Andy Nyman

Andy Nyman is an English actor and magician Nyman first came to note with his performance as a hard nosed director in Musical and then as Keith Whitehead in the cult film of the Martin Amis novel Dead Babies He has played lead roles in Jon Avnets Emmy award winning film Uprising NBC as a Polish freedom fighter and in Coney Island Baby as a gay French gun dealer In 2006 he played Gordon in the cult hit Severance Most recently he played Patrick a sleazy reality show producer in Charlie Brookers E4 horror satire Dead Set and suffers the most violent death in the series being decapitated and disembowelled Nyman currently has four films due for release over the next 18 months Londonbased romantic comedy Are You Ready for Love a biopic of 70s Dutch rock group Herman Brood Wild Romance and improvised gangster thriller Played where he stars opposite Vinnie Jones Val Kilmer and Gabriel Byrne The film was released by Lionsgate Entertainment in 2007 Nyman appeared as one of the leads in the latest Frank Oz movie Death at a Funeral He stars opposite Matthew Macfadyen Ewen Bremner and Keeley Hawes The movie was released by MGM in 2007 Nyman is also a magician and the cocreator and cowriter of the Derren Brown TV shows Derren Brown Mind Control and Trick of the Mind He and Brown wrote Russian Roulette Séance and Messiah as well as three series of the Trick of the Mind series He also cowrote and codirected four of Browns stage shows all of which have toured and played the West End For Something Wicked This Way Comes they were awarded the 2006 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment Their fourth show Enigma was also nominated for an Olivier Award Nyman won the award for best actor at the 2006 CherbourgOcteville Festival of Irish British Film for his role as Colin Frampton in Shut Up and Shoot Me He was nominated for Lew Grade Award at the 2007 BAFTA Awards for his work on Derren Brown The Heist He shared the nomination with fellow collaborators Derren Brown Simon Mills and Ben Caron In December 2008 he appeared in BBC Fours supernatural drama series Crooked House In February 2010 he cowrote with Jeremy Dyson directed and starred in the horror play Ghost Stories In April 2011 he starred in a new British sitcom Campus