It is hard to believe that this prominent gentleman creates such different images in the movie. One of the roles that was most remembered by the audience was the role of Peter Pettigrew in the famous Harry Potter movie series. However, Timothy Spall played a lot of other roles in his life, gaining the love of the audience and the recognition of colleagues.
Timothy Spall was born in London in 1957. The family had three more brothers, so Timothy's childhood was fun. No one in the family of the postal worker and hairdresser suspected that one of their sons would become an actor. Nevertheless, parodies of his relatives he did perfectly.
Matthew's brother encouraged him to become a programmer, but Timothy at school realized that he wanted to become an actor, so he entered first at the National Youth Theater, and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, which he graduated with a gold medal.
Now Matthew Spall runs a company that develops computer games.
Movie career
Since 2000, Spall has repeatedly been nominated at various festivals for his roles in the cinema, and in 2011 came success: a team award for the film "The King Speaks!" - for the best cast. And in 2014, he received 2 prestigious awards for best actor in the movie "William Turner." Spall also holds the rank of officer of the Order of the British Empire, which was given to him by the Queen of England.
Meanwhile, it all started with episodic roles in the series, where Spoll is not even in the credits. Finally, in 1978 in the films "The Life Story of Baal", and then in "Quadrofenia" (1979), he received more or less significant roles, so he considers these films as his debut. Spoll's debut was a success, and a year later he starred in several films at once. These were the television projects Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters 1981, Oliver Twist (1982) and others.
Over the past decade and a half of the twentieth century, Spall has starred in more than forty films and television series, including the famous series Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (1993) and the film Under the Cover of Heaven (1990), which received two prestigious awards.
At the beginning of the new century, Spoll's popularity as an actor was only growing. He created a huge number of images in various projects, the best of which are the films “Damned United” (2009), “Sweeney Todd, the demon barber from Fleet Street” (2007) and “The King Says!” (2010). Of the best series of this period can be called "Electric dreams of Philip K. Dick" and "Red Dwarf", the shooting of which is still ongoing. Coincidentally, both series are fantastic. The first is based on the stories of the English writer Dick, so the series are not interconnected by one plot. And the second tells about the crew of the spacecraft.
In Spoll's portfolio, there is another notable image - the role of Winston Churchill. The actor managed to play this world-famous celebrity twice: the first time in the movie “The King Speaks!” And the second at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
