Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor, writer,
and director. His most famous roles include Delmar O'Donnell in O
Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Dr. Pendanski in Holes (2003), Daniel
"Danny" Dalton Jr. in Syriana (2005), Dr. Samuel Sterns in The
Incredible Hulk (2008), Richard Schell in Lincoln (2012), Buster
Scruggs in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and Wade Tillman /
Looking Glass in the HBO series Watchmen (2019) for which he was
nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award.Nelson was born to a
Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Ruth Nelson (née
Kaiser), a noted social activist and philanthropist in Tulsa, and Don
Nelson, a geologist and wildcatter. His maternal uncle is businessman
George Kaiser.His maternal grandparents Herman Geo. Kaiser and Kate
Kaiser, daughter of businessman Max Samuel, were from Germany, and
escaped the Nazis shortly before World War II. They moved to Britain
in 1938, where Nelson's mother was born, and immigrated to the United
States in 1941. His father's family were Russian Jewish
emigrants.Nelson attended the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz
Mountain Resort Arts and Conference Center in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma.
and director. His most famous roles include Delmar O'Donnell in O
Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Dr. Pendanski in Holes (2003), Daniel
"Danny" Dalton Jr. in Syriana (2005), Dr. Samuel Sterns in The
Incredible Hulk (2008), Richard Schell in Lincoln (2012), Buster
Scruggs in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and Wade Tillman /
Looking Glass in the HBO series Watchmen (2019) for which he was
nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award.Nelson was born to a
Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Ruth Nelson (née
Kaiser), a noted social activist and philanthropist in Tulsa, and Don
Nelson, a geologist and wildcatter. His maternal uncle is businessman
George Kaiser.His maternal grandparents Herman Geo. Kaiser and Kate
Kaiser, daughter of businessman Max Samuel, were from Germany, and
escaped the Nazis shortly before World War II. They moved to Britain
in 1938, where Nelson's mother was born, and immigrated to the United
States in 1941. His father's family were Russian Jewish
emigrants.Nelson attended the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz
Mountain Resort Arts and Conference Center in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma.
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