Andy Nyman
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.
Photos
Movies (51)
Shaun, El Cordero: El Monstruo de Mossy Bottom
2026 · Nuts (voice)
Spider Island
2026 · David
Captured Souls: In Conversation with Graham Humphreys
2025 · Self
Aquella Navidad
2024 · Mr. Beccles (voice)
Wicked
2024 · Governor Thropp
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022 · Self
Shaun, el cordero: El vuelo antes de Navidad
2021 · Additional Voices (voice)
Jungle Cruise
2021 · Sir James Hobbs-Coddington
The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
2021
Judy
2019 · Dan
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
2019 · Nuts (voice)
Ghost Stories
2018 · Professor Goodman, Director, Writer, Theatre Play, Executive Producer
The Commuter
2018 · Tony
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017 · Jail Guard
Despicable Me 3
2017 · Clive the Robot (voice)
Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day
2017 · Nuts
Derren Brown: Miracle
2016 · Stage Director, Writer
National Theatre Live: Hangmen
2016 · Syd
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas
2015 · Additional Voices (voice)
Minions
2015 · Additional Voices (voice)
Bone in the Throat
2015 · Ronnie the Rug
Shaun the Sheep Movie
2015 · Nuts (voice)
The Eichmann Show
2015 · David Landor
Automata
2014 · Ellis
Why Horror?
2014 · Self
Derren Brown: Infamous
2014 · Director
Kick-Ass 2
2013 · The Tumor
Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains
2012 · Self
The Glass Man
2011 · Martin Pyrite
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
2010 · Self
Black Death
2010 · Dalywag
Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb
2010 · Nuts
The Brothers Bloom
2009 · Charleston
The Tournament
2009 · Tech Eddie
Death at a Funeral
2007 · Howard
Magicians
2007 · Story
This Is What It Is
2007 · Chris
Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes
2006 · Director, Writer
Are You Ready for Love?
2006 · Barry Schneider
Wild Romance
2006 · Leo Leitner
Severance
2006 · Gordon
Derren Brown: The Heist
2006 · Writer
Shut Up and Shoot Me
2005 · Colin Frampton
Zemanovaload
2005 · Bruce Robenitz
Coney Island Baby
2002 · Franko
Uprising
2001 · Calel Wasser
Dead Babies
2000 · Keith
The Criminal
1999 · Forensic Scientist 1
The Woman in Black
1989 · Jackie
The Creep
· Dave
A Blue Butterfly
TV shows (29)
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
2025 · Edwin Bollier
A Small Light
2023 · Hermann Van Pels
Stars in the House
2020 · Self
The Capture
2019 · Rowan Gill
Good Omens
2019 · Writer
Hanna
2019 · Jacobs
Wanderlust
2018 · James Marcham
Power Monkeys
2016 · Gerry
Unforgotten
2015 · Dean Barton
Caught on Dashcam
2015 · Narrator (voice)
Ballot Monkeys
2015 · Gerry
Peaky Blinders
2013 · Winston Churchill
Psychobitches
2013 · Henry VIII
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Sarah, wife of Abraham
Olly The Little White Van
2011 · Bazza
Campus
2011 · Jonty De Wolfe
You Have Been Watching
2009 · Self
Crooked House
2008 · Nicholas Duncalfe
Dead Set
2008 · Patrick Goad
Chuggington
2008
Shaun the Sheep
2007 · Nuts (voice)
Coming Up
2003 · Leon
Uprising
2001 · Calel Wasser
Big Brother's Little Brother
2001 · Self
Peak Practice
1993 · Rob Hallett, Rob Hallet
Archer's Goon
1992 · Museum attendant
New Voices
1991 · Jim
Five Children and It
1991 · Baker's Boy
Birds of a Feather
1989 · John