Nick Cave

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

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Musical Guest

Memoir of a Snail

Bill Clarke (voice)

Australian Story

Self

The Blues

Self

TAPE

Self

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Bowery Saloon Singer

Wings of Desire

Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	The Extraordinary Miss Flower	Self
2025	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour	Self
2025	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris	Self
2024	Memoir of a Snail	Bill Clarke (voice)
2024	The Making of Wild God	Nick Cave
2023	Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party	Self
2023	Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex	Self
2023	Kingdom in the Sky: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Live at Hanging Rock	Self
2023	Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh	Self
2022	This Much I Know to Be True	Self
2022	Kylie at the BBC	Self
2022	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live in Montreux 2022
2021	The Electrical Life of Louis Wain	H.G. Wells
2021	Karen Dalton: In My Own Time	Self
2021	Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel	Self
2020	The Private Death of Lizzy Siddal	Mr. Invisible
2020	Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later	Self
2020	Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace	Self
2020	FeeLee. History of a Single Label	Self
2019	The Creative Brain	Self
2019	Love Eats Up Life	Self (archive footage)
2018	Fuse	Truck Driver (voice)
2018	Distant Sky	Self
2018	Why Are We Creative?	Self
2017	L7: Pretend We're Dead	Self (archive footage)
2017	Boredom	Self
2017	Do You Pray?	Narrator
2017	Snowman	Narrator
2016	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling	Self
2016	The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez	Self
2016	Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Self
2015	B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989	Self
2015	Prophet's Prey	Narrator
2015	Wilde Jahre West-Berlin	Self
2015	Stranded	Self
2014	Goth at the BBC	Self
2014	20,000 Days on Earth	Self
2014	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Austin City Limits	Self
2013	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Fonda Theatre	Self
2012	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 12: Nocturama)	Self
2012	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 13: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus)	Self
2012	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 14: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!)	Self
2011	Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard	Self
2011	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 8: Let Love In)	Self
2011	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 9: Murder Ballads)	Self
2011	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 10: The Boatman's Call)	Self
2011	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 11: No More Shall We Part)	Self
2010	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 5: Tender Prey)	Self
2010	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 6: The Good Son)	Self
2010	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 7: Henry's Dream)	Self
2009	The Cat Piano	Narrator
2009	No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York	Self
2009	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 1: From Her to Eternity)	Self
2009	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 2: The Firstborn is Dead)	Self
2009	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 3: Kicking Against the Pricks)	Self
2009	Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 4: Your Funeral... My Trial)	Self
2009	All Tomorrow's Parties	Self
2009	On/Off: Mark Stewart
2008	Hardtimes Killin' Floor Blues	Self
2008	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Four Sessions	Self
2008	Blixa Bargeld	Self
2008	Mutiny! The Last Birthday Party	Self
2008	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: BBC Appearances Collection 1989 - 2008	Self
2007	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House	Self
2007	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Bowery Saloon Singer
2007	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Abattoir Blues Tour	Self - vocals, piano
2007	365 Day Project
2007	The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music	Self
2007	The Dirty Three	Self
2007	Pixote In Memoriam	Self
2006	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man	Self
2006	The Harry Smith Project Live	Self
2005	The Work of Director Anton Corbijn	Self (segment "Straight to You")
2005	The Story of ‘Fairytale of New York’	Self
2003	The Birthday Party: Pleasure Heads Must Burn	Self
2001	If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story	Self
1998	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Videos	Self
1997	The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan	Self
1997	Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest	Jerry
1996	Baby Trouble Hole	Singer
1994	September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill	Self
1994	Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos	Self
1994	Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait	Self
1994	Die Haut - Sweat	Self
1992	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live at The Paradiso	Self
1991	Johnny Suede	Freak Storm
1991	IDn4	Self
1991	The Song	Self
1990	The Road to God Knows Where	Self
1990	IDn2	Entry
1990	IDn3	Self
1988	Ghosts... of the Civil Dead	Maynard
1988	Dandy
1987	Wings of Desire	Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
1987	Nick Cave: Stranger in a Strange Land	Self
1987	Kings of Independence	Self
	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Bizarre Festival 1996	self
	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Short Film (1978-1998)	Self

Year	TV Show	Role
2018	TAPE	Self
2017	Popular Voices at the BBC	Self (archive footage)
2015	Artsnight	Self
2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self
2003	The Blues	Self
1996	Australian Story	Self
1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Musical Guest