Tim Blake Nelson
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| Tim Blake Nelson | |
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| Born | November 5 1964 Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Tim Blake Nelson (born November 5, 1964) is an American character actor, film director, and singer.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Nelson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Ruth Nelson.[1] He is a graduate of Holland Hall School and Brown University and a classicist. Nelson is Jewish;[2] his maternal grandparents escaped the Nazis shortly before World War II, fleeing to the UK in 1938 and emigrating to the U.S.A. in 1940.[3][4]
[edit] Career
Nelson has appeared as an actor in Holes, Heavyweights, Minority Report, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Meet the Fockers, The Good Girl, Syriana, Hoot, and the critically-acclaimed HBO film, Warm Springs. Nelson also had a featured role as Delmar in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?. According to directors Joel and Ethan Coen, he was the only one in the cast or crew who had read Homer's Odyssey, the work upon which the film is based.[5] He sings "In the Jailhouse Now" on the soundtrack.[6]
Films he has written and directed include The Grey Zone, based on his play of the same name, and Eye of God. He is also the director of O, based on William Shakespeare's play Othello but set in a modern-day high school. Recently, he has been cast as Samuel Sterns in The Incredible Hulk. [7]
He is on the Board of Directors for The Actors Center in New York City, as well as Soho Rep Theatre.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.jewishmuseum.net/other/images/muse.pdf
- ^ http://aboutfilm.com/features/greyzone/feature.htm
- ^ Interview about The Grey Zone on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition
- ^ http://www.bluntreview.com/reviews/blake.htm
- ^ Romney, Jonathan. "The Coen brothers: Double vision", The Guardian, 19 May 2000.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625789/
- ^ Hollywood Reporter. "The Hulk to Face Tim Blake Nelson", The Hollywood Reporter, 2007-06-26. Retrieved on 2007-06-26.
[edit] External links
- Tim Blake Nelson at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview with Tim Blake Nelson by Kari Molvar in Brown Alumni Magazine
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