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James Nesbitt is an actor from Northern Ireland whose filmography encompasses both television and film roles over a 30-year period. Nesbitt's screen career began in the early 1980s with uncredited roles in episodes of the BBC Play For Today strand, which he had while attached to the Riverside Theatre's youth group. His first credited role came in 1989, as a bit player in the John Ogdon biopic Virtuoso, which was followed by his first feature film role in 1991 in Hear My Song.

As a casual actor in the early 1990s, Nesbitt mixed television and film roles; he appeared in episodes of Boon, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Covington Cross, Lovejoy, and Between the Lines. He also played roles in several Michael Winterbottom films, beginning with Loves Lies Bleeding in 1993 and continuing with Go Now in 1995, Jude in 1996 and Welcome to Sarajevo in 1997.

In 1997, he secured his breakout television role as Adam Williams in Cold Feet, a character he played until 2003 and again from 2016 until 2020. In that time he also appeared in the film Waking Ned, two series of Playing the Field, Touching Evil, his feature film lead debut Lucky Break, and Paul Greengrass's controversial television film Bloody Sunday, as Ivan Cooper. After Bloody Sunday, Nesbitt started to take on more dramatic roles, appearing in five series of Murphy's Law (2003–2007), the two-part television film Passer By (2004), Steven Moffat's Jekyll (2007), and the Iraq War drama Occupation (2009). He has also furthered his feature film career by taking roles in Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), the Troubles drama Five Minutes of Heaven (2009), the thriller Outcast (2010), Nadia Tass's Matching Jack (2010), and Emilio Estevez's The Way (2010). He starred in the ITV medical drama series Monroe (2011–2012) and has a role as the dwarf Bofur in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014).

Nesbitt has also taken on theatrical roles throughout his career; between 1987 and 1994, he appeared in no less than five major plays, including the musical Up on the Roof, a world tour of Hamlet, and the Troubles drama Paddywack. After a break of eleven years, Nesbitt returned to the stage to make his London West End debut in Owen McCafferty's Shoot the Crow (2005).

Filmography

Television

Film

Theatre

Radio

Footnotes

1. ^ Uncredited extra.
2. Credited television debut.
3. First appearance in a Michael Winterbottom production.
4. Also plays the uncredited roles of Henry Jekyll in Episode 5, and several zombies in Episode 6.
5. ^ Some information relating to Nesbitt's theatrical career is not held in nationally published works, though may exist in individual theatre company archives or smaller, local publications.
6. 10-minute play.
7. Gala performance presented by Human Rights Watch.

References

1. ^ "Nesbitt, James Archived 24 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine". British Film Institute. URL retrieved on 25 March 2010.
2. ^ Swann, Yvonne (2 September 2004). "James Nesbitt: My cold feet about teaching Archived 5 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine". Daily Mirror (MGN): p. 57. URL retrieved on 25 March 2010.
3. Steiner, Susie (27 October 2001). "The Irish question Archived 2 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine". The Guardian (Guardian News & Media): p. 68 (Weekend supplement). URL retrieved on 15 April 2011.
4. ITV Press Centre (22 February 2011). "Monroe Press Pack Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine " (.doc format). Press release: p. 11. URL retrieved 30 August 2011.
5. Bulbeck, Pip (20 March 2011). "'Hobbit' Filming Finally Under Way in New Zealand Archived 21 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine". The Hollywood Reporter (Prometheus Global Media). URL retrieved on 21 March 2011.
6. ^ Canby, Vincent (23 October 1994). "A Good, Sharp 'Paddywhack'". The New York Times (The New York Times Company): p. A5.
7. ^ "The Stage Archive Archived 8 July 2012 at archive.today". The Stage Newspaper Ltd. URL retrieved on 13 March 2011.
8. ^ Austin, Jeremy (12 October 2005). "Review: Shoot the Crow Archived 11 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine". The Stage Online. URL retrieved on 25 March 2010.
9. Nesbitt, James (2009). "Made in Northern Ireland: An Actor's View" (.pdf). BBC. URL retrieved on 21 March 2010.
10. Lord, Derek (10 October 2008). "Lights, camera, action as the B Specials are put in spotlight Archived 12 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine". Press and Journal (Aberdeen Journals). URL retrieved on 10 October 2008.
11. ^ Page N Archived 28 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine . ulsteractors.com. URL retrieved on 25 March 2010
12. McLean, Craig (31 July 2010). "Thrown in at the deep end". The Times (Times Newspapers): p. 24 (Play supplement).
13. Jeffrey, Morgan (14 November 2012). "James Nesbitt's 'Monroe' axed by ITV1". Digital Spy. URL retrieved on 15 November 2012 (archived by WebCite on 15 November 2012).
14. Swain, Marianka (19 April 2021). "Meet DCI Marcus Thurwell, James Nesbitt's new character in Line of Duty". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
15. Grater, Tom (28 October 2020). "Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt & Richard Armitage To Star In Harlan Coben Adaptation 'Stay Close' For Netflix & 'The Stranger' Producer Red". Deadline. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
16. "First look: James Nesbitt and Richard E. Grant in Suspect – Channel 4's thrilling new drama". channel4.com/press. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
17. "The Heist Before Christmas". sky.com. Archived from the original on 12 December 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
18. "DNA Journey With Ancestry". itv.com/presscentre. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
19. ^ Muir, Johnny (director) (28 February 2013). The Arts Show: In Conversation with James Nesbitt. . BBC Two Northern Ireland.
20. ^ "Plymouth: Up on the Roof". The Stage and Television Today: p. 14. 2 February 1989
21. "Rose: As You Like It". The Stage and Television Today: p. 15. 15 June 1989.
22. "Theatre Week". The Stage and Television Today: p. 9. 14 September 1989.
23. Billington, Michael (2 November 1989). "At the Theatre with Michael Billington". Country Life: p. 175.
24. "Festival of Perth Programmes Archived 6 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine" (.pdf). State Library of Western Australia. 22 October 2009. URL retrieved on 25 March 2010.
25. ^ Compass News Features (12 December 1989). "All-new Hamlet to go on world tour". New Straits Times: p. 9 (archived at Google News Archive).
26. "Birmingham: Translations". The Stage and Television Today: p. 15. 20 May 1991.
27. "Theatre Week". The Stage and Television Today: p. 9. 2 July 1992.
28. "The Cockpit: Paddywack". The Stage and Television Today: p. 22. 31 March 1994.
29. "Bush Theatre: Darwin's Flood". The Stage and Television Today: p. 15. 2 June 1994
30. Jebb, Louis (20 June 2005). "No time for writers' block in dramatic race against clock". The Independent (Independent News & Media): p. 11.
31. Bosanquet, Theo (11 May 2010). "Galas: Court Laws, Cardboard Seats & Grateful Archived 15 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine ". Whatsonstage.com (Bandwidth Communications). URL retrieved on 11 May 2010.
32. Johns, Ian (10 June 2006). "Radio choice Archived 4 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine". The Times (Times Newspapers): p. 47. URL retrieved 15 April 2011.
33. "Desert Island Discs: James Nesbitt Archived 22 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine". BBC Online. URL retrieved on 15 April 2011.
34. "Staring into the Fridge Archived 23 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine". BBC Online. URL retrieved on 15 April 2011.

External links

• James Nesbitt at IMDb
• 0.0270270 (The Story of a Gambler). De Novo Pictures (hosted on MySpace Video). URL retrieved on 5 March 2011.

• Male actor filmographies
• British filmographies
• Irish filmographies