Andy Nyman
| Andy Nyman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
13 April 1966 Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK |
| Residence | London |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
| Spouse(s) | Sophie Abbott |
| Children | Preston and Macy |
| Website | AndyNyman.com |
Andy Nyman (born 13 April 1966) is an English actor and magician.
Nyman was born in Leicester, Leicestershire. His first noteworthy performance was in 2000 as Keith Whitehead in "Dead Babies", an adaptation of the 1975 Martin Amis novel. He worked with Jon Voight, David Schwimmer and Leelee Sobieski in Jon Avnet's 2001 Emmy award-winning film Uprising (NBC) as a Polish freedom fighter.
His next film role was in the 2003 film Coney Island Baby as a gay French gun dealer. 2006 saw the release of the Severance, "Wild Romance" and "Are You Ready for Love?", and 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. In 2007, Nyman appeared as one of the leads in the Frank Oz film "Death at a Funeral," starring opposite Matthew Macfadyen, Ewen Bremmer and Keely Hawes. In 2008, he appeared as Patrick, a sleazy reality show producer in Charlie Brooker's E4 horror satire "Dead Set", then in December 2008 he appeared in BBC Four's supernatural drama series Crooked House.
He played the recurring character Jonty de Wolf in Channel 4's semi-improvised show Campus. In 2013, Nyman appeared in Kick Ass 2: Balls To The Wall, as "The Tumor." He did voice over work for the series Sarah and Duck and "Chuggington", and played a young Winston Churchill, in the Netflix Original Programing drama Peaky Blinders (TV series). In 2014 Nyman played the role of Charles Guiteau in the Stephen Sondheim musical Assassins (musical) at the Menier Chocolate Factory, and appeared in the film Automata with Antonio Banderas and Dylan McDermott.
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