Nick Hamm

Nick Hamm’s got a career that’s honestly kind of wild, bouncing from the London fringe scene to the Royal Shakespeare Company, rubbing elbows with heavyweights like Arthur Miller and Howard Barker. He picked up a BAFTA for The Harmfulness of Tobacco early on, then just kept stacking up credits: BBC’s Play on One (with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Colin Firth—no big deal), Miramax’s Talk of Angels, and the cult classic The Hole, which basically put a young Keira Knightley and Thora Birch on the map. Remember Godsend? That was Hamm too—thriller vibes, Robert DeNiro and Greg Kinnear doing their thing. The guy doesn’t sit still. He made Killing Bono—a bonkers U2-adjacent comedy—and then dove into political drama with The Journey, which nabbed a Venice premiere and an IFTA award for Colm Meaney. Hamm’s Driven closed the Venice Film Festival and hit theaters under Universal’s banner, while White Lines, his Netflix series with Alex Pina, just took off—one of those shows that people binged like crazy in 2020. More recently, Hamm dropped Gigi & Nate, a tearjerker about hope and animal friendship, with Marcia Gay Harden and Diane Ladd. After that, he set up Free Turn, his own entertainment company, splitting time between London and LA. As of summer 2024, he’s deep in post-production on William Tell, a period action flick packed with talent—Claes Bang, Golshifteh Farahani, Sir Ben Kingsley, the works. The dude’s career? Never boring.