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Tim Roth

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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).

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Pulp Fiction

As Pumpkin

Reservoir Dogs

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Funny Games

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Incredible Hulk

As Emil Blonsky

The Hateful Eight

As Oswaldo Mobray

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

As John Beckett

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

As Emil Blonsky/Abomination

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Remakes That Missed but Matter

From Neil LaBute's Wicker Man to Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria, a journey through remakes that stumbled yet reveal why we keep returning to the classics.

8 films

The Perfect Needledrop: Ten Moments That Own the Screen

From sudden silences to euphoric choruses, these are the film moments where a song doesn't just score the scene, it becomes the scene.

10 films

Rewinding the Reel: How VHS Championed British Independents

From Thatcher's Britain to the video shop era, discover how VHS gave gritty, daring British films a second life and a devoted audience.

9 films

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