Tim Roth
Birth name	Timothy Simon Smith
Born	May 14, 1961 (1961-05-14) (age 46) London, England, UK
Awards BAFTA Awards Best Supporting Actor 1995 Rob Roy

Tim Roth (born 14 May 1961, as Timothy Simon Smith) is an Academy Award-nominated English film actor and director.

Biography

Roth was born in Dulwich, London to a landscape painter mother and a journalist father and attended the Strand School in Tulse hill. His father adopted the German surname Roth after World War II to hide his nationality when traveling in countries hostile to the British.

As a young man, Roth wanted to be a sculptor and studied at London's Camberwell School of Art. After some time there, he tried acting and made his debut at the age of 21 playing a racist skinhead in a TV movie entitled Made in Britain.

In 1984, Roth played an apprentice hitman in Stephen Frears' The Hit with Terence Stamp and John Hurt, earning an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer. With that recognition, he appeared in several other films during the end of the decade. In 1989 he had a memorable supporting role as the buffonish lackey, Mitchell, in Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. In 1990, Roth began to enjoy international attention with starring roles as Vincent Van Gogh in Robert Altman's Vincent & Theo and in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

Roth impressed director Quentin Tarantino and was cast as Mr. Orange in his 1992 ensemble piece Reservoir Dogs. This film paved the way for more work in Hollywood. In 1994, Tarantino cast him again as a robber in the acclaimed Pulp Fiction. They worked again in the 1995 flop Four Rooms. However, Roth returned to the successful road playing viciously evil English nobleman Archibald Cunningham in Rob Roy opposite Liam Neeson. For that role he won an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, a Golden Globe nomination, and a British Academy Award.

In 1996, he went a different way, starring with Drew Barrymore in Woody Allen's musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You, in which he amused audiences with his comic flair and his singing (in his own voice). He also starred as Danny Boodman T.D. Lemon 1900 (or just "1900") in the movie The Legend of 1900.

In 1999 he made a critically acclaimed debut as a director with The War Zone, a film of Alexander Stuart's novel. In 2001, he made another important move by portraying General Thade in Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes. He turned down the role of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series of films to take this part.[1]

He is currently working on several projects, including Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth and the upcoming film The Incredible Hulk, in which he is cast as Emil Blonsky. There are also rumors that he will be cast in the next Quentin Tarantino film called Inglorious Bastards which is slated to come out in 2008. Roth is also linked to Marilyn Manson's first feature film, Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, alongside Daryl Hannah, scheduled for a 2008 release.

It has been recently rumored that he has been cast for the part of Pete Townshend for the movie See Me Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked for Your Pleasure with Mike Myers as Keith Moon.[citation needed]

Filmography

As actor

• Made In Britain (1982)
• Meantime (1983)
• The Hit (1984)
• Murder With Mirrors (1985)
• Return to Waterloo (1985)
• A World Apart (1988)
• To Kill a Priest (1988)
• Twice Upon a Time (1988)
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
• Vincent & Theo (1990)
• Farendj (1990)
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
• Backsliding (1991)
• Reservoir Dogs (1992)
• Jumpin' at the Boneyard (1992)
• Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)
• El Marido perfecto (1993)
• Murder in the Heartland (TV) (1993)
• Heart of Darkness (TV) (1994)
• Captives (1994)
• Little Odessa (1994)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Rob Roy (1995)
• Four Rooms (1995)
• No Way Home (1996)
• Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
• Mocking the Cosmos (1996)
• Gridlock'd (1997)
• Hoodlum (1997)
• Deceiver (film) (1997)
• Animals (1997)
• Legend of 1900 (1998)
• The Million Dollar Hotel (2000) (uncredited)
• Vatel (2000)
• Lucky Numbers (2000)
• Planet of the Apes (2001)
• Invincible (2001)
• The Musketeer (2001)
• Emmett's Mark (2002)
• Whatever We Do (2003)
• To Kill a King (2003)
• Nouvelle-France aka Battle of the Brave (USA: new title) aka New France (International: English title) (2004)
• The Beautiful Country (2004)
• With It (2004)
• Silver City (2004)
• Don't Come Knocking (2005)
• Dark Water (2005)
• Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006)
• Youth Without Youth (2007)
• Funny Games (filming) (2007)
• Inglorious Bastards (in-production) (2008)
• The Incredible Hulk (in-production) (2008)

As director

• The War Zone (1999)

Personal life

Roth had a son Jack with Lori Baker in 1983. He married Nikki Butler in 1993, and had 2 sons with her: Hunter (b. 1995) and Cormac (b. 1996).

Quotes

External links

• The Officially Unofficial Tim Roth Web Page
• Tim Roth at the Internet Movie Database
• Tim Roth at the Notable Names Database
• All Movie Guide entry for Tim Roth