


He appeared on stage extensively off-Broadway in New York at theatres including Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Class Company, Soho Repertory Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, and Central Park's Open Air Theater in the Shakespeare plays Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Nelson narrated the 2001 audiobook At the Altar of Speed: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt, Sr. He portrayed Ralph Myers in the drama/legal drama Just Mercy (2019). He also appeared in Marvel Comics adaptations The Incredible Hulk and Fantastic Four. He has had a number of supporting performances in feature films such as Minority Report, Syriana and Lincoln. He sang " In the Jailhouse Now" on the film's soundtrack (which received a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002). He 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, a story upon which the film is loosely based.
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Nelson has appeared as an actor in film, TV and theatre. He was a co-star of the sketch comedy show The Unnaturals, which ran on HA! (later CTV, and would turn into Comedy Central) between 19, alongside Paul Zaloom, John Mariano and Siobhan Fallon Hogan. The Grey Zone premiered at MCC Theater in New York in 1996, where his 1998 work Anadarko was produced. Nelson's debut play, Eye of God, was produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1992. He graduated from Juilliard in 1990, a member of Group 19. He won the Workman/Driskoll award for excellence in classical studies. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. At Brown, he studied under philosopher Martha Nussbaum. Nelson is a 1982 graduate of Holland Hall School in Tulsa, and a graduate of Brown University, where he was a classics major as well as senior orator for his class of 1986. Nelson attended the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain Resort Arts and Conference Center in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. His father's family were Russian-Jewish emigrants. They moved to Britain in 1938, where Nelson's mother was born, and immigrated to the United States in 1941. Kaiser and Kate Kaiser, daughter of businessman Max Samuel, were from Germany, and escaped the Nazis shortly before World War II. His maternal uncle is businessman George Kaiser. Nelson was born to a Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Ruth Nelson ( née Kaiser), a noted Tulsa social activist and philanthropist, and Don Nelson, a geologist and wildcatter. Eye of God and The Grey Zone were both adapted from Nelson's own plays. 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).
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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. in Syriana (2005), Samuel Sterns in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Richard Schell in Lincoln (2012), the title character in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and Henry McCarty in Old Henry (2021). Pendanski in Holes (2003), Danny Dalton Jr.

Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor and playwright.ĭescribed as a "modern character actor", his roles include Delmar O'Donnell in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Gideon in Minority Report (2002), Dr.
