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Nigel Pilkington
Born (1975-11-28) 28 November 1975 (age 49)
NationalityBritish
Alma materCambridge University
Occupation(s)Actor, screenwriter, lawyer
Years active2004–present
Websitenigelpilkington.com

Nigel Pilkington (born 28 November 1975) is a British actor and screenwriter.

Career

Pilkington has appeared in various television programs such as "Grandpa in My Pocket", Cutting It, Trial & Retribution, Roman Mysteries and Richard Hammond's Secret Service.

As a voice actor Pilkington has provided many voices for animated films like Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest, television shows like The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky, The Jungle Book and Peter Rabbit and also the video games Inazuma Eleven and Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch.[1]

From Series 19 onwards, he became the UK voice of Percy and Trevor in Thomas & Friends.

Pilkington directed, produced and wrote the short films Alone in 2011,[2] and "That's The Spirit" in 2014.[3]

Pilkington co-wrote, directed and produced the mockumentary podcast series "Dying Breeds", released in 2020.[4]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2005 The Brothers Grimm Various
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Additional voices
2006 Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest Asmar (voice)
Casino Royale Croupier
2007 Nobody's Perfect Neil
2009 Awaydays Various
2011 Alone
2012 Thinking Inside the Box Darrel
Cold Warrior Commentator (voice)
2013 The Jungle Book: Return 2 the Jungle Tabaqui (voice) Direct-to-video
2016 Thomas & Friends: The Great Race Percy (voice) UK dub
2017 Journey Beyond Sodor
2018 Thomas & Friends: Big World, Big Adventures!

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Cutting It Compere Episode #3.6
2005 The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky Ned, JoJo, Swift K.I.D., Tricky Voice
2007 A Room with a View Various TV movie
2008 Trial & Retribution 2-part episode: "The Rules of the Game"
Masterpiece Episode "A Room with a View"
Burn Up Episode #1.1
Roman Mysteries Episode: "The Slave Girl from Jerusalem"
The Commander: Abduction Additional voices TV movie
2009 The Tudors Episodes: "Search for a New Queen", "Protestant Anne of Cleves", "The Undoing of Cromwell"
2010–2020 The Jungle Book Tabaqui, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, additional voices
2012–2016 Peter Rabbit Squirrel Nutkin UK dub
2013–present Richard Hammond's Secret Service Various
2014 Grandpa in My Pocket Simon Snapham Episode: "A Sunnysands Shelter for Bella La Belter"
2015–2021 Thomas & Friends Percy, Trevor (voices) UK dub
Succeeding Keith Wickham as the voice of Percy
2015–16 Wissper Monty, Frank, Pablo, Herbert, Additional voices Season 2
Succeeding Keith Wickham as Monty
2019 Thomas & Friends: Steam Team to the Rescue Percy (voice) UK dub
2020 Thomas & Friends: The Royal Engine

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2011 Inazuma Eleven Ryūgo Someoka, Additional voices English version
2013 Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Young Marcassin
2016 Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Papalymo Totolymo
2017 Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Tansui
2019 Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers Moren, Sul Uin, Ghen Gen
2021 Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Jullus
2022 Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Lieutenant Travis

References

  1. ^ "MobyGames – Nigel Pilkington". Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Alone – written and performed by Nigel Pilkington on Vimeo". Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  3. ^ "That's the Spirit".
  4. ^ "Dying Breeds".