Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1233
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Tim Roth represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 35 years in, and Tim is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Tim Roth appears in 38 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Tim. Pulp Fiction is the clearest case: a film rated 9.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, thriller, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Sandra Sciberras, Tom Harper, Roel Reiné and others, Tim Roth helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Pulp Fiction (1994) as Pumpkin · Pulp Fiction (1994) as Pumpkin · Reservoir Dogs (1992) as Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke
Career snapshot
Ranked #1233 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
38
1991–2026
Career length
35 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.2
Pulp Fiction
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.9
Pulp Fiction
Most frequent director
Quentin Tarantino
5 films together
Longest collaboration
5×
With Quentin Tarantino
Most common genre
Drama
21 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.0
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1990s
7.3 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Legend of 1900, Gridlock'd, Hoodlum — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.3
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.3
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
1 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Legend of 1900, Gridlock'd, Hoodlum.
Most productive era
2020s
12 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.36 films | 6.02 films | 6.96 films | 6.37 films |
| Action | 6.71 film | 6.22 films | — | 6.06 films |
| Thriller | 8.52 films | 6.13 films | 6.41 film | 5.85 films |
| Comedy | 6.95 films | 5.21 film | 5.22 films | — |
| Crime | 7.95 films | 5.21 film | 5.22 films | 7.21 film |
| Romance | 6.51 film | 6.11 film | 6.22 films | 6.31 film |
| Horror | — | 6.22 films | — | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1991Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Guildenstern.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1994Pulp Fiction
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
The current state of the argument, as John Beckett.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
38 of 38 films
as Pumpkin
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
as Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Pumpkin
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Oswaldo Mobray
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 42 titles · 44 total credits · active 1991–2026
Seven Snipers
2026 · The Dragon
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
2026 · John Beckett
Tornado
2025 · Sugarman
Classified
2024 · Kevin Angler
Poison
2024 · Lucas · Executive Producer
Last King of the Cross
2023 · TV · Ezra Shipman
Punch
2022 · Stan
Resurrection
2022 · David
There Are No Saints
2022 · Carl Abrahams
Sundown
2022 · Neil Bennett · Executive Producer
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
2022 · TV · Emil Blonsky / Abomination
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021 · Emil Blonsky / Abomination (voice) (uncredited)
The Misfits
2021 · Schultz
Bergman Island
2021 · Tony
The Song of Names
2019 · Martin Simmonds
Luce
2019 · Peter Edgar
QT8: The First Eight
2019 · Self
The Con Is On
2018 · Peter Fox
Tin Star
2017 · TV · Jim Worth / Jack Devlin
Mr. Right
2016 · Hopper / Reynolds
The Hateful Eight
2015 · Oswaldo Mobray
Selma
2014 · Gov. George Wallace
Grace of Monaco
2014 · Prince Rainier III
Broken
2012 · Archie
The defining work
#1
Pumpkin
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Performance score8.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Pumpkin gives Tim Roth a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'
The Legend of 1900 (1998)
Performance score8.5
The Legend of 1900 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900' is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Performance score8.5
Reservoir Dogs asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Pumpkin
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Performance score8.4
Pulp Fiction asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Pumpkin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Pumpkin
Start here. Pulp Fiction is the clearest statement of what Tim Roth does — accessible, 154 minutes, and rated 9.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Tim at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Same director as Pulp Fiction, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Same director as Reservoir Dogs, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A deliberate change of key after Pulp Fiction — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Keeps the drama register of The Legend of 1900 but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
5 films together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Tom Stoppard
Director
1 film together
Notably Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Michael Caton-Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably Rob Roy
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Everyone Says I Love You
Bill Duke
Director
1 film together
Notably Hoodlum
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Director
1 film together
Notably Gridlock'd
Giuseppe Tornatore
Director
1 film together
Notably The Legend of 1900
Roland Joffé
Director
1 film together
Notably Vatel
Nora Ephron
Director
1 film together
Notably Lucky Numbers
Wim Wenders
Director
1 film together
Notably The Million Dollar Hotel
Tim Burton
Director
1 film together
Notably Planet of the Apes
Walter Salles
Director
1 film together
Notably Dark Water
Michael Haneke
Director
1 film together
Notably Funny Games
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably The Incredible Hulk
Olivier Dahan
Director
1 film together
Notably Grace of Monaco
Ava DuVernay
Director
1 film together
Notably Selma
Paco Cabezas
Director
1 film together
Notably Mr. Right
Julius Onah
Director
1 film together
Notably Luce
François Girard
Director
1 film together
Notably The Song of Names
Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together
Notably The Misfits
Destin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together
Notably Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Alfonso Pineda Ulloa
Director
1 film together
Notably There Are No Saints
Désirée Nosbusch
Director
1 film together
Notably Poison
Roel Reiné
Director
1 film together
Notably Classified
Tom Harper
Director
1 film together
Notably Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Sandra Sciberras
Director
1 film together
Notably Seven Snipers
Christopher Walken
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
John Travolta
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Uma Thurman
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Bruce Willis
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Ving Rhames
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Harvey Keitel
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Eric Stoltz
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Amanda Plummer
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Maria de Medeiros
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Rosanna Arquette
Actor
1 film together
Notably Pulp Fiction
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Quentin Tarantino
Director
5 films together · 8.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 5 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Pulp FictionGiuseppe Tornatore
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Legend of 1900Destin Daniel Cretton
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten RingsAva DuVernay
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SelmaTom Harper
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal ManTom Stoppard
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are DeadFrançois Girard
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Song of NamesMichael Caton-Jones
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rob RoyMichael Haneke
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Funny GamesVondie Curtis-Hall
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Gridlock'dLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Incredible HulkBill Duke
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HoodlumWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Everyone Says I Love YouSandra Sciberras
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Seven SnipersDésirée Nosbusch
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PoisonJulius Onah
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
LucePaco Cabezas
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mr. RightRoland Joffé
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
VatelOlivier Dahan
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grace of MonacoWim Wenders
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Million Dollar HotelTim Burton
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Planet of the ApesWalter Salles
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dark WaterRoel Reiné
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ClassifiedRenny Harlin
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MisfitsAlfonso Pineda Ulloa
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
There Are No SaintsNora Ephron
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lucky NumbersSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Recognition
1 win
1 win · latest 1995
Pulp Fiction
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Pulp Fiction
as Pumpkin
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Legend of 1900
as Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Pulp Fiction
as Pumpkin
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
as Emil Blonsky / Abomination (voice) (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Pulp Fiction
as Pumpkin
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Tim Roth has known it for a long time.”
“They call it a Royale with cheese.”
“English, motherf—er, do you speak it?”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.0 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #438 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Quentin Tarantino | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Quiet performance, Drama, Screen presence | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1994–1994 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Pumpkin — Pulp Fiction | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Pulp Fiction | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Top 250 Movies of All Time, Crime Movies, Top 100 Crime Movies, Drama Movies
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
35 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
21 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Pulp Fiction
as Pumpkin
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Pulp Fiction
as Pumpkin
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Bergman Island
as Tony
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Hateful Eight
as Oswaldo Mobray
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Pulp Fiction
as Pumpkin
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Tornado
as Sugarman
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Pulp Fiction
as Pumpkin
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Pulp Fiction
as Pumpkin
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 4 Nutevio collections
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