Tim Roth

At 63 years old, Tim Roth has this physical status:

Timothy Simon Roth (born 14 May 1961) is an English actor and producer.

He made his debut in the television film Made in Britain (1982).

He received critical acclaim for his role as Myron in The Hit (1984), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer.

Roth, one of a group of British actors of the 1990s, gained more fame for his appearances in The Cook, the Wife, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Vincent & Theo (1990) and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990). He later gained international recognition for his appearances in Quentin Tarantino's films, including Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Four Rooms (1995) and The Hateful Eight (2015).

Roth earned the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (1995) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He made his directorial debut with The War Zone (1999), for which he has received numerous awards. Captives (1994), Little Odessa (1994), The Legend of 1900 (1998)), Invincible (2001), The Amazing Hulk (2008), Selma (2014), and 600 Miles (2016).

In the Sky Atlantic series Tin Star, he appeared as Cal Lightman on the Fox series Lie to Me and as Jack Worth.

Early life

Roth was born in Dulwich, London, the son of Ann, a painter and tutor, and Ernie, a Fleet Street journalist and a painter. He was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, to an Irish family. Despite being of Jewish origins, his father changed his surname from "Smith" to the German/Yiddish "Roth" in the 1940s as "an act of anti-Nazi solidarity."

Roth, a survivor of child sexual assault, was sexually abused by his paternal grandfather, who has said sexually assaulted him from childhood to early teen years. He first revealed that he had been a victim of sexual assault in the press in 1999, but he refused to identify the perpetrator at the time. In December 2016, he spoke to The Guardian in which he revealed that his assaulter was his grandfather, who had also assaulted his father when he was a child.

Roth attended Lambeth School before moving to Croydon Technical School due to bullying. He attended the Strand School in Tulse Hill. He aspired to be a sculptor as a young man and attended Camberwell College of Arts in London.

Personal life

Roth has three sons. Jack, who was born to Lori Baker in 1984, is also an actor. In 1993, Roth married Nikki Butler. Timothy Hunter (born 1995) and Michael Cormac (born 1996).

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Career

Roth starred in the television films in the 1980s, including Made in Britain, Meantime and Murder with Mirrors. After his film debut The Hit, he earned an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer. He played an East End character in King of the Ghetto, a controversial drama based on a novel by Farukh Dhondy set in Brick Lane and broadcast by the BBC in 1986. In 1990, he played Vincent van Gogh in Vincent & Theo, and Guildenstern in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. During the late 1980s, Roth, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bruce Payne and Paul McGann were dubbed the Brit Pack.

Roth collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on several films, including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Four Rooms. He played Archibald Cunningham in Rob Roy. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe. In 1996, he starred in Woody Allen's musical film Everyone Says I Love You. He played "Danny Boodman T.D. Lemon 1900" in The Legend of 1900, and co-starred in the film Gridlock'd. He made his directorial debut film The War Zone, a film version of Alexander Stuart's novel. In 2001, he played General Thade the evil chimpanzee in Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes. For the Harry Potter film series, Roth declined the role of Severus Snape, which went to Alan Rickman.

Roth starred in Francis Ford Coppola's film Youth Without Youth, Michael Haneke's Funny Games, and played Emil Blonsky / Abomination, a Russian-born officer in the British Royal Marines Commandos, in The Incredible Hulk. Hulk director Louis Leterrier was a fan of Roth's work, with the director telling Empire magazine, "it's great watching a normal Cockney boy become a superhero!". From 2009 to 2011, he starred in Lie To Me as Cal Lightman, an expert on body language who assists local and federal law organizations about the crime. A fan of Monty Python since his youth, in 2009 he appeared in the television documentary, Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut). Roth appeared on the cover of Manic Street Preachers' 2010 studio album, Postcards from a Young Man.

In 2012, he was announced as the President of the Jury for the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. He starred as FIFA President Sepp Blatter in United Passions, a film about football's governing body, released in 2014, to coincide with FIFA's 110th anniversary, and the 2014 FIFA World Cup. In 2015, he starred in the film Chronic which received a limited release in 2016. He later received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead nomination. Roth played Oswaldo Mobray in the ensemble western film The Hateful Eight. In 2019, Roth was to appear in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but his scenes were cut. He reprised his role as Emil Blonsky/Abomination in the film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and in the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022), both set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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