Tim Blake Nelson

Tim Blake Nelson

Birthday: 1964-05-11

Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Biography: Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor and playwright. Described as a "modern character actor, his roles include Delmar O'Donnell in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Gideon in Minority Report (2002), Doctor Steve Pendanski in Holes (2003), Doctor Jonathan Jacobo in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Danny Dalton Jr. in Syriana (2005), Samuel Sterns in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Richard Schell in Lincoln (2012), the titular character of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and Henry McCarty in Old Henry (2021). He portrayed Wade Tillman / Looking Glass in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2020. Nelson's directorial credits include Eye of God (1997), which was nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and an Independent Spirit Award; O (2001), a modern-day adaptation of Othello; and the Holocaust drama The Grey Zone (2001). Eye of God and The Grey Zone were both adapted from Nelson's own plays. Nelson has also co-directed music videos for Billy Woods and Kenny Segal, including "Babylon by Bus" and "Soft Landing." He also co-directed the music video for Armand Hammer feat. Pink Siifu's "Trauma Mic." Nelson recently published his debut novel, City of Blows (2023), an epic group portrait of four men grappling for control of a script in a radically changing Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Blake Nelson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relent...

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Syriana
Syriana

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous ...

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Meet the Fockers
Meet the Fockers

Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet...

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The Incredible Hulk
The Incredible Hulk

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Fido
Fido

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Hamlet
Hamlet

Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's m...

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Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

A masked villain wreaks mayhem on the city of Coolsville with a monster machine that creates real-li...

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Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks u...

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Wonderland
Wonderland

On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Aven...

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American Violet
American Violet

A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused ...

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The Astronaut Farmer
The Astronaut Farmer

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. L...

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The Leader
The Leader

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Come Early Morning
Come Early Morning

A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her....

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Holes
Holes

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Ghosts of the Ozarks
Ghosts of the Ozarks

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The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ult...

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The Last Shot
The Last Shot

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Saint John of Las Vegas
Saint John of Las Vegas

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Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

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The Good Girl
The Good Girl

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The Big White
The Big White

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Flypaper
Flypaper

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Bereft
Bereft

A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again....

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The Amateurs
The Amateurs

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Warm Springs
Warm Springs

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The Darwin Awards
The Darwin Awards

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Hoot
Hoot

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Cherish
Cherish

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Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery

A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery....

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Prix Fixe
Prix Fixe

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A Foreign Affair
A Foreign Affair

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Lincoln
Lincoln

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divide...

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Detachment
Detachment

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students...

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The Big Year
The Big Year

Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species a...

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Big Miracle
Big Miracle

A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save t...

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Asleep in My Palm
Asleep in My Palm

It tells the story of a man and the daughter he's raising off the grid on the outskirts of an elite ...

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Yelling To The Sky
Yelling To The Sky

As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neig...

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Child of God
Child of God

A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Succes...

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As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying

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Adventures in the Sin Bin
Adventures in the Sin Bin

Brian is a private school student who routinely lends his van out so fellow students can have sex in...

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Blue Caprice
Blue Caprice

A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks....

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My Suicidal Sweetheart
My Suicidal Sweetheart

A suicidal comedy about two young lovers who get married and escape from a mental institution in sea...

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Greedy People
Greedy People

The eclectic residents of a small, picturesque island town must navigate a sensational murder and th...

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Thelma
Thelma

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Snake & Mongoose
Snake & Mongoose

The untold story of how two Southern California drag racers, Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Tom "The ...

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The Invisibles
The Invisibles

A couple facing the end of marriage, when the husband starts to disappear. As he fades from existenc...

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The Homesman
The Homesman

When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, t...

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The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury

A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the e...

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Bukowski
Bukowski

The story of writer Charles Bukowski's formative years from childhood to high school and his struggl...

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Captain America: Brave New World
Captain America: Brave New World

After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an...

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Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide af...

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Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four

Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ...

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Ninety-Five Senses
Ninety-Five Senses

A heartfelt depiction of a man facing his own mortality while reflecting on the grave mistakes of hi...

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The Bricklayer
The Bricklayer

Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the age...

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Ghosted
Ghosted

Salt-of-the-earth Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie—but then makes the shocking discove...

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Bang Bang
Bang Bang

Retired pugilist Bernard “Bang Bang” Rozyski is inspired to try his hand at training once he reconne...

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Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power

Dive into the life of the father of the nuclear Navy: Hyman Rickover. Combative, provocative, and b...

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Anesthesia
Anesthesia

Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy...

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Minority Report
Minority Report

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The Long Home
The Long Home

A young contractor is hired to build a honky-tonk in Tennessee by the man who killed his father....

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The Confirmation
The Confirmation

A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a...

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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of...

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Colossal
Colossal

A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from...

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This Is My Life
This Is My Life

Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a comedian. ...

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Black Dog, Red Dog
Black Dog, Red Dog

Follows the life of Stephen Dobyns as he deals with life, women, and his move from journalism to poe...

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The Institute
The Institute

In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely deat...

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through fla...

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Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their fami...

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Amateur
Amateur

A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop...

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Heavyweights
Heavyweights

Camp Hope is a summer retreat for overweight boys run by a kindly couple who make the campers feel c...

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Wormwood
Wormwood

In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled...

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Monster
Monster

The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him wh...

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Angel Has Fallen
Angel Has Fallen

After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassin...

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil Wa...

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Donnie Brasco
Donnie Brasco

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense o...

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The Report
The Report

The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Deten...

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Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People

A biographical history of Hungarian immigrant Joseph Pulitzer, who revolutionized how news is presen...

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Sequestrada
Sequestrada

An Amazonian chief’s 12-year-old daughter gets lost and kidnapped. While she is in the hands of a di...

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Just Mercy
Just Mercy

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend th...

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Naked Singularity
Naked Singularity

When a successful New York public defender loses his first case, he is pulled into a drug heist by a...

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The True Don Quixote
The True Don Quixote

Tim Blake Nelson is a man who's safe and comfortable and bored to death with his life. In his state ...

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Joe's Apartment
Joe's Apartment

A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a...

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The Jesus Rolls
The Jesus Rolls

Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for...

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to...

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Down from the Mountain
Down from the Mountain

On May 24, 2000, the historic Ryman Auditorium was booked to offer Nashvillians an evening of sublim...

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Old Henry
Old Henry

A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a...

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National Champions
National Champions

A star quarterback ignites a players’ strike hours before the biggest game of the year in order to f...

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The Testament of Ann Lee
The Testament of Ann Lee

The extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers....

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Atropia
Atropia

When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an...

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The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

A teacher in an abusive marriage takes a job at a maximum security prison, where she falls for a cha...

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On the End
On the End

Tom, a curmudgeonly Montauk mechanic, unexpectedly finds love online with Freckles, a spitfire outca...

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Die Coen-Brüder - Eine amerikanische Geschichte
Die Coen-Brüder - Eine amerikanische Geschichte

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