Tim Blake Nelson

Moving effortlessly between stage and screen writing, directing, acting and even singing (witness his performance as one of the Soggy Bottom Boys in O Brother, Where Art Thou?), Tim Blake Nelson is a Renaissance man when it comes to the performing arts. Born May 11, 1964, in Tulsa, Okla., Nelson studied classics at Brown University before shifting his attention to theater.

By the early 1990s, Nelson was landing small but meaty roles in films such as This Is My Life (Nora Ephron's directing debut) and The Thin Red Line (1998). Also active in theater, he appeared in a number of plays and penned two of his own -- "The Grey Zone" and "Eye of God" -- both of which he later adapted for the screen.

The dawn of a new decade revitalized Nelson's film acting career with roles in big-budget Hollywood efforts such as Minority Report, Meet the Fockers and Syriana.

Colossal

2017 R

Gloria (Anne Hathaway) is an out-of-work party girl who, after getting kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend (Dan Stevens), is forced to leave her life in New York and move back to her hometown where she's reunited with her childhood friend (Jason Sudeikis). When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, South Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world.