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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Blake Nelson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
109 acting credits · 8 directing credits
Acting · 109
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Daily Show
1996
Modern Family
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015
Poker Face
2023
Captain America: Brave New World
2025
The Incredible Hulk
2008
Watchmen
2019
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022
Minority Report
2002
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999
Ghosted
2023
Angel Has Fallen
2019
Meet the Fockers
2004
The Thin Red Line
1998
The Lowdown
2025
Detachment
2011
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
The Testament of Ann Lee
2025
Fantastic Four
2015
Donnie Brasco
1997
Just Mercy
2019
Slugfest
2021
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
Lincoln
2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2016
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
Wormwood
2017
Nightmare Alley
2021
Holes
2003
Colossal
2017
Syriana
2005
CHAOS
2011
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
2004
Klondike
2014
Lost Ollie
2022
The Bricklayer
2023
George & Tammy
2022
Greedy People
2024
Dallas & Robo
2018
Old Henry
2021
Big Miracle
2012
Joe's Apartment
1996
The Homesman
2014
Amateur
1994
Heavyweights
1995
The Report
2019
The Big Year
2011
Wonderland
2003
Naked Singularity
2021
Monster
2021
Kill the Messenger
2014
Atropia
2025
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018
The Long Home
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The Good Girl
2002
Flypaper
2011
The Last Shot
2004
National Champions
2021
The Astronaut Farmer
2007
Hoot
2006
As I Lay Dying
2013
The Institute
2017
Fido
2006
Anesthesia
2016
The Big White
2005
The Darwin Awards
2007
The Coen Brothers - An American Story
2025
The Amateurs
2006
Bang Bang
2025
The Confirmation
2016
Hamlet
2000
The Jesus Rolls
2019
Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
2013
Leaves of Grass
2009
American Violet
2008
The Rescue
2027
The Leader
2026
Snake & Mongoose
2013
Warm Springs
2005
Saint John of Las Vegas
2010
The Sound and the Fury
2015
Cherish
2002
This Is My Life
1992
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
2017
Yelling To The Sky
2011
Crazy for Love
2005
Black Dog, Red Dog
2015
Adventures in the Sin Bin
2012
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd
—
Ninety-Five Senses
2022
Child of God
2014
Ghosts of the Ozarks
2022
Come Early Morning
2006
Bereft
2004
Wormwood
2017
The True Don Quixote
2019
Blue Caprice
2013
The Invisibles
2024
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
2019
On the End
2025
Asleep in My Palm
2024
The Coen Brothers
2000
Sequestrada
2019
Down from the Mountain
2001
A Foreign Affair
2004
Prix Fixe
1997
Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
2014
