Tim Blake Nelson

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.

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Known For
Acting
Born
May 11, 1964 (age 60)
Place of Birth
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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2000

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2005

Syriana

2004

Meet the Fockers

2008

The Incredible Hulk

2006

Fido

2000

Hamlet

2004

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

2021

Nightmare Alley

2003

Wonderland

2008

American Violet

2007

The Astronaut Farmer

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The Leader

2006

Come Early Morning

2003

Holes

2022

Ghosts of the Ozarks

1998

The Thin Red Line

2004

The Last Shot

2010

Saint John of Las Vegas

2009

Leaves of Grass

2002

The Good Girl

2005

The Big White

2011

Flypaper

2004

Bereft

2006

The Amateurs

2005

Warm Springs

2006

The Darwin Awards

2006

Hoot

2002

Cherish

1997

Prix Fixe

2013

Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery

2003

A Foreign Affair

2012

Lincoln

2011

Detachment

2011

The Big Year

2012

Big Miracle

2024

Asleep in My Palm

2011

Yelling To The Sky

2014

Child of God

2013

As I Lay Dying

2012

Adventures in the Sin Bin

2013

Blue Caprice

2005

My Suicidal Sweetheart

2024

Greedy People

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Thelma

2013

Snake & Mongoose

2024

The Invisibles

2014

The Homesman

2015

The Sound and the Fury

2013

Bukowski

2025

Captain America: Brave New World

2014

Kill the Messenger

2015

Fantastic Four

2022

Ninety-Five Senses

2023

The Bricklayer

2023

Ghosted

2024

Bang Bang

2014

Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power

2016

Anesthesia

2002

Minority Report

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The Long Home

2016

The Confirmation

2018

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

2017

Colossal

1992

This Is My Life

2015

Black Dog, Red Dog

2017

The Institute

2016

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

2017

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

1994

Amateur

1995

Heavyweights

2017

Wormwood

2021

Monster

2019

Angel Has Fallen

2018

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

1997

Donnie Brasco

2019

The Report

2019

Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People

2019

Sequestrada

2019

Just Mercy

2021

Naked Singularity

2019

The True Don Quixote

1996

Joe's Apartment

2019

The Jesus Rolls

2022

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

2001

Down from the Mountain

2021

Old Henry

2021

National Champions

NaN

Ann Lee

2025

Atropia

2023

Modern Family

2023

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2023

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

2023

CHAOS

2023

Klondike

2023

George & Tammy

2023

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

2023

Slugfest

2023

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

2023

Lost Ollie

2023

Wormwood

2023

Dallas & Robo

2023

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2023

Poker Face

2023

Watchmen

2023

The Sensitive Kind

2023

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

2001

O

2009

Leaves of Grass

2001

The Grey Zone

2001

The Grey Zone

1997

Eye of God

2016

Anesthesia

2016

Anesthesia

2009

Leaves of Grass

2009

Leaves of Grass

2016

Anesthesia

2001

The Grey Zone

2001

The Grey Zone

2024

Asleep in My Palm

NaN

Michael Zero

1997

Eye of God

2006

Haskett's Chance

2023

Hardcore TV

2023

Hardcore TV

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