Accumulated profits at the main TV firm owned by James Nesbitt increased to €6.954 million in 2020.
The County Derry man's stellar career on our TV screens includes hit roles in Cold Feet and new Netflix drama, Stay Close.
Accumulated profits at Nesbitt’s Brown Cow Films Ltd increased by €938,501 at the end of March 2020.
The profits for the year were a 49% increase on the profits recorded the prior year.
The new accounts lodged by Brown Cow Films with Companies House in the UK show that the company's cash pile declined from £1.275m to £1.221m during the year while monies owed to the company by debtors last year increased from £4.3m to £5.19m.
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 role 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 Sky’s most successful original drama series to date.
During a highly successful career to date, the 56 year-old has also starred in the award winning Bloody Sunday, BBC’s hit primetime drama, The Missing and has gained worldwide recognition after featuring in The Hobbit series of films that have amassed almost $3bn 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.
