Andy Nyman

**Andy Nyman**, actual name *Andrew Nyman*, is an English actor, director, writer and magician with a career spanning over three decades. Born on 13 April 1966 in Leicester, Leicestershire, Nyman embarked on a versatile palette of roles and performances. His noteworthy acting journey commenced with the 2000 performance as Keith Whitehead in *Dead Babies*, soon followed with roles alongside eminent actors in Emmy award-winning films. Nyman diversely portrayed characters, such as a gay French gun dealer in the 2003 film *Coney Island Baby* and a Polish-Jewish freedom fighter in *Uprising*. Over the years, Nyman has appeared in horror-comedy, biopics, romcoms, and supernatural drama series, earning the best actor award at the 2006 Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film. In 2007, he worked with *Frank Oz* in Death at a Funeral and starred in Charlie Brooker's E4 horror satire *Dead Set*. His recurring role as Jonty de Wolf in Channel 4's show Campus is quite remembered. Besides acting, Nyman voiced characters for series like Sarah & Duck and Chuggington. As a magician and mentalist, he worked with psychological illusionist Derren Brown, co-creating television shows and stage performances. His co-creation, a horror stage-play Ghost Stories, has run on various stages and was adapted into a film in 2017. He continued with the stage career portraying roles in various theatre productions.