Tim Roth
Date of birth: 1961-05-14
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Timothy Simon Roth
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).
Movie Credits
Four Rooms
1995-12-09
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to pla
Planet of the Apes
2001-07-26
After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself
Reservoir Dogs
1992-09-02
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a wareho
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021-09-01
Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the myst
Pulp Fiction
1994-09-10
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up bo
The Incredible Hulk
2008-06-12
Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him:
Don't Come Knocking
2005-08-25
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his
The Legend of 1900
1998-10-28
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raise
Lucky Numbers
2000-10-27
Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to
Heart of Darkness
1993-10-01
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers t
The Musketeer
2001-09-07
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but h
Hoodlum
1997-08-27
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Q
Murder with Mirrors
1985-02-20
When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to l
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989-10-13
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's re
Rob Roy
1995-04-13
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future,
Youth Without Youth
2007-10-26
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 7
Made in Britain
1983-07-10
After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want
Vatel
2000-05-01
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festiv
Funny Games
2008-03-14
When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of
Dark Water
2005-07-08
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Islan
Everyone Says I Love You
1996-12-06
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister
Gridlock'd
1997-01-29
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll i
The Beautiful Country
2004-03-13
After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet
A World Apart
1988-06-17
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daught
Deceiver
1997-08-31
The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brillian
Made in Britain
2000-01-01
Tim Roth Documentary (2000)
Arbitrage
2012-09-14
A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error
Captives
1994-05-03
A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent
Resurrection
2022-07-29
A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forc
Skellig
2009-04-27
An ordinary boy named Michael is going through some extraordinary changes in his life. His family ha
To Kill a Priest
1988-09-07
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Little Odessa
1994-10-28
Long separated from his family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for t
Bodies, Rest & Motion
1993-04-09
Rebelling against his dreary life in a small Arizona town, salesman Nick abandons his girlfriend, Be
Yellowbacks
1990-08-30
Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged scie
Invincible
2001-12-02
A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
To Kill a King
2003-05-16
A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope wi
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991-02-08
Rosencrantz and Guildensterm, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road t
These Amazing Shadows
2011-01-22
Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treas
Even Money
2007-03-13
Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys e
Classified
2024-09-19
Operating alone in the field for more than 20 years, a CIA hitman uses the "Help Wanted" section of
The Last Sign
2005-05-31
A woman who is tormented by the ghost of her abusive, alcoholic husband. She must come to terms with
The Hit
1984-09-07
Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men dr
Coda: Thirty Years Later
2007-12-09
A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing
Pete Smalls Is Dead
2010-09-17
Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.
Vincent & Theo
1990-12-02
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who help
Battle of the Brave
2004-11-19
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance betwee
Meantime
1983-10-16
A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under
No Way Home
1997-01-23
An ex-con's future is threatened by his brother's involvement with drugs.
Punch
2022-11-22
Jim is preparing for his first professional fight but begins to rethink his life's trajectory and hi
Broken
2012-08-22
Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.
Whatever We Do
2003-01-16
Twenty margaritas and 10 shots of tequila, with a few ounces of debauchery, bring four friends close
Who Do You Think You're Fooling?
1994-01-01
A short film that took director Quentin Tarantino to task for failing to credit director Ringo Lam's
Sea Wolf
2009-12-24
A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen.
Return to Waterloo
1984-11-01
A man taking the train to work one morning is overcome by melancholy memories and morbid fantasies.
The Liability
2012-11-24
When 19-year-old Adam agrees to do a day's driving for his mum's gangster boyfriend Peter, it takes
Kingdom Come
2012-04-28
The documentary, Kingdom Come follows a first-time director (Daniel Gillies) as he tries to raise a
Farendj
1990-01-01
A young man travels with his French girlfriend to Ethiopia. Whilst there he discovers a house in whi
Möbius
2013-02-17
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian ba
Animals with the Tollkeeper
1998-01-06
While looking for paradise, a cab driver suddenly falls in love.
Grace of Monaco
2014-04-22
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political
Jumpin' at the Boneyard
1991-11-01
Manny tries to get his crack addict brother, Danny, to clean up.
Bread and Roses
2000-09-14
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her wa
Poison
2024-09-26
A couple is reunited years after tragedy drove them apart. Their brief but intense meeting will brin
There Are No Saints
2022-05-27
A man is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped an
The Secret Policeman's Ball
2012-03-04
A live stand-up comedy and music gig to celebrate Amnesty International's 50th Anniversary.
United Passions
2014-06-19
An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determin
Coppers
1988-10-16
Two bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their evenings
Killing Emmett Young
2002-04-13
In the Philadelphia police department, Emmett Young is a hotshot, a workaholic newly promoted to hom
Selma
2014-12-25
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a marc
October Gale
2014-09-11
A doctor takes in a mysterious man who washes ashore at her remote cottage with a gunshot wound. Qui
600 Miles
2015-12-03
Arnulfo Rubio smuggles weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel, but he is being investigate
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
2022-11-03
Join the likes of Tatiana Maslany, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Roth, and Benedict Wong as they reveal how Marv
Tornado
2025-05-30
When her father's puppet samurai show gets ambushed by a notorious gang, Tornado vows to seek vengea
Common Pursuit
1992-11-09
Common Pursuit is a play by Simon Gray which follows the lives of six characters who first meet as u
Mr. Right
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
Chronic
2015-10-21
David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Dedicated to his profession, he develops st
Driving Ambition
1984-03-03
A bored and frustrated suburban housewife follows her dream of becoming a racing driver
1 Mile To You
2017-04-07
After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectl
The Hateful Eight
2015-12-25
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and decep
King of the Ghetto
1986-05-01
An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of London's
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000-02-09
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Ang
Metamorphosis
1987-02-01
TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man, who is the
Hardcore Henry
2015-09-12
Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic ty
Backsliding
1992-05-21
While in prison, Jack had two momentous experiences: he got religion, and met the woman who would be
Reg
2016-06-06
In June 2003, Reg Keys and his wife Sally return to their home in the Welsh countryside. As they swi
Virgin Territory
2007-12-17
In Black Death era Tuscany, as in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague.
The Perfect Husband
1993-06-02
A drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wive
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
2014-11-18
The Con Is On
2018-05-04
In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
1988-10-01
BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990. This documentary is one of the ten fil
Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking
2013-01-10
Take a look at Tarantino's career from the beginning, with interviews from co-workers, critics, star
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
2000-09-18
British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone
Finding Vivian Maier
2014-03-21
Vivian Maier's photos were seemingly destined for obscurity, lost among the clutter of the countless
Luce
2019-08-02
A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his
Brostitute
2010-01-01
This documentary takes a closer look at the seedy world of brostitution and brostitutes. This film d
The Padre
2018-09-28
American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a pri
Silver City
2004-09-17
The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a b
The Song of Names
2019-12-25
A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who
Bergman Island
2021-07-14
An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for the
Recovery
A pick up truck and its two passengers and driver are on the way to the city with a devastating deli
A Fuller Life
2013-08-28
Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconven
The Misfits
2021-06-03
After being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace finds him
QT8: The First Eight
2019-10-21
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from hi
Sundown
2022-01-28
When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore betwee
260 days
2025-11-03
The carefree and somewhat idyllic life of a ten year old boy named Marijan is violently interrupted
A Fall from Grace
Detective Michael Tabb knows the city he protects inside and out. He has felt its true heart, as muc
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
2026-03-06
Birmingham, 1940: Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to
Seven Snipers
A retired sniper hiding out on an Australian ranch gets her elite team of killers back together to p
Kissinger Takes Paris
(Mostly) true story of Henry Kissinger—a middle-aged, politically washed-up Harvard professor who, i
Pulp Fiction: The Facts
2002-08-20
Behind the scenes of the legendary classic film by Quentin Tarantino.
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
Explores Caton-Jones' rise from his humble roots in the working class mining village of Broxburn, We
Fish
Fish Osborne is a brilliant but reclusive art historian who is undergoing a mysterious transformatio
Holy Molé
A cantankerous, self-centered LA food critic is kidnapped and taken to Mexico, where he's forced to
The Very Best People
Based on the play of the same name.
Urban Jungle
1985-08-15
Bradford. Journalist Tristan Hanley, up from the south, is told by his paper's proprietor to get the
A Colt Is My Passport
Colt, a Vietnam veteran turned contract killer, goes on the run after assassinating a gangland boss.
Me, You
On a remote Italian island in the early 1960s, a teenage boy haunted by memories of the war falls in
Unkownia
Little Rory must save her father who disappeared on a treasure quest after an unfortunate encounter