Tim Blake Nelson

He's starred in fifty plus movies. His latest Anesthesia opens tomorrow January 8th. But who is the real guy? Is the writer or the actor? Or when the stages have been put away. Is he truly just Dad? From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with actor Time Blake Nelson. TIM BLAKE NELSON has established himself as a highly respected actor, writer, and director with an array of dramatic and comedic work both on screen and stage. Nelson has acted in over 50 feature films, and has worked with some of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers, including Terrence Malick in The Thin Red Line; Steven Speilberg in Lincoln (with Daniel Day Lewis) and Minority Report (opposite Tom Cruise); Mike Newell in Donnie Brasco; David Frankel in The Big Year (with Owen Wilson and Steve Martin); Steve Gagan in Syriana; Miguel Arteta in The Good Girl, and the Coen brothers in O Brother Where Art Thou?. Other films include James Franco’s adaptations of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Bukowski, and Child of God, Andy Davis's Holes (opposite Shia LeBeouf, Jon Voight and Sigourney Weaver), Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman, Kill the Messenger (with Jeremy Renner), The Incredible Hulk (with Edward Norton), and Meet the Fockers (opposite Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert DeNiro). This year, Nelson can be seen in Fantastic Four for Fox, directed by Josh Trank, co-starring Kate Mara, Miles Teller, Jamie Bell and Michael B. Jordan. Nelson also wrote, directed and produced Leaves of Grass, a dark comedy with Edward Norton, Keri Russell, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss, and Nelson. The film premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, and was released theatrically by Millenium in August, 2010. In October 2002, Lionsgate released Nelson's third film as a writer/director, The Grey Zone, based on his award winning play. It is the dramatic story of the Sonderkommandos, a special squad of Jews who processed corpses in the crematoria at Birkenau. Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, and Mira Sorvino starred in the film, which premiered at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. The National Board of Review honored the film with its "Freedom of Expression” award in 2002. In 2001, Nelson directed O, a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello, which starred Martin Sheen, Julia Stiles, and Josh Hartnett, and won the award for Best Director at the 2001 Seattle Film Festival before being released widely by Lionsgate that same year. In 1997, Nelson made his directorial debut with the film Eye of God, which he also wrote. The film appeared in competition at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, and was released theatrically the same year. It won the top award at the 1997 Seattle Film Festival, as well as the Tokyo Bronze Prize at the '97 Tokyo Film Festival. Tim has also acted extensively in New York theatre in plays including “The Beard of Avon”, “Mad Forest”, “Oedipus”, “Troilus and Cressida”, “Richard III”, and “Twelfth Night”, among many others. His playwriting credits include “The Grey Zone”, which won him Newsday's Oppenheimer Prize as well as Encore Magazine's “Taking Off” Award, “Eye of God”, and “Anadarko.” Tim sits on the Board of Directors of the Soho Repertory Theatre in New York City, where he resides with his wife and three children. ABOUT ANESTHESIA, OPENING IN THEATERS JANUARY 8th Set in New York City, Tim Blake Nelson's thought-provoking drama is a meditation of city life that examines the inextricable and unforeseen forces that bring a group of disparate individuals together in a world where many people are alone and life remains unexamined. Walter Zarrow (Sam Waterston) is a well-loved Columbia University professor of philosophy. His son (Tim Blake Nelson) has just revealed daunting news that has made him realize its time to retire and concentrate on enjoying his golden years with his loving wife (Glenn Close). What he doesn’t know is how much his “being” may touch those around him: a troubled student (Kristen Stewart); a philandering husband (Corey Stoll), and a man fighting drug addiction (K. Todd Freeman). Gretchen Mol, Mickey Sumner, Jessica Hecht, Gloria Reuben and Michael K. Williams round out the cast.