
Nick Cave
Acting
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.
Born: September 22, 1957 · Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
Filmography (54)

TV
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025
NovelExecutive Producer+2

Train Dreams
2025
SongsVocals

Memoir of a Snail
2024
Actor: Bill Clarke (voice…

Back to Black
2024
Original Music Composer

The New Boy
2023
Original Music Composer

TV
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
2022
Original Music Composer

Blonde
2022
Original Music Composer

This Much I Know to Be True
2022
ActorOriginal Music Composer

The Velvet Queen
2021
Original Music Composer

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021
Actor: H.G. Wells

Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
2021
Actor

Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
2020
ActorDirector

The Creative Brain
2019
Actor

Why Are We Creative?
2018
Actor

Distant Sky
2018
Actor

Kings
2017
Original Music Composer

L7: Pretend We're Dead
2017
Actor: Self (archive foot…

Wind River
2017
Original Music Composer

War Machine
2017
Original Music Composer

The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
2016
Actor

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling
2016
ActorMusic+1

Nocturama
2016
Thanks

Hell or High Water
2016
Original Music Composer

TV
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Actor: Self - Guest

Prophet's Prey
2015
Actor: NarratorMusic

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015
Actor

Far from Men
2015
Original Music Composer

20,000 Days on Earth
2014
ActorWriter+1

West of Memphis
2012
Original Music Composer

A Few Hours of Spring
2012
Original Music Composer

Lawless
2012
ScreenplayOriginal Music Composer

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011
Actor

Millhaven
2010
Writer

The Road
2009
Original Music Composer

All Tomorrow's Parties
2009
Actor

The Cat Piano
2009
Actor: Narrator

The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
2008
Original Music Composer

The English Surgeon
2007
Original Music Composer

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
Actor: Bowery Saloon Sing…Original Music Composer

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House
2007
Actor

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
2006
Actor

The Proposition
2005
ScreenplayOriginal Music Composer+1

The Work of Director Anton Corbijn
2005
Actor: Self (segment "Str…

TV
The Blues
2003
Actor

Winged Migration
2001
Theme Song Performance

If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story
2001
Actor

To Have and to Hold
1996
Original Music Composer

TV
Australian Story
1996
Actor

TV
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Actor: Self - Musical Gue…

Johnny Suede
1991
Actor: Freak Storm

Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
1988
Actor: MaynardWriter+1

Wings of Desire
1987
Actor: Self - Nick Cave a…

Dogs in Space
1986
Thanks

TV
The Oscars
1953
Actor
