Timothy Leonard Spall OBE (born 27 February 1957) is a BAFTA award-nominated English actor and occasional presenter.
Spall, third of four sons, was born in Battersea, London; his father, Joe, was a postal worker, and his mother, Sylvia, a hairdresser. He trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor in his year. His brother, Matthew, is studio director of the computer game...
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Timothy Leonard Spall OBE (born 27 February 1957) is a BAFTA award-nominated English actor and occasional presenter.
Spall, third of four sons, was born in Battersea, London; his father, Joe, was a postal worker, and his mother, Sylvia, a hairdresser. He trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor in his year. His brother, Matthew, is studio director of the computer games company Morpheme.
Initially notable in the UK for playing the gormless Barry Taylor in all four series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet alongside actors such as Jimmy Nail, Kevin Whately, Christopher Fairbank and Christine Garner and Kevin in Outside Edge alongside Robert Daws and Josie Lawrence, he has since starred in films such as Crusoe, Secrets & Lies, Shooting the Past, Rock Star, The Last Samurai, and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. He gained international recognition as Peter Pettigrew ("Wormtail") in Harry Potter and the...
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