Nigel is an actor of Irish descent who grew up in Birmingham. He is best known for playing series regular Superintendent Ian Buckells in the multi award winning police drama “Line of Duty” for BBC. Nigel next plays leading reg Jim in new CBBC series High Hoops, opposite Peep Show’s Robert Webb and Isy Suttie. Further TV credits include: Three Little Birds (Tiger Aspect/ITV), Small Axe (BBC/Amazon), Peaky Blinders (Tiger Aspect), The End Of the F**king World (Netflix), Temple (Sky One) Film credits include: Alleycats (Fyzz Facility Film Six), Une Rencontre (Poisson Rouge Pictures), Young High and Dead (Rumpunch Productions), The Best Years (Empire Productions). Theatre credits include: Going For Gold (Park Theatre), How Love is Spelt (Southwark Playhouse), A Dybbuk (Crescent Theatre), Circus Land (New Leicester Square Theatre), Sweet Love Remembered (Shakespeare’s Globe).

Filmography

• The Blame — Neil Shergill
• High Hoops — Jim
• 2024Grey Matter — Nicholas
• Three Little Birds — Dougie
• Anne — Reporter (Medico-Legal)
• SAS Rogue Heroes — Police Officer
• Sister Boniface Mysteries — Terry Smith
• Small Axe — Mr. Harnley
• 2020Unmasked
• Temple — Nick
• The Feed — Gary
• This Time with Alan Partridge — Simon Brading
• De Infiltrant — Richie Hammond
• The End of the F***ing World — Franklin
• 2016Alleycats — PC Stone
• 2016The Invisible Man — Kid
• Home Fires — DS Reynolds
• Humans — Rickie
• The Enfield Haunting — Graham Morris
• 2015The Jeanmaker — Atticus
• 2014Quantum Love — Le marié
• 2014The Ring Cycle — Policeman
• Count Arthur Strong — Miller
• Peaky Blinders — Policeman
• 2013The Best Years — Dougie
• The Job Lot — Adam Rogers
• WPC 56 — Philip Cook
• 2013Young, High and Dead — Gary
• Line of Duty — DI Ian Buckells, DCI Ian Buckells
• Life of Riley — Cedric, Cyclist
• The Inbetweeners — Barman
• 2006All In The Game — Tony
• Peep Show — JLB Worker
• Doctors — Dean Arthur, Jamie Tinsley, Darren McDonagh, Darren Horsley, Bill Burgess
• Dream Team — John Hagan
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Dave Redrup

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Pointless Celebrities — Self - Contestant