Andy Nyman

60 years old Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK

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.

Recent movies

# Name Character Rating
1 That Christmas (2024) Mr. Beccles (voice) 5
2 Wicked (2024) Governor Thropp 7.3
3 David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count (2022) Self 7
4 Jungle Cruise (2021)
Top movies in 2021 		Sir James Hobbs-Coddington 7
5 Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas (2021) Additional Voices (voice) 7.2
6 A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) Nuts (voice) 7.9
7 Judy (2019) Dan 7
8 Ghost Stories (2018) Director / Writer 6.9
9 The Commuter (2018) Tony 7
10 Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) Jail Guard 7.4
11 Despicable Me 3 (2017) Clive the Robot (voice) 6.8
12 Derren Brown: Miracle (2016) Director / Writer 3
13 National Theatre Live: Hangmen (2016) Syd -
14 Minions (2015) Additional Voices (voice) 6.8
15 Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
Oscars 2016 		Nuts (voice) 7.5
16 The Eichmann Show (2015) David Landor -
17 Bone in the Throat (2015) Ronnie the Rug -
18 Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas (2015) Additional Voices (voice) 6.5
19 Automata (2014) Ellis 6
20 Why Horror? (2014) Self 6
21 Derren Brown: Infamous (2014) Director / Writer -
22 Kick-Ass 2 (2013) The Tumor 6.8
23 Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains (2012) Self -
24 Black Death (2010) Dalywag 5.5
25 Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010) Self 9
26 The Tournament (2009) Tech Eddie 6.1
27 Crooked House (2008) Duncalfe -
28 The Brothers Bloom (2008) Charleston 6.8
29 Death at a Funeral (2007) Howard 7.5
30 Derren Brown: The Heist (2006) Director / Writer -
31 Severance (2006) Gordon 6.2
32 Zemanovaload (2005) Bruce Robenitz 6
33 Shut Up and Shoot Me (2005) Colin Frampton 7
34 Uprising (2001) Calel Wasser -
35 Dead Babies (2000) Keith -
36 The Woman in Black (1989) Jackie 6