Acting · Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia · Born September 22, 1957
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.
TVKylie
2026
as Self
MovieBroken English
2026
as Self
MovieIrvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025
as Narrator
MovieWim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
2025
as Self
MovieThe Extraordinary Miss Flower
2025
as Self
MovieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour
2025
as Self
MovieNick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert
2025
as Self
MovieThe Making of Wild God
2024
as Nick Cave
MovieMemoir of a Snail
2024
as Bill Clarke (voice)
MovieBut We Had Music
2024
as (Voice)
MovieBarry Humphries: The Last Laugh
2023
as Self
MovieKingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock
2023
as Self
MovieMutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
2023
as Self
MovieAngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
2023
as Self
MovieKylie at the BBC
2022
as Self
MovieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022
2022
MovieThis Much I Know to Be True
2022
as Self
MovieThe Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021
as H.G. Wells
MovieKaren Dalton: In My Own Time
2021
as Self
MovieLetters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021
as Self
MovieFeeLee. History of a Single Label
2020
as Self
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
2020
as Self (archive footage)
MovieIdiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
2020
as Self
MovieStefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later
2020
as Self
MovieThe Private Death of Lizzy Siddal
2020
as Mr. Invisible
MovieLove Eats Up Life
2019
as Self (archive footage)
MovieKylie Minogue: Summer 2019 - Live At Glastonbury
2019
as Self
MovieThe Creative Brain
2019
as Self
MovieWhy Are We Creative?
2018
as Self
MovieFuse
2018
as Truck Driver (voice)
TVTAPE
2018
as Self
MovieDistant Sky
2018
as Self
TVPopular Voices at the BBC
2017
as Self (archive footage)
MovieL7: Pretend We're Dead
2017
as Self (archive footage)
MovieLovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2017
as Self
MovieSnowman
2017
as Narrator
MovieBoredom
2017
as Self
MovieDo You Pray?
2017
as Narrator
MovieThe Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
2016
as Self
MovieOne More Time with Feeling
2016
as Self
MovieStranded
2015
as Self
TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
MovieProphet's Prey
2015
as Narrator
Artsnight
2015
as Self
MovieB-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015
as Self
MovieWilde Jahre West-Berlin
2015
as Self
MovieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits
2014
as Self
MovieGoth at the BBC
2014
as Self
Movie20,000 Days on Earth
2014
as Self
MovieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre
2013
as Self
MovieAutoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011
as Self
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
2009
as Self
MovieOn/Off: Mark Stewart
2009
MovieAll Tomorrow's Parties
2009
as Self
MovieThe Cat Piano
2009
as Narrator
MovieBlixa Bargeld
2008
as Self
MovieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008
2008
as Self
MovieHardtimes Killin' Floor Blues
2008
as Self
MovieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions
2008
as Self
MovieMutiny! The Last Birthday Party
2008
as Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
2008
as Self
Movie365 Day Project
2007
as Self
MoviePixote In Memoriam
2007
as Self
MovieThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007
as Bowery Saloon Singer
MovieNick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House
2007
as Self
MovieThe Dirty Three
2007
as Self
MovieThe Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007
as Self
MovieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour
2007
as Self - vocals, piano
MovieLeonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
2006
as Self
MovieThe Harry Smith Project Live
2006
as Self
MovieThe Story of 'Fairytale of New York'
2005
as Self
MovieSeele Brennt
2005
as Nick Cave
MovieThe Work of Director Anton Corbijn
2005
as Self (segment "Straight to You")
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
2004
as Self
TVThe Blues
2003
as Self
MovieThe Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn
2003
as Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nocturama
2003
as Self
Listen With Pain
2001
as Self
MovieListen with Pain: 20 Years of Einstürzende Neubauten
2001
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part
2001
as Self
MovieIf I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story
2001
as Self
MovieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos
1998
as Self
MovieThe Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan
1997
as Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Boatman's Call
1997
as Self
MovieRhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997
as Jerry
MovieBaby Trouble Hole
1996
as Singer
TVAustralian Story
1996
as Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
1996
as Self
MovieFreaks, Nerds & Weirdos
1994
as Self
MovieDie Haut - Sweat
1994
as Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In
1994
as Self
MovieSeptember Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
1994
as Self
MovieNick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
1994
as Self
TVLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Musical Guest
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream
1992
as Self
MovieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso
1992
as Self
MovieThe Song
1991
as Self
MovieIDn4
1991
as Self
MovieJohnny Suede
1991
as Freak Storm
MovieThe Road to God Knows Where
1990
as Self
MovieIDn3
1990
as Self
MovieIDn2
1990
as Entry
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Good Son
1990
as Self
MovieDandy
1988
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Tender Prey
1988
as Self
MovieGhosts... of the Civil Dead
1988
as Maynard
MovieWings of Desire
1987
as Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
MovieKings of Independence
1987
as Self
MovieNick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land
1987
as Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Your Funeral... My Trial
1986
as Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against the Pricks
1986
as Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Firstborn Is Dead
1985
as Self
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: From Her to Eternity
1984
as Self
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
MovieNick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996
as self
MovieNick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998)
as Self
MovieBefore They Were Gods
as (voice)
