Nigel
Lindsay
Nigel Lindsay
spent three years as an analyst in theCity before
studyingDrama at theWebber Douglas Academy. After early
performances inTomWilkinson’s
KingLear
at the Royal Court
and the original awardwinning production of
Dealer’sChoice
with
RayWinstone at theNational, he playedMax inTomStoppard’s
TheReal Thing
, which transferred from theDonmarWarehouse to
theWest End and then to Broadway in 2000, winning three Tony
Awards. Nigel playedAriel in the 2004Olivier winningNational
Theatre production of
ThePillowman
, NathanDetroit in
Guysand
Dolls
at the Piccadilly Theatre in 2005, Lenny in
TheHomecoming
andMoeAxelrod in
AwakeandSing
opposite StockardChanning
at theAlmeida for which hewas nominated for Best Supporting
Actor in the 2008WhatsonstageAwards. Hewon that award in
2011 for his performance asDr HarryHyman in
BrokenGlass
with Sir Antony Sher asGellburg, andwas last seen on stage in
2012 playing the eponymous green ogre in the original London
production of
Shrek
theMusical at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane,
for which hewas nominated forOlivier andWhatsonstageAwards.
Nigel has appeared regularly on television in series such as
GeorgeGently, Spooks, SilentWitness,Waking theDead, Rome
and
MidsomerMurders
; in comedies such as
BrassEye, I’mAlan
Partridge
,
TheAmando Iannucci Shows
and
JamandJerusalem
and in single dramas such as
Best ofMen
and in the BAFTA
winning
Relief of Belsen
. In film, Nigel was inWoodyAllen’s
Scoop
andwas nominated for a BritishComedyAward for playingBarry
theMuslimconvert in
Four Lions
.
He has just finished filming the, as yet untitled,
Alan Partridge
movie and is currently working on a ten part adaptation for Sky
Atlantic called
The Tunnel,
an adaptation of the Danish series
The Bridge
Concordia
Merchant Taylors’ School
