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Andy Nyman

Andy Nyman

Acting

April 13, 1966 (60 years old)
Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Male
60 Movies
28 TV Shows

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.

Ghost Stories
Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories

2018 6.4

as Professor Goodman

Age 51 (now 60)
Death at a Funeral
Death at a Funeral

Death at a Funeral

2007 6.9

as Howard

Age 41 (now 60)
Shaun the Sheep
Shaun the Sheep

Shaun the Sheep

2007 7.6

as Nuts (voice)

Age 40 (now 60)
40 eps
The Commuter
The Commuter

The Commuter

2018 6.4

as Tony

Age 51 (now 60)
Jungle Cruise
Jungle Cruise

Jungle Cruise

2021 7.3

as Sir James Hobbs-Coddington

Age 55 (now 60)
Wicked
Wicked

Wicked

2024 6.9

as Governor Thropp

Age 58 (now 60)
Automata
Automata

Automata

2014 5.9

as Ellis

Age 48 (now 60)
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Shaun the Sheep Movie

Shaun the Sheep Movie

2015 7.0

as Nuts (voice)

Age 48 (now 60)
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

2019 6.9

as Nuts (voice)

Age 53 (now 60)
Despicable Me 3
Despicable Me 3

Despicable Me 3

2017 6.5

as Clive the Robot (voice)

Age 51 (now 60)
Black Death
Black Death

Black Death

2010 6.1

as Dalywag

Age 44 (now 60)
The Eichmann Show
The Eichmann Show

The Eichmann Show

2015 6.7

as David Landor

Age 48 (now 60)
Judy
Judy

Judy

2019 6.7

as Dan

Age 53 (now 60)
Severance
Severance

Severance

2006 6.3

as Gordon

Age 40 (now 60)
Peaky Blinders
Peaky Blinders

Peaky Blinders

2013 8.5

as Winston Churchill

Age 47 (now 60)
3 eps
Chuggington
Chuggington

Chuggington

2008 6.7
Age 42 (now 60)
118 eps