Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and film actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He has appeared in some 15 feature films and video shorts, plus a heap of documentaries. Nick Cave has also composed a large number of scores, some of them with his musical partner Warren Ellis.

Filmography

• 2025Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough — Narrator
• 2025Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour — Self, Author, Compositor, Original Music Composer
• The Death of Bunny Munro — Novel, Executive Producer, Original Music Composer, Creator
• 2025Train Dreams — Songs, Vocals
• 2024Back to Black — Original Music Composer
• 2024But We Had Music — (Voice)
• 2024Memoir of a Snail — Bill Clarke (voice)
• 2024The Making of Wild God — Nick Cave
• 2023The New Boy — Original Music Composer
• 2022Blonde — Original Music Composer
• DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story — Original Music Composer
• 2022Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022
• 2022This Much I Know to Be True — Self, Original Music Composer
• 2021The Electrical Life of Louis Wain — H.G. Wells
• 2021The Velvet Queen — Original Music Composer
• 2020Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace — Self, Director
• 2020The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal — Mr. Invisible
• 2018Fuse — Truck Driver (voice)
• 2017Do You Pray? — Narrator
• 2017Kings — Original Music Composer
• 2017Snowman — Narrator
• 2017War Machine — Original Music Composer
• 2017Wind River — Original Music Composer
• 2016Hell or High Water — Original Music Composer
• 2016Nocturama — Thanks
• 2016One More Time with Feeling — Self, Music, Original Music Composer
• 2015Far from Men — Original Music Composer
• 2015Prophet's Prey — Narrator, Music
• 201420,000 Days on Earth — Self, Writer, Original Music Composer
• 2014Tender — Original Music Composer
• 2012A Few Hours of Spring — Original Music Composer
• 2012Days of Grace — Music
• 2012Lawless — Screenplay, Original Music Composer
• 2012West of Memphis — Original Music Composer
• 2011Millhaven — Author
• 2011Submission — Music
• 2009On/Off: Mark Stewart
• 2009The Cat Piano — Narrator
• 2009The Road — Original Music Composer
• 2008Angel of the Wind — Music
• 2008The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw — Original Music Composer
• 2007Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour — Self - vocals, piano
• 2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — Bowery Saloon Singer, Original Music Composer
• 2007The English Surgeon — Original Music Composer
• 2005Seele Brennt — Nick Cave
• 2005The Proposition — Screenplay, Original Music Composer, Vocals
• 2004The Goddess: How I Fell in Love. Film about the film — Music
• 2001Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten
• 2001Winged Migration — Theme Song Performance
• 1999Expelling the Demon — Music
• 1998Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos — Self, Music
• 1997Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest — Jerry
• 1996Baby Trouble Hole — Singer
• 1996To Have and to Hold — Original Music Composer
• Later... with Jools Holland
• 1991Johnny Suede — Freak Storm
• 1991Just Visiting This Planet — Music
• 1990IDn2 — Entry
• 1988Dandy
• 1988Ghosts... of the Civil Dead — Maynard, Writer, Original Music Composer
• 1986Dogs in Space — Thanks
• The South Bank Show
• Before They Were Gods — (voice)
• The Circumventing Mind — Music
• Woyzeck — Music

Appearances as themselves (87)

• 2026Broken English — Self
• Kylie — Self
• 2025Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert — Self
• 2025The Extraordinary Miss Flower — Self
• 2025Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende — Self
• 2023AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex — Self
• 2023Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh — Self
• 2023Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock — Self
• 2023Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party — Self
• 2022Kylie at the BBC — Self
• 2021Karen Dalton: In My Own Time — Self
• 2021Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel — Self
• 2020FeeLee. History of a Single Label — Self
• Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments — Self - Guest (archive footage)
• 2020Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later — Self
• 2019Love Eats Up Life — Self (archive footage)
• 2019The Creative Brain — Self
• 2018Distant Sky — Self
• TAPE — Self
• 2018Why Are We Creative? — Self
• 2017Boredom — Self
• 2017L7: Pretend We're Dead — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Self
• Popular Voices at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• 2016The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez — Self
• Artsnight — Self
• 2015B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 — Self
• 2015Stranded — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2015Wilde Jahre West-Berlin — Self
• 2014Goth at the BBC — Self
• 2014Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits — Self
• 2013Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre — Self
• 2011Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard — Self
• 2009All Tomorrow's Parties — Self
• 2009No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York — Self
• 2008Blixa Bargeld — Self
• 2008Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues — Self
• 2008Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party — Self
• 2008Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008 — Self
• 2008Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions — Self
• 2008Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! — Self
• 2007365 Day Project — Self
• 2007Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House — Self
• 2007Pixote In Memoriam — Self
• 2007The Dirty Three — Self
• 2007The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music — Self
• 2006Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man — Self
• 2006The Harry Smith Project Live — Self
• 2005The Story of 'Fairytale of New York' — Self
• 2005The Work of Director Anton Corbijn — Self (segment "Straight to You")
• 2004Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus — Self
• 2003Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama — Self
• 2003The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn — Self
• The Blues — Self
• 2001If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story — Self
• 2001Listen With Pain — Self
• 2001Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part — Self
• 2001No More Shall We Part: The Recording Sessions — Himself
• 1997Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call — Self
• 1997The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan — Self
• Australian Story — Self
• 1996Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads — Self
• 1994Die Haut - Sweat — Self
• 1994Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos — Self
• 1994Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In — Self
• 1994Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait — Self
• 1994September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Musical Guest
• 1992Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream — Self
• 1992Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso — Self
• 1991IDn4 — Self
• 1991The Song — Self
• 1990IDn3 — Self
• 1990Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son — Self
• 1990The Road to God Knows Where — Self
• 1988Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey — Self
• 1987Kings of Independence — Self
• 1987Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land — Self
• 1987Wings of Desire — Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
• 1986Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks — Self
• 1986Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial — Self
• 1985Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead — Self
• 1984Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996 — self
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998) — Self