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Nigel Lindsay (born 17 January 1969) is an English actor. He is best known on television for his roles as Sir Robert Peel in the first two seasons ofVictoria, Jo Jo Marshall in theNetflix seriesSafe and as Barry in theBAFTA-winningChris Morris filmFour Lions for which he was nominated for Best British Comedy Performance in Film at the 2011British Comedy Awards.

In 2012 he was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance in the title role in the original West End run ofShrek the Musical at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane^[1] and won the Whatsonstage Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 2011 production ofArthur Miller'sBroken Glass at the Tricycle Theatre.^[2][3][4]

Lindsay was born inSt John's Wood and grew up in North West London. He attendedMerchant Taylors' School, Northwood, an independent privateday school for boys before going on to theUniversity of Birmingham, where he studied English and French. After university, he worked for three years as a financial analyst, specialising in French and Belgian equities at London stockbrokers Savory Milln and Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC). But he gave up the city and won a place at bar school and drama school starting on the same day. He opted for the two-year drama course at theWebber Douglas Academy, where he won the Amherst Webber Scholarship. His finals show, in which he appeared as the eponymousCharley's Aunt, was directed by Michael Fry, who gave him his first professional job with theLincolnshire touring company Great Eastern Stage.

Lindsay's early work was mainly in theatre. One of his first London stage roles saw him play the King of France inKing Lear at theRoyal Court Theatre, withTom Wilkinson asLear andAndy Serkis as the Fool. At a weekly Monday night poker game, Lindsay was asked byPatrick Marber to attend a week's improvisational workshop of a play he was devising about poker. This becameDealer's Choice, which premiered at the National Theatre in February 1995 with Lindsay as Mugsy andRay Winstone andPhil Daniels among the original cast. The play transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre, and won that year'sEvening Standard Award for Best Comedy and Writers' Guild Award for Best Play. Other theatre work includes: Max inThe Real Thing byTom Stoppard, which won three Tonys on Broadway in 2000; Ariel in the 2004 Olivier award-winning National Theatre production ofMartin McDonagh'sThe Pillowman, withJim Broadbent andDavid Tennant; twice as Nathan Detroit in Michael Grandage'sGuys and Dolls at thePiccadilly Theatre in 2005 and again at the Phoenix Theatre in 2015, and Charlie Maggs inSucker Punch, withDaniel Kaluuya at the Royal Court in 2010. Lindsay has appeared in five plays at theAlmeida Theatre, including as Lenny inHarold Pinter'sThe Homecoming withKen Cranham andDanny Dyer in 2009 and as Moe Axelrod alongsideStockard Channing andJodie Whittaker inAwake and Sing byClifford Odets, for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the 2008 Whatsonstage Awards.^[5]

Lindsay has appeared in many regular series, including:Unforgotten,Spooks,Silent Witness,Waking the Dead,Poirot,New Tricks andInspector George Gently. He played Odo Stevens in the 1997 Channel 4 adaptation ofA Dance to the Music of Time;Ewan McGregor's boss Ron Baker in the filmRogue Trader; the Jewish terrorist Levi inRome; and Lt Col Mervyn Gonin in the BAFTA nominatedThe Relief of Belsen. He has worked withSteve Coogan onI'm Alan Partridge,Mid-Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, andAlan Partridge: Alpha Papa; withArmando Iannucci onThe Armando Iannucci Shows; withJennifer Saunders in two series ofJam and Jerusalem; and again with Chris Morris onBrass Eye. More recently he appeared as Tony Walsh in two series of the BBC comedyWhite Gold.^[6][7]

Later theatre work includes playing Bolingbroke oppositeDavid Tennant in the RSC production ofRichard II at Stratford and the Barbican; Jack McCracken in the National Theatre revival of theAlan Ayckbourn playA Small Family Business in the Olivier theatre; and Charlie Fox oppositeLindsay Lohan andRichard Schiff inDavid Mamet'sSpeed-the-Plow at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End. In 2021, Lindsay made his debut at Ireland's National Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, inBrian Friel'sFaith Healer alongsideNiamh Cusack andAidan Gillen to great critical acclaim. In 2023 he appeared as Henry Lehman in a 17 week, sold out revival ofThe Lehman Trilogy at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London's West End, directed bySam Mendes.

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