. And the eyes are the only way to recognize Bill Nighy in this picture. Bill also seems to have a crab [...]
8 January 2006
The Constant Gardener website has some information about the upcoming The Constant Gardener DVD. The DVD will be available in Europe on the 13th of March 2006.
As extra material they mention:
* Deleted Scenes
* Extended Scene: Haruma – Play in Kibera
* Embracing Africa: Filming in Kenya
* John Le Carre: From Page to the Screen
* Anatomy [...]
14 December 2005
Bill Nighy and Kelly MacDonald in the Girl In The Cafe
Bill Nighy is nominated for a Golden Globe for “Best Actor In a Mini-Series Or a Movie For TV” for his astonishing performance in the Girl In the Cafe.
Kelly MacDonald is nominated too, for Best Actress, in the same film.
Needless to say that there only [...]
1 December 2005
The Constant Gardener was the night’s big winner taking the BIFA (British Independent Film Awards) awards for Best Film, Best Actor(Ralph Fiennes) and Best Actress( Rachel Weisz). Unfortunately not a personal price for Bill Nighy (who was nominated Best supporting role), but he might be quite satisfied with the amount of prizes for this [...]
26 October 2005
After praise from nearly all critics Bill Nighy is now also nominated for a British Independent Film Award as Best Supporting Actor for his role as Sir Bernard Pelligrin in The Constant Gardener.
The Constant Gardener is nominated for no less than 7 awards, and is also nominated as Best British Film. Ralph Fiennes is nominated [...]
12 October 2005
“Actor John Noble, who played Lord Denethor, the steward of Gondor, in the hit film Lord of the Rings, is in Cardiff for the next few days, preparing for a new Welsh film in which he will play one of the leading parts.
John’s daugher Sam will also be in the film, which is being directed [...]
4 October 2005
Leeds-based pop-rockers Kaiser Chiefs are to release a DVD just in time for Christmas. The DVD will include footages from Kaiser Chief concerts, video clips and the history of the 5 members of Kaiser Chiefs.
The DVD called “Enjoyment” will hit the shops in the end of november.
It’ll run to some 90 minutes and feature [...]
28 September 2005
Should you be interested, Bill Nighy’s artwork is now for sale on QXL. (Current price 465 GBP but that will probably go even more up).
Money raised on this charity auction will go to Tsunami victims.
22 September 2005
The first pictures of Bill Nighy on the set of Stormbreaker are floating on the internet.
And from the character description of the book:
“Grey suit, grey hair, grey lips and grey eyes. Wears square gun-metal/steel-rimmed spectacles with thick lenses.”
Seems like Bill Nighy is a perfect match, classy, grey hair and a moustache. Is this man [...]