# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tim-blake-nelson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:38:41.133Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tim-blake-nelson"
name: "Tim Blake Nelson"
slug: "tim-blake-nelson"
description: "Timothy Blake Nelson is an American actor, director, and writer. Described as a \"modern character actor\", his roles include Delmar O'Donnell in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Gideon in Minority Report (2002), Doctor Steve Pendanski in Holes (2003), Doctor Jonathan Jacobo in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), Danny Dalton Jr. in Syriana (2005), Samuel Sterns / The Leader in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Richard Schell in Lincoln (2012), the eponymous character of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and Henry McCarty in Old Henry (2021). He portrayed Wade Tillman / Looking Glass in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2020."
tagline: "American actor, director and writer (born 1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tim_Blake_Nelson_Leaves_of_Grass_Premiere.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-05-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.08753415468185016
  historical:           25.55287733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 250
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump