Bill Nighy in Japan to support Oxfam leading up to G8

After his trip to Tanzania with Oxfam last year, Bill is now in Japan helping Oxfam to remind the G8 of their responsibility to tackle poverty.
You can follow the Oxfam campaigners in Japan on their blog.
Bill Nighy starred in The Girl in the Cafe (2005), a film made for TV written by Richard Curtis. Bill […]

Bill Nighy in Slapper - a short film

Chiwetel Ejiofor, excellent actor (known from Love Actually and recently American Gangster opposite Denzel Washington) has directed his first short film.
It is called Slapper, and it screens on June 24 as part of the UK Shorts programme at the Edinburgh film festival.
The Guardian has a nice article about Chiwetel’s directing debut, it’s appropiately titled
Can you […]

Bill Nighy in Astro Boy

Bill Nighy will be one of the voice actors in the upcoming CG animation feature Astro Boy.
Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist to replace the son he has lost. Unable to fulfill the grieving father’s expectations, our hero embarks on a journey in search of […]

(Nearly) New Valkyrie trailer

Variety.com has a new trailer for Valkyrie, which is scheduled for release on the 13th of February 2009. There are several Bill bits in the trailer.
Update: OK, there has been some confusion around, this is not the new trailer, but the trailer from November 2007. The truly new trailer will be available soon, if it’s […]

Radio: Bill Nighy reads Animal Farm - BBC7

BBC7 is repeating Bill reading Animal Farm from Monday.
Animal Farm
Bill Nighy reads from George Orwell’s satirical fable of a revolution which went wrong.
Monday 9th of June - Friday 13th of June at 1pm on BBC7
And on listen again, up until 7 days after the day of broadcasting.
Enjoy!

Bill Nighy to star in Wild Target

Bill Nighy will star in “Wild Target” a hitman caper that will be shot on location on the Isle of Man and in the UK later this year. The film will also star Helena Bonham Carter.
(Source: Variety)
More information as it comes available.
BBC2(tv) has just broadcasted the first 2 episodes of a new series of […]

Radio: Bill Nighy in Killing Maestros

BBC7 is repeating one of Bill’s radioplays on Thursday:
Killing Maestros
Wagner’s Tristan Und Isolde is the ‘Scottish Play’ of the opera world - jinxed with mysterious deaths. Conductor Sergei Bodanov (Bill Nighy) is convinced he will be the next to suffer. A starry cast of Bill Nighy, Henry Goodman, Lorelei King and Sylvestra La Touzel […]

Radio: Bill Nighy in Cigarettes And Chocolate

BBC Radio is going to pay tribute to Anthony Minghella, the extraordinary writer/director who unfortuntely passed away recently at a too young an age.
BBC will broadcast some of Anthony Minghella’s radioplays and there are a lot of goodies to be expected not only for Nighy fans.
Saturday 3 May at 2.30pm
Radio 4 broadcasts Anthony Minghella’s original […]

Bill Nighy - Strangers on a train (audio - 1994)

Here is a nice little Bill goody for your ears to indulge:
M Radio has a very nice older radio play with Bill Nighy for you to download:
Strangers On A Train By Patricia Highsmith
Adapted from the classic 1950 novel and the 1951 Hitchcock film.
With Anton Lesser, Michael Sheen, Saskia Reeves and Bill Nighy
Directed by Andy Jordan
Originally […]

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 […]

Valkyrie release moved to 2009

It is going to be a tough year for all Bill Nighy fans, as the release of Bill’s only film coming out this year, Valkyrie, has been moved to 2009.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists announced today they are moving the release date of Bryan Singer’s World War II thriller VALKYRIE, starring Tom Cruise, to President’s Day […]

Would you like to rock the boat?

The producers of The Boat that Rocked are currently looking for extras who want feature in the shoot of The Boat that Rocked.
The majority of the filming will take place on a boat in Portland Harbour, and street shots set in the 1960s will be filmed in Castletown.
An open casting session will be held on […]

New Valkyrie stills with Bill Nighy

Empire magazine has published some new stills from the upcoming Valkyrie, showing Bill Nighy in character with Tom Cruise and Bill out of character with, among others, director Bryan Singer.

Valkyrie will hit the cinemas on the 3rd of October 2008. Don’t miss it, it’s the only Bill Nighy film to be released in the cinema […]

Bill Bits

Bill Nighy is passionate about High Tide and is making a case of convincing the business community to support it.
There is also a tiny bit of video of Bill on the HighTide Festival website.
In the Filmography section Mack the Knife has been added to long list of Bill works. There is a short synopsis and […]

Bill Nighy, the younger years

While we are waiting for new Nighy delights to find our cinemas, the filmography section has just been updated with a still and information about some of Bill’s older works. Click on the thumbnails above to go to the new pages directly, or wander through the long list of Bill’s work here.
Newly added:

Alive and Kicking
Absolute […]