Tim Roth — biography, films, roles and trivia

Biography

💥Timothy Simon Smith, better known as Tim Roth. Born in 1961 in London, United Kingdom. He was the only child in the family. His father worked as a journalist, and his mother was a teacher. He studied at Croydon Technical College. He works as an actor and director. Married twice: to actress Lori Baker (a son, Jack, was born) and since 1993 to designer Nikki Butler, the couple had 2 sons, Timothy and Michael. In 2022, Michael died of germ cell cancer

🏆Main awards🏆: BAFTA (1996) [Rob Roy], Golden Globe nomination [Rob Roy]

🎬Main projects🎬: "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Reservoir Dogs" (1992), "The Incredible Hulk" (2008), "Lie to Me" (2009), "Planet of the Apes" (2001)

⭐Interesting fact⭐: Tim hid his father's Jewish origin for a long time due to difficult family relations

Filmography

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2026 Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man John Beckett

Interesting facts

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When Tim had not yet left England, he lived together with Lori Baker. In 1984 she gave birth to his son Jack. But when Roth decided to move to the USA, he abandoned both her and his son. True, afterward he still took Jack to live with him.
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His father Ernie was a journalist, and his mother Anne was a landscape painter. Tim has an older sister.
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Once, when Tim was a child, he went to the theater with some friends, and during the performance they made such a ruckus that one of the actors stopped the show and ordered the young troublemakers to leave the auditorium. Several years later, while filming The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Roth recognized in his co-star Alan Howard the very actor who had once thrown him out of the theater. Alan did not recognize him, and Roth, naturally, did not remind him of the incident. "And since over the course of the film I had to kill him, I considered myself avenged," Tim Roth later said.
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Tim's family's real surname is Smith, but his father changed this traditional English surname to the German-Jewish Roth after World War II, because his profession required him to travel frequently to countries where the English were not well liked.
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In 1992, at the Sundance Film Festival, Tim met designer Nikki Butler. On January 25, 1993, they married. Tim and Nikki have two sons: Timothy Hunter, born in 1995, and Michael Cormac, born in 1996.
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After finishing high school, Tim went to study sculpture at the Camberwell College of Arts. But after a year he dropped out, as he dreamed of becoming an actor.
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Full name: Timothy Simon Smith.
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Tim Roth turned down the role of Professor Severus Snape in the debut Harry Potter film in favor of the film Planet of the Apes (2001).