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An English character actor who has made his name playing American toughs, Tim Roth is devoted to independent filmmaking and the promotion of new directorial talent. Leaving school with few qualifications, Roth initially signed up for a course at art college, but quit soon after to try his luck as an actor, despite having no formal training. By attending auditions whenever they were advertised in the trade papers, and with the help of bar-work and "dole" money when he was unemployed, Roth managed to establish himself as a stage actor. He moved into films partly because the opportunity presented itself, and partly because of severe stage fright, but although he can now command large fees from the major studios, most of his work has been with independents. His own directorial debut, The War Zone (1999), is a characteristically uncompromising film, about a teenager who discovers an incestuous relationship between his sister and their father. It has been praised for the quality of the direction, which creates a suitably claustrophobic sense of isolation, entrapment, and loss.
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Tim Roth is the guitarist, backing vocalist and only remaining founding member of Canadian Melodic death metal and Progressive metal band, Into Eternity. Roth is very much the mastermind of Into Eternity, plays the majority of their guitar solos and ... was originally the lead vocalist. His primary guitar is an Ibanez S470[1], and has said that he does not use amplifiers in studio recordings, but uses instead a program called Amp Farm.[2] He has been playing guitar for 18-19 years. He has a somewhat unconventional style of playing revolved on his unqiue alternate picking style and sweep and tap arpeggios. His vocal style consists of high pitched clean power metal vocals and a more black metal oriented shriek (complimenting the deeper death metal growls of his co-vocalists). He has posted several videos on YouTube teaching to viewers play Into Eternity songs and IE's musical style in general.
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Tim Roth first gained attention in 1990 for his roles in “Vincent & Theo” and “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead”. He caught the eye of young director Quentin Tarantino and convinced him to cast Roth as Mr. Orange in 1992’s “Reservoir Dogs”. It proved to be a huge breakthrough for Roth, as audiences found it difficult to forget his performance as a member of a group of bank robbers who is slowly bleeding to death. Tarantino cast Roth again in the landmark film “Pulp Fiction” and then again in the anthology film “Four Rooms” in 1995. That same year Roth received an Academy Award nomination for his role as a villain in the “Rob Roy”. Roth has a number of films to his credit since then including his singing part in the Woody Allen musical “Everyone Says I Love You” and portrayal of the gorilla general Thade in Tim Burton’s remake of “Planet of the Apes.” Roth made his directorial debut in 1999 with “The War Zone,” a frank, critically acclaimed drama about a family torn apart by incest.
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Tim Roth, an Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee and BAFTA winner for his role opposite Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange in Rob Roy, got his start playing thugs and murderers. One of his first roles was as a skinhead in the BBC made-for-television movie Made in Britain. Since then, Roth has been drawn to diverse roles that have allowed him to exploit his formidable range as an actor. He has demonstrated the depth of his talent in films such as Robert Altman's Vincent and Theo (1990), where he delivered a tour-de-force performance as artist Vincent Van Gogh. That same year, he proved his comic mettle in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. In 1992, Roth came to the United States, where he rose to prominence in two films from director Quentin Tarantino: Reservoir Dogs, in which Roth pushed himself to the limit as Mr. Orange, an undercover cop who infiltrated a band of gangsters, and the influential Pulp Fiction.
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Best known on the indie film circuit, Tim Roth was born to a journalist father and painter-turned-teacher mother. Frequently bullied in elementary school, high school proved to be equally hellish. Its one high point came when, on a lark, Roth auditioned for the school play ‹ a musical production of Dracula. Cast as the Count himself, Roth, 16 had a bad case of stage fright and allegedly wet his pants when he walked onstage during the opening-night performance.
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On finishing Jumpin' At the Boneyard, Roth would move on to Los Angeles to promote Vincent And Theo. He'd got himself an agent and stayed at the Bel Age hotel, hoping to score some work quickly. Again, his refusal to read for parts was not helping. However, getting drunk with one young director desperate to get him onboard for his debut feature, Tim did deign to read some lines the tyro had scribbled on a napkin. They talked some more. There were two parts the director, who'd loved Rosencrantz And Guildenstern, thought Roth might play, but Roth believed a third role might be more interesting.
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