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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 13, 1966
Place of Birth
Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Andy Nyman
0.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Spider Island
2026
0.0
Self
Captured Souls: In Conversation with Graham Humphreys
2025
7.2
Edwin Bollier
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
2025
7.2
Mr. Beccles (voice)
That Christmas
2024
6.9
Governor Thropp
Wicked
2024
7.9
Hermann Van Pels
A Small Light
2023
10.0
Self
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
7.0
Additional Voices (voice)
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
2021
7.3
Sir James Hobbs-Coddington
Jungle Cruise
2021
0.0
The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
2021
Credits
Spider Island
2026
0.0
Captured Souls: In Conversation with Graham Humphreys
as Self
2025
0.0
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
as Edwin Bollier
2025
7.2
That Christmas
as Mr. Beccles (voice)
2024
7.2
Wicked
as Governor Thropp
2024
6.9
A Small Light
as Hermann Van Pels
2023
7.9
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
as Self
2022
10.0
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
as Additional Voices (voice)
2021
7.0
Jungle Cruise
as Sir James Hobbs-Coddington
2021
7.3
The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
2021
0.0
Stars in the House
as Self
2020
0.0
Judy
as Dan
2019
6.7
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
as Nuts (voice)
2019
6.9
The Capture
as Rowan Gill
2019
7.8
Hanna
as Jacobs
2019
7.4
Ghost Stories
as Professor Goodman
2018
6.4
The Commuter
as Tony
2018
6.4
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Jail Guard
2017
6.8
Despicable Me 3
as Clive the Robot (voice)
2017
6.5
Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day
as Nuts
2017
0.0
Power Monkeys
as Gerry
2016
6.1
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
as Syd
2016
8.0
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas
as Additional Voices (voice)
2015
6.6
Unforgotten
as Dean Barton
2015
7.5
Caught on Dashcam
as Self - Narrator
2015
0.0
Minions
as Additional Voices (voice)
2015
6.4
Ballot Monkeys
as Gerry
2015
6.2
Bone in the Throat
as Ronnie the Rug
2015
0.0
Shaun the Sheep Movie
as Nuts (voice)
2015
7.0
The Eichmann Show
as David Landor
2015
6.6
Automata
as Ellis
2014
5.9
Why Horror?
as Self
2014
5.9
Peaky Blinders
as Winston Churchill
2013
8.5
Kick-Ass 2
as The Tumor
2013
6.4
Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains
as Self
2012
0.0
The Glass Man
as Martin Pyrite
2011
5.5
Olly The Little White Van
as Bazza
2011
10.0
Campus
as Jonty De Wolfe
2011
6.2
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
as Self
2010
6.8
Black Death
as Dalywag
2010
6.0
Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb
as Nuts
2010
0.0
You Have Been Watching
as Self
2009
7.7
The Tournament
as Tech Eddie
2009
6.0
Crooked House
as Nicholas Duncalfe
2008
6.8
Dead Set
as Patrick Goad
2008
7.2
Chuggington
2008
6.7
The Brothers Bloom
as Charleston
2008
6.6
Death at a Funeral
as Howard
2007
6.9
🎬
This Is What It Is
as Chris
2007
0.0
Are You Ready for Love?
as Barry Schneider
2006
0.0
Wild Romance
as Leo Leitner
2006
5.5
Severance
as Gordon
2006
6.3
Shut Up and Shoot Me
as Colin Frampton
2005
5.5
Zemanovaload
as Bruce Robenitz
2005
5.2
Coney Island Baby
as Franko
2002
0.0
Uprising
as Calel Wasser
2001
6.5
Uprising
as Calel Wasser
2001
0.0
Big Brother's Little Brother
as Self
2001
5.8
Dead Babies
as Keith
2000
4.7
The Criminal
as Forensic Scientist 1
1999
4.8
The League of Gentlemen
1999
7.7
Peak Practice
as Rob Hallett
1993
6.1
Peak Practice
as Rob Hallet
1993
6.1
Archer's Goon
as Museum attendant
1992
0.0
Five Children and It
as Baker's Boy
1991
5.2
The Woman in Black
as Jackie
1989
6.9
Birds of a Feather
as John
1989
6.1
🎬
The Creep
as Dave
N/A
0.0