Tim Nelson Highlights

  • 2007: Cast opposite Billy Bob Thornton in "The Astronaut Farmer"
  • 2007: Co-starred in Richard Kelly's ensemble film, "Southland Tales"
  • 2006: Co-starred in "The Amateurs," an independent comedy about a sleepy town that comes together to film a porno
  • 2006: Co-starred in Joey Lauren Adams' screenwriting and directing debut, "Come Early Morning"
  • 2005: Cast opposite Robin Williams in "The Big White"
  • 2005: Co-starred with George Clooney and Matt Damon in the geopolitical thriller "Syriana," based on the real-life memoirs of CIA agent Robert Baer
  • 2004: Cast opposite Matthew Broderick and Alec Baldwin in the comedy "The Last Shot"
  • 2004: Starred alongside David Arquette and Emily Mortimer in "A Foreign Affair"
  • 2002: Co-starred with Jennifer Aniston in the critically hailed "The Good Girl"
  • 2002: Had a small but notable part in Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report"
  • 2002: Appeared as the unlikely love interest in the quirky independent film "Cherish"
  • 2001: Directed the prep school-set "Othello" update "O" (filmed in 1999)
  • 2001: Adapted the screenplay of his play "The Grey Zone" for the big screen; also directed and edited; released theatrically in USA in 2002
  • 2000: Had small role in a modern feature adaptation of "Hamlet," directed by Michael Almereyda
  • 2000: Co-starred with George Clooney and John Turturro as an escapted con in the Coen Brothers 1930s-set "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
  • 1998: Played Private Tillis in Terrence Malick's adaptation of "The Thin Red Line"
  • 1998: Wrote and directed the short "Kansas"
  • 1998: Starred in the prison-set drama "Andarko," with David Patrick Kelly
  • 1997: Wrote and directed the acclaimed independent drama "Eye of God," based on his own play
  • 1997: Was an FBI technician in the crime thriller "Donnie Brasco"
  • 1996: Was featured in the ABC miniseries "Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk"
  • 1996: Produced "The Grey Zone," at New York City's Manhattan Class Company (MCC) Theater
  • 1995: Made guest appearance on John Leguizamo's short-lived comedy-variety show "House of Buggin'"
  • 1995: Starred as Thersites in the Delacourt Theater production of "Troilus and Cressida"
  • 1994: Played a detective in Hal Hartley's "Amateur"
  • 1993: Appeared in episodes of HBO's sketch comedy "Hardcore TV"
  • 1993: Featured in the stage production "An Imaginary Life" at Playwrights Horizons in New York City
  • 1992: Played a comedian compatriot of Julie Kavner's Dottie in Nora Ephron's "This Is My Life"
  • 1992: Appeared in the Off-Broadway staging of Caryl Churchill's play "Mad Forrest" alongside Calista Flockhart and Juilliard classmate Jake Weber
  • 1990: Was writer and performer on the sketch comedy show "The Unnaturals" (HA! TV Comedy Network and CTV: The Comedy Network)
  • Raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma