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Bill Nighy. Actor: Love Actually. Bill Nighy is an award-winning British character actor. He was born William Francis Nighy on December 12, 1949 in Caterham, Surrey, England, to Catherine Josephine (Whittaker), a psychiatric nurse from Glasgow, and Alfred Martin Nighy, who was English-born and managed a garage in Croydon.
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William Francis Nighy (/ naɪ /; [ 1 ] born 12 December 1949) is a British actor. Known for his work in numerous stage, television and film productions, he has received several awards including a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award, and also has had nominations for an Academy Award, a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.
Nationality. Scottish. Davy Jones is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series based upon the legendary character of the same name. He is portrayed through motion capture by Bill Nighy and voiced by Nighy and Robin Atkin Downes. In the movie franchise, he is first mentioned in the film The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003 ...
Sep 7, 2020 · Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales saw the return of Davy Jones in a post-credits scene, but he's not played by his usual actor Bill Nighy. Based on the nautical legend and teased in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Nighy first appeared as Jones - under a sea of CGI - in the second installment, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
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William Francis Nighy (born December 12, 1949), better known as Bill Nighy, is an English actor and comedian. He worked in theatre and television before his first cinema role in 1981, and made his name in television with The Men's Room in 1991, in which he played the womaniser Prof. Mark Carleton, whose extra-marital affairs kept him "vital". Nighy became known around the world in 2003 for his ...
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Jul 12, 2006 · Two words: Bill Nighy. He's the deliciously dry English actor who played an over-the-hill pop star so memorably in Love, Actually, and Pirates director Gore Verbinski believed Nighy could bring ...
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Aug 4, 2022 · Nighy's turn as the once-mortal buccaneer in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films — warped into a twisted cross between an octopus, a human, and a crab by his years of servitude as captain of ...
