About
Tim Roth
Overview
Timothy Simon Roth (born May 14, 1961) is an English actor and producer. He began acting on films and television series in the 1980s. He was among a group of prominent British actors of the era, the "Brit Pack".
He made his television debut in Made in Britain (1982), and theatrical film debut in The Hit (1984), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Since then, he gained more attention for his roles in films, including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, (1989), Vincent & Theo (1990), and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990). Roth collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on several films, such as Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Four Rooms (1995), and The Hateful Eight (2015). For his performance in Rob Roy (1995), Roth won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Roth made his directorial debut with the film The War Zone (1999). He played Cal Lightman in the Fox series Lie to Me (2009–2011) and Jim Worth / Jack Devlin in the Sky Atlantic series Tin Star (2017–2020). Roth also portrayed Emil Blonsky / Abomination in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film The Incredible Hulk (2008), reprising the role in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) and the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022).
Known for
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2024 | Poison | Actor | Lucas | 58 Average |
2024 | Classified | Actor | Kevin Angler | 58 Average |
2022 | Punch | Actor | Stan | 58 Average |
2022 | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2022 | Resurrection | Actor | David | 59 Average |
2022 | There Are No Saints | Actor | Carl Abrahams | 57 Average |
2022 | Sundown | Actor | Neil Bennett | 59 Average |
2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Actor | Emil Blonsky / Abomination (voice) (uncredited) | 74 Good |
2021 | Bergman Island | Actor | Tony | 59 Average |
2021 | The Misfits | Actor | Schultz | 57 Average |
2020 | A Fall from Grace | Actor | Detective Michael Tabb | N/A N/A |
2019 | The Song of Names | Actor | Martin Simmonds | 61 Fair |
2019 | QT8: The First Eight | Actor | Self | 61 Fair |
2019 | Luce | Actor | Peter Edgar | 60 Fair |
2018 | The Padre | Actor | Padre | 58 Average |
2018 | The Con Is On | Actor | Peter Fox | 54 Average |
2017 | Tin Star | Actor | Jim Worth / Jack Devlin | 67 Fair |
2017 | 1 Mile To You | Actor | Jarhead | 60 Fair |
2016 | Rillington Place | Actor | John Christie | 71 Good |
2016 | Reg | Actor | Reg Keys | 58 Average |
2016 | Mr. Right | Actor | Hopper / Reynolds | 63 Fair |
2015 | The Hateful Eight | Actor | Oswaldo Mobray | 76 Good |
2015 | 600 Miles | Actor | Hank Harris | 58 Average |
2015 | Chronic | Actor | David | 58 Average |
2015 | Hardcore Henry | Actor | Henry's Father | 63 Fair |
2014 | Selma | Actor | Gov. George Wallace | 71 Good |
2014 | Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2014 | October Gale | Actor | Tom | 58 Average |
2014 | United Passions | Actor | Sepp Blatter | 56 Average |
2014 | Grace of Monaco | Actor | Prince Rainier III | 59 Average |
2014 | Finding Vivian Maier | Actor | Himself - Actor | 64 Fair |
2014 | Klondike | Actor | The Count | 70 Good |
2013 | A Fuller Life | Actor | Self - Reader (segment "D-Day - an Invitation to Hell") | 59 Average |
2013 | Möbius | Actor | Ivan Rostovsky | 58 Average |
2012 | The Hitman's Apprentice (aka The Liability) | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2012 | The Liability | Actor | Roy | 58 Average |
2012 | Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2012 | Arbitrage | Actor | Det. Michael Bryer | 61 Fair |
2012 | Broken | Actor | Archie | 62 Fair |
2012 | Kingdom Come | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2012 | The Secret Policeman's Ball | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2011 | These Amazing Shadows | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
2010 | Pete Smalls Is Dead | Actor | Pete Smalls | 58 Average |
2010 | Brostitute | Actor | 59 Average |
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2009 | Sea Wolf | Actor | Death Larsen | 58 Average |
2009 | Sea Wolf | Actor | Death Larsen | 67 Fair |
2009 | Skellig | Actor | Skellig | 59 Average |
2009 | Lie to Me | Actor | Cal Lightman | 78 Good |
2008 | The Making of Incredible | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2008 | The Incredible Hulk | Actor | Emil Blonsky | 61 Fair |
2008 | Funny Games | Actor | George | 64 Fair |
2007 | Virgin Territory | Actor | Gerbino | 54 Average |
2007 | Coda: Thirty Years Later | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2007 | Youth Without Youth | Actor | Dominic Matei | 59 Average |
2007 | Even Money | Actor | Victor | 58 Average |
2006 | Tsunami: The Aftermath | Actor | Nick Fraser | 66 Fair |
2005 | Don't Come Knocking | Actor | Sutter | 59 Average |
2005 | Dark Water | Actor | Jeff Platzer | 57 Average |
2005 | The Last Sign | Actor | Jeremy Macfarlane | 57 Average |
2004 | Battle of the Brave | Actor | William Pitt | 59 Average |
2004 | Silver City | Actor | Mitch Paine | 59 Average |
2004 | The Beautiful Country | Actor | Captain Oh | 59 Average |
2003 | To Kill a King | Actor | Oliver Cromwell | 58 Average |
2003 | Whatever We Do | Actor | Joe | 58 Average |
2002 | Killing Emmett Young | Actor | John Harrett / Frank Dwyer | 58 Average |
2001 | Invincible | Actor | Herschel Steinschneider / Erik Jan Hanussen | 59 Average |
2001 | The Musketeer | Actor | Febre the Man in Black | 57 Average |
2001 | Planet of the Apes | Actor | Thade | 58 Average |
2000 | Lucky Numbers | Actor | Gig | 56 Average |
2000 | Alan Clarke: His Own Man | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2000 | Bread and Roses | Actor | Party Guest (uncredited) | 59 Average |
2000 | Vatel | Actor | Marquis de Lauzun | 59 Average |
2000 | The Million Dollar Hotel | Actor | Izzy Goldkiss (uncredited) | 58 Average |
2000 | Made in Britain | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1998 | The Legend of 1900 | Actor | Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900' | 78 Good |
1998 | Animals with the Tollkeeper | Actor | Henry | 59 Average |
1997 | Deceiver | Actor | James Walter Wayland | 59 Average |
1997 | Hoodlum | Actor | Dutch Schultz | 60 Fair |
1997 | Gridlock'd | Actor | Alexander 'Stretch' Rawland | 61 Fair |
1997 | No Way Home | Actor | Joey | 59 Average |
1996 | Everyone Says I Love You | Actor | Charles Ferry | 62 Fair |
1995 | Four Rooms | Actor | Ted the Bellhop | 58 Average |
1995 | Rob Roy | Actor | Archibald Cunningham | 63 Fair |
1994 | Little Odessa | Actor | Joshua Shapira | 60 Fair |
1994 | Pulp Fiction | Actor | Pumpkin | 84 Very good |
1994 | Captives | Actor | Philip Chaney | 59 Average |
1994 | Who Do You Think You're Fooling? | Actor | Mr. Orange (archive footage) | 59 Average |
1993 | Heart of Darkness | Actor | Marlow | 59 Average |
1993 | The Perfect Husband | Actor | Milan | 58 Average |
1993 | Murder in the Heartland | Actor | Charles Starkweather | 70 Good |
1993 | Bodies, Rest & Motion | Actor | Nick | 58 Average |
1992 | Common Pursuit | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1992 | Reservoir Dogs | Actor | Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke | 80 Very good |
1992 | Backsliding | Actor | Tom Whitton | N/A N/A |
1991 | Jumpin' at the Boneyard | Actor | Manny | 59 Average |
1991 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Actor | Guildenstern | 62 Fair |
1990 | Vincent & Theo | Actor | Vincent Van Gogh | 59 Average |
1990 | Yellowbacks | Actor | Peter Pike | N/A N/A |
1990 | Farendj | Actor | Anton | 58 Average |
1989 | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | Actor | Mitchel | 66 Fair |
1988 | Coppers | Actor | 59 Average |
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1988 | Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' | Actor | Franz Kafka / Josef K | N/A N/A |
1988 | To Kill a Priest | Actor | Feliks | 59 Average |
1988 | A World Apart | Actor | Harold | 59 Average |
1987 | Metamorphosis | Actor | Gregor Samsa | 59 Average |
1986 | King of the Ghetto | Actor | Matthew Long | 58 Average |
1986 | King of the Ghetto | Actor | Matthew Long | N/A N/A |
1985 | Murder with Mirrors | Actor | Edgar Lawson | 59 Average |
1984 | Return to Waterloo | Actor | Boy Punk | 59 Average |
1984 | The Hit | Actor | Myron | 60 Fair |
1984 | Driving Ambition | Actor | Baz | N/A N/A |
1983 | Meantime | Actor | Colin | 60 Fair |
1982 | Made in Britain | Actor | Trevor | 61 Fair |
Recovery | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Tornado | Actor | Sugarman | N/A N/A |
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The Immortal Man: A Peaky Blinders Film | Actor | N/A N/A |
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260 Days | Actor | Marijan | N/A N/A |
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Directing |
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1999 | The War Zone | Directing | Director | 61 Fair |
Production |
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2024 | Poison | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
2022 | Sundown | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
2010 | Caught in the Crossfire | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
Crew |
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2019 | Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood | Crew | Thanks | 73 Good |
2016 | From Afar | Crew | Thanks | 59 Average |