Nighy has starred within numbers of radio and television dramas, notably the BBC serial, ''The Men's Room (1991), and sir thomas more recently a thriller State of Play (2003) and costume drama He Knew He Was Right (2004). He played Sam in the 1981 BBC Radio dramatisation of The Lord of the Rings, and likewise appeared in the 1980s BBC radio versions of Yes, Minister episodes.

His films include Eye of the Needle, Curse of the Pink Panther, The Phantom of the Opera: The Motion Picture, Mack a Knife, The Little Drummer Girl, Being Human, True Blue, Indian Summer, FairyTale: A True Story, Still Crazy, Guest House Paradiso, Blow Dr], The Lawless Heart, AKA, Lucky Break, I personally Capture a Castle, Underworld, Love Actually, Shaun of the Dead, The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy, The Girl in the Café & The Constant Gardener .

Inside February 2004 he was awarded the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role inside Love Actually, and followed this higher at a BAFTA Television Awards inside April by using a Better Actor award for State of Play''.

Within early 2004 the British tabloid press reported Nighy's partner as saying that he got been offered a in demand role of the Doctor in the 2005 revival of the BBC television series Doctor Who. Speedy is alleged to keep around told reporters that he had considered however in a end rejected the offer. A editor of Doctor Who Magazine, Clayton Hickman, had earliest mentioned to a click that Nighy was the 1st guide of executive producer and writer Russell T. Davies. A role was accepted by Christopher Eccleston some weeks later & Davies later on claimed that Eccleston experienced universally been a number one selection for the role.

Inside 2005, he appeared as Slartibartfast in the film adaptation of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and also in the one-off BBC One comedy-drama The Girl in the Café.

Selected Filmography
Stormbreaker (2006) Flushed Away (2006) (voice) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) Underworld: Evolution (2006) The Constant Gardener (2005) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) The Magic Roundabout (2005) (voice) The Girl in the Café (TV) Enduring Love (2004) He Knew He Was Right (2004) (miniseries) Shaun of the Dead (2004) Underworld (2003) Love Actually (2003) State of Play (2003) (TV series) The Lost Prince (2003) (TV) The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Well Schooled in Murder (2002) (TV) Kiss Me Kate (1998) (TV series) (1999–2000) Guest House Paradiso (1999) Still Crazy (1998) Being Human (1993) The Phantom of the Opera: The Motion Picture (1989) The Little Drummer Girl (1984) Curse of the Pink Panther'' (1983)