Nick Cave

Nick Cave

Known for
Acting
Born
September 22, 1957 (age 69)
Birthplace
Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia

Biography

Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and film actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He has appeared in some 15 feature films and video shorts, plus a heap of documentaries. Nick Cave has also composed a large number of scores, some of them with his musical partner Warren Ellis.

Known For

Photos

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Filmography

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996 poster

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996

Movie · as self

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998) poster

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998)

Movie · as Self

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Before They Were Gods poster

Before They Were Gods

Movie · as (voice)

2026
Broken English poster

Broken English

Movie · as Self

2026
Kylie poster

Kylie

TV · as Self · 2 eps

2025
The Extraordinary Miss Flower poster

The Extraordinary Miss Flower

Movie · as Self

2025
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour poster

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour

Movie · as Self

2025
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert poster

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert

Movie · as Self

2025
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough poster

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

Movie · as Narrator

2025
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende poster

Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende

Movie · as Self

2024
Memoir of a Snail poster

Memoir of a Snail

Movie · as Bill Clarke (voice)

2024
The Making of Wild God poster

The Making of Wild God

Movie · as Nick Cave

2024
But We Had Music poster

But We Had Music

Movie · as (Voice)

2023
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party poster

Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party

Movie · as Self

2023
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex poster

AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex

Movie · as Self

2023
Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock poster

Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock

Movie · as Self

2023
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh poster

Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh

Movie · as Self

2022
This Much I Know to Be True poster

This Much I Know to Be True

Movie · as Self

2022
Kylie at the BBC poster

Kylie at the BBC

Movie · as Self

2022
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022 poster

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022

Movie

2021
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain poster

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Movie · as H.G. Wells

2021
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time poster

Karen Dalton: In My Own Time

Movie · as Self

2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel poster

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel

Movie · as Self

2020
The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal poster

The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal

Movie · as Mr. Invisible

2020
Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later poster

Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later

Movie · as Self

2020
Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace poster

Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace

Movie · as Self

2020
FeeLee. History of a Single Label poster

FeeLee. History of a Single Label

Movie · as Self

2020
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments

Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments

TV · as Self - Guest (archive footage) · 1 ep

2019
The Creative Brain poster

The Creative Brain

Movie · as Self

2019
Love Eats Up Life poster

Love Eats Up Life

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2018
Fuse poster

Fuse

Movie · as Truck Driver (voice)

2018
Distant Sky poster

Distant Sky

Movie · as Self

2018
Why Are We Creative? poster

Why Are We Creative?

Movie · as Self

2018
TAPE poster

TAPE

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2017
L7: Pretend We're Dead poster

L7: Pretend We're Dead

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2017
Boredom poster

Boredom

Movie · as Self

2017
Do You Pray? poster

Do You Pray?

Movie · as Narrator

2017
Snowman poster

Snowman

Movie · as Narrator

2017
Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds poster

Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Movie · as Self

2017
Popular Voices at the BBC poster

Popular Voices at the BBC

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 3 eps

2016
One More Time with Feeling poster

One More Time with Feeling

Movie · as Self

2016
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez poster

The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez

Movie · as Self

2015
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 poster

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

Movie · as Self

2015
Prophet's Prey poster

Prophet's Prey

Movie · as Narrator

2015
Wilde Jahre West-Berlin poster

Wilde Jahre West-Berlin

Movie · as Self

2015
Stranded poster

Stranded

Movie · as Self

2015
Artsnight

Artsnight

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert poster

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2014
Goth at the BBC poster

Goth at the BBC

Movie · as Self

2014
20,000 Days on Earth poster

20,000 Days on Earth

Movie · as Self

2014
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits poster

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits

Movie · as Self

2013
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre poster

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre

Movie · as Self

2011
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard poster

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

Movie · as Self

2009
The Cat Piano poster

The Cat Piano

Movie · as Narrator

2009
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

Movie · as Self

2009
All Tomorrow's Parties poster

All Tomorrow's Parties

Movie · as Self

2009
On/Off: Mark Stewart poster

On/Off: Mark Stewart

Movie

2009
Number One!

Number One!

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2008
Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues poster

Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues

Movie · as Self

2008
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions poster

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions

Movie · as Self

2008
Blixa Bargeld poster

Blixa Bargeld

Movie · as Self

2008
Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party poster

Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party

Movie · as Self

2008
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008 poster

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008

Movie · as Self

2008
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

Movie · as Self

2007
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House poster

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House

Movie · as Self

2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford poster

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Movie · as Bowery Saloon Singer

2007
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour poster

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour

Movie · as Self - vocals, piano

2007
365 Day Project poster

365 Day Project

Movie · as Self

2007
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music poster

The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

Movie · as Self

2007
The Dirty Three poster

The Dirty Three

Movie · as Self

2007
Pixote In Memoriam poster

Pixote In Memoriam

Movie · as Self

2006
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man poster

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

Movie · as Self

2006
The Harry Smith Project Live poster

The Harry Smith Project Live

Movie · as Self

2005
The Work of Director Anton Corbijn poster

The Work of Director Anton Corbijn

Movie · as Self (segment "Straight to You")

2005
The Story of 'Fairytale of New York' poster

The Story of 'Fairytale of New York'

Movie · as Self

2005
Seele Brennt poster

Seele Brennt

Movie · as Nick Cave

2004
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Movie · as Self

2004
Hoping For Palestine poster

Hoping For Palestine

Movie

2003
The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn poster

The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn

Movie · as Self

2003
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama

Movie · as Self

2003
The Blues poster

The Blues

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2001
If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story poster

If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story

Movie · as Self

2001
Listen With Pain

Listen With Pain

Movie · as Self

2001
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part

Movie · as Self

2001
Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten poster

Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten

Movie

2001
No More Shall We Part: The Recording Sessions

No More Shall We Part: The Recording Sessions

Movie · as Himself

1998
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos poster

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos

Movie · as Self

1997
The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan poster

The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan

Movie · as Self

1997
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest poster

Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest

Movie · as Jerry

1997
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call

Movie · as Self

1996
Baby Trouble Hole poster

Baby Trouble Hole

Movie · as Singer

1996
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads

Movie · as Self

1996
Australian Story poster

Australian Story

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1994
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill poster

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill

Movie · as Self

1994
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos poster

Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

Movie · as Self

1994
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait poster

Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait

Movie · as Self

1994
Die Haut - Sweat poster

Die Haut - Sweat

Movie · as Self

1994
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In

Movie · as Self

1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien poster

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

TV · as Self - Musical Guest · 1 ep

1992
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso poster

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso

Movie · as Self

1992
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream

Movie · as Self

1992
Later... with Jools Holland poster

Later... with Jools Holland

TV · 9 eps

1991
Johnny Suede poster

Johnny Suede

Movie · as Freak Storm

1991
IDn4 poster

IDn4

Movie · as Self

1991
The Song poster

The Song

Movie · as Self

1990
The Road to God Knows Where poster

The Road to God Knows Where

Movie · as Self

1990
IDn2 poster

IDn2

Movie · as Entry

1990
IDn3 poster

IDn3

Movie · as Self

1990
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son

Movie · as Self

1988
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead poster

Ghosts... of the Civil Dead

Movie · as Maynard

1988
Dandy poster

Dandy

Movie

1988
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey

Movie · as Self

1987
Wings of Desire poster

Wings of Desire

Movie · as Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

1987
Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land poster

Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land

Movie · as Self

1987
Kings of Independence poster

Kings of Independence

Movie · as Self

1986
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks

Movie · as Self

1986
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial

Movie · as Self

1985
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead

Movie · as Self

1984
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity

Movie · as Self

1978
The South Bank Show poster

The South Bank Show

TV · 1 ep

1953
The Oscars poster

The Oscars

TV · as Self · 1 ep