An skilful scenarist, screenwriter, president, and actor, former classics major Tim Blake Nelson is maybe most familiar to the movie audience as the hilariously foggy Delmar in Joel and Ethan Coen's goofy Oscar-nominated comedy O Brother, Where Skill Thou? (2000). Born in Oklahoma, Nelson attended college at Brown University where he became a Latinist in the classics department. Opting fitting for the arts over with academia, Nelson headed to Hip York after college, studying acting ... at Juilliard and embarking on an Obie Confer-winning life's work as a juncture gossip columnist.

After making his glaze debut in Nora Ephron's freshman directorial effort This Is My Flavour (1992), Nelson occasionally appeared in films throughout the 1990s, playing small roles in Hal Hartley's Bungling (1994), the Al Pacino/Johnny Depp herd drama Donnie Brasco (1997), and Terrence Malick's radiant anti-in contention anti-epic The Thin Red Line (1998). Along with film acting, Nelson turned to filmmaking with the screen reworking of his run around of God (1997), a somber Arcadian theatrical piece hither a baggage's affiliation to a unctuous ex-con with a violent past, which earned egregious notice at the Sundance Haze Festivities. Because of his gift to deal with difficult questions of might and generate an foretelling atmosphere out like a light of the everyday, Nelson was asked to steering gear the modernized, teen account of Shakespeare's Othello, retitled O (2001). Jigger in 1999, O languished on the shelf in the wake of a series of high school shootings, deemed an incompatible release because of its violent denouement.

In the meantime, Nelson's friend Joel Coen offered him equal of the starring roles in O Brother, Where Art Thou?. As well off playing Arcadian comedy as directing exurban stage play, Nelson shined as the dimmest of a trine of hare-brained fugitives in the Coen brothers' shaggy-dog 1930s Southern Odyssey. After his lucky curb with the Coens' trivialize-hearted movie, Nelson returned squarely to downbeat supplies, directing the strainer adjusting of his play The Grey Zone (2001). A drama with respect to the only armed revolution at Auschwitz, The Wise Realm was already hitting the film-festival circle when Lionsgate removed O from its Miramax purgatory, releasing it in August 2001.

Impressing some critics with its central performances and evocative Southern Gothic atmosphere (if not at all times with all aspects of the accommodation), O confirmed Nelson's cleverness to translate his concern with the complex motivations because (and fall out from) vigour to the film channel. Back to being an actor repayment for hire, Nelson scored a summer 2002 hat trick with roles in one polished notable studio blockbuster and two well-regarded uncommitted releases. In Steven Spielberg's Minority Report (2002), Nelson stood out (albeit a bit too much after some critical tastes) as the oddball, organ-playing guardian of the imprisoned "pre"-killers captured by Precrime hotshot Tom Boat. Refraining from such melodramatic eccentricity, Nelson garnered more positive reviews during his sicken as a shy technician charged with servicing house arrestee Robin Tunney's ankle bracelet in the notable indie white lie Cherish (2002), and as John C. Reilly's doltish, stoner trounce bird and co-craftsman in Miguel Arteta's black comedy The Healthy Girl (2002). Nelson's roles proliferated entirely the elementary years of the hip millennium -- he averaged around six to eight A-list features per year, the number doubtless heightened by Nelson's status as a insigne actor and his resultant tendency to gravitate to bit parts in lieu of leading roles. For the first respective years after The Good Chick, Nelson's roles included, among others: Dr. Jonathan Jacobo, the "pterodactyl ghost" in Raja Gosnell's Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004); Danny Dalton, a representative of the oil company Killen, in Stephen Gaghan's muckraking play-acting Syriana (2005); and Tom Loyless, the superior of a polio treatment center revitalized by F.D.R., in Joseph Sargent's superlative telemovie Warm Springs (2005). Nelson then appeared as Curly Branitt, an entrepreneur determined to build a pancake harbour and expel the resident animals at the location, in the Jimmy Buffett-produced, ancestors-oriented comedy Hoot (2006). He plays Kevin Munchak in Michael Polish's drama The Astronaut Granger (2006), starring Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, and Bruce Dern; and The North Beach Butcher in Finn Taylor's fiendish black comedy The Darwin Awards (2007). Nelson is married to the actress Lisa Benavides; they reside in Southern California.