- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- September 22, 1957
- Place of Birth
- Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
Nick Cave
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.
Filmography
tvKylie
2026 · Self
movieBroken English
2026 · Self
tvThe Death of Bunny Munro
2025 · Novel, Executive Producer, Original Music Composer, Creator
movieTrain Dreams
2025 · Songs, Vocals
movieIrvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025 · Narrator
movieWim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
2025 · Self
movieThe Extraordinary Miss Flower
2025 · Self
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour
2025 · Self, Author, Compositor, Original Music Composer
movieNick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert
2025 · Self
movieThe Making of Wild God
2024 · Nick Cave
movieMemoir of a Snail
2024 · Bill Clarke (voice)
movieBut We Had Music
2024 · (Voice)
movieBack to Black
2024 · Original Music Composer
movieBarry Humphries: The Last Laugh
2023 · Self
movieKingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock
2023 · Self
movieMutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
2023 · Self
movieAngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
2023 · Self
movieThe New Boy
2023 · Original Music Composer
movieKylie at the BBC
2022 · Self
tvDAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
2022 · Original Music Composer
movieBlonde
2022 · Original Music Composer
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022
2022
movieThis Much I Know to Be True
2022 · Self, Original Music Composer
movieThe Velvet Queen
2021 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021 · H.G. Wells
movieKaren Dalton: In My Own Time
2021 · Self
movieLetters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021 · Self
movieFeeLee. History of a Single Label
2020 · Self
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
tvGay Byrne's Late Late Moments
2020 · Self
movieIdiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
2020 · Self, Director
movieStefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later
2020 · Self
movieThe Private Death of Lizzy Siddal
2020 · Mr. Invisible
movieLove Eats Up Life
2019 · Self (archive footage)
movieKylie Minogue: Summer 2019 - Live At Glastonbury
2019 · Self
movieThe Creative Brain
2019 · Self
movieWhy Are We Creative?
2018 · Self
movieFuse
2018 · Truck Driver (voice)
tvTAPE
2018 · Self
movieDistant Sky
2018 · Self
tvPopular Voices at the BBC
2017 · Self (archive footage)
movieKings
2017 · Original Music Composer
movieL7: Pretend We're Dead
2017 · Self (archive footage)
movieWind River
2017 · Original Music Composer
movieWar Machine
2017 · Original Music Composer
movieLovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2017 · Self
movieBoredom
2017 · Self
movieDo You Pray?
2017 · Narrator
movieSnowman
2017 · Narrator
movieThe Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
2016 · Self
movieOne More Time with Feeling
2016 · Self, Music, Original Music Composer
movieNocturama
2016 · Thanks
movieHell or High Water
2016 · Original Music Composer
movieStranded
2015 · Self
tvThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
movieProphet's Prey
2015 · Narrator, Music
Artsnight
tvArtsnight
2015 · Self
movieB-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015 · Self
movieFar from Men
2015 · Original Music Composer
movieWilde Jahre West-Berlin
2015 · Self
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits
2014 · Self
movieGoth at the BBC
2014 · Self
movie20,000 Days on Earth
2014 · Self, Writer, Original Music Composer
movieTender
2014 · Original Music Composer
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre
2013 · Self
movieWest of Memphis
2012 · Original Music Composer
movieA Few Hours of Spring
2012 · Original Music Composer
movieLawless
2012 · Screenplay, Original Music Composer
movieAutoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011 · Self
Submission
movieSubmission
2011 · Music
movieMillhaven
2011 · Author
movieThe Road
2009 · Original Music Composer
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
movieNo Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009 · Self
movieOn/Off: Mark Stewart
2009
movieAll Tomorrow's Parties
2009 · Self
movieThe Cat Piano
2009 · Narrator
movieBlixa Bargeld
2008 · Self
Angel of the Wind
movieAngel of the Wind
2008 · Music
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008
2008 · Self
movieHardtimes Killin' Floor Blues
2008 · Self
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions
2008 · Self
movieMutiny! The Last Birthday Party
2008 · Self
movieThe Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
2008 · Original Music Composer
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
2008 · Self
movie365 Day Project
2007 · Self
moviePixote In Memoriam
2007 · Self
movieThe English Surgeon
2007 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007 · Bowery Saloon Singer, Original Music Composer
movieNick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House
2007 · Self
movieThe Dirty Three
2007 · Self
movieThe Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007 · Self
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour
2007 · Self - vocals, piano
movieLeonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
2006 · Self
movieThe Harry Smith Project Live
2006 · Self
movieThe Story of 'Fairytale of New York'
2005 · Self
movieSeele Brennt
2005 · Nick Cave
movieThe Proposition
2005 · Screenplay, Original Music Composer, Vocals
movieThe Work of Director Anton Corbijn
2005 · Self (segment "Straight to You")
movieThe Goddess: How I Fell in Love. Film about the film
2004 · Music
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
2004 · Self
tvThe Blues
2003 · Self
movieThe Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn
2003 · Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama
2003 · Self
movieWinged Migration
2001 · Theme Song Performance
Listen With Pain
movieListen With Pain
2001 · Self
movieListen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten
2001
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part
2001 · Self
movieIf I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story
2001 · Self
movieExpelling the Demon
1999 · Music
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos
1998 · Self, Music
movieThe Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan
1997 · Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call
1997 · Self
movieRhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997 · Jerry
movieTo Have and to Hold
1996 · Original Music Composer
movieBaby Trouble Hole
1996 · Singer
tvAustralian Story
1996 · Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
1996 · Self
movieFreaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994 · Self
movieDie Haut - Sweat
1994 · Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In
1994 · Self
movieSeptember Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
1994 · Self
movieNick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
1994 · Self
tvLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Musical Guest
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream
1992 · Self
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso
1992 · Self
movieThe Song
1991 · Self
movieIDn4
1991 · Self
Just Visiting This Planet
movieJust Visiting This Planet
1991 · Music
movieJohnny Suede
1991 · Freak Storm
movieThe Road to God Knows Where
1990 · Self
movieIDn3
1990 · Self
movieIDn2
1990 · Entry
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son
1990 · Self
movieDandy
1988
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey
1988 · Self
movieGhosts... of the Civil Dead
1988 · Maynard, Writer, Original Music Composer
movieWings of Desire
1987 · Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
movieKings of Independence
1987 · Self
movieNick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land
1987 · Self
movieDogs in Space
1986 · Thanks
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial
1986 · Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks
1986 · Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead
1985 · Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity
1984 · Self
tvThe Oscars
1953 · Self
movieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996
— · self
movieNick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998)
— · Self
movieBefore They Were Gods
— · (voice)
The Circumventing Mind
movieThe Circumventing Mind
— · Music
movieWoyzeck
— · Music