Andy Nyman

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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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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1966-04-13
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  • school Known for: Acting
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  • info Birth Place Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
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6.9

Death at a Funeral

2007-08-17

6.3

Severance

2006-05-19

6.7

The Brothers Bloom

2008-09-09

5.9

The Tournament

2009-05-01

6

Black Death

2010-06-07

5.2

Dead Babies

2000-09-07

6.8

Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape

2010-08-30

6.9

Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas

2021-12-03

6.8

The Woman in Black

1989-12-24

5.3

The Glass Man

2011-08-26

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Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb

2010-02-04

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Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains

2012-10-31

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Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day

2017-02-01

5.5

Shut Up and Shoot Me

2005-12-01

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This Is What It Is

2007-01-01

5.9

Automata

2014-10-09

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The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading

2021-05-19

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Coney Island Baby

2002-07-13

6.7

The Eichmann Show

2015-01-20

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Bone in the Throat

2015-03-16

10

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

2022-11-21

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That Christmas

2024-11-27

7

Shaun the Sheep Movie

2015-02-05

6.7

Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas

2015-11-13

7.5

Wicked

2024-11-20

8

National Theatre Live: Hangmen

2016-03-03

6.6

Uprising

2001-11-04

6.5

Despicable Me 3

2017-06-15

6.5

Ghost Stories

2018-01-20

5.9

Wild Romance

2006-11-09

6.4

The Commuter

2018-01-11

6.8

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

2017-12-13

6.5

Kick-Ass 2

2013-07-17

6.7

Judy

2019-09-27

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Are You Ready for Love?

2006-12-09

6.4

Minions

2015-06-17

6.1

Why Horror?

2014-10-03

6.9

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

2019-09-26

4.8

The Criminal

1999-10-01

7.4

Jungle Cruise

2021-07-28

7.6

The League of Gentlemen

1999-01-11

7.8

Unforgotten

2015-10-08

7.3

Dead Set

2008-10-27

6.7

Crooked House

2008-12-22

6.6

Chuggington

2008-09-29

8

You Have Been Watching

2009-07-07

5.8

Big Brother's Little Brother

2001-05-29

6.5

Campus

2011-04-05

7.8

The Capture

2019-09-03

7.9

A Small Light

2023-05-01

6.7

Ballot Monkeys

2015-04-21

6

Power Monkeys

2016-06-08

5.5

Peak Practice

1993-05-10

5.5

Peak Practice

1993-05-10

6

Olly The Little White Van

2011-06-26

8.5

Peaky Blinders

2013-09-12

0

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth

2025-01-02

0

Stars in the House

2020-03-16

6.7

Crooked House

2008-12-22

0

Caught on Dashcam

2015-09-30

6.1

Birds of a Feather

1989-10-16

7.5

Hanna

2019-03-28

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