Timothy Spall

I have a deep soft spot for Timothy Spall, the kind of character actor who makes everything around him better. For decades he was the face you recognized before the name—Wormtail to a generation of Harry Potter kids, a Mike Leigh regular to cinephiles—and then Mr. Turner arrived and the world finally handed him a leading man's laurels, including the 2014 European Film Award. That late recognition feels almost poetic to me: proof that craft compounds over time. He never traded on glamour, only on truth, and the OBE confirms what audiences already sensed. To me, Spall is the gold standard of British acting's unglamorous, indispensable middle.

Name (English)

Timothy Spall

Name (Japanese)

ティモシー・スポール

Reading

てぃもしー・すぽーる

Born

February 27, 1957 (age 69)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

Origin

London, Roman Empire

Occupation

actor / television presenter / character actor / stage actor / film actor

University

Westminster Kingsway College

Awards & achievements

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• 2014 European Film Award for Best Actor

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A2%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB

Tags

• actor
• television presenter
• character actor

Last updated

2026-06-11

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