Tim Roth Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Executive Producer , Executive Producer more
Birth name Timothy Simon Smith
British nationality
Birth May 14, 1961 (London, England)

BIOGRAPHY
English actor, Tim Roth started out in British theater and television in TV films like Alan Clarke ‘s Made in Britain , then made his film debut in Stephen Frears ‘ The Hit in 1984. His role as Myron, a charged hitman to kidnap and bring Terence Stamp back to the country, makes him one of the actors of his generation to follow. Subsequently, he played small supporting roles in films that more or less went unnoticed by the general public, including A World Apart by Chris Menges , in 1988. This is thanks to Robert Altman and his Vincent and Théo ( 1990) that he obtained his first major role, playing Vincent Van Gogh. In 1990, he also headlined Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead , a very loose adaptation of Hamlet which he played alongside his friend Gary Oldman , with whom he started in the theater. Passionate about independent cinema, he remained a fairly confidential actor for many years, before becoming noticed by the American public in 1992 thanks to Reservoir Dogs , by Quentin Tarantino , in which he played an undercover cop. In 1994, he found Tarantino who wrote for him the role of ‘Pumpkin’, one of the clumsy robbers in Pulp Fiction . This was followed by an Oscar nomination (best supporting role) for his composition of the vile Archibald Cunningham in Michael Caton-Jones ‘ Rob Roy (1995), as well as another excellent leading role in James Gray ‘s brilliant Little Odessa . In 1999, he moved behind the camera to direct The War Zone , his first film, before returning to his acting profession. Accustomed to villainous roles, he gradually built up an image of a villain and regularly lent his features to awkward characters: thus, in 2001, he was in turn the formidable General Thade from Planet of the Apes, by Tim Burton , then the odious Febre in Peter Hyams ‘ D’Artagnan , two more commercial films, but which prove that he is a versatile actor, able to alternate between popular cinema and auteur cinema. After Silver City by John Sayles , he starred in Wim Wenders ‘ film Don’t come knocking in competition at Cannes , opposite Sam Shepard

and to Jessica Lange . The year 2005 marked his second foray into fantasy cinema, under the direction of Walter Salles . In this American version of Dark Water , he plays an unconventional psychologist who helps Jennifer Connelly overcome her anxieties. Asked in 2007 by Francis Ford Coppola to play the difficult title role of his Man Without Age , the actor then appears on the poster for Funny Games by Michael Haneke , a remake of the original version released in 1998. For once, he does not play the executioners but the victims, a rare phenomenon in the actor’s career.

But he made up for it in 2008, thanks to Louis Leterrier , who offered him the chance to play the terrible Abomination in The Incredible Hulk . He then puts his worrying side to the benefit of the series Lie To Me , where he plays an inquisitive psychologist, an expert in lie detection, who destabilizes his interlocutors by uncovering their deepest secrets. In 2012, he played the father of a family in a more confidential British drama noticed at Cannes, entitled Broken , before diving into the twists and turns of a drama on the financial world with Arbitrage , alongside Richard Gere . Then, the actor joined the cast of Möbius (2013), where he is at the heart of a spy story with Jean Dujardin and Cécile de France .

A fan of biopics, Tim Roth plays Prince Rainier III in Grace of Monaco , delivers a watered-down version of Sepp Blatter in United Passions and puts himself in the shoes of segregationist George Wallace with Selma . He then played the lead role in Chronic , winner of the screenplay prize in the 2015 Cannes competition, before returning to Tarantino and his Hateful Eight . We also see him in the drama Chronic by Mexican Michel Franco , a filmmaker he meets again in 2022 for the very dark Sundown . Variant projects, Tim plays an agent who befriends a young arms dealer in 600 Miles , the father of the protagonist of the explosive Hardcore Henry and forms a couple of crooks with Uma Thurman in The Aces of Scam . On the TV side, the London native plays a recurring character in the new season of

Twin Peaks: The Return and especially plays the title role of Tin Star . In this violent series, he plays an expatriate British agent with a troubled past, chased by the mafia to Alaska, where he lives with his family and works as the police chief of a remote village. He also tastes lighter registers like with the Marvel series available on Disney + She-Hulk: Lawyer . At the same time, Tim Roth obviously does not forget the cinema and goes in search of the violinist Dovidl Rapoport in the historical film The Unknown Prodigy and shoots under the direction of Mia Hansen-Løve in Bergman Island , very well received by critics.