James Nesbitt

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James Nesbitt is an actor and presenter from Northern Ireland. Nesbitt got his breakthrough television role playing Adam Williams in the romantic comedy-drama Cold Feet which won him a British Comedy Award, a Television and Radio Industries Club Award, and a National Television Award. His first significant film role came when he appeared as pig farmer "Pig" Finn in Waking Ned. In Lucky Break, he made his debut as a film lead, playing prisoner Jimmy Hands. The next year, he played Ivan Cooper in the television film Bloody Sunday, about the 1972 shootings in Derry. A departure from his previous "cheeky chappie" roles, the film was a turning point in his career. He won a British Independent Film Award and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.

Nesbitt has also starred in Murphy's Law as undercover detective Tommy Murphy. 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. Nesbitt has since appeared in several more dramatic roles; he starred alongside Liam Neeson in Five Minutes of Heaven and was one of three lead actors in the television miniseries Occupation. He portrayed Bofur in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film series. In 2014, Nesbitt starred in the lead role as the father character Tony Hughes in the acclaim BBC One drama series The Missing.