Tim Blake Nelson
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Nelson at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival
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Timothy Blake Nelson May 11, 1964 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States |
| Alma mater |
Brown University Juilliard School |
| Occupation | Actor, writer, director |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Spouse(s) | Lisa Benavides (m. 1994) |
| Children | 3 |
Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor, writer and director. Nelson has had a wide career becoming a recognizable character actor of sorts. His most famous roles include Delmar O'Donnell in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Mr. Pendanski in Holes (2003) and Dr. Samuel Sterns in The Incredible Hulk (2008).
Nelson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Ruth (Kaiser) Nelson, who is a noted social activist and philanthropist in Tulsa, and Don Nelson, a geologist/wildcatter. His uncle is businessman George Kaiser. Nelson is Jewish. His maternal grandparents, who were from Germany, escaped the Nazis shortly before World War II, moving to Britain in 1938 and emigrating to the United States in 1941. His father's family were Russian Jewish immigrants. Nelson attended the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain Resort Arts and Conference Center in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. He 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. Additionally, Nelson is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Nelson won the Workman/Driskoll award for excellence in Classical Studies. He graduated from Juilliard in 1990.
Nelson's debut play, Eye of God, was produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1992. The Grey Zone premiered at MCC Theater in New York in 1996, where his 1998 work Anadarko was also produced.
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