Nighy’s acting career started on the National Theatre stage in Liverpool in Illuminatus! (1977).

I delivered my six lines in a southern American accent and she didn’t reply and she was wearing very large sunglasses and her fur coat with high heels, which is what I thought all actresses wore, and she didn’t respond and I thought I was about to get fired and then as an act of kindness she turned to the director and said, ‘where did you find this kid, he’s incredible.’ And I knew exactly how incredible I’d been, she was just trying to let me off the hook because she saw a very nervous young man standing beside him and that was not a bad introduction to the professional world.” BILL NIGHY BIOGRAPHY: CAREER I had six lines in rehearsal in Tennessee Williams’ The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. “But my first experience of professional acting was with a wonderful woman called Marcella Markham.

“Well I never got a bug for acting and I never made a decision that this was what I wanted to do with my life, it just sort of happened and I did it rather than have to do anything else,” he began. In an exclusive interview with uInterview, the actor described how he got into acting. He later went to the Guildford School of Acting. Nighy went to the John Fisher School and was a member of the school theatre group. He has two older siblings, a brother Martin and a sister Anna. BILL NIGHY BIOGRAPHY: EARLY LIFE, AGE, FAMILY, EDUCATIONīill Nighy (William Nighy) was born on Decem(Bill Nighy: age 73) in Caterham, Surrey, England to Catherine and Alfred Nighy. He is best known for his roles in Love Actually (2003), the Pirates of the Caribbean series (2006-2007) and the Underworld series (2003-2009).

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