Andy Nyman
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 13, 1966 (age 60)
- Birthplace
- Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
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
Filmography
The Creep
Movie · as Dave
A Blue Butterfly
Movie
Spider Island
Movie · as David
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
Movie · as Nuts (voice)
Captured Souls: In Conversation with Graham Humphreys
Movie · as Self
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
TV · as Edwin Bollier · 2 eps
That Christmas
Movie · as Mr. Beccles (voice)
Wicked
Movie · as Governor Thropp
A Small Light
TV · as Hermann Van Pels · 7 eps
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Movie · as Self
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
Movie · as Additional Voices (voice)
The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
Movie
Jungle Cruise
Movie · as Sir James Hobbs-Coddington
Stars in the House
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Judy
Movie · as Dan
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Movie · as Nuts (voice)
The Capture
TV · as Rowan Gill · 8 eps
Hanna
TV · as Jacobs · 3 eps
Ghost Stories
Movie · as Professor Goodman
The Commuter
Movie · as Tony
Wanderlust
TV · as James Marcham · 2 eps
Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day
Movie · as Nuts
Despicable Me 3
Movie · as Clive the Robot (voice)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Movie · as Jail Guard
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Movie · as Syd
Power Monkeys
TV · as Gerry · 6 eps
The Eichmann Show
Movie · as David Landor
Bone in the Throat
Movie · as Ronnie the Rug
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Movie · as Nuts (voice)
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas
Movie · as Additional Voices (voice)
Minions
Movie · as Additional Voices (voice)
Unforgotten
TV · as Dean Barton · 6 eps
Ballot Monkeys
TV · as Gerry · 5 eps
Caught on Dashcam
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 61 eps
Automata
Movie · as Ellis
Why Horror?
Movie · as Self
Kick-Ass 2
Movie · as The Tumor
Peaky Blinders
TV · as Winston Churchill · 3 eps
Psychobitches
TV · as Henry VIII · 1 ep
Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains
Movie · as Self
Playhouse Presents
TV · as Sarah, wife of Abraham · 1 ep
The Glass Man
Movie · as Martin Pyrite
Campus
TV · as Jonty De Wolfe · 6 eps
Olly The Little White Van
TV · as Bazza · 66 eps
Black Death
Movie · as Dalywag
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
Movie · as Self
Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb
Movie · as Nuts
The Brothers Bloom
Movie · as Charleston
The Tournament
Movie · as Tech Eddie
You Have Been Watching
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Dead Set
TV · as Patrick Goad · 5 eps
Chuggington
TV · 118 eps
Crooked House
TV · as Nicholas Duncalfe · 1 ep
Death at a Funeral
Movie · as Howard
This Is What It Is
Movie · as Chris
Shaun the Sheep
TV · as Nuts (voice) · 40 eps
Severance
Movie · as Gordon
Wild Romance
Movie · as Leo Leitner
Are You Ready for Love?
Movie · as Barry Schneider
Shut Up and Shoot Me
Movie · as Colin Frampton
Zemanovaload
Movie · as Bruce Robenitz
Coming Up
TV · as Leon · 1 ep
Coney Island Baby
Movie · as Franko
Uprising
Movie · as Calel Wasser
Big Brother's Little Brother
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Uprising
TV · as Calel Wasser · 2 eps
Dead Babies
Movie · as Keith
The Criminal
Movie · as Forensic Scientist 1
Peak Practice
TV · as Rob Hallett · 1 ep
Archer's Goon
TV · as Museum attendant · 1 ep
Five Children and It
TV · as Baker's Boy · 1 ep
New Voices
TV · as Jim · 1 ep
The Woman in Black
Movie · as Jackie
Birds of a Feather
TV · as John · 1 ep