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Nick Cave

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

Sep 22, 1957 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia

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.

Known For

Acting
2026Broken EnglishSelf
2025The Extraordinary Miss FlowerSelf
2025Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God TourSelf
2025Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE ConcertSelf
2025Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not EnoughNarrator
2025Wim Wenders: Der ewig SuchendeSelf
2024Memoir of a SnailBill Clarke (voice)
2024The Making of Wild GodNick Cave
2024But We Had Music(Voice)
2023Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday PartySelf
2023AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. RexSelf
2023Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging RockSelf
2023Barry Humphries: The Last LaughSelf
2022This Much I Know to Be TrueSelf
2022Kylie at the BBCSelf
2022Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022
2021The Electrical Life of Louis WainH.G. Wells
2021Karen Dalton: In My Own TimeSelf
2021Letters Live from the Archive: Union ChapelSelf
2020The Private Death of Lizzy SiddalMr. Invisible
2020Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years LaterSelf
2020Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra PalaceSelf
2020FeeLee. History of a Single LabelSelf
2019The Creative BrainSelf
2019Love Eats Up LifeSelf (archive footage)
2018FuseTruck Driver (voice)
2018Distant SkySelf
2018Why Are We Creative?Self
2018TAPESelf
2017L7: Pretend We're DeadSelf (archive footage)
2017BoredomSelf
2017Do You Pray?Narrator
2017SnowmanNarrator
2017Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad SeedsSelf
2017Popular Voices at the BBCSelf (archive footage)
2016Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with FeelingSelf
2016The Beautiful Days of AranjuezSelf
2015B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989Self
2015Prophet's PreyNarrator
2015Wilde Jahre West-BerlinSelf
2015StrandedSelf
2015ArtsnightSelf
2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf - Guest
2014Goth at the BBCSelf
201420,000 Days on EarthSelf
2014Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City LimitsSelf
2013Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda TheatreSelf
2011Autoluminescent: Rowland S. HowardSelf
2009The Cat PianoNarrator
2009No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New YorkSelf
2009All Tomorrow's PartiesSelf
2009On/Off: Mark Stewart
2008Hardtimes Killin' Floor BluesSelf
2008Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four SessionsSelf
2008Blixa BargeldSelf
2008Mutiny! The Last Birthday PartySelf
2008Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008Self
2008Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!Self
2007Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the HouseSelf
2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert FordBowery Saloon Singer
2007Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues TourSelf - vocals, piano
2007365 Day ProjectSelf
2007The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk MusicSelf
2007The Dirty ThreeSelf
2007Pixote In MemoriamSelf
2006Leonard Cohen: I'm Your ManSelf
2006The Harry Smith Project LiveSelf
2005The Work of Director Anton CorbijnSelf (segment "Straight to You")
2005The Story of 'Fairytale of New York'Self
2005Seele BrenntNick Cave
2004Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of OrpheusSelf
2003The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must BurnSelf
2003Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: NocturamaSelf
2003The BluesSelf
2001If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan StorySelf
2001Listen With PainSelf
2001Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We PartSelf
2001Listen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten
1998Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The VideosSelf
1997The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowanSelf
1997Rhinoceros Hunting in BudapestJerry
1997Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's CallSelf
1996Baby Trouble HoleSinger
1996Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder BalladsSelf
1996Australian StorySelf
1994September Songs: The Music of Kurt WeillSelf
1994Freaks, Nerds & WeirdosSelf
1994Nick Cave: Straight To You - A PortraitSelf
1994Die Haut - SweatSelf
1994Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love InSelf
1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Musical Guest
1992Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The ParadisoSelf
1992Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's DreamSelf
1991Johnny SuedeFreak Storm
1991IDn4Self
1991The SongSelf
1990The Road to God Knows WhereSelf
1990IDn2Entry
1990IDn3Self
1990Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good SonSelf
1988Ghosts... of the Civil DeadMaynard
1988Dandy
1988Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender PreySelf
1987Wings of DesireSelf - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
1987Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange LandSelf
1987Kings of IndependenceSelf
1986Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the PricksSelf
1986Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My TrialSelf
1985Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is DeadSelf
1984Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to EternitySelf
1953The OscarsSelf
-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996self
-Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998)Self
-Before They Were Gods(voice)
Production
2025The Death of Bunny MunroExecutive Producer
Directing
2020Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra PalaceDirector
Writing
2025Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God TourAuthor
2025The Death of Bunny MunroNovel
201420,000 Days on EarthWriter
2012LawlessScreenplay
2011MillhavenAuthor
2005The PropositionScreenplay
1988Ghosts... of the Civil DeadWriter
Crew
2025Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God TourCompositor
2016NocturamaThanks
1986Dogs in SpaceThanks