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.

Filmography

• 2026Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom — Nuts (voice)
• 2026Spider Island — David
• 2025Ghost Stories — Writer, Director
• Lockerbie: A Search for Truth — Edwin Bollier
• 2025Shaun the Sheep: Fleece Navidad — Nuts (voice)
• 2025Shaun the Sheep: Shirleyverse — Nuts (voice)
• 2024That Christmas — Mr. Beccles (voice)
• 2024Wicked — Governor Thropp
• A Small Light — Hermann Van Pels
• 2021Jungle Cruise — Sir James Hobbs-Coddington
• 2021Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2021The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading
• 2019A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon — Nuts (voice)
• Good Omens — Writer
• Hanna — Jacobs
• 2019Judy — Dan
• The Capture — Rowan Gill
• 2018Ghost Stories — Professor Goodman, Director, Writer, Theatre Play, Executive Producer
• 2018The Commuter — Tony
• Wanderlust — James Marcham
• 2017Despicable Me 3 — Clive the Robot (voice)
• 2017Shaun The Sheep: Happy Farmer's Day — Nuts
• 2017Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Jail Guard
• 2016Derren Brown: Miracle — Stage Director, Writer
• 2016National Theatre Live: Hangmen — Syd
• Power Monkeys — Gerry
• Ballot Monkeys — Gerry
• 2015Bone in the Throat — Ronnie the Rug
• Caught on Dashcam — Narrator (voice)
• 2015Minions — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2015Shaun the Sheep Movie — Nuts (voice)
• 2015Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2015The Eichmann Show — David Landor
• Unforgotten — Dean Barton
• 2014Automata — Ellis
• 2014Derren Brown: Infamous — Director
• 2013Kick-Ass 2 — The Tumor
• Peaky Blinders — Winston Churchill
• Psychobitches — Henry VIII
• Playhouse Presents — Sarah, wife of Abraham
• Campus — Jonty De Wolfe
• Olly The Little White Van — Bazza
• 2011The Glass Man — Martin Pyrite
• 2010Black Death — Dalywag
• 2010Shaun The Sheep: Spring Lamb — Nuts
• 2009The Brothers Bloom — Charleston
• 2009The Tournament — Tech Eddie
• Chuggington
• Crooked House — Nicholas Duncalfe
• Dead Set — Patrick Goad
• 2007Death at a Funeral — Howard
• 2007Magicians — Story
• Shaun the Sheep — Nuts (voice)
• 2007This Is What It Is — Chris
• 2006Are You Ready for Love? — Barry Schneider
• 2006Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes — Director, Writer
• 2006Derren Brown: The Heist — Writer
• 2006Severance — Gordon
• 2006Wild Romance — Leo Leitner
• 2005Shut Up and Shoot Me — Colin Frampton
• 2005Zemanovaload — Bruce Robenitz
• 2002Coney Island Baby — Franko
• 2001Uprising — Calel Wasser
• Uprising — Calel Wasser
• 2000Dead Babies — Keith
• 1999The Criminal — Forensic Scientist 1
• Peak Practice — Rob Hallett
• Archer's Goon — Museum attendant
• Five Children and It — Baker's Boy
• Birds of a Feather — John
• 1989The Woman in Black — Jackie
• A Blue Butterfly
• The Creep — Dave

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2025Captured Souls: In Conversation with Graham Humphreys — Self
• 2022David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count — Self
• Stars in the House — Self
• 2014Why Horror? — Self
• 2012Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains — Self
• 2010Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape — Self
• You Have Been Watching — Self
• Big Brother's Little Brother — Self