Accumulated profits at James Nesbitt production firm increase to €6.95m
over 3 years in The Irish Times
Accumulated profits at the main TV firm owned by actor James Nesbitt increased to £5.808 million (€6.954 million) in 2020.
The Derryman’s career includes hit roles in Cold Feet and new Netflix drama, Stay Close and accumulated profits at Nesbitt’s Brown Cow Films Ltd increased by £782,555 (€938,501) to £5.808 million at the end of March, 2020.
The profits of £782,555 for the year were a £256,677 – or a 49 per cent – increase on the £525,878 profits recorded for the previous 12 months.
Role
The accounts lodged with Companies House in the UK show that the company’s cash pile declined from £1.275 million to £1.221 million during the year while monies owed to the company increased from £4.3 million to £5.19 million.
Harlan Coben’s Stay Close is currently ranked in the top spot in Netflix’s Irish charts but Nesbitt’s most high profile role over the last year was his smallest one in recent times when he made a brief one scene appearance in BBC’s hit police procedural drama, Line of Duty.
The profits of 2020 and 2019 follow profits of £723,626 in the 12 months to the end of March 2018.
Along with roles in Cold Feet and Stay Close, Nesbitt also played the lead role in Sky’s Lucky Man which has been one of the station’s most successful original drama series to date.
Films
The 56-year-old actorhas also starred in the award-winning Bloody Sunday, BBC’s hit primetime drama, The Missing and he gained worldwide recognition after featuring in The Hobbit series of films that have amassed almost $3 billion (€2.6 billion) at the box office.
Nesbitt’s time playing the dwarf, Bofur involved him spending a total of two years in New Zealand for the Hobbit series undertaking what he called the ‘brutal’ journey to New Zealand 12 times.
In 2016, Nesbitt was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s list for services to Northern Ireland and to acting after years of work helping families affected by the conflict.
Nesbitt initially had ambitions of being a teacher, but dropped out of his college course to pursue a career in acting.
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