James Nesbitt

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Nesbitt in July 2008

James Nesbitt OBE (born January 15, 1965 in Ballymena , County Antrim , Northern Ireland ) is a British actor .

Life

childhood and education

James Nesbitt was born on January 15, 1965 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. His father James "Jim" Nesbitt was the headmaster of a primary school near Broughshane , his mother May was a civil servant. Jim and May already had three daughters, Margaret, Kathryn and Andrea. He originally wanted to be a football player at Manchester United or a teacher like his father. When Nesbitt was eleven years old, the family moved to Coleraine , County Londonderry , where he made his first appearances as an actor and later joined Equity , the British actors union .

He started studying French at the University of Ulster when he was 18, but dropped out after a year. On the advice of his father, he moved to London to study acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama and graduated in 1987.

Acting career

The British comedy series Cold Feet was his breakthrough in Great Britain. He won a British Comedy Award for “Best TV Comedy Actor” in 2000 and the British National Television Award in 2003 for “Most Popular Comedy Performance” for the role . The series ran from 1997 to 2003.

This was followed by the television film Bloody Sunday , which was also broadcast in Germany and for which he received the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2002 and a British Independent Film Award .

His double role of Jekyll and Hyde in the British series Jekyll earned him a 2008 Golden Globe Award nomination. In the same year he played the role of Pontius Pilate in the religious drama series The Suffering of Christ .

In 2009 he played the leading role of Joe Griffin in Oliver Hirschbiegel's TV film Five Minutes of Heaven alongside Liam Neeson . In Peter Jackson's film adaptation of the Tolkien novel The Hobbit , Nesbitt played the dwarf Bofur .

Personal

Nesbitt was married to Sonia Forbes-Adam from 1994 to 2013. The two met in 1989 during a performance of Hamlet at Loughborough Hall. The couple have two daughters, Peggy and Mary, who played the roles of Sigrid and Tilda in the Hobbit trilogy .

In 2010, Nesbitt was appointed as the new Chancellor of the University of Ulster . He is a football fan and supporter of the clubs Coleraine FC and Manchester United .

At the 2016 New Year celebration, Nesbitt was appointed Officer of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II .

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susie Steiner: The Irish question. In: The Guardian . October 27, 2001, accessed January 16, 2011 .
  2. ↑ James Nesbitt: My Cold Feet about Teaching. In: Daily Mirror . February 9, 2004, accessed January 16, 2011 .

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SURNAME Nesbitt, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nesbitt, Jimmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballymena , Northern Ireland