He was paid £1 per hour for the summer job and would also, on occasions, work as the brake man on the big dipper attraction. When he was 15, he got his first paid job as a bingo caller at Barry's Amusements in Portrush. Acting had not initially appealed to him, but he "felt a light go on" after he saw the film The Winslow Boy (1948). He got his Equity card when the actor playing Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio broke his ankle two days before the performance, and Nesbitt stepped in to take his place. He continued to act and sing with Riverside until he was 16, and appeared at festivals and as an extra in Play For Today: The Cry (1984). In 1978, when he was 13, his parents took him to audition for the Riverside Theatre's Christmas production of Oliver! Nesbitt sang " Bohemian Rhapsody" at the audition and won the part of the Artful Dodger in his acting debut. He completed his primary education at Blagh primary school, then moved on to Coleraine Academical Institution (CAI). When Nesbitt was 11 years old, the family moved to Coleraine, County Londonderry, where May worked for the Housing Executive. The family's residence in the countryside left them largely unaffected by the Troubles, although Nesbitt, his father, and one of his sisters narrowly escaped a car bomb explosion outside Ballymena County Hall in the early 1970s. After the Drumcree conflicts, they stopped marching with the band. Jim marched in the Ballymena Young Conquerors flute band and Nesbitt joined him playing the flute. The family spent Sunday evenings singing hymns around the piano.
His parents were Protestants, and Lisnamurrican was in " Paisley country". He had ambitions to play football for Manchester United or to become a teacher like his father. He grew up "completely" around women and spent a lot of time alone, "kicking a ball against a wall". The family lived in the house adjoining the one-room school where Nesbitt was one of 32 pupils taught by his father, while the other pupils were all farmers' children. He has three older sisters named Margaret, Kathryn, and Andrea, all of whom eventually became teachers. His father, James "Jim" Nesbitt, was the headmaster of the primary school in Lisnamurrican (near Broughshane), while his mother, May Nesbitt, was a civil servant. William James Nesbitt was born on 15 January 1965 in Ballymena, County Antrim.
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In 2014, Nesbitt starred as Tony Hughes in the acclaimed BBC One drama series The Missing. He portrayed Bofur in The Hobbit film series (2012–2014).
He also starred in the movies Outcast (2010) and The Way (2010). Nesbitt has since appeared in several more dramatic roles he starred alongside Liam Neeson in Five Minutes of Heaven (2009), and was one of three lead actors in the television miniseries Occupation (2009). In 2007, he starred in the dual role of Tom Jackman and Mr Hyde in Steven Moffat's Jekyll, which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination in 2008. The role twice gained Nesbitt Best Actor nominations at the Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA).
Nesbitt has also starred in Murphy's Law (2001–2007) as undercover detective Tommy Murphy, a role that was created for him by writer Colin Bateman. He won a British Independent Film Award and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. A departure from his previous "cheeky chappie" roles, the film was a turning point in his career. The next year, he played Ivan Cooper in the television film Bloody Sunday, about the 1972 shootings in Derry. In Lucky Break (2001), he made his debut as a film lead, playing prisoner Jimmy Hands. With the rest of the starring cast, he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. Nesbitt's first significant film role came when he appeared as pig farmer "Pig" Finn in Waking Ned (1998). He got his breakthrough television role playing Adam Williams in the romantic comedy-drama series Cold Feet (1997–2003, 2016–present), which won him a British Comedy Award, a Television and Radio Industries Club Award, and a National Television Award. He made his feature film debut playing talent agent Fintan O'Donnell in Hear My Song (1991). William James Nesbitt OBE (born 15 January 1965) is a Northern Irish actor and television presenter.įrom 1987, Nesbitt spent seven years performing in plays that varied from the musical Up on the Roof (1987, 1989) to the political drama Paddywack (1994).
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