
Andy Nyman
Biography
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.
Acting (41 movies)

Death at a Funeral
2007

Severance
2006

The Brothers Bloom
2008

The Tournament
2009

Black Death
2010

Dead Babies
2000

Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
2010

Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas
2021

The Woman in Black
1989

The Glass Man
2011

Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb
2010

Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains
2012

Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day
2017

Shut Up and Shoot Me
2005

Automata
2014

The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
2021

Coney Island Baby
2002

The Eichmann Show
2015

Bone in the Throat
2015

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022

That Christmas
2024

Shaun the Sheep Movie
2015

Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas
2015

National Theatre Live: Hangmen
2016

Uprising
2001

Despicable Me 3
2017

Ghost Stories
2018

Wild Romance
2006

The Commuter
2018

Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017

Kick-Ass 2
2013

Judy
2019

Are You Ready for Love?
2006

Minions
2015

Why Horror?
2014

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
2019

The Criminal
1999

Jungle Cruise
2021

Wicked
2024

Zemanovaload
2005

Captured Souls: In Conversation with Graham Humphreys
2025
Directing (3 movies)
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Derren Brown: The Heist | 2006 | Writer | 
| Derren Brown: Miracle | 2016 | Writer | 
| Ghost Stories | 2018 | Writer | 
| Ghost Stories | 2018 | Executive Producer | 
| Ghost Stories | 2025 | Writer | 

