He comes from an affluent middle-class family. His father, Ernie, is a journalist and an English party member. He settled in the Libyan desert in his later years, so that Tim now has a photo of his father and Colonel Gaddafi. Anne's mother is also a left-leaning liberal and landscape painter. She supplements her family as a teacher. Tim once proudly said that his parents were very open-minded and played a "promoting role" for him.
However, his childhood was not happy. Instead, he was sexually assaulted, and his parents divorced and sprinkled salt on the wound. All these have caused permanent scars on his mind, which has completely ruined his studies. At the end of primary school, he couldn't get into an excellent middle school like other children, so he handed in all the papers intact.
He entered a notorious evil school and stayed there for six years. During this period, he was fascinated by punk, was the head of the anti-racial discrimination society in the school, and took drugs. At the age of 15, he was arrested and spent the night in prison because of a conflict between his peers and the police.
/kloc-at the age of 0/6, he had the experience of performing for the first time in his life: the school rehearsed the musical Dracula, and he was the leading actor. It was a terrible experience, because he was so nervous that he not only broke the ice, but also peed his pants.
He began to choose a career. The influence of his family and his own experience made him always have an almost fanatical interest in social change. At the age of 1 1 and 12, he decided to become a missionary, but he soon stopped believing in God like his father. Although his first performance failed, the performance attracted him deeply. He said that "performance is a political activity"-perhaps for him, his career is not a means of self-venting and comforting, but a way to transform society. After studying sculpture at the university for 18 months, he made the "most correct decision in his life": he dropped out of school and became an actor.
He is not an English actor in the traditional sense. Without any professional training, he started his career in the small theater brought by the bar. When he was not rehearsing, he made a living by selling, so he spent the first few years.
On the way home by bike one night, while pumping up his bike, he was noticed: he was shaving his head for Cassio in the rehearsal of otero, and someone came up to him and asked him if he would play a bald head. This TV movie was made by Alan Clarke (Allen Clark) in England. Tim has always respected Clark's works, especially scum. He mentioned ray winstone as one of his motivations for becoming an actor. After the conversation, Clark was satisfied with him and thought he was the right person for the hero who spread violence and pain everywhere.
Made in Britain describes the life of the lower classes in London in the early days of Margaret Thatcher's administration. Its calm and realistic style and the honesty advocated by Clark had a far-reaching influence on later Tim Roth. After the movie, Clark recommended him to mike leigh (played by mike leigh), and he is preparing to make In the meantime, which is also a TV movie of the lower classes in London. All these indicate that he will become a real social actor.
In' 85, everything went well. Hit won him a series of "Most Promising Newcomer Awards", including BAFTA. Also in that year, he gave birth to a son with his girlfriend Lori Baker, who is a screenwriter. He witnessed the birth of this little thing, named him Jack Earnest, and tattooed J.E.R and his birthday on his right arm.
Then, when others played decent roles and won prizes frequently, he had nothing. He stubbornly resisted those commercial films that he thought were nonsense and insisted on the route of independent films. During the recession, the British film industry almost reached a dead end, where there were so many things he wanted to shoot! Besides, in Britain, the competition is fierce. He once described it like this: "It's like' Fuck you! I want it! "
For four years, he had no suitable job and no friends, and lived in abject poverty.
1988, he only had a job in 65438+ that year 10. In order to make a living, he went to work in a supermarket and was responsible for putting new goods on the shelves; Another job is telemarketing, and he is doing both. He and Jack's mother also broke up that year, and the painful mood began to pervade. He either drinks or sleeps all day. Then, his crazy desire for work drove him to Holland, France, Czech Republic, Australia and even Africa ... Finally, he was found by Peter Greenaway while sleeping in the sewer of Amsterdam and brought back to England, in "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife &; Her lover (cook, thief, his wife and her lover) plays the thief's man.
Then came the first film that brought him international fame-cooperation with robert altman, which reflected Van Gogh's later life:
Vincent and Theo (Vincent and Theo). He is quite familiar with Van Gogh, because he is not only his idol, but also his father's idol. It was also at this time that his father passed away. When the body was cremated, there was only a photo and a bunch of sunflowers sent to my son by Van Gogh's crew. The workers attended his father's funeral, but Tim was not there-he was far away in Ethiopia. That night, for his father's sake, or perhaps for himself, he cried in the direction of England.
When the black comedy Rosen Glanz and Gierden Stein died won warm praise, his prospects in Britain were still bleak, which was irreconcilable with the Conservative government. At an award ceremony, he publicly called Margaret Thatcher a sissy, which was too much. He was kicked out of Britain.
1990, he came to the United States and started his voluntary exile with a low-cost crime movie. And samuel jackson, who was not famous at that time. He is the leading role. At first, the director was worried that his British accent would scare away the audience, but Tim's hard training reassured him. Shortly after the film was finished, he was introduced to quentin tarantino, a friend of a video rental store. To his surprise, Quentin has seen many of his films.
Tim never reads scripts for directors for one reason: he thinks he knows nothing, so he refuses to play the Nazi officer in Schindler's List. So when I heard that Quentin also asked him to read a few dialogues first, he refused. But the sly guy was not discouraged. One night, he got Tim drunk in a bar, then wrote his lines on a napkin for him to read, and finally won him over to his own team.
The film is Reservoir Dogs. The sensation caused by its appearance naturally attracted the attention of relevant actors, and it was also an accidental exception. Tim suddenly became famous overnight. Prada company pulled him to shoot an advertisement. The brewer knew that Mr. Orange and Mr. Pinker-Steve Buscemi loved beer, so the wine was sent in boxes, and the script deliveryman also stepped into the threshold. ...
In this way, he settled down in the United States, lived there from then on, took photos according to his own preferences, and married the woman he loved deeply. Her name is Nicky Butler. During this period, he was favored by the Oscar, and the first mainstream film brought him the nomination of "Best Supporting Actor". In the same year, his other film was widely praised in the independent film industry. He cooperated with Quentin for the third time and won a film contract with Woody Allen ... After the Oscar, he did not hesitate to re-engage in independent production, and the subsequent films Liar and Animals were all co-produced with people who were directors for the first time. It seems that he is going to "dedicate his life and death to this cause".
In about 95, he read the novel War Zone for the first time. Within 24 hours after reading the book, he decided that it was his first directorial work. This controversial book touches on the sensitive topic of sexual violence against teenagers. "The first reaction after reading the book is not what I should do for them, but what I should do," Tim said. After a lot of preparations, the war zone was officially launched in the winter of 1997, and the location was chosen in Britain. It was an extremely difficult and bad day, and he devoted himself to it.
When the public's social morality collapsed in an all-round way-The War Zone is such a story, and an ordinary family with normal appearance went to ruin because of sexual abuse among its members. Tim's camera aimed coldly at those shocking facts. The film is not sensational, but almost no one can remain indifferent after watching it, but many viewers report that it has reached the limit of psychological endurance.
Such a movie will certainly not bring him any benefits or Oscar, and even take some risks, which requires great courage. "However, when the screening ended, some viewers got up to discuss the film with me. Some of them talked about themselves for the first time in their lives. How can I regret it? "
He used to be a salesman, postman and bartender. He said that if he doesn't want to be an actor, he is willing to be a psychological counselor for children who have been traumatized or have psychological problems.
He hates wearing a suit and says that feeling makes him uncomfortable. 1999, he proudly claimed that he only had two suits.
He still loves to go to low-end bars and frequents them, and he can't get rid of his hobby of smoking, drinking, reading and playing billiards.
He is crazy about tattoos, and he also uses tattoos to commemorate important events in his life.
Both he and Gary Oldman refused intimacy (privacy) on the grounds that it was too explicit.