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Andy Nyman is an English actor and magician.
2015
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.
Gender
Male
Birthday
April 13, 1966
Birthplace
Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Wicked
2024
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
Are You Ready for Love?
2006
Bone in the Throat
2015
The Glass Man
2011
Black Death
2010
Despicable Me 3
2017
Jungle Cruise
2021
Shaun the Sheep Movie
2015
Minions
2015
Judy
2019
Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day
2017
Kick-Ass 2
2013
Automata
2014
That Christmas
2024
The Criminal
1999
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
2016
Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb
2010
The Commuter
2018
Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains
2012
+ 24 more movies
Peaky Blinders
2013
Peak Practice
1993
Peak Practice
1993
Unforgotten
2015
Big Brother's Little Brother
2001
Stars in the House
2020
Hanna
2019
The Capture
2019
Birds of a Feather
1989
Chuggington
2008
A Small Light
2023
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
2025
The League of Gentlemen
1999
Dead Set
2008
Olly The Little White Van
2011
Power Monkeys
2016
Crooked House
2008
Archer's Goon
1992
Five Children and It
1991
You Have Been Watching
2009
+ 4 more TV shows