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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.723 |
| Birthday | 1964-05-11 |
| Place of Birth | Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA |
| Also Known As | تیم بلیک نلسون, |
2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
7.3/4218
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they co...
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2005
Syriana
6.4/1374
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer...
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Syriana
2004
Meet the Fockers
6.247/4824
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Meet the Fockers
2008
The Incredible Hulk
6.2/11943
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2006
Fido
6.4/452
Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and...
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2000
Hamlet
5.8/134
Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.
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Hamlet
2004
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
6.076/2756
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2021
Nightmare Alley
6.983/2991
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Nightmare Alley
2003
Wonderland
6.1/268
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Wonderland
2008
American Violet
6.7/38
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American Violet
2007
The Astronaut Farmer
6.2/344
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The Leader
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In 1997, thirty-nine members of the American cult known as "Heaven's Gate" committed the largest mass suicide to ever take place on American soil. Thi...
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2006
Come Early Morning
5.7/36
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2003
Holes
6.9/1403
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2022
Ghosts of the Ozarks
5.4/37
In 1866, a young doctor is summoned by his uncle to a remote town in the Ozarks only to discover upon his arrival that the utopian paradise is not all...
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1998
The Thin Red Line
7.5/3048
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The Thin Red Line
2004
The Last Shot
5.7/87
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2010
Saint John of Las Vegas
5.8/48
An ex-gambler is lured back into the game by a veteran insurance-fraud investigator.
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Saint John of Las Vegas
2009
Leaves of Grass
6/421
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.
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Leaves of Grass
2002
The Good Girl
6.2/636
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The Good Girl
2005
The Big White
6.2/300
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The Big White
2011
Flypaper
6.4/758
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
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Flypaper
2004
Bereft
5/2
A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
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Bereft
2006
The Amateurs
5.605/95
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The Amateurs
2005
Warm Springs
6.8/22
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Warm Springs
2006
The Darwin Awards
5.6/170
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The Darwin Awards
2006
Hoot
5.6/127
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Hoot
2002
Cherish
6.1/36
After a martini-induced rampage, a fantasy-prone young woman is placed under house arrest.
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Cherish
2013
Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
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A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.
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Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
1997
Prix Fixe
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Prix Fixe
2003
A Foreign Affair
5.4/11
Two brothers need household help after their Ma passes away. They decide to join a romance tour to Russia to find and bring home a traditionally minde...
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A Foreign Affair
2012
Lincoln
6.853/3818
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln p...
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Lincoln
2011
Detachment
7.637/1710
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Detachment
2011
The Big Year
6.013/822
Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare b...
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The Big Year
2012
Big Miracle
6.7/496
A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of...
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Big Miracle
2024
Asleep in My Palm
5/1
It tells the story of a man and the daughter he's raising off the grid on the outskirts of an elite liberal arts college in northeastern Ohio.
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Asleep in My Palm
2011
Yelling To The Sky
5.7/21
As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
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Yelling To The Sky
2014
Child of God
4.9/84
A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few...
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Child of God
2013
As I Lay Dying
5.2/79
Strife and disaster befall a poor Mississippi family during a two-day trip by horse and wagon to bury their deceased matriarch.
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As I Lay Dying
2012
Adventures in the Sin Bin
4.5/16
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Adventures in the Sin Bin
2013
Blue Caprice
5.8/104
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Blue Caprice
2005
My Suicidal Sweetheart
5.8/6
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My Suicidal Sweetheart
2024
Greedy People
6.2/151
The eclectic residents of a small, picturesque island town must navigate a sensational murder and the discovery of a million dollars, leading to a ser...
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Thelma
0/0
Follows John Kennedy Toole's mother, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole died by suicide before finding a home for his...
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Thelma
2013
Snake & Mongoose
5.4/13
The untold story of how two Southern California drag racers, Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen, combined with corporate giants t...
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2024
The Invisibles
6.577/13
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The Invisibles
2014
The Homesman
6.5/799
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, indepen...
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The Homesman
2015
The Sound and the Fury
5/28
A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
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The Sound and the Fury
2013
Bukowski
7.75/4
The story of writer Charles Bukowski's formative years from childhood to high school and his struggles with an abusive father, disfiguring acne, alcoh...
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Bukowski
2025
Captain America: Brave New World
6.172/1002
After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reas...
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Captain America: Brave New World
2014
Kill the Messenger
6.61/853
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra reb...
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Kill the Messenger
2015
Fantastic Four
4.4/6043
Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team mu...
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Fantastic Four
2022
Ninety-Five Senses
7.4/29
A heartfelt depiction of a man facing his own mortality while reflecting on the grave mistakes of his youth.
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Ninety-Five Senses
2023
The Bricklayer
5.8/306
Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite a...
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The Bricklayer
2023
Ghosted
6.94/1881
Salt-of-the-earth Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie—but then makes the shocking discovery that she's a secret agent. Before they can deci...
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Ghosted
2024
Bang Bang
0/0
Retired pugilist Bernard “Bang Bang” Rozyski is inspired to try his hand at training once he reconnects with his estranged grandson. While their train...
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Bang Bang
2014
Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
0/0
Dive into the life of the father of the nuclear Navy: Hyman Rickover. Combative, provocative, and blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant m...
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Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
2016
Anesthesia
5.8/119
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
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Anesthesia
2002
Minority Report
7.3/8869
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the...
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Minority Report
The Long Home
0/0
A young contractor is hired to build a honky-tonk in Tennessee by the man who killed his father.
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The Long Home
2016
The Confirmation
6.4/181
A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a weekend.
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The Confirmation
2018
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
6.7/259
Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2017
Colossal
6.282/2106
A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.
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Colossal
1992
This Is My Life
6.2/16
Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a comedian. When she inherits some money, she takes the chance...
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This Is My Life
2015
Black Dog, Red Dog
7.5/4
Follows the life of Stephen Dobyns as he deals with life, women, and his move from journalism to poetry.
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Black Dog, Red Dog
2017
The Institute
4.2/100
In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood In...
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The Institute
2016
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
6.028/566
19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his...
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2017
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
5.6/114
After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their family.
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Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
1994
Amateur
6.3/90
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is f...
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Amateur
1995
Heavyweights
6.2/377
Camp Hope is a summer retreat for overweight boys run by a kindly couple who make the campers feel comfortable with their extra pounds. But when tyran...
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Heavyweights
2017
Wormwood
6.9/51
In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra.
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Wormwood
2021
Monster
6.4/97
The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.
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Monster
2019
Angel Has Fallen
6.6/3555
After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagu...
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Angel Has Fallen
2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
7.134/4089
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songste...
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
1997
Donnie Brasco
7.537/4506
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
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Donnie Brasco
2019
The Report
7/1044
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to...
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The Report
2019
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
6.4/4
A biographical history of Hungarian immigrant Joseph Pulitzer, who revolutionized how news is presented, to whom it is catered to and the power of giv...
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Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
2019
Sequestrada
8/2
An Amazonian chief’s 12-year-old daughter gets lost and kidnapped. While she is in the hands of a dishonest government official, the chief mistakenly...
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Sequestrada
2019
Just Mercy
7.862/2301
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — includin...
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Just Mercy
2021
Naked Singularity
4.6/72
When a successful New York public defender loses his first case, he is pulled into a drug heist by a former client in an effort to beat the broken sys...
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Naked Singularity
2019
The True Don Quixote
7.4/6
Tim Blake Nelson is a man who's safe and comfortable and bored to death with his life. In his state of despair, he looks to classic stories for inspir...
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The True Don Quixote
1996
Joe's Apartment
5.8/348
A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.
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Joe's Apartment
2019
The Jesus Rolls
4.51/150
Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for a freewheeling joyride of petty crime and romance...
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The Jesus Rolls
2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
8.067/3006
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2001
Down from the Mountain
7.4/8
On May 24, 2000, the historic Ryman Auditorium was booked to offer Nashvillians an evening of sublime beauty. Label executives and soundtrack producer...
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Down from the Mountain
2021
Old Henry
7.258/589
A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the...
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Old Henry
2021
National Champions
6.5/76
A star quarterback ignites a players’ strike hours before the biggest game of the year in order to fight for fair compensation, equality, and respect...
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National Champions
Ann Lee
0/0
An epic fable about religious leader Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, who was proclaimed by her followers as the female Christ and...
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Ann Lee
2025
Atropia
0/0
When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to...
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