Tim Blake Nelson is an accomplished actor, filmmaker and playwright.

As an actor, Nelson is perhaps best known for playing Delmar, the dingbat convict on the lam with George Clooney and John Turturro in the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? He will be soon be seen in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, co-starring Tom Cruise, Samantha Morton and Colin Farrell, as well as Miguel Arteta's dark comedy The Good Girl, co-starring Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal. Nelson recently completed production on A Foreign Affair, written and directed by Dutch filmmakers Geert Heetebrij and Helmut Schleppi, in which he stars opposite David Arquette. He is currently in production on Andy Davis' Holes co-starring Sigourney Weaver and Jon Voight.

As a director, Nelson is perhaps best known for O, the controversial screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, starring Mekhi Phifer, Josh Hartnett and Julia Stiles. Nelson's most recent film, The Grey Zone, which he wrote and directed, stars Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Mira Sorvino, David Arquette, Allan Corduner and Natasha Lyonne. The Grey Zone made its debut at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival to great acclaim. The Grey Zone is a dramatic story of the Sonderkommandos, special squads of Jews who processed corpses in the crematoria at Birkenau. Shot in Bulgaria, The Grey Zone is based on Nelson's award winning play and will be released in October.

Nelson's debut as a filmmaker was the drama Eye of God, which he also wrote. Starring Martha Plimpton, Hal Holbrook, and Kevin Anderson, the film had its world premiere in the Dramatic Competition at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States later that year. The film received the top award at the 1997 Seattle Film Festival, as well as the Tokyo Bronze Prize at the Tokyo Film Festival.

Nelson's other screen acting credits also include Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco, Hal Hartley's Amateur and Nora Ephron's This is My Life. He also appeared in the television miniseries "Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk," a prequel to "Lonesome Dove."

As a playwright, Nelson's produced and published plays include "The Grey Zone", "Eye of God" and "Anadarko." He has also acted extensively in New York Theatre. Tim's New York theatre credits include "Oedipus", "Troilus and Cressida", "Les Bourgeois Avant-Garde", "Mac Wellman's Dracula", "The Amazon's Voice", "An Imaginary Life", "The Baltimore Waltz", "Mad Forest", "The Innocents Crusade", "Richard III" and "Twelfth Night."

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