The family spent Sunday evenings singing hymns around the piano. His parents were Protestants, and Lisnamurrican was in " Paisley country". He had ambitions to play football for Manchester United or to become a teacher like his father. He grew up "completely" around women and spent a lot of time alone, "kicking a ball against a wall". The family lived in the house adjoining the one-room school where Nesbitt was one of 32 pupils taught by his father, while the other pupils were all farmers' children.
He has three older sisters named Margaret, Kathryn, and Andrea, all of whom eventually became teachers. His father, James "Jim" Nesbitt, was the headmaster of the primary school in Lisnamurrican (near Broughshane), while his mother, May Nesbitt, was a civil servant. William James Nesbitt was born on 15 January 1965 in Ballymena, County Antrim.
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In 2014, Nesbitt starred as Tony Hughes in the acclaimed BBC One drama series The Missing. He portrayed Bofur in The Hobbit film series (2012–2014). He also starred in the movies Outcast (2010) and The Way (2010). Nesbitt has since appeared in several more dramatic roles he starred alongside Liam Neeson in Five Minutes of Heaven (2009), and was one of three lead actors in the television miniseries Occupation (2009). 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. The role twice gained Nesbitt Best Actor nominations at the Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA). Nesbitt has also starred in Murphy's Law (2001–2007) as undercover detective Tommy Murphy, a role that was created for him by writer Colin Bateman. He won a British Independent Film Award and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. A departure from his previous "cheeky chappie" roles, the film was a turning point in his career. The next year, he played Ivan Cooper in the television film Bloody Sunday, about the 1972 shootings in Derry. In Lucky Break (2001), he made his debut as a film lead, playing prisoner Jimmy Hands. With the rest of the starring cast, he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. Nesbitt's first significant film role came when he appeared as pig farmer "Pig" Finn in Waking Ned (1998). He got his breakthrough television role playing Adam Williams in the romantic comedy-drama series Cold Feet (1997–2003, 2016–present), which won him a British Comedy Award, a Television and Radio Industries Club Award, and a National Television Award. He made his feature film debut playing talent agent Fintan O'Donnell in Hear My Song (1991). “Now, she has been pretty cushioned but it really has made me concentrate a lot on just that generation and I think they’ve been a wee bit overlooked to tell you the truth in terms of the ramifications they’re going to have.William James Nesbitt OBE (born 15 January 1965) is a Northern Irish actor and television presenter.įrom 1987, Nesbitt spent seven years performing in plays that varied from the musical Up on the Roof (1987, 1989) to the political drama Paddywack (1994). “And then she was supposed to go to Honduras for her year out to teach English as part of a charity called Project Trust and that was taken away from her. “But Mary I just felt so sorry for, she’s a very applied girl but she wasn’t able to do her A-Levels, all that lot that didn’t have a summer of festivals and snogging and partying. “My daughters who are grown up now - Mary is 19 and Peggy is 23 - they were working throughout lockdown, they work for a thing called Freddie’s Flowers,” he added. In the podcast, the Coleraine man also revealed the toll the lockdown had on his daughters, particularly youngest Mary. His son, now filming Netflix drama Stay Close in Manchester, shares two daughters Peggy and Mary with ex-wife Sonia Forbes-Adam. James “Jim” Nesbitt was the former headmaster of a primary school at Lisnamurrican, near Broughshane. “It got to a stage where, before dad went, I was able to look at him and he knew I was saying ‘thanks’ and I felt he was looking at me going ‘you’ve done alright’. He was 91 and then I lost him in August which was sad but very bittersweet because we really had an opportunity to talk for a very long time. “We had five months of me sitting in the yard and him sitting in the living room, just rekindling a friendship. “Actually when I look back on lockdown, it’s really a mixed blessing for me because I got to spend a lot of time with my father, who was my primary school headmaster when I was a kid.
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