Andy Nyman

Born: 1966-04-13

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.


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as Governor Thropp
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Despicable Me 3

as Clive the Robot (voice)
Released: 2017-06-15

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Kick-Ass 2

as The Tumor
Released: 2013-07-17

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Jungle Cruise

as Sir James Hobbs-Coddington
Released: 2021-07-28

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Minions

as Additional Voices (voice)
Released: 2015-06-17

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Automata

as Ellis
Released: 2014-10-09

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as Nuts (voice)
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A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

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The Commuter

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Black Death

as Dalywag
Released: 2010-06-07

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Released: 2024-11-27

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Severance

as Gordon
Released: 2006-05-19

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Ghost Stories

as Professor Goodman
Released: 2018-01-20

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Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas

as Additional Voices (voice)
Released: 2021-12-03

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The Tournament

as Tech Eddie
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as Jackie
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Judy

as Dan
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The Brothers Bloom

as Charleston
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The Eichmann Show

as David Landor
Released: 2015-01-20

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Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas

as Additional Voices (voice)
Released: 2015-11-13

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Uprising

as Calel Wasser
Released: 2001-11-04

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

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Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

as Self
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Wild Romance

as Leo Leitner
Released: 2006-11-09

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Dead Babies

as uncredited
Released: 2000-09-07

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as Self
Released: 2014-10-03

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Bone in the Throat

as Ronnie the Rug
Released: 2015-03-16

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The Criminal

as Forensic Scientist 1
Released: 1999-10-01

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National Theatre Live: Hangmen

as Syd
Released: 2016-03-03

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David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

as Self
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Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains

as Self
Released: 2012-10-31

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Coney Island Baby

as Franko
Released: 2002-07-13

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Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb

as Nuts
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The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading

as uncredited
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Are You Ready for Love?

as Barry Schneider
Released: 2006-12-09

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Shut Up and Shoot Me

as Colin Frampton
Released: 2005-12-01

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The Glass Man

as Martin Pyrite
Released: 2011-08-26

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as Nuts
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Peaky Blinders

as Winston Churchill
First aired: 2013-09-12

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Birds of a Feather

as John
First aired: 1989-10-16

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Peak Practice

as Rob Hallett
First aired: 1993-05-10

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Peak Practice

as Rob Hallet
First aired: 1993-05-10

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...

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Hanna

as Jacobs
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as Dean Barton
First aired: 2015-10-08

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Big Brother's Little Brother

as Self
First aired: 2001-05-29

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Chuggington

as uncredited
First aired: 2008-09-29

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as Rowan Gill
First aired: 2019-09-03

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as Self
First aired: 2020-03-16

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as Hermann Van Pels
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The League of Gentlemen

as uncredited
First aired: 1999-01-11

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Dead Set

as Patrick
First aired: 2008-10-27

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as Self
First aired: 2009-07-07

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as Self - Narrator
First aired: 2015-09-30

Buckle up and watch spectacular, dangerous, but sometimes hilarious traffic situations captured...

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Olly The Little White Van

as Bazza
First aired: 2011-06-26

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Ballot Monkeys

as Gerry
First aired: 2015-04-21

Political comedy set on the campaign buses of the main parties as they battle their way through...

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Campus

as Jonty De Wolfe
First aired: 2011-04-05

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Crooked House

as uncredited
First aired: 2008-12-22

A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost...

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Crooked House

as Duncalfe
First aired: 2008-12-22

A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost...

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Power Monkeys

as Gerry
First aired: 2016-06-08

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as Edwin Bollier
First aired: 2025-01-02

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