High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tim Roth (born 14 May 1961) is an English film actor and director best known for his roles in the American films Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Planet of the Apes, The Incredible Hulk and Rob Roy, for which he received an Academy Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He currently stars as Cal Lightman in the TV series Lie to Me. Roth was born in Dulwich, London, the son of Ann, a painter and teacher, and Ernie Smith, a journalist, painter and, until the 1970s, a member of the British Communist Party. Roth's father was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York to a British immigrant family of Irish descent, and changed his surname from "Smith" to "Roth" after World War II in order to hide his nationality when travelling in countries hostile to the British. Roth attended the Strand School in Tulse Hill. As a young man, Roth wanted to be a sculptor and studied at London's Camberwell School of Art.