Tim Roth

Roth starred in Woody Allen's musical film Everyone Says I Love You and in The Legend of 1900.

He also co-starred with Tupac Shakur in the film Gridlock'd.

Roth made his directorial debut film The War Zone, a film version of Alexander Stuart's novel.

Although he was not of Jewish background, his father changed his surname from "Smith" to the German/Yiddish "Roth" in the 1940s, as "an act of anti-Nazi solidarity".

Roth is a survivor of child sexual abuse, committed by his paternal grandfather, whom he has stated sexually abused him from childhood until his early teen years.

Timothy Simon Roth (born 14 May 1961) is an English actor and producer.

He was among a group of prominent British actors known as the "Brit Pack".

Roth was born on 14 May 1961 in Dulwich, London.

His mother, Ann, was a painter and teacher.

His father Ernie, was a Fleet Street journalist and painter.

His father was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, to a family of Irish descent.

Roth starred in the television films in the 1980s, including Made in Britain, Meantime and Murder with Mirrors.

After his film debut The Hit, he earned an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer.

In the late 1980s, Roth, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bruce Payne and Paul McGann were dubbed the Brit Pack.

Roth was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer in his film debut The Hit (1984).

He played an East End character in King of the Ghetto, a controversial drama based on a novel by Farukh Dhondy set in Brick Lane and broadcast by the BBC in 1986.

Since then, he gained more attention for his roles in films, including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), and Vincent & Theo and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (both 1990).

In 1990, he played Vincent van Gogh in Vincent & Theo, and Guildenstern in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

Roth became an international star when he collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on several films, including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Four Rooms.

He played Archibald Cunningham in Rob Roy.

He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe.

Roth has collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on several films, including Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Four Rooms (1995) and The Hateful Eight (2015).

For his performance in Rob Roy (1995), Roth won a BAFTA Award, and was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award.

Roth made his directorial debut with the film The War Zone (1999).

He first revealed that he was a victim of sexual abuse during press for the 1999 film The War Zone, which dealt with the topics of incest and sexual violence within a family, but declined to name the perpetrator at that time.

In 2001, he played General Thade the evil chimpanzee in Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes.

For the Harry Potter film series, Roth declined the role of Severus Snape, which went to Alan Rickman.

Roth starred in Francis Ford Coppola's film Youth Without Youth, Michael Haneke's Funny Games, and played Emil Blonsky / Abomination, a Russian-born officer in the British Royal Marines Commandos, in The Incredible Hulk.

Louis Leterrier was a fan of Roth's work.

Leterrier wrote on Empire magazine: "it's great watching a normal Cockney boy become a superhero!".

Roth starred in the television series Lie to Me as Cal Lightman, an expert on body language assisting local and federal law organisations with the crime.

Roth played Emil Blonsky/Abomination in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film The Incredible Hulk (2008), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), and the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022).

He played Cal Lightman in the Fox series Lie to Me (2009–2011) and Jim Worth/Jack Devlin in the Sky Atlantic series Tin Star (2017–2020).

A fan of Monty Python since his youth, Roth appeared in the 2009 television documentary, Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut).

He appeared on the cover of Manic Street Preachers' 2010 studio album, Postcards from a Young Man.

In 2012, he was announced as the President of the Jury for the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

In December 2016, he gave an interview to The Guardian in which he revealed that his abuser was his grandfather, who had also abused his father when he was a child.

Roth attended school in Lambeth before moving to Croydon Technical School, due to bullying.

He attended the Strand School in Tulse Hill.

Roth wanted to be a sculptor and studied at London's Camberwell College of Arts.