Tim Roth
Acting • Born 1961-05-14
Biography
Timothy Simon Roth (born May 14, 1961) is an English actor and director. He was among the prominent British actors known as the "Brit Pack". For his performance in Rob Roy (1995), Roth won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award. After garnering attention in television productions Made in Britain (1982) and Meantime (1983), Roth was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer in his theatrical film debut The Hit (1984). He gained further recognition for his roles in films, including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Vincent & Theo and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (both 1990). Roth has collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on several films, including Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Four Rooms (1995) and The Hateful Eight (2015). Other film credits include The Legend of 1900 (1998), Planet of the Apes (2001), Funny Games (2007), Selma (2014), Luce (2019), and Bergman Island (2021). Roth made his directorial debut with~ The War Zone (1999). He played Cal Lightman in the Fox series Lie to Me (2009–2011), Jim Worth / Jack Devlin in the Sky Atlantic series Tin Star (2017–2020), and Emil Blonsky / Abomination in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the films The Incredible Hulk (2008), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), and the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022).
Filmography
141 credits
Four Rooms
Movie • 1995
Ted the Bellhop
Planet of the Apes
Movie • 2001
Thade
Reservoir Dogs
Movie • 1992
Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Movie • 2021
Emil Blonsky / Abomination (voice) (uncredited)
Pulp Fiction
Movie • 1994
Pumpkin
The Incredible Hulk
Movie • 2008
Emil Blonsky
Don't Come Knocking
Movie • 2005
Sutter
The Legend of 1900
Movie • 1998
Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'
Lucky Numbers
Movie • 2000
Gig
Heart of Darkness
Movie • 1993
Marlow
The Musketeer
Movie • 2001
Febre the Man in Black
Hoodlum
Movie • 1997
Dutch Schultz
Murder with Mirrors
Movie • 1985
Edgar Lawson
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Movie • 1989
Mitchel
Rob Roy
Movie • 1995
Archibald Cunningham
Youth Without Youth
Movie • 2007
Dominic Matei
Made in Britain
Movie • 1983
Trevor
Vatel
Movie • 2000
Marquis de Lauzun
Funny Games
Movie • 2008
George
Dark Water
Movie • 2005
Jeff Platzer
Everyone Says I Love You
Movie • 1996
Charles Ferry
Gridlock'd
Movie • 1997
Stretch
The Beautiful Country
Movie • 2004
Captain Oh
A World Apart
Movie • 1988
Harold
Deceiver
Movie • 1997
James Walter Wayland
Made in Britain
Movie • 2000
Himself
Arbitrage
Movie • 2012
Det. Michael Bryer
Captives
Movie • 1994
Philip Chaney
Resurrection
Movie • 2022
David
Skellig
Movie • 2009
Skellig
To Kill a Priest
Movie • 1988
Feliks
Little Odessa
Movie • 1994
Joshua Shapira
Bodies, Rest & Motion
Movie • 1993
Nick
Yellowbacks
Movie • 1990
Peter Pike
Invincible
Movie • 2001
Herschel Steinschneider / Erik Jan Hanussen
To Kill a King
Movie • 2003
Oliver Cromwell
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Movie • 1991
Guildenstern
These Amazing Shadows
Movie • 2011
Self
Even Money
Movie • 2007
Victor
Classified
Movie • 2024
Kevin Angler
The Last Sign
Movie • 2005
Jeremy Macfarlane
The Hit
Movie • 1984
Myron
Coda: Thirty Years Later
Movie • 2007
Self
Pete Smalls Is Dead
Movie • 2010
Pete Smalls
Vincent & Theo
Movie • 1990
Vincent Van Gogh
Battle of the Brave
Movie • 2004
William Pitt
Meantime
Movie • 1983
Colin
No Way Home
Movie • 1997
Joey
Punch
Movie • 2022
Stan
Broken
Movie • 2012
Archie
Whatever We Do
Movie • 2003
Joe
Who Do You Think You're Fooling?
Movie • 1994
Mr. Orange (archive footage)
Sea Wolf
Movie • 2009
Death Larsen
Return to Waterloo
Movie • 1984
Boy Punk
The Liability
Movie • 2012
Roy
Kingdom Come
Movie • 2012
Self
Farendj
Movie • 1990
Anton
Möbius
Movie • 2013
Ivan Rostovsky
Animals with the Tollkeeper
Movie • 1998
Henry
Grace of Monaco
Movie • 2014
Prince Rainier III
Jumpin' at the Boneyard
Movie • 1991
Manny
Bread and Roses
Movie • 2000
Party Guest (uncredited)
Poison
Movie • 2024
Lucas
There Are No Saints
Movie • 2022
Carl Abrahams
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Movie • 2012
Self
United Passions
Movie • 2014
Sepp Blatter
Coppers
Movie • 1988
Graham
Killing Emmett Young
Movie • 2002
John Harrett / Frank Dwyer
Selma
Movie • 2014
Gov. George Wallace
October Gale
Movie • 2014
Tom
600 Miles
Movie • 2015
Hank Harris
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Movie • 2022
Self
Tornado
Movie • 2025
Sugarman
Common Pursuit
Movie • 1992
Mr. Right
Movie • 2016
Hopper / Reynolds
Chronic
Movie • 2015
David
Driving Ambition
Movie • 1984
Baz
1 Mile To You
Movie • 2017
Jarhead
The Hateful Eight
Movie • 2015
Oswaldo Mobray
King of the Ghetto
Movie • 1986
Matthew Long
The Million Dollar Hotel
Movie • 2000
Izzy Goldkiss (uncredited)
Metamorphosis
Movie • 1987
Gregor Samsa
Hardcore Henry
Movie • 2015
Henry's Father
Backsliding
Movie • 1992
Tom Whitton
Reg
Movie • 2016
Reg Keys
Virgin Territory
Movie • 2007
Gerbino
The Perfect Husband
Movie • 1993
Milan
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
Movie • 2014
Self
The Con Is On
Movie • 2018
Peter Fox
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
Movie • 1988
Franz Kafka / Josef K
Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking
Movie • 2013
Self
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Movie • 2000
Self
Finding Vivian Maier
Movie • 2014
Himself - Actor
Luce
Movie • 2019
Peter Edgar
Brostitute
Movie • 2010
The Padre
Movie • 2018
Padre
Silver City
Movie • 2004
Mitch Paine
The Song of Names
Movie • 2019
Martin Simmonds
Bergman Island
Movie • 2021
Tony
Recovery
Movie
A Fuller Life
Movie • 2013
Self - Reader (segment "D-Day - an Invitation to Hell")
The Misfits
Movie • 2021
Schultz
QT8: The First Eight
Movie • 2019
Self
Sundown
Movie • 2022
Neil Bennett
260 days
Movie • 2025
Marijan
A Fall from Grace
Movie
Detective Michael Tabb
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Movie • 2026
Beckett
Seven Snipers
Movie • 2026
The Dragon
Kissinger Takes Paris
Movie
Henry Kissinger
Pulp Fiction: The Facts
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Movie
Self
Fish
Movie
Fish Osborne
Holy Molé
Movie
The Very Best People
Movie
Urban Jungle
Movie • 1985
Tristan Hanley
A Colt Is My Passport
Movie
Me, You
Movie
Unknownia
Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Jack Craig
The Henry Rollins Show
TV • 2006
Lie to Me
TV • 2009
Cal Lightman
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
TV • 1999
Self - Guest
Sea Wolf
TV • 2009
Death Larsen
Klondike
TV • 2014
The Count
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
TV • 2022
Emil Blonsky / Abomination
Tsunami: The Aftermath
TV • 2006
Nick Fraser
Murder in the Heartland
TV • 1993
Charles Starkweather
Rillington Place
TV • 2016
John Christie
Tin Star
TV • 2017
Jim Worth / Jack Devlin
King of the Ghetto
TV • 1986
Matthew Long
Vincent & Theo
TV • 1990
Vincent Van Gogh
Last King of the Cross
TV • 2023
Ezra Shipman
Twin Peaks
TV • 1990
Gary "Hutch" Hutchens
The Play on One
TV • 1988
Peter Pike
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Nick Finchley
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
TV • 1988
Franz Kafka / Joseph K.
Driving Ambition
TV
Baz
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Tales Out of School
TV • 1983
Trevor
Tales from the Crypt - Uncut
TV • 1992