Tim Blake Nelson
Tim Blake Nelson ( born November 5, 1964 according to other sources: May 11, 1964 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States) is an American film and theater actor and film director, screenwriter, film producer and editor.
Life
Nelson, the son of a Jewish mother who fled to the United States from the Nazis in Europe, went to the Holland Hall School in Tulsa to school. After graduating in 1982 he studied Classical Studies at Brown University.
Nelson's career began in the mid-1980s as an actor in New York stage. In 1992 he was in the film comedy Showtime - Help, my mom is a star for the first time in front of the film camera. He later starred in films such as the anti-war film The Thin Red Line in 1998, the sci -fi thriller Minority Report (2002 ) and the film drama Syriana.
In 1997, Nelson at the crime film The Eye of God for the first time directing a feature film. But to his known film directed counting the produced 2001 film drama The Grey Zone, which deals with the Sonderkommando KL Auschwitz -Birkenau. In 2009, Nelson's next film Leaves of Grass in the cinemas.
Tim Blake Nelson is married to actress Lisa Benavides. The couple live with their child in New York.
Filmography (selection)
Actor
Direction
- 2001: The Grey Zone ( The Grey Zone)
- 2001: O - confidence, seduction, betrayal (O)
- 2009: Leaves of Grass
Awards (selection)
- 2001: MTV Movie Award nomination: Best On-Screen Team along with George Clooney and John Turturro, for: O Brother, Where Art Thou? - A Mississippi Odyssey (O Brother, Where Art Thou? )
- 2001: Golden Satellite Award nomination: Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Musical for: O Brother, Where Art Thou? - A Mississippi Odyssey (O Brother, Where Art Thou? )
- 2005: Golden Satellite Award nomination: Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or a Movie for: Warm Springs