James Nesbitt
James Nesbitt OBE | |
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Born | William James Nesbitt 15 January 1965 Broughshane, County Antrim, Northern Ireland |
Citizenship |
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Alma mater | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1981–present |
Spouse |
Sonia Forbes-Adam
(m. 1994; div. 2016) |
Children | 2 |
William James Nesbitt
From 1987, Nesbitt spent seven years performing in plays that varied from the musical
Nesbitt's first significant film role came when he appeared as pig farmer "Pig" Finn in Waking Ned (1998). With the rest of the starring cast, he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. In Lucky Break (2001), he made his debut as a film lead, playing prisoner Jimmy Hands. The next year, he played Ivan Cooper in the television film Bloody Sunday, about the 1972 shootings in Derry. A departure from his previous "cheeky chappie" roles, the film was a turning point in his career. He won a British Independent Film Award and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.
Nesbitt has also starred in
Early life
William James Nesbitt was born on 15 January 1965 in
When Nesbitt was 11 years old, the family moved to
Nesbitt left CAI at the age of 18 and began a degree in French at Ulster Polytechnic (now
Theatre and Hear My Song
The day after leaving CSSD in 1987, Nesbitt got a bit part in Virtuoso, a
In the early 1990s, he lived with fellow actor Jerome Flynn and earned money by signing fan mail for the successful star of Soldier Soldier.[13] In his debut feature film, Hear My Song (Peter Chelsom, 1991), Nesbitt played Fintan O'Donnell, a struggling theatrical agent and friend of Mickey O'Neill (Adrian Dunbar). A New York Times critic wrote, "the jaunty, bemused Mr. Nesbitt, manages to combine soulfulness with sly humor".[18] The praise he received made him self-assured and complacent; in 2001, he recalled, "When I did Hear My Song, I disappeared so far up my own arse afterwards. I thought, 'Oh, that's it, I've cracked it.' And I'm glad that happened, because you then find out how expendable actors are."[5] His attitude left him out of work for six months after the film was released.[13] Until 1994, he mixed his stage roles with supporting roles on television in episodes of Boon, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Covington Cross, Lovejoy, and Between the Lines. In 1993, he appeared in Love Lies Bleeding, an instalment of the BBC anthology series Screenplay and his first appearance in a production directed by Michael Winterbottom; he later appeared in Go Now (1995), Jude (1996) and Welcome to Sarajevo (1997). A Guardian journalist wrote that "he showed himself to be a generous supporting actor" in Jude and Sarajevo.[5]
Back on stage, he appeared as Doalty in
Cold Feet and early films
In 1996, Nesbitt auditioned to play Adam Williams, the male lead in
By the time of the third series, Nesbitt and the other cast members were able to influence the show's production; an episode featuring Adam's
Cold Feet ran for five years from 1998 to 2003, and Nesbitt won the British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor in 2000,[34] the Television and Radio Industries Club Award for Drama TV Performer of the Year in 2002,[35] the National Television Award for Most Popular Comedy Performance in 2003,[36] and the TV Quick Award for Best Actor in 2003.[37] Nesbitt credits the role with raising his profile with the public.[2] Further television roles during these five years included women's football team coach John Dolan in the first two series of Kay Mellor's Playing the Field (appearing alongside his Cold Feet co-star John Thomson), investigative journalists Ryan and David Laney in Resurrection Man (Marc Evans, 1998) and Touching Evil II respectively, and womaniser Stanley in Women Talking Dirty (Coky Giedroyc, 1999).[13]
Nesbitt's performance in Hear My Song had also impressed first-time screenwriter and film director Kirk Jones, who cast him in his 1998 feature film Waking Ned.[13] Playing amiable pig farmer "Pig" Finn brought Nesbitt to international attention, particularly in the United States (where the film was released as Waking Ned Devine); the cast was nominated for the 1999 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Theatrical Motion Picture.[12][38] In 1999, he appeared as the paramilitary "Mad Dog" Billy Wilson in The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (Dudi Appleton). The following year, he appeared in Declan Lowney's feature debut, Wild About Harry. Lowney had personally asked him to appear in the supporting role of cross-dressing Unionist politician Walter Adair.[5] In 2001, he made his debut as a lead actor in a feature film in Peter Cattaneo's Lucky Break. He played Jimmy Hands, an incompetent bank robber who masterminds an escape from a prison by staging a musical as a distraction.[5] On preparing for the role, Nesbitt said, "Short of robbing a bank there wasn't much research I could have done but we did spend a day in Wandsworth Prison and that showed the nightmare monotony of prisoners' lives. I didn't interview any of the inmates because I thought it would be a little patronising as it was research for a comedy and also because we were going home every night in our fancy cars to sleep in our fancy hotels."[27] The film was a total flop, despite receiving positive feedback from test audiences in the United States.[16]
Bloody Sunday
Nesbitt had been approached at a British Academy Television Awards ceremony by director Paul Greengrass, who wanted him to star in a television drama he was making about the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" shootings in Derry. Nesbitt was only seven years old when the shootings happened and was ignorant of its cause; he believed that there was "no smoke without fire" and that the Catholic marchers must have done something to provoke the British Army.[39] He was filming Cold Feet in Manchester when he received the script. He read it and found that had "an extraordinary effect" on him.[39] Nesbitt played Ivan Cooper in Bloody Sunday, the man who pressed for the march to go ahead. To prepare for the role, Nesbitt met with Cooper and spent many hours talking to him about his motives on that day.[40] He met with relatives of the victims and watched the televised Bloody Sunday Inquiry with them, and also read Don Mullan's Eyewitness Bloody Sunday and Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson's Those Are Real Bullets, Aren't They?.[39] Greengrass compared Nesbitt's preparation to an athlete preparing for a race, and told The Observer, "For an Irish actor, doing the Troubles is like doing Lear."[39] Nesbitt had questioned whether he was a good enough actor to effectively portray Cooper and was worried what Derry Catholics would think of a Protestant playing the lead,[39] although Ivan Cooper himself is a Protestant.
Shortly before Bloody Sunday was broadcast, Nesbitt described it as "difficult but extraordinary" and "emotionally draining".[39] The broadcast on ITV in January 2002 and its promotion did not pass without incident; he was criticised by Unionists for saying that Protestants in Northern Ireland felt "a collective guilt" over the killings.[41] His parents' home was also vandalised and he received death threats.[42] During the awards season, Nesbitt won the British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.[43][44] The film was also screened at film festivals such as the Stockholm International Film Festival, where Nesbitt was presented with the Best Actor award.[45]
In an analysis of the film in the History & Memory journal, Aileen Blaney[46] wrote that it is Nesbitt's real-life household name status that made his portrayal of Cooper such a success. She reasoned that Nesbitt's celebrity status mirrors that of Cooper's in the 1970s: "A household name across Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic [sic], Nesbitt's widespread popular appeal is emphatically not contingent upon his Protestant Ulster identity, and consequently the double-voicing of the character he plays does not alienate viewers of an alternative, or no, sectarian persuasion."[47] Guardian journalist Susie Steiner suggested that his appearance in Bloody Sunday was an attempt to resolve the expression of his "Irishness" on screen: "Where he has taken part in a sectarian theme, his intelligence as an actor has often been masked by an excessive, cartoon-style comedy. Yet in his more successful, high-profile roles, (notably in Cold Feet, and as Pig Finn in the gently pastoral film Waking Ned), Nesbitt's Irishness has been exploited for its romantic charm. It has been sugared and, in the process, de-politicised."[5] A critic identified Bloody Sunday as Nesbitt's "coming of age" film, and Nesbitt called it a turning point in his career.[16][39] He refers to his career since the film was released as "post-Bloody Sunday".[48]
Murphy's Law
In 2003, Nesbitt played undercover police detective Tommy Murphy in the first series of
By 2005, Nesbitt had become tired of the formula and threatened to quit unless the structure of the series was changed. He was made a creative consultant and suggested that Murphy keep one undercover role for a full series, instead of changing into a new guise every episode.[53] This new dramatic element to the series was intended to make it a closer representation of real-life undercover work.[49] Alongside his research with former undercover officer Peter Bleksley, Nesbitt hired a personal trainer and grew a handlebar moustache to change Murphy's physical characteristics and tone down the "cheeky chappie" persona that the audience had become accustomed to from his roles.[54] With his trainer, he worked out three times a week, boxing and doing circuits and weights.[55] After the first new episode was broadcast, Sarah Vine wrote in The Times, "In the past, when attempting a nasty stare or a hard face, Nesbitt has never managed much more than a faintly quizzical look, hilarity forever threatening to break out behind those twinkly Irish eyes. But here, it's different. He genuinely has the air of a man who means business."[56] The refreshed series marked another milestone in Nesbitt's career; he describes it as "a big moment" in his life.[54] Murphy's Law was not recommissioned for a sixth series, which Nesbitt attributed to the damage done to the fifth series ratings when it was scheduled opposite the popular ITV drama Doc Martin.[57]
In 2004, Nesbitt appeared in Wall of Silence, a fact-based drama about the aftermath of the murder of schoolboy Jamie Robe. Nesbitt played Stuart Robe, the boy's father, who tries to break down the wall of silence in the local community to discover exactly what happened to his son. He had only just completed Bloody Sunday when he was offered the part and was unsure whether he wanted to take on such a demanding role so soon after playing Ivan Cooper. He decided to accept the part because he found it interesting. To prepare for the role, Nesbitt met with Robe and spent weeks talking to him in his South London flat, learning about Jamie, and of Robe's fight for his justice. Nesbitt spoke with his natural accent instead of affecting Robe's South London speech, as he did not want the audience to be distracted from the drama. The single-drama was filmed over four weeks and broadcast in January 2004.[58] The role gained Nesbitt an IFTA nomination for Best Actor in a TV Drama later that year.[59]
In March 2004, he appeared in
Nesbitt returned to theatre acting in June 2005 when he appeared in
Jekyll, Five Minutes, Occupation
"You have to have someone like him—if it is a big, expensive show, you have to have a big name, otherwise you won't get the budget frankly [...] Over the months of filming, he turned in one of the most astonishing, inventive, heartfelt and daring performances I have seen."
—Jekyll writer Steven Moffat on Nesbitt[67]
At the end of 2005, Nesbitt and his agent met with BBC Controller of Fiction
In 2008, he portrayed
The following year, Nesbitt co-starred with
International work
In March 2009, Nesbitt signed a contract with the American talent agency
Next, Nesbitt reunited with Occupation screenwriter Peter Bowker to star in the ITV medical drama series
Alongside many other British and Irish actors, Nesbitt was cast in
Other projects
In 2002, Nesbitt made his documentary debut as the presenter of James Nesbitt's Blazing Saddles, a production for
An amateur golfer since his teenage years, Nesbitt joined the European team for Sky One's
In 2013, Nesbitt appeared in adverts for Thomas Cook.
In 2014, Nesbitt had the lead role as the father character Tony Hughes in harrowing BBC drama series The Missing, alongside Frances O'Connor (as his wife/ex-wife, Emily Hughes/Walsh) and Tchéky Karyo (as Julien Baptiste, leading French police investigator). The drama focused on a British married couple, whose son goes missing while they are on holiday in France, and the subsequent years of enquiry trying to find answers as to what happened to their son and why. Incidentally, Nesbitt and Karyo had appeared previously together in the Martin Sheen film The Way (2010).
In 2021, photographs of Nesbitt were used in Series 6 of
Nesbitt starred in the 2021
In 2023, he performed a spoken word piece at the Coronation Concert, to mark the coronation of Charles III and Camilla.[107]
Personal life
Nesbitt was married to Sonia Forbes-Adam, the daughter of the Reverend Sir Timothy Forbes Adam. The two met when Nesbitt went to the final call-back for Hamlet at Loughborough Hall in 1989, and they soon began dating.[108] They split up for a year after the release of Hear My Song but reunited and married in 1994.[13] They had two daughters, Peggy and Mary, both of whom appeared in the final two Hobbit movies as the daughters of Bard the Bowman.[109] In October 2013, Nesbitt announced that he and his wife would separate after 19 years.[110] They were divorced in 2016.
Nesbitt is a patron of Wave, a charity set up to support those traumatised by the Troubles. Since 2005, he has been a UNICEF UK ambassador, working with HIV and AIDS sufferers, and former child soldiers in Africa. He describes the role as "a privilege."[63] Writing in The Independent about his visit to Zambia in 2006, Nesbitt concluded that the children he met were owed a social and moral responsibility.[111] The article was described in the Evening Standard as "moving and notably well-crafted."[112] Since 1999, he has been a patron of Action Cancer, a result of both his father's affliction with prostate cancer and a storyline in the second series of Cold Feet, where his character suffered testicular cancer.[30] He has been an honorary patron of Youth Lyric, one of Ireland's largest theatre schools, since 2007.[113]
Nesbitt is a fan of football teams
In March 2010, Nesbitt accepted the ceremonial position of Chancellor of Ulster University, succeeding former Lord Mayor of London Sir Richard Nichols. Gerry Mallon, then-chair of the university ruling council, expected Nesbitt to "bring considerable energy, dynamism and commitment" to the post.[115] Following his official installation on 8 June 2010, Nesbitt said, "Rather than being just an informal role officiating at ceremonies, I think I can act as an ambassador. I have access to an awful lot of people and places because of my work. I hope to be a voice that can be heard, not just at the university, but also outside promoting the importance of the funding of education. If that involves me being at Stormont, then I'd be very happy to do that. Clearly these public spending cuts are going to have an impact and it's important to fight for funding because it's about investing in students and investing in the future of Northern Ireland. I believe I can bring something to that, otherwise I wouldn't have taken this on."[116]
He was appointed
Nesbitt was born into a Unionist family but now identifies as "an Irishman, from the north of Ireland"; he holds both British and Irish passports.[118] He was the keynote speaker at an October 2022 rally organised by Ireland's Future.[119]
Filmography and awards
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work(s) | Result |
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1999 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | Waking Ned Devine | Nominated[38] |
British Comedy Awards
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Best TV Comedy Actor | Cold Feet | Nominated[120] | |
2000 | Won[34] | |||
2001 | Nominated[121] | |||
2002 | Television and Radio Industries Club Awards | Drama TV Performer of the Year | Won[35] | |
British Independent Film Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film | Bloody Sunday
|
Won[43] | |
Stockholm International Film Festival Awards | Best Actor | Won[45] | ||
British Academy Television Awards | Best Actor | Nominated[44] | ||
2003 | Irish Film & Television Awards
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Best Actor in a TV Drama | Murphy's Law
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Won[52] |
TV Quick Awards | Best Actor | Cold Feet | Won[37] | |
National Television Awards | Most Popular Comedy Performance | Won[36] | ||
2004 | Most Popular Actor | The Canterbury Tales
|
Nominated[122] | |
Irish Film and Television Awards
|
Best Actor in a TV Drama | Wall of Silence | Nominated[59] | |
2005 | Best Actor in Television | Murphy's Law | Nominated[123] | |
2007 | Best Actor in a Lead Role in Television | Nominated[124] | ||
Golden Globe Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
|
Jekyll | Nominated[70] | |
2008 | Rose d'Or Awards | Best Entertainer | Nominated[71] | |
ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards | Best Actor | Murphy's Law and Midnight Man
|
Nominated[74] | |
2010 | Broadcasting Press Guild Awards | Occupation and Five Minutes of Heaven
|
Nominated[79] | |
New York City Horror Film Festival Awards | Outcast | Won[125] | ||
2015 | 2015 British Academy Television Awards | Leading Actor | The Missing | Nominated[126] |
2021 | Irish Film and Television Awards | Best Actor in a Lead Role - Drama | Bloodlands | Nominated[127] |
2022 | Satellite Awards | Best Actor in a Series, Drama/Genre | Bloodlands | Nominated[128] |
Academic honours
- Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) for services to drama from University of Ulster, Magee campus (9 July 2003).[3]
- Award of Distinction for contribution to drama from Belfast Metropolitan College (13 November 2008).[129]
- Chancellor of the University of Ulster (2010–2021) (ceremonial)[115]
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