Trivia

He and Gary Oldman are very good friends from back in the days of when they worked in London theater. They have appeared together in Meantime (1983) and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990).

Even with his reputation as an actor firmly established, Tim Roth still tends bar from time to time.

Has no formal acting training.

Roth is a survivor of child sexual abuse committed by his paternal grandfather, who he has stated sexually abused him from childhood until his early teen years. He first revealed that he was a survivor of sexual abuse during press for his directorial debut, The War Zone (1999) (which dealt with the topics of incest and sexual violence within a family), but declined to name the perpetrator at that time. In December of 2016, he gave an interview to the British newspaper The Guardian in which he revealed that his abuser was his grandfather, who had also sexually abused Roth's own father when he was a child.

Was considered as a replacement for Anthony Hopkins, when Hopkins was reluctant to return to play Hannibal Lector in Hannibal (2001). However, in the end, Hopkins accepted the role.

Accepted the villain role in The Incredible Hulk (2008) to please his sons.

Adorns the cover of "Postcards from a Young Man", the 2010 album by the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers.

Was considered for the role of Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), but dropped out to star in Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes (1968). The role was then given to Alan Rickman.

Developed his trademark Cockney accent when in school to fit in with classmates and avoid being bullied.

His acting career got started by pure chance. He wandered into a theater looking for a pump for his bicycle while they were holding auditions for Made in Britain (1982) and he was asked to audition. winning the leading role.

Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bruce Payne, and Paul McGann were all part of a group of actors in the mid 1980's dubbed ''The Brit pack'' by the media, a reference to the American ''Brat Pack''.

He bears tattoos on his right arm for significant events in his life. He has 8 such tattoos, as of 2010.

His father was born in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn, NY to a British immigrant family of Irish ancestry. His mother was English. Tim's father changed the family name in 1944 from the British/American sounding "Smith" to the Jewish "Roth" in an act of Jewish solidarity during World War II.

Turned down the role of Johnny Rotten in Sid and Nancy (1986), because he felt the film depicted history that was "too recent."

Two sons, with Butler, Timothy (b. 1995) and Cormac (b. 1996)

He was considered for the role of Dr. Frederick Chilton in Red Dragon (2002).

He apologised for United Passions (2014) and admitted that he did it for the money.

He turned down the roles of Seth Gecko and Pete Bottoms in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) due to a scheduling conflict.

A former art student himself, Tim has played an artist in at least three roles: Vincent Van Gogh in Vincent & Theo (1990), Jack Craig in Tales from the Crypt (1989) (episode "Easel Kill Ya") and Joey, an ex-con with a gift for drawing in No Way Home (1996).

He has a son named Jack Roth (b. 1984), with Lori Baker.

He was offered the lead role in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).

He was considered for the role of Lt. Archie Hilcox in Inglourious Basterds (2009) that ended up going to Michael Fassbender.

He was in the running to play the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).

Turned down the role of Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series that Alan Rickman ended up portraying in order to appear in Planet of the Apes (2001).

Ranked #16 on Tropopkin's Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100]

President of the 'Camera d'Or' jury at the 57th Cannes International Film Festival in 2004.

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 59th Cannes International Film Festival in 2006.

He turned down the role of Jack Scagnetti in Natural Born Killers (1994).

He has said that he strongly disliked doing a scene opposite Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes (2001) due to Roth's vocal support of Gun control and criticism of the NRA, which Heston was president of at the time of filming. Roth was able to keep things professional but later said that he wouldn't have agreed to the film had he known he'd be required to do a scene alongside him.

He was an early candidate to play Arthur Dent in a film version of "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" during the 1980s.

He was considered for the role of Amon Goeth in Schindler's List (1993).

His eldest son Jack Roth is also an actor but they have not worked with each other yet.

Politically, Roth is a supporter of the Green Party of England and Wales.

His middle name is Simon.

One of the first actor/models to get the trendy "thorny tribal" tattoo around his arm.

He was considered for the role of Garland Greene in Con Air (1997) that went to Steve Buscemi.

President of the 'Un Certain Regard' jury at the 65th Cannes International Film Festival in 2012.

Was considered for the role of McStarley in The Condemned (2007).

He was considered for Mark Wahlberg's role in The Yards (2000).

Tim Bentinck who appeared with him in Reg (2016) and Rillington Place (2016) was also in Us and Them (2017) and uk18 (2017) with his son Jack Roth.

He has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Pulp Fiction (1994).