Nicholas Tooley (c. 1583 – June 1623) was a Renaissance actor in the King's Men, the acting company of William Shakespeare.
He appears in speech prefixes in the First Folio text of The Taming of the Shrew, and in the cast lists for Ben Jonson's The Alchemist (1610), Sejanus (the 1610 revival), and Catiline (1611).
In the revival of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi staged shortly before his death, he played Forobosco and a madman.
The question impinges upon the long-debated issue of whether women's roles in English Renaissance drama were filled exclusively by boys, or sometimes by adult actors like Tooley.)
Those bequests include: Tooley forgives the debts owed to him by William Ecclestone and John Underwood, two more members of the King's Men company.