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Birth Name: Timothy Leonard Spall

Age: 67, born 27 February 1957

Country of origin: United Kingdom

Height: 5' 10"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Shane Spall

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Description: Perhaps the actor most closely associated with director Mike Leigh, Timothy Spall has acted in productions for the director on both the stage and screen. Spall made a particularly strong impression in Leigh's Life is Sweet (1991), which cast him as a socially awkward gourmet chef, and Secrets & Lies (1996), in which his starring performance as a portrait photographer struggling with marital problems earned him award nominations from the British Academy and the London Film Critics Circle. In addition to his work with Leigh, Spall has appeared in a number of disparate productions. He made his film debut with a supporting ro Perhaps the actor most closely associated with director Mike Leigh, Timothy Spall has acted in productions for the director on both the stage and screen. Spall made a particularly strong impression in Leigh's Life is Sweet (1991), which cast him as a socially awkward gourmet chef, and Secrets & Lies (1996), in which his starring performance as a portrait photographer struggling with marital problems earned him award nominations from the British Academy and the London Film Critics Circle.

In addition to his work with Leigh, Spall has appeared in a number of disparate productions. He made his film debut with a supporting role in the Who's Quadrophenia in 1979 and spent the next decade splitting his time and energy between the stage and screen. He acted extensively for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, and he also did acclaimed work on television, most notably as Mr. Venus in the BBC production of Charles Dicken's Our Mutual Friend, for which he received a BAFTA Best Actor nomination.

Spall began to gain recognition and respect as a film actor in the 1990s, thanks in large part to his collaborations with Leigh. In addition to his work with the director, Spall was particularly memorable in Brian Gibson's Still Crazy (1998), a comedy that cast him as the drummer for a defunct 1970s rock band trying to make a come-back. In 1999, the actor enjoyed another collaboration with Leigh in Topsy-Turvy, an acclaimed drama about the partnership between Gilbert and Sullivan that featured Spall as an effeminate opera diva. The following year, he could be seen as Don Armado in Kenneth Branagh's musical adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost, and heard as a chicken farm denizen in Nick Park's animated Chicken Run. In recognition of his contributions to the arts, Spall was named an Officer of the Order of British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth on New Year's Eve, 1999.

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Was an army cadet as a teenager.
Became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1999.
Diagnosed with leukemia in 1996.
Was rescued at sea during the filming of his reality series Timothy Spall: Back at Sea after an incident in which he accidentally went the wrong way on the River Medway.
Trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA. ... (more)

Tags: Actor (26), British (8), Male (7), English (5), Harry Potter (5), Funny (3), Cool (2), European (2), Fantastic (2), Great (2), Stunning (2), Adorable (2), Intelligent (2), Handsome (2), Charming (2), Deserves An Oscar (2), Born 1957 (2), Caucasian (2), Harry Potter Series (2), Great Eyes (2)

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