Nick’s costume character and performance skills make him an industry legend and a must-have for productions that require technically sophisticated puppetry. Excellence only comes from literally hundreds of hours on film and TV sets, which is why Nick was our first choice for refreshed Teletubbies (performing Dipsy, 120 eps) and Nick had to be our pony Pickle (Apple TV+ Lovely Little Farm). Highly skilled in animatronics, puppetry, voice work, a movement specialist – and great at comedy! An all round good guy.
Creature Performer, Puppeteer and Actor for Television and Film
Nick Kellington is one of the UK’s principle Creature Performers and has worked in TV and Film for over 20 years.
Specialising as a physical performer, Nick loves working in fabricated animatronic creature suits, puppeteering animatronics, performing in prosthetic make ups, voicing characters and providing dialogue onset, working in performance capture, working in puppetry teams and performing VFX reference puppets and creatures.
Nick’s extensive back catalogue of work for TV includes:
- 100 episodes of “In the Night Garden” as Igglepiggle (2x BAFTA winning series)
- 104 episodes of “ZingZillas” as orangutan guitarist Tang.
- 120 episodes of the Teletubbies 2015 reboot as Dipsy.
- Playing Skekmal The Hunter in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance for The Jim Henson Company on Netflix. (Emmy winning Series)
- Playing Pickle Pony in “Lovely Little Farm” for 2 seasons on Apple TV+. (BAFTA, Venice TV award and Broadcast Award UK winning series)
For Film, Nick fulfilled a life long dream in 2016 when he appeared for the first time in the Star Wars galaxy.
Joining Neal Scanlan’s Creature FX team, Nick played Bistan A.K.A. Space Monkey in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and continues to be a Creature Performer and Puppeteer in the Star Wars Films and Television series with the more recent release of Andor Season 2. Here, Nick plays a Cingulon Senator alien, a prosthetic make up character who is Nick’s first speaking role in the Star Wars galaxy.
Also more recently, Nick worked with the legendary director Tim Burton, when he played Bob Shrinker in the hit film “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”.
Working with many of the UK’s leading Creature FX workshops, Nick prides himself on his positive and professional attitude when taking on any role.
Whether it be for Television, Film or Commercials, a lead character or supporting role, as a solo character or working as part of a puppetry team, for in lens practical effects or for characters that will eventually be replaced by VFX, Nick loves working and contributing to create iconic and fantastical characters that are recognised and loved around the world.
So if you are searching for a Creature Performer, Puppeteer or Actor in your next project, why not contact him?
