James Nesbitt
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 James Nesbitt facts

• Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Nesbitt grew up in the nearby village of Broughshane, before moving to Coleraine, County Londonderry
• He wanted to become a teacher like his father, so he began a degree in French at the University of Ulster
• He dropped out after a year when he decided to become an actor, and transferred to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London
• After graduating in 1987, he spent seven years performing in plays that varied from the musical Up on the Roof (1987, 1989) to the political drama Paddywack (1994)
• He made his feature film debut playing talent agent Fintan O'Donnell in Hear My Song (1991)
• Nesbitt got his breakthrough television role playing Adam Williams in the romantic comedy-drama Cold Feet (1998–2003), which won him a British Comedy Award, a Television and Radio Industries Club Award, and a National Television Award
• His first significant film role came when he appeared as pig farmer "Pig" Finn in Waking Ned (1998)
• With the rest of the starring cast, Nesbitt was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award
• In Lucky Break (2001), he made his debut as a film lead, playing prisoner Jimmy Hands
• The next year, he played Ivan Cooper in the television film Bloody Sunday, about the 1972 shootings in Derry