Tim Roth
5 catalogued objects connected to Tim Roth.
Biography
Person.
Tim Roth is a British actor and director whose early career made him one of the most forceful screen faces of working-class anger and social fracture in 1980s British film. His first screen role was the teenage skinhead Trevor in Alan Clarke’s Made in Britain, followed by Mike Leigh’s Meantime and Stephen Frears’s The Hit, performances built around volatile outsiders rather than conventional romantic leading roles.
Roth later played Vincent van Gogh in Vincent & Theo before moving into American independent cinema, where Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction established a long association with Quentin Tarantino. His performance in Rob Roy earned an Academy Award nomination, while his only feature as director, The War Zone, extended his interest in difficult family and social material behind the camera.
Reviewed 2026-08-19Selected sources
- Festival de Cannes — Tim RothRoth’s early screen career in Made in Britain, Meantime and The Hit, later roles in Vincent & Theo, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Oscar nomination for Rob Roy and directorial work.
- The Guardian — Tim Roth interviewRoth’s London background, early working-class and outsider roles and long career in British and international film.
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Represented across objects dated 1985–1997.
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