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Tim Blake Nelson has appeared in over twenty-five films including Warm Springs, Meet the Fockers, Holes, The Good Girl, Wonderland, Minority Report and O Brother Where Art Thou?. Nelson will soon be seen in The Moguls, The Big White, Come Early Morning and Fido.

Nelson's The Grey Zone, which he wrote and directed, starred Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Mira Sorvino, David Arquette, Allan Corduner and Natasha Lyonne. The film premiered at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival and opened in October 2002. The Grey Zone is a dramatic story of the Sonderkommandos, special squads of Jews who processed corpses in the crematoria at Birkenau. Shot in Bulgaria, The Grey Zone is based on his Award-winning play. The National Board of Review (2002) honored The Grey Zone with a "Special Recognition of Films that Reflect the Freedom of Expression."

Nelson also directed O, a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, starring Martin Sheen, Julia Stiles, Josh Hartnett and Mekhi Phifer. O premiered at the 2001 Seattle Film Festival, where Nelson was awarded Best Director.

Nelson wrote and directed the film Eye of God, starring Martha Plimpton, Hal Holbrook and Kevin Anderson, which appeared at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States later that year. The film received the top award at the 1997 Seattle Film Festival, as well as the Tokyo Bronze Prize at the Tokyo Film Festival.

As a playwright, Nelson's produced plays include The Grey Zone, Eye of God and Anna Darko. He has also acted extensively in New York theatre. Most recently he starred in the critically acclaimed play Beard of Avon, portraying William Shakespeare at the New York Theatre Workshop. Nelson's other credits include Oedipus, with Frances McDormand and Billy Crudup, Troilus and Cressida, Les Bourgeois Avant-Garde, Mac Wellman's Dracula, The Amazon's Voice, An Imaginary Life, The Baltimore Waltz, Mad Forest, The Innocents' Crusade, Richard III and Twelfth Night.

Nelson was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a graduate of Brown University and the Julliard Theater Center. He resides in New York City with his wife and two sons.

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