JAMES NESBITT recently received huge acclaim for his role as civil rights activist Ivan Cooper in Paul Greengrass’ “Bloody Sunday” and won Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards and the Stockholm Film Festival. Other recent film credits include Peter Cattaneo’s “Lucky Break,” Dudi Appleton’s “The Most Fertile Man in Ireland,” Declan Lowney’s “Wild About Harry,” Coky Giedroyc’s “Women Talking Dirty” and Kirk Jones’ “Waking Ned Devine.” His other numerous films include Konrad Kay’s “Jumpers,” Mike Barker’s “The James Gang,” Michael Winterbottom’s “Welcome to Sarajevo,” “Jude” and “Love Lies Bleeding,” Mary McGuckian’s “This is the Sea,” Peter Chelsom’s “Hear My Song” and Marc Evans’ “Resurrection Man.”
His theatre credits include “Paddywack” at the Longwharf in the United States, “Darwin’s Flood” at the Bush Theatre in London, “Translations” at the Birmingham Rep, “Up on the Roof” at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, “Hamlet” at the Leicester Haymarket and “Una Pooka” at the Tricycle.
Nesbitt has starred in a number of long-running television series including four series of “Cold Feet,” for which he has won Best Comedy TV Actor at the British Comedy Awards, two series of “Playing the Field” and two series of “Ballykissangel.” Other television credits include BBC productions of “Miller’s Tale” and “Passerby,” “Wall of Silence,” “Murphy’s Law,” “Touching Evil,” “Soldier Soldier,” “Go Now” and “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.”