Tim Blake Nelson 1964 61
Tim Blake Nelson 1964 61
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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2025 The Leader as Marshall Applewhite
2025 The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd Director, Writer, Producer
2025 The Long Home
2025 Thelma as Arthur Ducoing
2025 Michael Zero Director
2025 Captain America: Brave New World as Samuel Sterns
2025 Atropia as Mr. Speaker (voice)
2024 Greedy People as Wallace
2024 Bang Bang as Bernard 'Bang Bang' Rozyski
2024 The Invisibles as Charlie
2024 Asleep in My Palm as Tom Producer
2023 The Bricklayer as O'Malley
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
2021 National Champions as Rodger Cummings
2021 Nightmare Alley as Carny Boss
2021 Old Henry as Henry
2021 Naked Singularity as Angus
2021 Monster as Leroy Sawicki
2019 Sequestrada as Thomas
2019 Just Mercy as Ralph Myers
2019 The Jesus Rolls as Doctor
2019 The True Don Quixote as Don Quixote
2019 The Report as Raymond Nathan
2019 Angel Has Fallen as VP Kirby
2019 Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People as Teddy Roosevelt (voice)
2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs as Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs")
2018 The Vanishing of Sidney Hall as Johan
2017 Wormwood as Sidney Gottlieb
2017 Colossal as Garth
2017 The Institute as Dr. Lemelle
2017 Deidra & Laney Rob a Train as Truman
2016 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk as Wayne Foster
2016 The Confirmation as Vaughn
2016 Anesthesia as Adam Zarrow Director, Writer, Producer
2015 The Sound and the Fury as Father
2015 Fantastic Four as Harvey Elder
2015 Black Dog, Red Dog as Bob
2014 Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power as Admiral Rickover
2014 Kill the Messenger as Alan Fenster
2014 The Homesman as The Freighter
2014 Child of God as Sheriff Fate
2013 Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery as Self
2013 As I Lay Dying as Anse
2013 Blue Caprice as Ray
2013 Snake & Mongoose as Mike McAllister
2013 Bukowski as Henry Bukowski
2012 Lincoln as Richard Schell
2012 Adventures in the Sin Bin as Officer Totsch
2012 Big Miracle as Pat Lafaytette
2011 The Big Year as Fuchs
2011 Flypaper as Peanut Butter
2011 Detachment as Mr. Wiatt
2011 Yelling To The Sky as Coleman
2010 Saint John of Las Vegas as Ned
2009 Leaves of Grass as Bolger Director, Writer, Producer
2008 American Violet as David Cohen
2008 The Incredible Hulk as Samuel Sterns
2007 The Astronaut Farmer as Kevin Munchak
2006 Hoot as Curly
2006 Fido as Mr. Theopolis
2006 The Darwin Awards as Perp
2006 The Amateurs as Barney
2006 Come Early Morning as Uncle Tim
2006 Haskett's Chance Director
2005 Syriana as Danny Dalton
2005 The Big White as Gary
2005 Warm Springs as Tom Loyless
2005 My Suicidal Sweetheart as Doctor, Chief Nakahoma, Minister, Roger Bob
2004 Meet the Fockers as Officer LeFlore
2004 The Last Shot as Marshal Paris
2004 Bereft as Dennis
2004 Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed as Jacobo
2003 Wonderland as Billy Deverell
2003 Holes as Dr. Pendanski
2003 A Foreign Affair as Jake Adams
2002 Minority Report as Gideon
2002 Cherish as Daly
2002 The Good Girl as Bubba
2001 The Grey Zone Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
2001 O Director
2001 Down from the Mountain as Self
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Delmar O'Donnell
2000 Hamlet as Flight Captain
1998 The Thin Red Line as Pvt. Brian Tills
1997 Eye of God Director, Screenplay
1997 Prix Fixe as Busboy
1997 Donnie Brasco as FBI Technician
1996 Joe's Apartment as Cockroach (voice)
1995 Heavyweights as Camp Hope Salesman
1994 Amateur as Young Detective
1992 This Is My Life as Dennis
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