Biography
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Tim Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American character actor and film director. He is a graduate of Brown University and a classicist. While at Brown, Nelson also played goalie on the men's Junior Varsity hockey team.
He also appeared as an actor in Holes, Heavyweights, Minority Report, Meet the Fockers, The Good Girl, Syriana, and the critically-acclaimed HBO film, Warm Springs. Nelson also appeared in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? which is based on Homer's Odyssey; According to directors Joel and Ethan Coen, he was the only one in the cast or crew who had read Homer's original work.[1]
Nelson steals the show from the other cast members in the film "Hoot" (including Luke Wilson and Robert Wagner). Unfortunately this film was marketed as a children's film but is actually a plea for environment protection, based on the novel by Carl Hiassen, and produced by Jimmy Buffett. Another memorable, albeit short show stopper was Meet the Fockers where Nelson plays a police officer that pulls Robert DeNiro over to hilarious results.
Seldom metioned is Nelson's excellent performance in the television mini-series "Dead Man's Walk", the pre-quel to Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove".
Films he has directed include The Grey Zone, Eye of God, and O, based on William Shakespeare's play Othello but set in a modern-day high school.
He is on the Board of Directors for The Actors Center in Washington, DC.
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