An Honest Liar (2014) as Himself - The Science Guy
StarTalk (2015-2016) as Himself
Bill Nye, the Science Guy (1993-1998) as Writer
Ellen's Energy Adventure (1996) as Himself
Short Info
Net Worth
$6.5 Million
Date Of Birth
November 27, 1955
Spouse
Blair Tindall
Mark
Always appears with bow-tie and lab coat
Fact
One of his "Almost Live" co-stars in Seattle was Bob Nelson, screenwriter of "Nebraska".
Bill Nye is an American science communicator, television presenter, mechanical engineer, and comedian. He is best known for his work on the children’s educational television series Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–1998), which he hosted and produced. Nye has also written several books as the Science Guy.
Nye was born on November 27, 1955, in Washington, D.C., to Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye and Edwin Darby Nye. His father was a World War II veteran and served as a captain in the U.S. Navy. His mother was a codebreaker during the war. Nye has two sisters, Jenny and Susan.
Nye was educated at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., and Cornell University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He began his career as an engineer for Boeing in Seattle, Washington, where he worked on the 747 jumbo jet. He later became a stand-up comedian and television host.
Nye’s big break came in 1992 when he was asked to host a new children’s educational show called Bill Nye the Science Guy. The show was a huge success, winning 19 Emmy Awards over its five-year run. After the show ended, Nye continued to work as a science communicator, hosting shows such as The Eyes of Nye (2005) and Bill Nye Saves the World (2017). He has also written several books, including Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation (2014) and Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem (2017).
Nye has been married twice. His first marriage was to Blair Tindall, a musician, with whom he had one child. The couple divorced in 2006. Nye married his second wife, Tyler Alexander, in 2012.
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Nye is a passionate advocate for science and technology education. He has been awarded numerous honorary degrees and has been inducted into both the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the Television Hall of Fame.
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing For A Children's Series, Shorty Award for Best in Science, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children’s or Pre-School Children’s Series, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series, Washington Award
Nominations
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lighting Direction, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Photography, 20. Motion, 19. Science of Music, 18. Patterns
[on how he makes the average person understand science] You have to have learning objectives - things you want to get across. You want to make a point: Humans and dinosaurs did not live concurrently. If you get the adjacent carbon dating of volcanic soil, hat's cool. But what I want you to get is that ancient dinosaurs and humans did not live at the same time. The rest is gravy.
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Science rules!
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Our country is the only country in the world that has some people that don't believe in evolution. America is still the leader in scientific advancement, and yet we have adults who want to ignore the evidence of millions and millions of years to believe something much more complicated and complex with zero proof. It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science. If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions. I think in 30-40 years this won't even be an issue, but right now it's a major concern for a country that has a significant amount of adults raising children to ignore the facts and the evidence surrounding them about our universe, our creation and our well-being.
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[advice to young scientists] Try things then clean up after yourself. Then try some more things and clean that up too.
Facts
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His maternal grandmother, Lucy Marie Berta Briot, was French. His other ancestry includes English, Welsh, and Irish.
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One of his "Almost Live" co-stars in Seattle was Bob Nelson, screenwriter of "Nebraska".
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One of his characters on the Seattle-based sketch show, "Almost Live", was a humorless caped superhero, Speed Walker.
Announced he was engaged to be married to Blair Tindall on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005) in December 2005. The "marriage" lasted less than a month before it was either annulled or deemed invalid (sources disagree on the detail). In November 2007, Nye filed for a restraining order against "ex-fiance" Tindall, saying that he wondered if she might have poured solvent on his garden. The restraining order was later dismissed.
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Enjoys 30s/40s style swing dancing and attended dances at the most recent Camp Hollywood.
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Premiered his Science Guy character on the Seattle sketch comedy show Almost Live! (1984).
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An honored as Rhodes Class of '56 Visiting Professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he received his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. He studied under Carl Sagan.
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His first childhood memory is throwing a rubber band-powered airplane, the Sky Streak, and figuring out how to make it turn left so he could stay in one place and make the plane come back to him.
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He designed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor which is used in Boeing 747s.
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Self proclaimed geek in high school. He wore a tie everyday, even when that aspect of the dress code was phased out. He graduated from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC.
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His father, Edwin D. "Ned" Nye, a quartermaster in the military during World War II, spent nearly four years as a prisoner of war mostly in China in a Japanese P.O.W camp. He later moved to Washington, DC where he discovered dozens of sundials. He photographed them and wrote an unusual book, "Sundials of Maryland and Virginia." Thus resulted a little family business selling Ned Nye's "Sandial®," a sundial suitable for the beaches of the Atlantic seaboard.
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Started his career after he won a Steve Martin lookalike contest.
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Worked as an engineer at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle, and appeared in at least 3 training films, some of which are still popular among the workers there.
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Schools Attended: Lafayette Elementary School and Sidwell Friends School both in Washington, DC. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
