Background

Timothy Marc Plester was born on September 10, 1970, in North Oxfordshire.

Education

Tim Plester graduated from Dartington College of Arts in Devon, with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, and went on to obtain a Master of Arts (Hons) in playwriting studies from Birmingham University.

Career

Plester's award-winning documentary Way of the Morris premiered at SXSW 2011 and received a limited theatrical release in UK cinemas before being released on DVD. Co-directed with Rob Curry and produced independently by Fifth Column Films, the feature-length documentary includes contributions from Billy Bragg, Fairport Convention's Chris Leslie and members of The Adderbury Village Morris Men. It was selected by the UK Film Focus as one of the "Breakthrough" British films of 2011. Plester and Curry are also responsible for the short field-recorded documentary Here We're Be Together (which premiered at the 2014 BFI London Film Festival). The Ballad of Shirley Collins, the duo's feature-length film about the iconic English folk-singer Shirley Collins, premiered at the 2017 BFI London Film Festival). Partly funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign, the film also screened at the Rotterdam international film festival and CPH: DOCS in Denmark.

Plester's writing credits for film include Ant Muzak (2002), a short film directed by Ben Gregor and starring Nick Moran and Mackenzie Crook. It was the winner of an Audience Award at the 2003 Sydney Film Festival and was nominated for 'Best UK Short' at the 2003 Soho Rushes Festival and the 2002 Raindance Film Festival. He also wrote and created Blake's Junction 7 (2004) - again directed by Ben Gregor and starring Johnny Vegas, Mackenzie Crook, Mark Heap, Raquel Cassidy and Martin Freeman – which premiered at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival. Both films became cult hits and were released on DVD in 2008, along with a third film entitled World of Wrestling (2007). Again created and written by Plester and directed by Gregor, the film stars Mackenzie Crook, Kevin Eldon, Patrick Baladi, Miranda Hart, and Kris Marshall. In 2007, Plester also completed work on an offbeat romantic comedy entitled English Language (With English Subtitles) - which marked his directorial debut. The short, in which Plester also starred (alongside MyAnna Buring and Craig Parkinson), premiered at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival and went on to screen at over 45 film festivals worldwide, picking-up 5 awards along the way. He has also written and directed the JFK-inspired beat poem Et In Motorcadia Ego! and the award-winning 15-second film Slapphappy, which premiered at the Belfast Film Festival in 2008.

Plester's many and varied acting credits for TV and film include: Lockout (EuropaCorp), Kick-Ass (Universal), Control (Northsee Pictures), Cuban Fury (Big Talk), Closer to the Moon (Mandragora Movies), Wolf Hall (BBC), Bone in the Throat (Hello and Company), Shifty (Metrodome), Doctor Who (BBC), Life On Mars (BBC), Hustle (BBC), Murphy's Law (BBC), 1066: The Battle For Middle Earth (Channel 4), Magicians (Universal Films), It's All Gone Pete Tong (Vertigo Films), Galavant (ABC), Heist (BBC), Ant Muzak (Film Club), Criminal Justice (BBC), Five Daughters (BBC), Silent Witness (BBC), The Wrong Mans (BBC), Uncle Dad (SMG), Goths (BBC), Residents (BBC), Poliakoff's Friends and Crocodiles (BBC), both series of Paul Whitehouse’s Happiness (BBC) and the 2009 BAFTA-winning short film September. Plester played petty thief Linus Brody in the first two series’ of the BBC Birmingham production WPC 56. He played the role of Black Walder Rivers in the HBO series Game of Thrones and the homeless junkie Julian in After Life.

In 2018, he played Roy Thomas Baker, Queen's producer, in the film Bohemian Rhapsody. In September 2019, he appeared in an episode of Doctors as Martin Taylor.

Achievements

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  Tim Plester is a winner of the 1992/93 'National Student Playwright Of The Year' award, Plester has writing credits for the theatre including: Dakota (Edinburgh Festival 1995 and National Tour 1996); Mad Dog Killer Leper Fiend (Edinburgh Festival 1996 and London's Man In The Moon Theatre 1997); and Yellow Longhair (London's Oval House Theatre 2000).

Works

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  • Control

    (Starring Samantha Morton (Minority Report) and Alexandra ...)

    2007
  • 55 Steps

    (55 Steps is based on the inspiring true story of an outra...)

    2017
  • The Legend of the Tamworth Two

    (Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two p...)

    2004
  • Captain Webb

    (In 1875 Captain Matthew Webb, a retired merchant seaman, ...)

    2015
  • Lockout

    (A renegade CIA agent (Guy Pearce), falsely accused of mur...)

    2012
  • Magicians

    (Mediocre magicians Karl and Harry put their differences a...)

    2007
  • Swinging with the Finkels

    (This funny, sexy comedy stars Martin Freeman ("Sherlock")...)

    2011
  • London Boulevard

    (An ex-con with a reputation tries to go straight by worki...)

    2010
  • It's All Gone Pete Tong

    (A famous DJ in the Ibiza club scene finds the alcohol and...)

    2004
  • Shifty

    (The sudden return home of Shifty's best friend sets into ...)

    2008
  • Unmade Beds

    (The quirky story of Vera and Axl who both live in the sam...)

    2009
  • Closer to the Moon

    (A band of former WWII freedom fighters pull the crime of ...)

    2014
  • Bohemian Rhapsody

    (Rami Malek stars as Freddie Mercury in this electrifying ...)

    2018
  • Love Me Till Monday

    (A young woman who has recently finished university is wor...)

    2013
  • Cuban Fury

    (Beneath Bruce Garrett's under-confident, overweight exter...)

    2014
  • Remainder

    (A London man who loses his memory when he's struck by a f...)

    2015
  • I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

    (Will Graham is a gangster who has left the life of crime ...)

    2003
  • Kick-Ass

    (Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and com...)

    2010
  • The Boat People

    (The Boat People is a psychological thriller. Jared is tak...)

    2007

• TV series

  • Silent Witness

    (Searching for the truth but never compromising, forensic ...)

    2003
  • Game of Thrones

    (Nine noble families fight for control over the mythical l...)

    2013

Membership

Company-directed with Rob Curry, and produced independently by Fifth Column Films, the feature-length documentary includes contributions from Billy Bragg, Fairport Convention"s Chris Leslie and members of The Adderbury Village Morris Men.

Personality

Physical Characteristics: Height: 180 cm (1.80 m)

Weight: 70.3 - 85.7 kg (155 - 189 lbs)

Eye color: brown

Hair color: black

Interests

• Music & Bands

  Shirley Collins

Connections

Tim Plester is really closed about private life.

colleague:

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a Danish actor, screenwriter, and producer. He is widely known for playing Ser Jaime Lannister in HBO’s hit series ‘Game of Thrones’. He is also known for appearing in a number of movies, such as ‘Nightwatch’, ‘A Thousand Times Good Night’ and ‘Headhunters’, to name a few.

colleague:

Clive Russell

Clive Russell is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline in Ripper Street, Angus O'Connor in Happiness and Brynden Tully in the HBO series Game of Thrones. He also appeared in the Scottish sitcoms Still Game and Rab C Nesbitt as Big Innes and in teen drama Hollyoaks as Jack Osborne's brother Billy Brodie.

colleague:

Maisie Williams

(born 15 April 1997)

She is an English actress.

colleague:

Richard Madden

(born 18 June 1986)

He is a Scottish actor. Born and raised near Glasgow, in Renfrewshire, he made his screen debut as a child actor and stage debut whilst a student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In 2007, he toured with Shakespeare's Globe company as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, a role he would reprise in the West End in 2016.

References

• Tim Plester - Twitter