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Tim Blake Nelson

Tim Blake Nelson

Birthday: 1964-05-11 | Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Bang Bang

as    Bernard 'Bang Bang' Rozyski

2025
Captain America: Brave New World

as    Samuel Sterns

2025
On the End

as    Tom Ferreira

2024
The Invisibles

as    Charlie

2024
The Bricklayer

as    O'Malley

2024
Asleep in My Palm

as    Tom

2024
Greedy People

as    Wallace

2023
Ghosted

as    Borislov

2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

as    Black Rabbits (voice)

2022
Ninety-Five Senses

as    Coy (voice)

2022
Ghosts of the Ozarks

as    Torb

2022
Lost Ollie

as    Zozo (voice)

2021
Naked Singularity

as    Angus

2021
Old Henry

as    Henry

2021
Monster

as    Leroy Sawicki

2021
National Champions

as    Rodger Cummings

2021
Slugfest

as    Steve Englehart

2019
The True Don Quixote

as    Don Quixote

2019
Just Mercy

as    Ralph Myers

2019
The Report

as    Raymond Nathan

2019
Sequestrada

as    Thomas

2019
Angel Has Fallen

as    VP Kirby

2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

as    Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs")

2018
2018
Dallas & Robo

as    The Woodsman

2017
Wormwood

as    Sidney Gottlieb