Tim Blake Nelson
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1964-05-11
Place of Birth
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Tim Blake Nelson
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.
Also Known For
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Aug 30, 2000
Syriana
Nov 23, 2005
Meet the Fockers
Dec 22, 2004
The Incredible Hulk
Jun 12, 2008
Fido
Sep 07, 2006
Hamlet
May 12, 2000
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Mar 24, 2004
Nightmare Alley
Dec 02, 2021
Wonderland
Oct 23, 2003
American Violet
Aug 28, 2008
The Astronaut Farmer
Feb 23, 2007
The Leader
Come Early Morning
Jan 10, 2006
Holes
Apr 18, 2003
Ghosts of the Ozarks
Feb 04, 2022
The Thin Red Line
Dec 23, 1998
The Last Shot
Sep 24, 2004
Saint John of Las Vegas
Jan 29, 2010
Leaves of Grass
Sep 13, 2009
The Good Girl
Aug 07, 2002
The Big White
Oct 27, 2005
Flypaper
Aug 19, 2011
Bereft
Sep 13, 2004
The Amateurs
Apr 22, 2006
Warm Springs
Apr 30, 2005
The Darwin Awards
Jun 25, 2007
Hoot
Nov 03, 2006
Cherish
Jan 17, 2002
Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
Oct 11, 2013
Prix Fixe
Jun 01, 1997
A Foreign Affair
Mar 26, 2004
Lincoln
Nov 09, 2012
Detachment
Apr 24, 2011
The Big Year
Oct 13, 2011
Big Miracle
Feb 02, 2012
Asleep in My Palm
Mar 01, 2024
Yelling To The Sky
Mar 11, 2011
Child of God
Apr 28, 2014
As I Lay Dying
Oct 09, 2013
Adventures in the Sin Bin
Jun 08, 2012
Blue Caprice
Sep 12, 2013
Crazy for Love
Mar 01, 2005
Greedy People
Aug 23, 2024
Thelma
Snake & Mongoose
Sep 06, 2013
The Invisibles
Mar 10, 2024
The Homesman
May 18, 2014
The Sound and the Fury
Oct 23, 2015
Bukowski
Jun 19, 2013
Captain America: Brave New World
Feb 12, 2025
Kill the Messenger
Oct 09, 2014
Fantastic Four
Aug 05, 2015
Ninety-Five Senses
Aug 12, 2022
The Bricklayer
Dec 14, 2023
Ghosted
Apr 18, 2023
Bang Bang
Sep 12, 2025
Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
Dec 10, 2014
Anesthesia
Jan 08, 2016
Minority Report
Jun 20, 2002
The Long Home
The Confirmation
Mar 18, 2016
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
Mar 02, 2018
Colossal
Apr 06, 2017
This Is My Life
Feb 21, 1992
Black Dog, Red Dog
Jul 23, 2015
The Institute
Mar 03, 2017
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Nov 10, 2016
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
Jan 23, 2017
Amateur
Aug 05, 1994
Heavyweights
Feb 17, 1995
Wormwood
Oct 22, 2017
Monster
Jul 15, 2021
Angel Has Fallen
Aug 21, 2019
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Nov 09, 2018
Donnie Brasco
Feb 27, 1997
The Report
Sep 12, 2019
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
Mar 01, 2019
Sequestrada
Dec 31, 2019
Just Mercy
Dec 25, 2019
Naked Singularity
Aug 06, 2021
The True Don Quixote
Oct 01, 2019
Joe's Apartment
Jul 26, 1996
The Jesus Rolls
Oct 17, 2019
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Nov 09, 2022
Down from the Mountain
Jun 05, 2001
Old Henry
Oct 01, 2021
National Champions
Dec 10, 2021
The Testament of Ann Lee
Dec 25, 2025
Atropia
Dec 12, 2025
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd
On the End
Oct 04, 2025
Die Coen-Brüder - Eine amerikanische Geschichte
Dec 08, 2025
Modern Family
Sep 23, 2009
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Oct 06, 2000
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Mar 30, 1999
CHAOS
Apr 01, 2011
Klondike
Jan 20, 2014
George & Tammy
Dec 04, 2022
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Oct 25, 2022
Slugfest
Dec 24, 2021
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Mar 06, 2015
Lost Ollie
Aug 24, 2022
Wormwood
Dec 15, 2017
Dallas & Robo
May 30, 2018
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Poker Face
Jan 26, 2023
Watchmen
Oct 20, 2019
