Nick Cave

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1957-09-22

Place of Birth

Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
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Nick Cave

Biography

Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and film actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He has appeared in some 15 feature films and video shorts, plus a heap of documentaries. Nick Cave has also composed a large number of scores, some of them with his musical partner Warren Ellis.

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Acting History

2025
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough as Narrator
2025
Broken English as Self
2025
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende as Self
2025
The Extraordinary Miss Flower as Self
2025
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert as Self
2025
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour as Self
2024
The Making of Wild God as Nick Cave
2024
Memoir of a Snail as Bill Clarke (voice)
2024
But We Had Music as (Voice)
2023
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh as Self
2023
Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock as Self
2023
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party as Self
2023
AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex as Self
2022
Kylie at the BBC as Self
2022
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022
2022
This Much I Know to Be True as Self
2021
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain as H.G. Wells
2021
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time as Self
2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel as Self
2020
FeeLee. History of a Single Label as Self
2020
Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace as Self
2020
Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later as Self
2020
The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal as Mr. Invisible
2019
Love Eats Up Life as Self (archive footage)
2019
The Creative Brain as Self
2018
Why Are We Creative? as Self
2018
Fuse as Truck Driver (voice)
2018
TAPE as Self
2018
Distant Sky as Self
2017
Popular Voices at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
2017
L7: Pretend We're Dead as Self (archive footage)
2017
Boredom as Self
2017
Snowman as Narrator
2017
Do You Pray? as Narrator
2016
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez as Self
2016
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling as Self
2016
Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds as Self
2015
Stranded as Self
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015
Prophet's Prey as Narrator
2015
Artsnight as Self
2015
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 as Self
2015
Wilde Jahre West-Berlin as Self
2014
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits as Self
2014
Goth at the BBC as Self
2014
20,000 Days on Earth as Self
2013
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre as Self
2011
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard as Self
2009
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York as Self
2009
On/Off: Mark Stewart
2009
All Tomorrow's Parties as Self
2009
The Cat Piano as Narrator
2008
Blixa Bargeld as Self
2008
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008 as Self
2008
Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues as Self
2008
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions as Self
2008
Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party as Self
2007
365 Day Project
2007
Pixote In Memoriam as Self
2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Bowery Saloon Singer
2007
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House as Self
2007
The Dirty Three as Self
2007
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music as Self
2007
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour as Self - vocals, piano
2006
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man as Self
2006
The Harry Smith Project Live as Self
2005
The Story of ‘Fairytale of New York’ as Self
2005
Seele Brennt as Nick Cave
2005
The Work of Director Anton Corbijn as Self (segment "Straight to You")
2003
The Blues as Self
2003
The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn as Self
2001
If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story as Self
1998
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos as Self
1997
The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan as Self
1997
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest as Jerry
1996
Baby Trouble Hole as Singer
1996
Australian Story as Self
1994
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos as Self
1994
Die Haut - Sweat as Self
1994
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill as Self
1994
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait as Self
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Musical Guest
1992
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso as Self
1991
The Song as Self
1991
IDn4 as Self
1991
Johnny Suede as Freak Storm
1990
The Road to God Knows Where as Self
1990
IDn3 as Self
1990
IDn2 as Entry
1988
Dandy
1988
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead as Maynard
1987
Wings of Desire as Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
1987
Kings of Independence as Self
1987
Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land as Self
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998) as Self
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996 as self
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Before They Were Gods as (voice)