Timothy Spall – Timothy Spall Biography

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The actor Timothy Leonard Spall, was born on February 27, 1957, in Battersea, London; the third of four children, from the marriage of Joe, a postal worker, and his wife, Sylvia, a hairdresser.

Timothy He trained at the National Youth Theater and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year.

In 1979 he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he spent around two years performing, among other works such as “The Merry Wives of Windsor, “”Cymbeline, “”The three sisters” Y “Nicholas nickleby. “
Timothy was noted in his early days for his remarkable performances of Barry taylor in all five seasons of the television series “Auf Wiedersehen, Pet“; from Kevin Edge on “Outside Edge” Y Aubrey, the heinous chef from Mike Leigh’s movie, “Life is sweet“.
Spall he also performed the lead voice in the song “The Devil is an Englishman” from the Ken Russell film “Gothic” (1986), in which he John William Polidori. He also worked for directors Clint Eastwood in “White Hunter, Black Heart” (1990), Bernardo Bertolucci in “Shelter for Love” (1990), and Kenneth Branagh “in” Hamlet “(1996) where he played Rosenkrantz.
In 2010, he played Winston Churchill in the acclaimed film “The King’s Speech” for which he won, as a cast member, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Spall reprized the role at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.

Most recently, in 2014 he won the Best Actor Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of the painter JMW Turner, in Mike Leigh’s film about the 19th century artist, “Mr. Turner.”

On December 31, 1999, Timothy spall He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

In his personal life, the British actor is married to Shane and has three children: Pascale (born 1976), Rafe (born 1983), who is also an actor, and Mercedes (born 1985). He lives in Forest Hill, a south east London suburb.

In 1996, Spall he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, but has since been in remission. He is the owner of a Dutch barge in which he and his wife have been sailing around the British Isles as part of the BBC Four television series, “Timothy Spall: Timothy Spall: Back at Sea“.