Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall filming Enchanted in New York City.
Birth name	Timothy Leonard Spall
Born	February 27, 1957 (1957-02-27) (age 50) Battersea, London, England
Spouse(s)	Shane Spall (married 1981)

Timothy Leonard Spall OBE (born February 27, 1957) is an English BAFTA award-nominated film, stage and television actor.

Biography

Early life

Spall, the third of four sons,[1] was born in Battersea, London to a postal worker father and a hairdresser mother.[2][3] He trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor in his year.

Career

Initially notable in the U.K. for playing the gormless Barry Taylor in all five series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, (1983-2005) he has since starred in films such as Secrets & Lies, Shooting the Past, Rock Star, The Last Samurai, and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. He gained international recognition as Peter Pettigrew ("Wormtail") in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Spall played the starring role of Albert Pierrepoint in the 2005 film Pierrepoint, which was released as The Last Hangman in the United States. In the 2006 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Spall voiced Phil Collins' manager, Barry Mickelthwaite. In 2007 he will star as Beadle Bamford in Tim Burton's production of Sweeney Todd.

On December 31, 1999 he was named an Officer of the British Empire.[4]

Personal life

In 1996 Spall was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, but has since been in remission.[5] He has said of his illness:

He is married and has three children: Mercedes, (born 1985), Pascale (born 1976) and Rafe (born 1983), who is also an actor. He lives in Forest Hill, a suburb of south-east London.

Filmography

• Quadrophenia (1979) as Harry the Projectionist
• Gothic (1986) as Dr. Polidori
• Life Is Sweet (1990) as Aubrey, Regret Rien Owner
• The Sheltering Sky (1990) as Eric Lyle
• 1871 (1990) as Ramborde
• Secrets & Lies (1996) as Maurice Purley
• Hamlet (1996) as Rosencrantz
• Still Crazy (1998) as David 'Beano' Baggot
• Topsy-Turvy (1999) as Richard Temple
• Love's Labour's Lost as Don Armado
• Chicken Run (2000) as Nick
• Vanilla Sky (2001) as Thomas Tipp
• Rock Star (2001) as band manager
• Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise (2001, TV) as Tommy Rag
• All or Nothing (2002) as Phil
• The Last Samurai (2003) as Simon Graham
• Pierrepoint (2004) as Albert Pierrepoint
• Gettin' Square (2004) as Darren 'Dabba' Barrington
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) as Peter Pettigrew
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) as Mr. Poe
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) as Peter Pettigrew
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006) as Barry Mickelthwaite
• Enchanted (2007) as Nathaniel
• Sweeney Todd (2007) as Beadle Bamford
• Jackboots on Whitehall (2008) as Winston Churchill

References

External links

• Timothy Spall at the Internet Movie Database