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Bill Nighy is due to swap the stage for a shift volunteering at a charity book shop.
The film star is one of a number of celebrities and authors including Alexei Sayle, Monica Ali, Joanna Trollope and Philip Pullman who will work behind the counter in Oxfam stores.
They are launching the first annual Oxfam Bookfest [...]
The incredibly cool and razorsharp dressed Bill Nighy is one of the actors supporting Comic Relief urging actors to donate a part of their earnings for the first three months of 2009 to Comic Relief.
Watch the BBC ‘Taking on the Tough Stuff’ Comic Relief video featuring James McAvoy and Bill Nighy:
(If the video is [...]
Reminder: Remember to listen to the brand new Charles Paris on BBC4. You can still hear episode one on BBC4 listen again and the next three episodes will be aired on the next three Wednesdays.
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Scarlett Johansson, Sir David Attenborough, Bill Nighy, and Ian McEwan are among 19 global figures to join Oxfam in an urgent [...]
BBC7 broadcasts another radioplay with Bill Nighy:
No Commitments, Series 7
Victoria and Anna talk about a lack of contact from Charlotte. Meanwhile, Roger has lost his libido.
Rosemary Leach, Celia Imrie, Angela Thorne and Bill Nighy (as Roger) star in Simon Brett’s sitcom.
It was first broadcast on Radio 4 in January 2001.
This is the first episode of [...]
The community channel has run a theme week about Disabilty showing programs and films related to this subject. They have also shown Coping Strategies in which Bill makes a brief appearance.
‘Coping Strategies’, a 26-minute black comedy film about a young man with learning disabilities, produced by Yarrow Housing Organisation’s Moment by Moment Theatre group.
The [...]
The Independent has an article about “the rise of the silver swingers” and made a list of the men they think are “Groovy Old Men”.
Now Bill is surely one of the youngest on the list (which also includes men like David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and Gabriel Byrne) but there is no doubt that he is [...]
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 [...]
If you live in the UK, tune in to ITV1 tonight, and watch Love, Actually. If not, find your DVD, plug it into your player and enjoy the Christmas film of all Christmas films.
Merry Christmas to all of you out there!
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 will present an award at the annual BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on the 1st of November.
At the event Denzel Washington will be given the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film, and Kate Winslet will be given the Brittania Award for British Artist of the Year.
BAFTA/LA, founded in [...]
Bill Nighy is backing Starlight’s Donate-a-disc initiative.
Starlight is a charity that brightens the lives of seriously and terminally ill children by granting their wishes and providing hospital entertainment to help take their minds off the pain, fear and isolation of their illness.
The Donate-a-disc initiative wants you to hand in your old DVD’s and console games [...]
As you can see: this site has had a bit of a redesign as it was time for a new suit. Things have been moved around a bit but hopefully everything will still be easy to find.
If there are things not working as they should or if you have ideas to make it even better, [...]
“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 [...]
There is an 8 minute clip on youtube of Bill Nighy talking to Sir David Frost about his trip to Tanzania with Oxfam, explaining why he thinks that AID is not only neccesary, it also has had some great results on the places he has visited.
The program (Frost over the World, a BBC breakfast program) [...]
The BBC Radio 4 has a very interesting interview with Bill Nighy about his trip to Tanzania with Oxfam where he tells about his experience and his thoughts about how aid really helps. At the other side of the table, so to speak, sits Paul Collier former Director of the World Bank.
Listen to the [...]
I don't know my credit card number. - It's on your credit card, Ray. 
Bill will read Dracula!
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