Cast & creator
Andy Nyman
Best known for Peaky Blinders, Peak Practice, Peak Practice
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.
61
film credits
28
television credits
75
1989–2026 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (89)
Showing 89 of 89 credits
Peaky Blinders
Winston Churchill
2013
Peak Practice
Rob Hallett
1993Peak Practice
Rob Hallet
1993
Big Brother's Little Brother
Self
2001
Stars in the House
Self
2020
Shaun the Sheep
Nuts (voice)
2007
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Jail Guard
2017
Good Omens
Writer
2019
Birds of a Feather
John
1989
The Capture
Rowan Gill
2019
Unforgotten
Dean Barton
2015
Despicable Me 3
Clive the Robot (voice)
2017
Playhouse Presents
Sarah, wife of Abraham
2012
Wicked
Governor Thropp
2024
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Edwin Bollier
2025
Hanna
Jacobs
2019
Chuggington
2008
Minions
Additional Voices (voice)
2015
Jungle Cruise
Sir James Hobbs-Coddington
2021
The Commuter
Tony
2018
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
Nuts (voice)
2026
A Small Light
Hermann Van Pels
2023
Spider Island
David
2026
Kick-Ass 2
The Tumor
2013
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Nuts (voice)
2015
That Christmas
Mr. Beccles (voice)
2024
Dead Set
Patrick Goad
2008
Automata
Ellis
2014
Psychobitches
Henry VIII
2013
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Nuts (voice)
2019
Death at a Funeral
Howard
2007
The Tournament
Tech Eddie
2009
Wanderlust
James Marcham
2018
Crooked House
Nicholas Duncalfe
2008
Ghost Stories
Professor Goodman
2018Ghost Stories
Director
2018Ghost Stories
Writer
2018Ghost Stories
Theatre Play
2018Ghost Stories
Executive Producer
2018
The Brothers Bloom
Charleston
2009
Judy
Dan
2019
Black Death
Dalywag
2010
You Have Been Watching
Self
2009
Severance
Gordon
2006
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
Additional Voices (voice)
2021
Olly The Little White Van
Bazza
2011
Campus
Jonty De Wolfe
2011
Uprising
Calel Wasser
2001
Uprising
Calel Wasser
2001
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas
Additional Voices (voice)
2015
Caught on Dashcam
Narrator (voice)
2015
The Eichmann Show
David Landor
2015
Five Children and It
Baker's Boy
1991
Power Monkeys
Gerry
2016
Ballot Monkeys
Gerry
2015
Archer's Goon
Museum attendant
1992
The Woman in Black
Jackie
1989
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
Syd
2016
Bone in the Throat
Ronnie the Rug
2015
Shaun the Sheep: Shirleyverse
Nuts (voice)
2025
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Self
2022
Zemanovaload
Bruce Robenitz
2005
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
Self
2010
Why Horror?
Self
2014
Shut Up and Shoot Me
Colin Frampton
2005
Shaun the Sheep: Fleece Navidad
Nuts (voice)
2025
Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb
Nuts
2010
Derren Brown: Miracle
Stage Director
2016Derren Brown: Miracle
Writer
2016
Are You Ready for Love?
Barry Schneider
2006
Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains
Self
2012
Derren Brown: The Heist
Writer
2006
Dead Babies
Keith
2000
Magicians
Story
2007
Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day
Nuts
2017This Is What It Is
Chris
2007
The Criminal
Forensic Scientist 1
1999
The Glass Man
Martin Pyrite
2011
The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
2021
Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Director
2006Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Writer
2006
Captured Souls: In Conversation with Graham Humphreys
Self
2025
Wild Romance
Leo Leitner
2006
Coney Island Baby
Franko
2002A Blue Butterfly
Ghost Stories
Writer
2025Ghost Stories
Director
2025
Derren Brown: Infamous
Director
2014The Creep
Dave