Nigel Lindsay

Nigel Lindsay

Born: December 17, 1969
in St. John's Wood, London, England, UK
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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.

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Title: The Chelsea Detective
Character: Ricky Hopkinson
Released: February 7, 2022
Type: TV
Detective Inspector Max Arnold lives on a battered houseboat at the end of Cheyne Walk after separating from his art dealer wife Astrid. The son of a local bookshop owner, Max is a far cry from the affluent elite whose crimes he'll help solve along with D.C. Priya Shamsie.
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Pops
Title: Pops
Character: Elli Jacobs
Released: August 9, 2021
Type: Movie
How would you react if your father's last wish was a little bit out there? For siblings Roz and Elli, it becomes a battleground for who will determine their pop's final journey.
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Six Minutes to Midnight
Title: Six Minutes to Midnight
Character: Mr. Wheatley
Released: October 15, 2020
Type: Movie
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.
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Title: The Salisbury Poisonings
Character: DCC Paul Mills
Released: June 14, 2020
Type: TV
In March 2018 Salisbury became the site of an unprecedented national emergency. This three-part dramatisation focuses on the extraordinary heroism shown by the local community.
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Title: The Capture
Character: DSU Tom Kendricks
Released: September 3, 2019
Type: TV
When soldier Shaun Emery's conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun's life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again.
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Title: The Capture
Character: DSI Tom Kendricks
Released: September 3, 2019
Type: TV
When soldier Shaun Emery's conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun's life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again.
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Title: This Time with Alan Partridge
Character: Tommy
Released: February 25, 2019
Type: TV
Alan is handed a career lifeline - the chance to stand in as co-host on This Time, a weekday magazine show. But can he capitalise on the opportunity?
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Title: Magnum P.I.
Character: Ian Pryce
Released: September 24, 2018
Type: TV
Thomas Magnum, a decorated former Navy SEAL, returns home from Afghanistan and applies his military skills to become a private investigator in Hawaii taking jobs no one else will—with the help of fellow vets T.C. Calvin and Rick Wright, and former MI:6 agent, Juliet Higgins.
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Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
Title: Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
Character: Brian
Released: September 12, 2018
Type: Movie
William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Leslie. But with the contract signed and death assured within a week (or his money back), William suddenly discovers reasons to live... However Leslie is under pressure from his boss to make sure the contract is completed.
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Title: Innocent
Character: DI William Beech
Released: May 14, 2018
Type: TV
After seven years in prison, David Collins is acquitted of the murder of his wife. Now, he must fight to rebuild his shattered life while police search for the real murderer.
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Title: Safe
Character: JoJo
Released: May 10, 2018
Type: TV
After his daughter goes missing, a widower begins uncovering the dark secrets of the people closest to him.
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Access All Areas
Title: Access All Areas
Character: Mack
Released: October 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Four runaway teenagers are catapulted on a wild and uplifting road trip out of the city and across the water to a magical island music festival.
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Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Title: Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes
Released: September 11, 2017
Type: Movie
Only shown at live events, Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes is made from unseen sketches and outtakes from seminal British TV series Brass Eye.
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Title: Tin Star
Character: Clive Bennett
Released: September 7, 2017
Type: TV
The story of Jim Worth, an expat British police officer starting a new life with his family as police chief in Little Big Bear, an idyllic town near the Rocky Mountains. When his small town is overrun by migrant workers from a massive new oil refinery – the wave of drugs, prostitution and organised crime that follows them threatens to sweep away everything in its wake.
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Title: White Gold
Character: Tony Walsh
Released: May 28, 2017
Type: TV
The story of a double-glazing showroom in Essex in the 80s, led by charismatic Vincent Swan, and his unscrupulous sales team, Brian Fitzpatrick and Martin Lavender.
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Title: Victoria
Character: Sir Robert Peel
Released: August 28, 2016
Type: TV
The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.
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Title: You, Me and the Apocalypse
Character: Adren
Released: September 30, 2015
Type: TV
When the news is announced that a comet is on an unavoidable collision course with Earth, the most hilarious and unexpected chain of events imaginable is set in motion.
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National Theatre Live : A Small Family Business
Title: National Theatre Live : A Small Family Business
Character: Jack McCracken
Released: June 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Alan Ayckbourn's riotous exposure of entrepreneurial greed returns to the National Theatre, where it premiered in 1987, winning the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play.
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Captcha
Title: Captcha
Character: Anton
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
An unassuming government scientist has unknowingly been spiked with a love implant, but the spy who put it there has fallen in love for real.
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Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson
Title: Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson
Character: Nigel Maitland
Released: November 22, 2013
Type: Movie
Greyhawks Rugby Club is under threat from land developers, and Dave's position as chairman is being challenged by an extremely loud Australian. The faithful few have gathered on the morning before the election to watch England in the Rugby World Cup Final and tensions are running high for more reasons than one Why does Jake, the first team prodigy, leave the room every time Jonny Wilkinson takes a kick?
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Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
Title: Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
Character: Henry Bolingbroke
Released: November 13, 2013
Type: Movie
A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.
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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Title: Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Character: Jason Cresswell
Released: July 24, 2013
Type: Movie
When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.
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Title: The Fear
Character: Donny
Released: December 3, 2012
Type: TV
Former gang boss turned respected businessman, Richie Beckett pledge money to help rebuild a pier. But Richie's mind is deteriorating, and the other outfit he runs with his sons is under attack by a vicious rival gang.
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Shrek: Once Upon a Time
Title: Shrek: Once Upon a Time
Character: Self
Released: December 30, 2011
Type: Movie
A making-of for the Shrek series.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Andy Hammond
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Title: Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
Character: Tommy Gaskell
Released: November 5, 2010
Type: TV
Mid Morning Matters is a British mockumentary series written by Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Armando Iannucci, produced by Baby Cow Productions and funded by the British arm of Australian lager company Foster's, starring Coogan as fictional radio DJ Alan Partridge. The first of twelve 15-minute episodes was uploaded to the Foster's Funny website on 5 November 2010, and then available on YouTube. Six 30-minute episodes titled Alan Partridge Mid Morning Matters: Special Edition, edited from the web series, began airing on Sky Atlantic HD in July 2012 as part of a deal between producers Baby Cow and BSkyB. Mid Morning Matters 2 began filming a new six part series in February 2012. It will be shown exclusively on Sky Atlantic in 2013.
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Four Lions
Title: Four Lions
Character: Barry
Released: May 7, 2010
Type: Movie
A group of Muslim men living in Sheffield hatch an inept plan to become suicide bombers.
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Scoop
Title: Scoop
Character: Strombel's Co-Worker
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: Movie
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
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On a Clear Day
Title: On a Clear Day
Character: Sharp Suit
Released: August 18, 2005
Type: Movie
After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old working-class man, suddenly finds himself laid off. For the first time in his life, he is without a job or a sense of direction, and he's too proud to ask for guidance. His best mates - rascally Danny, timid Norman and cynical Eddie - are there for him, but Frank still feels desperately alone. An offhand remark from Danny inspires Frank to challenge himself. Already contemplating the state of his relationships with loving wife Joan and all-but-estranged son Rob, Frank is determined to shore up his own self-confidence. He will attempt the near impossible - swimming the English Channel.
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Title: Frances Tuesday
Character: Lambert
Released: October 4, 2004
Type: TV
A gangsters moll changes her identity to go on the run after becoming informant on her boyfriend, who is just about to be released from prison.
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Blackball
Title: Blackball
Character: Targitex Chairman
Released: May 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he manages to become regional champion, only to get banned. Sports agent Rich Schwartz picks him up and makes him so popular the Bowls Committee deem to lift the ban. Now the question is whether he can regain his form and his friends to beat the Aussies.
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Title: Foyle's War
Released: October 27, 2002
Type: TV
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Jacob Chapman
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Mike Bassett: England Manager
Title: Mike Bassett: England Manager
Character: Journalist
Released: September 28, 2001
Type: Movie
After England's football (soccer) manager has a heart attack, Mike Bassett is hired as the new manager and promptly announces the team will win the World Cup.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Devlin
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Title: Too Much Sun
Released: October 20, 2000
Type: TV
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Shockers:  Deja Vu
Title: Shockers: Deja Vu
Character: Tim
Released: October 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Psychological drama revolving around a couple caught in a living nightmare after the death of their young son in a car crash.
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Rogue Trader
Title: Rogue Trader
Character: Ron Baker
Released: June 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.
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Title: A Dance to the Music of Time
Character: Odo Stevens
Released: October 9, 1997
Type: TV
A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Nigel Bellamy
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: James Noland
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Dressing for Breakfast
Released: November 24, 1995
Type: TV
Dressing for Breakfast is a Channel 4 sitcom which ran between 1995 and 1998 about two women, Louise and Carla. The series was based on a 1988 book with the same title by Stephanie Calman who also wrote the series..
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A Few Short Journeys Of The Heart
Title: A Few Short Journeys Of The Heart
Released: August 10, 1994
Type: Movie
A surreal and nightmarish selection of short stories derived from the cult collection DIRTY FAXES, refracted through the neurosis of a middle-aged writer.
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Title: Between the Lines
Character: Insp. Alan Grant
Released: September 4, 1992
Type: TV
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Francesco
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Title: Kidnapped
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The series follow Chloe Ayling's abduction in Italy and subsequent bravery and resilience in captivity, followed by a court case that put her kidnappers in jail. Yet despite their convictions, Chloe faced headlines accusing her of faking her own kidnapping, and found herself at the center of a media storm.