Nick Frost

Nick Frost (birthname: Nicholas John Frost) is best known for his acclaimed comic performances in director/writer Edgar Wright’s Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy of apocalyptic comedies—Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), The World’s End (2013), which also established Frost as one half of a droll British twosome with fellow comic (and friend) Simon Pegg.

Frost followed up his first success with Wright with a supporting turn in the Julian Jarrold-directed drag queen comedy, Kinky Boots (2005), with Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Sarah-Jane Potts, and earning $10 million for Miramax/Buena Vista Distribution.

Frost again played support in the UK/US fantasy rom-com Penelope (2006), which co-starred Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O’Hara, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Dinklage, and Richard E. Grant under Mark Palansky’s direction. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival before returning a poor $21 million box office for Summit Entertainment (US)/Momentum Pictures (UK)/Hyde Park International (world).

Frost was cast by director/writer Richard Curtis for the starry ensemble of The Boat That Rocked aka Pirate Radio (2009), co-starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, and Kenneth Branagh, but proving to be one of Curtis’s few money losers with only $36.6 million in grosses (against a $50 million budget) for Focus Features/Universal Pictures.

Nick Frost co-starred in director/writer Joe Cornish’s terrific sci-fi comedy, Attack the Block (2011), with John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, and Alex Esmail, and after premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival, it delivered a disappointing return of $6.5 million (on a $13 million budget) but rave reviews. Frost co-starred in and co-wrote the sci-fi/comedy road movie Paul (2011) with Simon Pegg, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Blythe Danner, John Carroll Lynch, Sigourney Weaver, and Seth Rogen under Greg Mottola’s direction, which grossed $98 million for Universal Pictures on $40 million costs.

Frost delivered his first motion-capture performance in Steven Spielberg’s computer-animated The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011), based on the beloved comic book series by Hergé, with Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg and Toby Jones, and grossing $374 million (against $135 million costs) for co-distributors Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Releasing International.

Frost played a dwarf opposite Ian McShane in Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), starring Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Sam Claflin, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, and Toby Jones under Rupert Sanders’ direction, and then Frost returned in the sequel, The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016), with new cast members Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain and Rob Brydon under Cedric Nicolas-Troyan’s direction, with the pair of movies grossing a combined $562 million for Universal Pictures.

Nick Frost did the first of his several voice performances in animated movies with the hit ($877 gross) sequel, Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), with the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Jennifer Lopez and Queen Latifah under the co-direction of Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier for Blue Sky Studios/20^th Century Fox Animation and distributor 20^th Century Fox.

Frost also voiced for The Boxtrolls (2014), loosely based on Alan Snow’s 2005 novel, Here Be Monsters and featuring the voices of Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, Dee Bradley Baker, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Tracy Morgan, and Simon Pegg under the co-direction of Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi and earning over $108 million for Focus Features/Universal Pictures.

Frost performed as Obelix in the UK English dub voice cast of the French-produced animated sequel, Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods (2016), with fellow voice cast members Jack Whitehall, Greg Davies, Matt Berry, Harry Enfield, Jim Broadbent, and which was produced by M6 Films/Belvision/Grid Animation. Frost co-starred in director/writer/producer Stephen Merchant’s wrestling comedy-drama for MGM and WWE Studios, Fighting with My Family (2019), also starring Florence Pugh, Lena Headey, Jack Lowden, Vince Vaughn, and Dwayne Johnson (who also produced), and grossing $41.5 million (on an $11 million budget) after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.

Nick Frost joined Dutch comedy filmmaker Steffen Haars as lead for two back-to-back horror-comedies, first with the Haars and Flip van der Kuil-directed Krazy House (2024), with Kevin Connolly and Alicia Silverstone, and then with Haars as solo director on Get Away (2024), which Frost also wrote and co-starred with Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft and Maisie Ayres, and released in a wide pattern by IFC Films and streaming on Shudder after premiering at Fantastic Fest.

Frost was cast in a prominent role in DreamWorks Animation’s first live-action movie,  How to Train Your Dragon (2025), a remake of the hit 2010 animated movie based on Cressida Cowell’s 2003 novel starring Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Julian Dennison, and Gerard Butler, and which was directed, written and co-produced by Dean DeBlois, and released by Universal Pictures.