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person_profile-Andy Nyman

Andy Nyman Age: 58

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Andy Nyman

Date of Birth:

Apr 13, 1966

Country of birth:

UK

Biography of

Andy Nyman

    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.

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Filmography of

Andy Nyman

Found 38 Movies in total

That Christmas

(voice) ( Actor )

... 2024

Wicked

Governor Thropp ( Actor )

... 2024

... 2022

Jungle Cruise

Sir James Hobbs-Coddington ( Actor )

... 2021

... 2021

Judy

Dan ( Actor )

... 2019

... 2019

Ghost Stories

Professor Goodman ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2018

The Commuter

Tony ( Actor )

... 2018

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Jail Guard ( Actor )

... 2017

Despicable Me 3

Clive the Robot (voice) ( Actor )

... 2017

... 2017

... 2016

Minions

Additional Voices (voice) ( Actor )

... 2015

Bone in the Throat

Ronnie the Rug ( Actor )

... 2015

Shaun the Sheep Movie

Nuts (voice) ( Actor )

... 2015

The Eichmann Show

David Landor ( Actor )

... 2015

Automata

Ellis ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2014

Kick-Ass 2

The Tumor ( Actor )

... 2013

... 2012

The Glass Man

Martin Pyrite ( Actor )

... 2011

... 2010

Black Death

Dalywag ( Actor )

... 2010

... 2010

The Tournament

Tech Eddie ( Actor )

... 2009

The Brothers Bloom

Charleston ( Actor )

... 2008

Death at a Funeral

Howard ( Actor )

... 2007

... 2006

Wild Romance

Leo Leitner ( Actor )

... 2006

Severance

Gordon ( Actor )

... 2006

Shut Up and Shoot Me

Colin Frampton ( Actor )

... 2005

Coney Island Baby

Franko ( Actor )

... 2002

Uprising

Calel Wasser ( Actor )

... 2001

... 2000

The Criminal

Forensic Scientist 1 ( Actor )

... 1999

The Woman in Black

Jackie ( Actor )

... 1989