Book Tim Blake Nelson

Tim Blake Nelson is an American actor, director and writer celebrated as one of Hollywood's great character actors. He won a lasting place in film history as the lovable Delmar O'Donnell in the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and the film's soundtrack, on which he appears, won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, one of his two Grammy nominations and his one win. His wide-ranging film credits include The Thin Red Line (1998), Minority Report (2002), Holes (2003), Syriana (2005), Lincoln (2012), the title role in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) and the western Old Henry (2021). Marvel fans know him as Samuel Sterns, the Leader, from The Incredible Hulk (2008) through Captain America: Brave New World (2025). On television he played Looking Glass in HBO's Watchmen (2019), earning a Critics' Choice nomination. Nelson is also an accomplished playwright and director: his play Eye of God became his 1997 directing debut and a Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee, and he directed O (2001), a modern Othello, and the Holocaust drama The Grey Zone (2001), adapted from his own play. He brings intellect and rich storytelling about craft.