Tim Blake Nelson

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Nelson at Fantastic Fest (2016)

Tim Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964 in Tulsa , Oklahoma ) is an American film and stage actor as well as film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Nelson, the son of a Jewish mother, granddaughter Max Samuels , who in September 1938 before the Nazis fled from Rostock and subsequently moved to the United States, went to the Holland Hall School , Tulsa to school. After graduating in 1982, he studied Classical Studies at Brown University .

Nelson's career began as an actor on New York stages in the mid-1980s . In 1992 he appeared in the comedy film Showtime - Help, My Mom Is a Star for the first time in front of the film camera. He later starred in films such as the 1998 anti-war film The Narrow Ridge , the science fiction thriller Minority Report (2002) and the drama Syriana .

In 1997 Nelson directed a feature film for the first time on the crime film Das Auge Gottes . But one of his best-known directorial work is the drama Die Grauzone , produced in 2001 , which deals with the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp special unit . In 2009, Nelson's next film, Leaves of Grass, hit theaters.

Tim Blake Nelson is married to actress Lisa Benavides . The couple lives in New York with their child.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roman Büttner: The thematization of the Holocaust in historical fiction and its reception in Germany. GRIN Verlag GmbH, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-640-20602-5 , p. 100.
personal data
SURNAME Nelson, Tim Blake
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Tulsa , Oklahoma , USA