Timothy Simon Roth (born 14 May 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).
Tim Roth Biography / Wiki
| Name | Tim Roth |
| Also Know | Τιμ Ροθ, Тим Рот, 팀 로스, ティム・ãƒã‚¹ |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | May 14, 1961 |
| Age(as in 2023) | 61 |
| Deathday |
Tim Roth Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Four Rooms | Ted the Bellhop | 1995-12-09 | It’s Ted the Bellhop’s first night on the job…and the hotel’s very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems t… |
| The Legend of 1900 | Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred ‘1900’ | 1998-10-28 | The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the o… |
| Heart of Darkness | Marlow | 1993-10-01 | A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity’s soul…. |
| Youth Without Youth | Dominic Matei | 2007-10-26 | A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages back… |
| Made in Britain | Trevor | 1982-02-25 | After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo…. |
| The Beautiful Country | Captain Oh | 2004-03-13 | After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a… |
| Deceiver | James Walter Wayland | 1997-08-31 | The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textil… |
| Skellig | Skellig | 2009-04-12 | An ordinary boy named Michael is going through some extraordinary changes in his life. His family has just moved into an unfamiliar house, and his bra… |
| Little Odessa | Joshua Shapira | 1994-10-28 | The film follows the personal relationship between a father and his two sons, one of whom is a hit-man for the Russian mafia in Brooklyn…. |
| To Kill a King | Oliver Cromwell | 2003-05-16 | A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I…. |
| Invincible | Herschel Steinschneider / Erik Jan Hanussen | 2001-12-02 | A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried…. |
| Vincent & Theo | Vincent Van Gogh | 1990-12-02 | The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written b… |
| Broken | Archie | 2012-08-22 | Three suburban English families’ lives intertwine with tragic consequences…. |
| Whatever We Do | Joe | 2003-01-16 | Twenty margaritas and 10 shots of tequila, with a few ounces of debauchery, bring four friends closer to the truth than they have been for years…. |
| The Liability | Roy | 2012-11-24 | When 19-year-old Adam agrees to do a day’s driving for his mum’s gangster boyfriend Peter, it takes him on a 24-hour journey into a nightmarish world … |
| Animals with the Tollkeeper | Henry | 1998-01-06 | While looking for paradise, a cab driver suddenly falls in love…. |
| Jumpin’ at the Boneyard | Manny | 1991-11-01 | Manny tries to get his crack addict brother, Danny, to clean up…. |
| Coppers | 1988-10-16 | Two bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their evenings masquerading as police officers in this Screen One… | |
| United Passions | Sepp Blatter | 2014-06-19 | An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determined men who created it. Driven by their vision and … |
| 600 Miles | Hank Harris | 2015-12-03 | Arnulfo Rubio smuggles weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel, but he is being investigated by agent Harris. When agent Harris blows his cov… |
| King of the Ghetto | Matthew Long | 1986-05-01 | An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of the east end… |
| Metamorphosis | Gregor Samsa | 1987-02-01 | TV film of Steven Berkoff’s stage adaption of Kafka’s famous story in which a young man, who is the sole financial supporter of his family, awakes one… |
| Backsliding | Tom Whitton | 1992-05-21 | While in prison, Jack had two momentous experiences: he got religion, and met the woman who would become his wife. He and Alison are devoted to the id… |
| Reg | Reg Keys | 2016-06-06 | In June 2003, Reg Keys and his wife Sally return to their home in the Welsh countryside. As they switch on the TV to hear six military policemen have … |
| Chronic | David | 2015-10-21 | David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Dedicated to his profession, he develops strong relationships with the people he cares for. B… |
| The Perfect Husband | Milan | 1993-06-02 | Dostoevsky-inspired drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men’s wives and dueling. He begins an affa… |
| Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ | Franz Kafka / Josef K | 1988-10-01 | BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten films of “The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)”…. |
| Brostitute | 2010-01-01 | This documentary takes a closer look at the seedy world of brostitution and brostitutes. This film digs deeper than any other film has when it comes t… | |
| The Padre | Padre | 2018-09-28 | American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown of… |
| The Song of Names | Martin | 2019-12-25 | A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of hi… |
| Sundown | Neil Bennett | 2022-04-08 | When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family…. |
| Punch | Stan | 2023-03-10 | Jim is preparing for his first professional fight but begins to rethink his life’s trajectory and his sexuality after tangling with Whetu, a gay Maori… |
| Farendj | 1990-01-01 | A young man travels with his French girlfriend to Ethiopia. Whilst there he discovers a house in which the French poet Rimbaud once lived and he becom… | |
| Poison | Lucas | … | |
| Reservoir Dogs | Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke | 1992-09-02 | A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors — vet… |
| Planet of the Apes | General Thade | 2001-07-25 | After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes domi… |
| Hoodlum | Dutch Schultz | 1997-08-27 | In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running ‘the numbers’. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Har… |
| Funny Games | George Farber | 2008-03-14 | When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed wi… |
| Gridlock’d | Alexander ‘Stretch’ Rawland | 1997-01-29 | After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are ha… |
| Captives | Philip Chaney | 1994-05-03 | A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the break-up of her marriage, and emb… |
| Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Guildenstern | 1991-02-08 | Two minor characters from the play “Hamlet” stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them…. |
| Meantime | Colin | 1983-10-16 | A working-class family in London’s East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. On… |
| No Way Home | Joey | 1997-01-23 | An ex-con’s future is threatened by his brother’s involvement with drugs…. |
| The Con Is On | Peter Fox | 2018-05-04 | In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot… |
| Return to Waterloo | Boy Punk | 1984-11-01 | A man taking the train to work one morning is overcome by melancholy memories and morbid fantasies…. |
| Bergman Island | Tony | 2021-07-14 | An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to FÃ¥rö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the… |
| Recovery | A pick up truck and its two passengers and driver are on the way to the city with a devastating delivery. But who is the terrorist?… | ||
| Resurrection | David | 2022-07-29 | A woman’s carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she’s evaded f… |
| Panzi | Guy-Bernard Cadière | … | |
| Don’t Come Knocking | Sutter | 2005-05-19 | Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and y… |
| Lucky Numbers | Gig | 2000-10-27 | Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the… |
| Vatel | Marquis de Lauzun | 2000-05-01 | In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants … |
| Dark Water | Jeff Platzer | 2005-07-08 | Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York’s Roosevelt Island. She is currently in midst of divorce proceeding… |
| Arbitrage | Det. Michael Bryer | 2012-09-14 | A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for … |
| Bodies, Rest & Motion | Nick | 1993-04-09 | Rebelling against his dreary life in a small Arizona town, salesman Nick abandons his girlfriend, Beth, and strikes out onto the highway in search of…. |
| The Last Sign | Jeremy Macfarlane | 2005-05-31 | A woman who is tormented by the ghost of her abusive, alcoholic husband. She must come to terms with the past if she is to find peace and love…… |
| The Hit | Myron | 1984-09-12 | Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former “colleagues” and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance…… |
| Pete Smalls Is Dead | Pete Smalls | 2010-09-17 | Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead…. |
| Sea Wolf | Death Larsen | 2009-12-24 | A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen…. |
| Möbius | Ivan Rostovsky | 2013-02-17 | An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank…. |
| Killing Emmett Young | John Harrett / Frank Dwyer | 2002-01-01 | In the Philadelphia police department, Emmett Young is a hotshot, a workaholic newly promoted to homicide. He learns he has a disease that will soon k… |
| October Gale | Tom | 2014-09-11 | A doctor takes in a mysterious man who washes ashore at her remote cottage with a gunshot wound. Quickly they both learn the killer has arrived to fin… |
| The Common Pursuit | 1992-11-09 | The Common Pursuit is a play by Simon Gray which follows the lives of six characters who first meet as undergraduates at Cambridge University when the… | |
| Mr. Right | Hopper / Reynolds | 2016-02-29 | A girl falls for the “perfect” guy, who happens to have a very fatal flaw: he’s a hitman on the run from the crime cartels who employ him…. |
| The Incredible Hulk | Emil Blonsky / Abomination | 2008-06-12 | Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dr… |
| Alan Clarke: His Own Man | Himself | 2000-09-18 | British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone – Stephen Frears even called him the best. And ye… |
| The Misfits | Schultz | 2021-06-03 | After being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace finds himself caught up in an elaborate gold heist that pro… |
| Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law | Self | 2022-11-03 | Join the likes of Tatiana Maslany, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Roth, and Benedict Wong as they reveal how Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law was concei… |
| The Musketeer | Febre the Man in Black | 2001-09-07 | Young D’Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father’s death – but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded…. |
| Rob Roy | Archibald Cunningham | 1995-04-13 | In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy … |
| To Kill a Priest | Feliks | 1988-01-01 | A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it…. |
| Grace of Monaco | Prince Rainier III | 2014-04-22 | The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly’s crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco’s Prince Rainier III and F… |
| Giuseppe Tornatore – Ogni film un’opera prima | Self | 2014-11-18 | … |
| Selma | Gov. George Wallace | 2014-12-25 | “Selma,” as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous stateme… |
| Luce | Peter Edgar | 2019-08-02 | A star athlete and top student, Luce’s idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to li… |
| The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | Mitchel | 1989-10-13 | The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband’s restaurant…. |
| A World Apart | Harold | 1988-06-17 | A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together… |
| Hardcore Henry | Henry’s Father | 2015-09-12 | Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army o… |
| 1 Mile To You | Jarhead | 2017-04-07 | After a teenager’s friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He… |
| Making of Pulp Fiction | Self | 2000-10-07 | The cast and crew talk about Pulp Fiction. Directed by Quentin Tarantino…. |
| There Are No Saints | Carl Abrahams | 2022-05-27 | A man is imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate and dan… |
| The Hateful Eight | Oswaldo Mobray | 2015-12-25 | Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception…. |
| Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking | Self | 2012-11-20 | Take a look at Tarantino’s career from the beginning, with interviews from co-workers, critics, stars and master filmmakers alike as well as a tribute… |
| Virgin Territory | Gerbino | 2007-12-17 | The film is set in Tuscany during the Black Death. As in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stor… |
| Pulp Fiction | Ringo (“Pumpkin”) | 1994-09-10 | A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster’s moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime cape… |
| Even Money | Victor | 2006-03-01 | Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys each of their lives…. |
| Battle of the Brave | William Pitt | 2004-11-19 | In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls… |
| Everyone Says I Love You | Charles Ferry | 1996-12-06 | A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged…. |
| A Fuller Life | Self – Reader (segment “D-Day – an Invitation to Hell”) | 2013-08-28 | Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller’s only child… |
| Murder with Mirrors | Edgar Lawson | 1985-02-20 | When Miss Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there’s time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy,… |
| QT8: The First Eight | Self | 2019-10-21 | A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scanda… |
| Silver City | Mitch Paine | 2004-09-17 | The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician’s campaign for governor of Colorado…. |
| Driving Ambition | Baz | 1984-03-03 | A bored and frustrated suburban housewife follows her dream of becoming a racing driver… |
| Bread and Roses | Party Guest (uncredited) | 2000-05-10 | Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa ge… |
| Kingdom Come | Himself | 2011-01-01 | The documentary, Kingdom Come follows a first-time director (Daniel Gillies) as he tries to raise a million dollars to finance his first film, Broken … |
| The Million Dollar Hotel | Izzy Goldkiss (uncredited) | 2000-02-09 | The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of strange pe… |
| The Secret Policeman’s Ball | Self | 2012-03-04 | A live stand-up comedy and music gig to celebrate Amnesty International’s 50th Anniversary…. |
| Finding Vivian Maier | Himself – Actor | 2014-03-21 | Vivian Maier’s photos were seemingly destined for obscurity, lost among the clutter of the countless objects she’d collected throughout her life. Inst… |
| Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Emil Blonsky / Abomination (voice) (uncredited) | 2021-09-01 | Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization…. |
| These Amazing Shadows | Self | 2011-01-22 | Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and inde… |
Tim Roth Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The War Zone | Director | 1999-06-11 | An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret…. |
Tim Roth Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Caught in the Crossfire | Executive Producer | 2010-07-13 | Two detectives investigating a gang-related find themselves targeted by both gang members and crooked cops…. |
| Sundown | Executive Producer | 2022-04-08 | When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family…. |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| From Afar | Thanks | 2016-01-21 | Examines the struggles of a man petrified by the notion of human contact and intimacy. Armando, aged 50, cruises young men in the streets of Caracas a… |
| Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood | Thanks | 2019-07-24 | Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a co… |
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