Andy Nyman
Acting
Born: April 13, 1966 (age 60) · Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Highest Rated
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
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
Peaky Blinders
2013
Minions
2015
Despicable Me 3
2017
Kick-Ass 2
2013
Jungle Cruise
2021
The Commuter
2018
Wicked
2024
Good Omens
2019
Death at a Funeral
2007
Automata
2014
Shaun the Sheep Movie
2015
Photos (1)
Movies (39)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Jail Guard
Wicked
Governor Thropp
Minions
Additional Voices (voice)
Despicable Me 3
Clive the Robot (voice)
Jungle Cruise
Sir James Hobbs-Coddington
Kick-Ass 2
The Tumor
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Nuts (voice)
Automata
Ellis
The Commuter
Tony
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Nuts (voice)
That Christmas
Mr. Beccles (voice)
Death at a Funeral
Howard
Black Death
Dalywag
Spider Island
2026
Judy
Dan
The Tournament
Tech Eddie
Ghost Stories
Professor Goodman
The Brothers Bloom
Charleston
Severance
Gordon
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
Additional Voices (voice)
Uprising
Calel Wasser
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas
Additional Voices (voice)
The Eichmann Show
David Landor
The Woman in Black
Jackie
Zemanovaload
Bruce Robenitz
Bone in the Throat
Ronnie the Rug
The Criminal
Forensic Scientist 1
Dead Babies
Keith
Shaun the Sheep: Shirleyverse
Nuts (voice)
The Glass Man
Martin Pyrite
Shaun the Sheep: Fleece Navidad
Nuts (voice)
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Syd
Shut Up and Shoot Me
Colin Frampton
Wild Romance
Leo Leitner
Are You Ready for Love?
Barry Schneider
Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day
Nuts
Coney Island Baby
Franko
Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb
Nuts
The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
2021
TV Shows (24)
Peaky Blinders
Winston Churchill · 3 eps
Peak Practice
Rob Hallett · 1 eps
Peak Practice
Rob Hallet · 1 eps
Shaun the Sheep
Nuts (voice) · 40 eps
The Capture
Rowan Gill · 8 eps
Unforgotten
Dean Barton · 6 eps
Playhouse Presents
Sarah, wife of Abraham · 1 eps
Hanna
Jacobs · 3 eps
Birds of a Feather
John · 1 eps
Chuggington
118 eps
A Small Light
Hermann Van Pels · 7 eps
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Edwin Bollier · 2 eps
Dead Set
Patrick Goad · 5 eps
Wanderlust
James Marcham · 2 eps
Caught on Dashcam
Narrator (voice) · 61 eps
Psychobitches
Henry VIII · 1 eps
Crooked House
Nicholas Duncalfe · 1 eps
Olly The Little White Van
Bazza · 66 eps
Uprising
Calel Wasser · 2 eps
Campus
Jonty De Wolfe · 6 eps
Five Children and It
Baker's Boy · 1 eps
Power Monkeys
Gerry · 6 eps
Ballot Monkeys
Gerry · 5 eps
Archer's Goon
Museum attendant · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (8)
Big Brother's Little Brother
Self · 2 eps
Stars in the House
Self · 1 eps
You Have Been Watching
Self · 1 eps
Why Horror?
Self
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
Self
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Self
Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains
Self
Captured Souls: In Conversation with Graham Humphreys
Self
