You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons "The work was free. Keep it so.

Actor                          

Selected Works:

Theatre:

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More by Tennessee Williams - Watermill Theatre, Newbury
Landscape and Silence, by Harold Pinter - Gateway Theatre, Chester
Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton - Gateway Theatre, Chester
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard - Arts Theatre, Cambridge
The Immoralist, from the novel by André Gide - Hampstead Theatre
Speak Now, by Olwen Wymark - Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh - 1971
Freedom of the City, by Brian Friel - Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
Under New Management, by Chris Bond - Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
Illuminatus!, Ken Campbell/Chris Langham - Liverpool Science Fiction Theatre - 1975
Occupy! - Liverpool Everyman Theatre - 1976
Illuminatus!, Ken Campbell/Chris Langham - NT Cottesloe - 1977
Comings and Goings, by Mike Stott - Hampstead Theatre Club - 1978
The Warp, by Neil Oram/ Ken Campbell - ICA - 1979
Illuminations, by Peter Jenkins - Lyric Hammersmith - 1980
A Map of the World, by David Hare - NT Lyttelton - 1983
Pravda, by David Hare/ Howard Brenton - NT Olivier - 1985
King Lear, by William Shakespeare - NT Olivier - 1986
Mean Tears, by Peter Gill - NT Cottesloe - 1987
Betrayal, by Harold Pinter - Almeida Theatre, London - 1991
Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard - NT Lyttelton - 1993
The Seagull, by Anton Chekhov/ad. Pam Gems - NT Olivier - 1994
Skylight, by David Hare - NT production at Vaudeville Theatre, London - 1995/ UK tour - 1997
A Kind of Alaska, by Harold Pinter - Donmar Warehouse - 1998
Blue/Orange, by Joe Penhall - NT Cottesloe - 2000, Duchess Theatre - 2001
The Vertical Hour, by David Hare, Broadway production at the Music Box Theatre, NY - 2006

Film:

Filmography
Agony - 1981
Eye of the Needle - 1981
Curse of the Pink Panther - 1983
The Little Drummer Girl - 1984
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil - 1985
Thirteen at Dinner - 1985
The Last Place on Earth - 1985 - TV
The Phantom of the Opera: The Motion Picture - 1989
Being Human - 1993
Toy Story
FairyTale: A True Story - 1997
Still Crazy - 1998
Kiss Me Kate - 1998 - TV
Guest House Paradiso - 1999
Longitude - 2000
Blow Dry - 2001
Lawless Heart - 2001
Lucky Break - 2001
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - 2002
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Well Schooled in Murder - 2002 - TV
The Lost Prince - 2003 - TV
State of Play - 2003 - TV
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill - 2003
Love Actually - 2003
I Capture the Castle - 2003
Underworld - 2003
Shaun of the Dead - 2004
He Knew He Was Right - 2004 - TV
Enduring Love - 2004
The Girl in the Café - 2005 - TV
The Magic Roundabout - 2005 - voice
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 2005
The Constant Gardener - 2005
Underworld: Evolution - 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - 2006
Flushed Away - 2006 - voice
Notes on a Scandal - 2006
Stormbreaker - 2006
Hot Fuzz - 2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - 2007
Valkyrie - 2008
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans - 2009
The Boat That Rocked - 2009
G-Force - 2009

Radio:
I Wish to Apologise for My Part in the Apocalypse, by Duncan Macmillan of The Apathists, BBC Radio 4 - 2008
A Charles Paris Mystery: Dead Side of the Mic, dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett - 2009.                          

Mother Catherine Josephine Whittaker
Father Alfred Martin Nighy - three children - Bill, Martin and Anna.
Partner Anna Quick - one daughter Mary.                          

Has Dupuytren's Contracture, a hereditary condition which causes the ring and little fingers of each hand to be permanently bent inwards towards the palm.