Nigel Whitmey is a British

United Kingdom

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 Canadian-born

Canada

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 actor

Actor

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 who was born in Alberta

Alberta

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, Canada

Canada

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, who has appeared in TV series and films. He is also the husband of the actress Abigail Thaw

Abigail Thaw

Abigail Thaw is a British actress. She was born in London to actor John Thaw and his first wife, Sally Alexander. Her stepmother is actress Sheila Hancock...

, whom he met whilst training at RADA

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

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Early life

Nigel Whitmey was born in Canada as his family emigrated there from Liverpool

Liverpool

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, England

England

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, where his father had been employed as a medical officer of health. He came to London

London

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 in the mid-1980s to study drama

Drama

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 at RADA

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

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 and here he met actress Abigail Thaw

Abigail Thaw

Abigail Thaw is a British actress. She was born in London to actor John Thaw and his first wife, Sally Alexander. Her stepmother is actress Sheila Hancock...

 whom he he married in 1986 and has had two children with since - Molly Mae Whitmey (1997) and Talia Whitmey (2003). He has worked chiefly in Britain

United Kingdom

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 but did return to Canada

Canada

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 to make the 1997 film 'Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is a 1997 Canadian fantasy film directed by Guy Maddin. It was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....

' for Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin

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Filmography

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Streetwise	Louis	Episodes unknown
1990	Agatha Christie's Poirot Agatha Christie's Poirot Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV since 1989. It stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It was originally made by LWT and is now made by ITV Studios...	Luigi Valdarno	Episode: The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
1991	Josie		Episode: #1.6
1992	Kissing the Gunner's Daughter	Thanny Hogarth
1993	Jeeves and Wooster Jeeves and Wooster -External links:*—An episode guide to the series, including information about which episodes were adapted from which Wodehouse stories.*—Episode guides, screenshots and quotes from the four series....	George	Episode: Lady Florence Craye Arrives in New York
1996	Over Here Over Here Over Here is a 2-part television miniseries made in 1996 by the BBC chronicling the lives of US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crews on a Royal Air Force Spitfire base during World War II...	Rayner
1996	X	Yuto	Voice (English England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...  version)
2000	The 10th Kingdom The 10th Kingdom The 10th Kingdom is an American epic fantasy miniseries written by Simon Moore and produced by Britain's Carnival Films, Germany's Babelsberg Film und Fernsehen, and the USA's Hallmark Entertainment...	The SWAT Team	Mini TV series
2000	Too Much Sun Too Much Sun Too Much Sun is a 1990 film directed by Robert Downey Sr.. It was filmed in Beverly Hills, California, USA and Los Angeles, California, USA,.-Availability:...	Jack	Episode: Real Men Cry a Lot
2001	Attila	Grachia
2001	People Like Us People Like Us People Like Us is a British comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer...		Episode: The Actor
2001	Where the Heart Is Where the Heart Is (1997 TV series) Where the Heart Is is a British television drama series set in the fictional town Skelthwaite.First shown in 1997, it was created by Ashley Pharoah and Vicky Featherstone...	Conrad Walker	Series 5, unknown episodes
2002	Shackleton	William Bakewell
2003	Helen of Troy Helen of Troy (TV miniseries) Helen of Troy is a 2003 television miniseries based upon Homer's story of the Trojan War, as recounted in the epic poem, Iliad. This TV miniseries also shares the name with a 1956 movie starring Stanley Baker...	Odysseus
2004	Carrie's War	Major Cass Harper
2004	Mad About Alice Mad About Alice Mad About Alice was a British sitcom that ran during 2004 for six episodes. A sitcom which centres on the lives of a divorced couple and their young son. Despite no longer living together, Doug and Alice remain in close contact due to joint custody of their nine-year old son Joe...	Vicar	Episode: School Craze
2004	Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...	Dan Wilder	10 episodes: Second Best - Taking Care (Some filmed in 2003 2003 in film The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,... )
2004	Keen Eddie Keen Eddie Keen Eddie is an American action, comedy-drama television series that aired in 2003 on the Fox Network. The series follows a brash NYPD detective who goes to London when one of his cases goes sour and remains to work with New Scotland Yard...	Anton Levy	Episode: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
2005	Broken News Broken News Broken News is a comedy programme shown on BBC Two in autumn 2005 and in Australia on SBS-TV from the 17 July 2006. The show poked fun at the world of 24-hour rolling news channels. The title of the show is a play on the phrase "Breaking News". It had six thirty-minute episodes...	Lawrence Frenzel	Episode: Bolivian Crisis
2005	Hustle Hustle (TV series) Hustle is a British television drama series made by Kudos Film and Television for BBC One in the United Kingdom. Created by Tony Jordan and first broadcast in 2004, the series follows a group of con artists who specialise in "long cons" – extended deceptions which require greater commitment, but...	Chip Lacey	Episode: Old Acquaintance
2005	Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...	Simmons	Episode: Dalek
2005	The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million	Ron Beller
2005	Murphy's Law Murphy's Law (TV series) Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Northern Ireland, starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy. There were five series of the drama, shown on BBC One. The first two were composed of individual stories. Series three, four...	Atwell	Episode: Strongbox
2006	The Booze Cruise III The Booze Cruise The Booze Cruise is a feature length comedy drama written for British television on the channel ITV, shown in 2003 and written by Paul Minett & Brian Leveson....	Ben
2007	Waking the Dead Waking the Dead (TV series) Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...	Mervyn Simmel	Episodes: The Fall: Part 1&2
2008	Kingdom Kingdom (TV series) Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal...	Brad Johnson	Episode: #2.3
2008	Moon Shot Moon Shot (2009 film) Moon Shot is a 2009 television film depicting the story leading up to the landing of Apollo 11 on the surface of the Moon on July 20, 1969.-Cast:* James Marsters: Buzz Aldrin* Andrew Lincoln: Michael Collins* Ursula Burton: Marilyn Lovell...	Deke Slayton Deke Slayton Donald Kent Slayton , better known as Deke Slayton, was an American World War II pilot and later, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts....	Post-production
2009	Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...	Clinton Finn	Episode: The Glitch
2010	The Deep	Lowe	Episode: All
Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1991	The Lost Language of Cranes The Lost Language of Cranes (film) The Lost Language of Cranes is a 1991 British television film. Made by the BBC for their Screen Two series; it is an adaptation of the 1986 novel of the same name by David Leavitt....	Winston Penn
1992	Shining Through Shining Through Shining Through is a 1992 British-American World War II film drama, directed and written by David Seltzer and starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith, with Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson and John Gielgud in supporting roles. Although based on the novel of the same name by Susan Isaacs, the...	1st G.I. in canteen
1995	Jefferson in Paris Jefferson in Paris Jefferson in Paris is a 1995 Franco-American historical drama film directed by James Ivory . The screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a semi-fictional account of Thomas Jefferson's tenure as the Ambassador of the United States to France prior to his Presidency, and his alleged relationships with...	John Trumbull
1996	Surviving Picasso Surviving Picasso Surviving Picasso is a 1996 Merchant Ivory Film starring Anthony Hopkins as the painter Pablo Picasso. It was shot in Paris and southern France.It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant and David L. Wolper...	Pierre
1996	La Lengua asesina / The Killer Tongue	Chip
1997	Twilight of the Ice Nymphs Twilight of the Ice Nymphs Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is a 1997 Canadian fantasy film directed by Guy Maddin. It was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....	Peter Glahn	Uncredited
1998	Girls' Night Girls' Night Girl's Night is a 1998 British comedy-drama directed by Nick Hurran. Loosely based upon the real experiences of writer Kay Melior, the film stars Julie Walters and Brenda Blethyn as two sisters-in-law, one dying of cancer, who fulfil a lifelong dream of going to Las Vegas, Nevada after an...	Tyrone
1998	Saving Private Ryan Saving Private Ryan Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depicts the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944....	Private Boyd
1999	The Criminal The Criminal (1999 film) The Criminal is a 1999 British thriller film directed by Julian Simpson and starring Steven Mackintosh, Eddie Izzard and Natasha Little. After meeting a beautiful woman in a bar, a man's life is plunged into chaos.-Cast:...		Voice
2001	The 51st State The 51st State The 51st State is a 2001 British action comedy film written by Stel Pavlou and directed by Ronny Yu. Produced by Focus Films Ltd. . The film stars Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Ricky Tomlinson, Sean Pertwee, Rhys Ifans and Meat Loaf... / Formula 51 (USA)	L.A. Highway Patrol
2002	Muffin	Ed
2003	Octane Octane (film) Octane is a 2002 thriller film directed by Marcus Adams and starring Madeleine Stowe and Mischa Barton...	Detective Ned Stephens
2005	The Jacket The Jacket The Jacket is a 2005 psychological thriller film directed by John Maybury that is partly based on the Jack London novel of the same name, released in the US as The Star Rover. Massy Tadjedin wrote the screenplay based on a story by Tom Bleecker and Marc Rocco...	Lieutenant
2006	Land of the Blind Land of the Blind (film) Land of the Blind is a 2006 drama film starring Donald Sutherland, Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hollander and Lara Flynn Boyle.Land of the Blind is a dark political satire, based on several incidents throughout history in which tyrannical rulers were overthrown by new leaders who proved to be just as bad, if...	Anchorman
2007	The Three Investigators and the Secret of Skeleton Island	Al Crenshaw
Video Games
Year	Game	Role	Notes
2006	Killzone: Liberation Killzone: Liberation Received IGN's award for Best PSP Offline Multiplayer Game of 2006 .-External links:**...	Jan Templar
2008	Haze Haze (video game) Haze is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Free Radical Design and published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation 3. It was released worldwide in May 2008. A demo for Haze was released on the PlayStation Network on May 6, 2008...
2008	Battlefield: Bad Company Battlefield: Bad Company Battlefield: Bad Company is a first-person shooter developed by EA DICE for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was released in North America on June 23 2008, followed by a European release on June 26. The game was hinted at just before the release of Battlefield 2, and then announced sixteen months later...	Haggard
2008	Crysis Warhead Crysis Warhead Crysis Warhead is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game developed by the studio Crytek Budapest, Hungary, and published by Electronic Arts. Crysis Warhead is a stand-alone expansion game and does not require Crysis installed to play...	Marine
2010	Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by the Swedish firm EA Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, iOS and Mac OS X systems. It is a direct sequel to Battlefield: Bad Company and is part of the...	Haggard