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Andy Nyman
Biography
Andy Nyman is an English actor and magician. Nyman first came to note with his performance as a hard nosed director in Musical! and then as Keith Whitehead in the cult film of the Martin Amis novel, Dead Babies. He has played lead roles in Jon Avnet's Emmy award winning film Uprising (NBC) as a Polish freedom fighter and in Coney Island Baby as a gay French gun dealer. In 2006, he played Gordon in the cult hit Severance. Most recently he played Patrick, a sleazy reality show producer in Charlie Brooker's E4 horror satire Dead Set, and suffers the most violent death in the series, being decapitated and disembowelled. Nyman currently has four films due for release over the next 18 months: London-based romantic comedy Are You Ready for Love?; a bio-pic of 70s Dutch rock group Herman Brood, Wild Romance; and improvised gangster thriller Played where he stars opposite Vinnie Jones, Val Kilmer and Gabriel Byrne. The film was released by Lionsgate Entertainment in 2007. Nyman appeared as one of the leads in the latest Frank Oz movie, Death at a Funeral. He stars opposite Matthew Macfadyen, Ewen Bremner, and Keeley Hawes. The movie was released by MGM in 2007. Nyman is also a magician and the co-creator and co-writer of the Derren Brown TV shows Derren Brown - Mind Control and Trick of the Mind. He and Brown wrote "Russian Roulette", "Séance", and "Messiah", as well as three series of the "Trick of the Mind" series. He also co-wrote and co-directed four of Brown's stage shows, all of which have toured and played the West End. For "Something Wicked This Way Comes" they were awarded the 2006 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment. Their fourth show Enigma was also nominated for an Olivier Award. Nyman won the award for best actor at the 2006 Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film for his role as Colin Frampton in Shut Up and Shoot Me. He was nominated for Lew Grade Award at the 2007 BAFTA Awards for his work on "Derren Brown: The Heist". He shared the nomination with fellow collaborators Derren Brown, Simon Mills, and Ben Caron. In December 2008 he appeared in BBC Four's supernatural drama series Crooked House. In February 2010 he co-wrote (with Jeremy Dyson), directed and starred in the horror play Ghost Stories. In April 2011 he starred in a new British sitcom, Campus.
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 13, 1966
Age
60 years old
Place of Birth
Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Popularity Score
1.3
Filmography
Spider Island
2026Movie
Captured Souls: In Conversation with Graham Humphreys
Self
2025Movie
Shaun the Sheep: Fleece Navidad
Nuts (voice)
2025Movie
Shaun the Sheep: Shirleyverse
Nuts (voice)
2025Movie
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Edwin Bollier
2025TV
Ghost Stories
Writer
2025Movie
Ghost Stories
Director
2025Movie
That Christmas
Mr. Beccles (voice)
2024Movie
Wicked
Governor Thropp
2024Movie
A Small Light
Hermann Van Pels
2023TV
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Self
2022Movie
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
Additional Voices (voice)
2021Movie
The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
2021Movie
Jungle Cruise
Sir James Hobbs-Coddington
2021Movie
Stars in the House
Self
2020TV
Judy
Dan
2019Movie
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Nuts (voice)
2019Movie
The Capture
Rowan Gill
2019TV
Hanna
Jacobs
2019TV
Good Omens
Writer
2019TV
Ghost Stories
Professor Goodman
2018Movie
The Commuter
Tony
2018Movie
Wanderlust
James Marcham
2018TV
Ghost Stories
Director
2018Movie
Ghost Stories
Writer
2018Movie
Ghost Stories
Theatre Play
2018Movie
Ghost Stories
Executive Producer
2018Movie
Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day
Nuts
2017Movie
Despicable Me 3
Clive the Robot (voice)
2017Movie
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Jail Guard
2017Movie
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Syd
2016Movie
Power Monkeys
Gerry
2016TV
Derren Brown: Miracle
Stage Director
2016Movie
Derren Brown: Miracle
Writer
2016Movie
The Eichmann Show
David Landor
2015Movie
Bone in the Throat
Ronnie the Rug
2015Movie
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Nuts (voice)
2015Movie
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas
Additional Voices (voice)
2015Movie
Minions
Additional Voices (voice)
2015Movie
Unforgotten
Dean Barton
2015TV
Ballot Monkeys
Gerry
2015TV
Caught on Dashcam
Narrator (voice)
2015TV
Automata
Ellis
2014Movie
Why Horror?
Self
2014Movie
Derren Brown: Infamous
Director
2014Movie
Kick-Ass 2
The Tumor
2013Movie
Peaky Blinders
Winston Churchill
2013TV
Psychobitches
Henry VIII
2013TV
Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains
Self
2012Movie
Playhouse Presents
Sarah, wife of Abraham
2012TV
The Glass Man
Martin Pyrite
2011Movie
Campus
Jonty De Wolfe
2011TV
Olly The Little White Van
Bazza
2011TV
Black Death
Dalywag
2010Movie
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
Self
2010Movie
Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb
Nuts
2010Movie
The Tournament
Tech Eddie
2009Movie
You Have Been Watching
Self
2009TV
The Brothers Bloom
Charleston
2008Movie
Dead Set
Patrick Goad
2008TV
Chuggington
2008TV
Crooked House
Nicholas Duncalfe
2008TV
Death at a Funeral
Howard
2007Movie
This Is What It Is
Chris
2007Movie
Shaun the Sheep
Nuts (voice)
2007TV
Magicians
Story
2007Movie
Severance
Gordon
2006Movie
Wild Romance
Leo Leitner
2006Movie
Are You Ready for Love?
Barry Schneider
2006Movie
Derren Brown: The Heist
Writer
2006Movie
Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Director
2006Movie
Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Writer
2006Movie
Shut Up and Shoot Me
Colin Frampton
2005Movie
Zemanovaload
Bruce Robenitz
2005Movie
Coney Island Baby
Franko
2002Movie
Uprising
Calel Wasser
2001Movie
Big Brother's Little Brother
Self
2001TV
Uprising
Calel Wasser
2001TV
Dead Babies
Keith
2000Movie
The Criminal
Forensic Scientist 1
1999Movie
Peak Practice
Rob Hallett
1993TV
Archer's Goon
Museum attendant
1992TV
Five Children and It
Baker's Boy
1991TV
The Woman in Black
Jackie
1989Movie
Birds of a Feather
John
1989TV
The Creep
Dave
—Movie
A Blue Butterfly
—Movie