Andy Nyman

Andy Nyman

Birthdate
April 13, 1966 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Known For
Acting

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Birthdate
April 13, 1966 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Known For
Acting

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.

Andy Nyman's LGBTQ+ Titles

Judy
Judy
Dan

Acting (62)

2025
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth as Edwin Bollier (5 episodes)
2024
That Christmas as Mr. Beccles (voice)
2024
Wicked as Governor Thropp
2023
A Small Light as Hermann Van Pels (7 episodes)
2022
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
2021
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas as Additional Voices (voice)
2021
Jungle Cruise as Sir James Hobbs-Coddington
2021
The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
2020
Stars in the House as Self (1 episode)
2019
Judy as Dan
2019
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon as Nuts (voice)
2019
The Capture as Rowan Gill (6 episodes)
2019
Hanna as Jacobs (1 episode)
2018
Ghost Stories as Professor Goodman
2018
The Commuter as Tony
2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi as Jail Guard
2017
Despicable Me 3 as Clive the Robot (voice)
2017
Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day as Nuts
2016
Power Monkeys as Gerry (6 episodes)
2016
National Theatre Live: Hangmen as Syd
2015
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas as Additional Voices (voice)
2015
Unforgotten as Dean Barton (6 episodes)
2015
Caught on Dashcam as Self - Narrator (42 episodes)
2015
Minions as Additional Voices (voice)
2015
Ballot Monkeys as Gerry (5 episodes)
2015
Bone in the Throat as Ronnie the Rug
2015
Shaun the Sheep Movie as Nuts (voice)
2015
The Eichmann Show as David Landor
2014
Automata as Ellis
2014
Why Horror? as Self
2013
Peaky Blinders as Winston Churchill (3 episodes)
2013
Kick-Ass 2 as The Tumor
2012
Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains as Self
2011
The Glass Man as Martin Pyrite
2011
Olly The Little White Van as Bazza (66 episodes)
2011
Campus as Jonty De Wolfe (6 episodes)
2010
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape as Self
2010
Black Death as Dalywag
2010
Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb as Nuts
2009
You Have Been Watching as Self (1 episode)
2009
The Tournament as Tech Eddie
2008
Crooked House (1 episode)
2008
Crooked House as Duncalfe (3 episodes)
2008
Dead Set as Patrick (5 episodes)
2008
Chuggington (118 episodes)
2008
The Brothers Bloom as Charleston
2007
Death at a Funeral as Howard
2007
This Is What It Is as Chris
2006
Are You Ready for Love? as Barry Schneider
2006
Wild Romance as Leo Leitner
2006
Severance as Gordon
2005
Shut Up and Shoot Me as Colin Frampton
2002
Coney Island Baby as Franko
2001
Uprising as Calel Wasser
2001
Big Brother's Little Brother as Self (2 episodes)
2000
Dead Babies
1999
The Criminal as Forensic Scientist 1
1999
The League of Gentlemen (1 episode)
1993
Peak Practice as Rob Hallet (1 episode)
1993
Peak Practice as Rob Hallett (1 episode)
1989
The Woman in Black as Jackie
1989
Birds of a Feather as John (1 episode)

Directing (3)

2018
Ghost Stories • Director
• Director
2016
Derren Brown: Miracle • Stage Director
• Stage Director
2014
Derren Brown: Infamous • Director
• Director

Production (1)

2018
Ghost Stories • Executive Producer
• Executive Producer

Writing (6)

2019
Good Omens • Writer (1 episode)
• Writer (1 episode)
2018
Ghost Stories
• Theatre Play
• Writer
2016
Derren Brown: Miracle • Writer
• Writer
2007
Magicians • Story
• Story
2006
Derren Brown: The Heist • Writer
• Writer