Nigel Lindsay
Acting • Born 1969-01-17
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nigel Lindsay is an English actor. As well as many roles in TV and in film, most notably as Barry, the Muslim convert in Chris Morris's feature debut Four Lions for which he was nominated for Best British Comedy Performance in Film at the British Comedy Awards 2011, he has worked extensively in theatre, most recently opposite Sir Antony Sher as Dr Harry Hyman in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass at the Tricycle Theatre, for which he won the 2011 Whatsonstage Theatregoers' Choice Award as Best Supporting Actor. Nigel played Mugsy opposite Ray Winstone and Phil Daniels in the original 1995 National Theatre production of Patrick Marber’s Dealer's Choice; Max in The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard which won three Tonys on Broadway in 2000; Ariel in the 2004 Olivier award winning National Theatre production of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, with Jim Broadbent and David Tennant; Nathan Detroit in Michael Grandage’s Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre in 2005, and Lenny in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming with Ken Cranham and Danny Dyer at the Almeida Theatre in 2009. He was also nominated in the 2008 WOS Awards as Best Supporting Actor opposite Stockard Channing and Jodie Whittaker in Awake and Sing, directed by Michael Attenborough at the Almeida Theatre. He will play the title character in the West End production of Shrek the Musical, which will begin performances at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in May 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nigel Lindsay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
61 credits
Scoop
Movie • 2006
Strombel's Co-Worker
Rogue Trader
Movie • 1999
Ron Baker
Pops
Movie • 2021
Elli Jacobs
Four Lions
Movie • 2010
Barry
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Movie • 2013
Jason Cresswell
Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson
Movie • 2013
Nigel Maitland
RSC Live: Richard II
Movie • 2013
Henry Bolingbroke
Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Movie • 2017
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
Movie • 1994
Drunk
Access All Areas
Movie • 2017
Mack
Deja Vu
Movie • 1999
Tim
On a Clear Day
Movie • 2005
Sharp Suit
Mike Bassett: England Manager
Movie • 2001
Journalist
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
Movie • 2018
Brian
Captcha
Movie • 2014
Anton
Blackball
Movie • 2003
Targitex Chairman
National Theatre Live : A Small Family Business
Movie • 2014
Jack McCracken
Six Minutes to Midnight
Movie • 2020
Mr. Wheatley
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
Movie • 2011
Self
Kiss Me, Kate
Movie • 2024
Gangster
Bosses From Hell
Movie • 1989
Communicators From Hell
Movie • 1989
Employees From Hell
Movie • 1989
Between the Lines
TV • 1992
Insp. Alan Grant
This Time with Alan Partridge
TV • 2019
Tommy
Dressing for Breakfast
TV • 1995
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Francesco
Victoria
TV • 2016
Sir Robert Peel
Too Much Sun
TV • 2000
Dave
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
TV • 2010
Tommy Gaskell
Tin Star
TV • 2017
Clive Bennett
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Devlin
White Gold
TV • 2017
Tony Walsh
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Andy Hammond
The Fear
TV • 2012
Donny
The Chelsea Detective
TV • 2022
Ricky Hopkinson
You, Me and the Apocalypse
TV • 2015
Adren
A Dance to the Music of Time
TV • 1997
Odo Stevens
Safe
TV • 2018
JoJo Marshall
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
James Noland
The Salisbury Poisonings
TV • 2020
DCC Paul Mills
Innocent
TV • 2018
DI William Beech
Magnum P.I.
TV • 2018
Ian Pryce
The Capture
TV • 2019
DSU Tom Kendricks
Spooks
TV • 2002
Jacob Chapman
I'm Alan Partridge
TV • 1997
Bob Fraser
The Capture
TV • 2019
DSI Tom Kendricks
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Nigel Bellamy
Frances Tuesday
TV • 2004
Lambert
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story
TV • 2024
Adrian Sington
MobLand
TV • 2025
Alan Rusby
Brass Eye
TV • 1997
Peacecap Johnson
Foyle's War
TV • 2002
Clayton Del Mar
Jam and Jerusalem
TV • 2006
Marcus
Shockers
TV • 1999
Tim
The Hack
TV • 2025
Jules Stenson
No Offence
TV • 2015
Terry Taylor
The Last Kingdom
TV • 2015
Rhodri
The Capture
TV • 2019
DSI / DSU Tom Kendricks
Murphy's Law
TV • 2001
DC Gary Fender
The Capture
TV • 2019
DCI Tom Kendricks