Nigel Lindsay is an English stage and screen actor, best known on
television for his roles as Sir Robert Peel in the first two seasons
of Victoria, Jo Jo Marshall in the Netflix series Safe and as Barry in
the BAFTA winning Chris Morris film Four Lions for which he was
nominated for Best British Comedy Performance in Film at the 2011
British Comedy AwardsIn 2012 he was nominated for an Olivier Award for
his performance in the title role in the original West End run of
Shrek the Musical at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and won the
Whatsonstage Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 2011 production of
Arthur Miller's Broken Glass at the Tricycle Theatre.Lindsay was born
in St John's Wood and grew up in Kenton in North West London. He
attended Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, an independent private
day school for boys before going on to the University 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 stockbrokers Savory Milln and Swiss Bank SBC. After
performing in a friend's charity production of Robert Bolt's The
Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew, he gave up the City to take a two-year
course at the Webber Douglas Academy, where he won the Amherst Webber
scholarship. His finals show, Charley's Aunt, was directed by Michael
Fry, who gave him his first professional job with the Lincolnshire
touring company Great Eastern Stage.
television for his roles as Sir Robert Peel in the first two seasons
of Victoria, Jo Jo Marshall in the Netflix series Safe and as Barry in
the BAFTA winning Chris Morris film Four Lions for which he was
nominated for Best British Comedy Performance in Film at the 2011
British Comedy AwardsIn 2012 he was nominated for an Olivier Award for
his performance in the title role in the original West End run of
Shrek the Musical at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and won the
Whatsonstage Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 2011 production of
Arthur Miller's Broken Glass at the Tricycle Theatre.Lindsay was born
in St John's Wood and grew up in Kenton in North West London. He
attended Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, an independent private
day school for boys before going on to the University 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 stockbrokers Savory Milln and Swiss Bank SBC. After
performing in a friend's charity production of Robert Bolt's The
Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew, he gave up the City to take a two-year
course at the Webber Douglas Academy, where he won the Amherst Webber
scholarship. His finals show, Charley's Aunt, was directed by Michael
Fry, who gave him his first professional job with the Lincolnshire
touring company Great Eastern Stage.
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