American actor

Tim Blake Nelson

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).

Born

1964

May 11

Died

Living

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1960s

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Tim, in brief

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1964 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

330 Constantine the Great dedicates the much-expanded and rebuilt city of Byzantium, changing its name to New Rome and declaring it the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
868 A copy of the Diamond Sūtra is published, the earliest dated and printed book known.
973 In the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English monarch, Edgar the Peaceful is crowned King of England, having ruled since 959 AD. His wife, Ælfthryth, is crowned queen, the first recorded coronation for a Queen of England.
1068 Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, is crowned Queen of England.

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The world in 1964

When Tim arrived

april 1 The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
april 11 Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress.
april 13 At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
april 17 Jerrie Mock completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the Spirit of Columbus, which took 29+1⁄2 days, took off and landed at the Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on May 11

Cam Newton 1989– American football player Gene Savoy 1927–2007 American explorer, author, and scholar (died 2007) James L. Dolan 1955– American businessman Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895–1986 Indian-American philosopher and author (born 1895) Louis Farrakhan 1933– American religious leader Richard Feynman 1918–1988 American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918) William Grant Still 1895– American composer and conductor (died 1978)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1964

Abhisit Vejjajiva 1964– English-Thai economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand Andrew Bartlett 1964– Australian social worker and politician Andy Serkis 1964– English actor and director Đặng Thân 1964– Vietnamese writer and poet Arlie Petters 1964– Belizean-American mathematical physicist and academic Azmin Ali 1964– Malaysian mathematician and politician Brian Adams 1964–2007 American wrestler (died 2007) Bridget Fonda 1964– American actress Calista Flockhart 1964– American actress

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