Tim Blake Nelson

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Tim Blake Nelson

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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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Films Featuring Tim Blake Nelson

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

20007.3

Syriana

20056.4

Meet the Fockers

20046.3

The Incredible Hulk

20086.3

Fido

20066.4

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

20046.1

Nightmare Alley

20216.9

Wonderland

20036.1

American Violet

20086.7

The Astronaut Farmer

20076.3

The Leader

2026

Come Early Morning

20065.5

Holes

20036.9

Ghosts of the Ozarks

20225.4

The Thin Red Line

19987.4

The Last Shot

20045.7

Saint John of Las Vegas

20105.7

Leaves of Grass

20096.0

The Good Girl

20026.2

The Big White

20056.2

Flypaper

20116.4

Bereft

20045.4

The Amateurs

20065.6

Warm Springs

20056.6

The Darwin Awards

20075.5

Hoot

20065.7

Cherish

20026.0

Prix Fixe

1997

Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery

Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery

20138.0

A Foreign Affair

20045.4

Lincoln

20126.8

Detachment

20117.6

The Big Year

20116.0

Big Miracle

20126.7

Asleep in My Palm

20245.0

Yelling To The Sky

20115.5

Child of God

20144.8

As I Lay Dying

20135.2

Adventures in the Sin Bin

20123.9

Blue Caprice

20135.7

Crazy for Love

20055.6

Greedy People

20246.3

Snake & Mongoose

20135.2

The Invisibles

20246.5

The Homesman

20146.5

The Sound and the Fury

20155.0

Captain America: Brave New World

20256.0

Kill the Messenger

20146.6

Fantastic Four

20154.4

Ninety-Five Senses

20227.4

The Bricklayer

20235.8

Ghosted

20236.9

Bang Bang

20257.6

Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power

2014

Anesthesia

20165.7

Minority Report

20027.4

The Long Home

The Confirmation

20166.4

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

20186.7

Colossal

20176.3

This Is My Life

19926.0

Black Dog, Red Dog

20157.5

The Institute

20174.3

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

20166.0

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

20175.6

Amateur

19946.1

Heavyweights

19956.2

Wormwood

20176.9

Monster

20216.4

Angel Has Fallen

20196.6

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

20187.1

Donnie Brasco

19977.5

The Report

20197.0

Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People

20195.3

Sequestrada

20195.7

Just Mercy

20197.8

Naked Singularity

20214.6

The True Don Quixote

20197.1

Joe's Apartment

19965.8

The Jesus Rolls

20194.4

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

20228.0

Down from the Mountain

20017.5

Old Henry

20217.3

National Champions

20216.4

The Testament of Ann Lee

20256.4

Atropia

20255.9

The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

2026

On the End

2025

The Coen Brothers Story

20257.0

The Rescue

2027

The Coen Brothers

20007.8

Hamlet

20005.8

Lot 36

2022