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Andy Nyman

Andy Nyman

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.

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth

2025

as Edwin Bollier

That Christmas

2024

as Mr. Beccles (voice)

Wicked

2024

as Governor Frexspar Thropp

A Small Light

2023

as Hermann Van Pels

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

2022

as Self

Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas

2021

as Additional Voices (voice)

Jungle Cruise

2021

as Sir James Hobbs-Coddington

The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading

2021

Stars in the House

2020

as Self

Judy

2019

as Dan

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

2019

as Nuts (voice)

The Capture

2019

as Rowan Gill

Hanna

2019

as Jacobs

Ghost Stories

2018

as Professor Goodman

The Commuter

2018

as Tony

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

2017

as Jail Guard

Despicable Me 3

2017

as Clive the Robot (voice)

Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day

2017

as Nuts

Power Monkeys

2016

as Gerry

National Theatre Live: Hangmen

2016

as Syd

Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas

2015

as Additional Voices (voice)

Unforgotten

2015

as Dean Barton

Caught on Dashcam

2015

as Self - Narrator

Minions

2015

as Additional Voices (voice)

Ballot Monkeys

2015

as Gerry

Bone in the Throat

2015

as Ronnie the Rug

Shaun the Sheep Movie

2015

as Nuts (voice)

The Eichmann Show

2015

as David Landor

Automata

2014

as Ellis

Why Horror?

2014

as Self

Peaky Blinders

2013

as Winston Churchill

Kick-Ass 2

2013

as The Tumor

Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains

2012

as Self

The Glass Man

2011

as Martin Pyrite

Olly The Little White Van

2011

as Bazza

Campus

2011

as Jonty De Wolfe

Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

2010

as Self

Black Death

2010

as Dalywag

Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb

2010

as Nuts

You Have Been Watching

2009

as Self

The Tournament

2009

as Tech Eddie

Crooked House

2008

Crooked House

2008

as Duncalfe

Dead Set

2008

as Patrick

Chuggington

2008

The Brothers Bloom

2008

as Charleston

Death at a Funeral

2007

as Howard

This Is What It Is

2007

as Chris

Are You Ready for Love?

2006

as Barry Schneider

Wild Romance

2006

as Leo Leitner

Severance

2006

as Gordon

Shut Up and Shoot Me

2005

as Colin Frampton

Coney Island Baby

2002

as Franko

Uprising

2001

as Calel Wasser

Big Brother's Little Brother

2001

as Self

Dead Babies

2000

The Criminal

1999

as Forensic Scientist 1

The League of Gentlemen

1999

Peak Practice

1993

as Rob Hallett

Peak Practice

1993

as Rob Hallet

The Woman in Black

1989

as Jackie

Birds of a Feather

1989

as John