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William Francis Nighy (born 12 December 1949) is an English actor. Known for his work on screen and stage, he has received numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Tony Award. Nighy started his career with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and made his London debut with the Royal National Theatre starting with The Illuminatus! in 1977. There he gained acclaim for his roles in David Hare's Pravda in 1985, Harold Pinter's Betrayal in 1991, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1993, and Anton Chekov's The Seagull in 1994. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in Blue/Orange in 2001. He made his Broadway debut in Hare's The Vertical Hour in 2006, and returned in the 2015 revival of Hare's Skylight earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. Early film roles include in the comedies Still Crazy (1998), and Blow Dry (1999) before his breakout role in Love Actually (2003) which earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He soon gained recognition portraying Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2006-2007), and Viktor in the Underworld film series (2003-2009). Other films include Shaun of the Dead (2004), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), Valkyrie (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), About Time (2013), Emma (2020), and Living (2022), the last of these earning him his first career Academy Award nomination. Nighy has gained acclaim for his roles in television earning a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in BBC One series State of Play (2003), and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the BBC film Gideon's Daughter (2007). He's also known for his roles in HBO's The Girl in the Café (2006) and PBS's Page Eight (2012).
Bill Nighy
Retired FBI Dir. Jack Crawford
for Retired FBI Dir. Jack Crawford in Hannibal
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Clarice Starling is a young FBI agent who has fallen in disgrace after a failed mission where a partner of her died and many others were put in risk. The newpapers and the FBI itself apparently has forgot about her past heroism and actions that make her famous: Seven years ago, Clarice saved a senator's daughter who was almost murdered by a serial killer and to do that, she had to some interviews with another serial killer, the cannibal and doctor Hannibal Lecter, before this one escaped. When the agency is searching for Lecter again, Clarice has to make a interview with Mason Verger, who was almost killed by Lecter, apparently for information of where he could be; but it's a trap made by Verger to take a vengeance against the psychopath who is hidden in Italy and who has interest in Clarice herself. Now Clarice has to find Lecter and protect him besides of capture him before the Verger's men and the people interested in the reward that verger is offering (including inspector Pazzi of Florence and Krendell, Clarice's superior and principal enemy) do. Obviously, Hannibal Lecter isn't going to make them too easy and probably, they will fall in his own game
