Tim Robbins
Born into a religious folk-singing family in California, 1958, Robbins was encouraged to be artistic from an early age, and at 12 joined the Theatre for the New City. He paid his way at the UCLA by delivering pizzas and on graduation formed the avant gard
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Filmography Highlights
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City Of Ember
2008- Rated:
- PG
The power is failing in an underground city, threatening to throw its inhabitants into darkness. Two adolescents try to find a way out. Fantasy featuring Bill Murray
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Tenacious D In 'The Pick Of Destiny'
2006- Rated:
- 15
Two rock wannabes seek out a plectrum carved from a demon's tooth in the hope of securing the success that's been enjoyed by all who've wielded it. Big comedy starring, produced, composed and written by Jack Black and Kyle Gass
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Catch A Fire
2006- Rated:
- TBC
In apartheid-era South Africa a young black man is wrongly accused and tortured for being a terrorist, spurring his own political initiation. Drama based on the true story of African National Congress operative Patrick Chamusso
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Zathura: A Space Adventure
2005- Rated:
- PG
A long-forgotten board game catapults two brothers into outer space in this family-friendly sci-fi adventure. Swingers star Jon Favreau directs, from a book by 'Jumanji' author Chris Van Allsburg
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War Of The Worlds
2005- Rated:
- 12A
Aliens turn America into an abattoir in this intense Steven Spielberg movie. Tom Cruise stars as the dad trying to keep his estranged kids ahead of the wave of destruction
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Code 46
2004- Rated:
- TBC
Tim Robbins is sent to investigate a fraudulent ID card scam only to fall in love with the culprit, Samantha Morton. A near-future love story set in a world of genetic discrimination, kind of Lost In Translation meets Brave New World
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The Truth About Charlie
2003- Rated:
- TBC
A young woman blunders around Paris trying to find out what happened to her murdered husband. Thandie Newton and Mark Wahlberg star in Jonathan Demme's remake of Charade
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Human Nature
2001- Rated:
- 15
Tim Robbins, Rhys Ifans and Patricia Arquette star in a chaotic comedy by the writer of Being John Malkovich. Having been brought up as a chimp, a newly humanised Ifans has a thing or two to learn about civilisation
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AntiTrust
2001- Rated:
- 12
21st century corporate espionage thriller for Generation Y. Stars Ryan Phillipe as an unfeasibly good-looking computer genius who discovers his employers have a sinister hidden agenda
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Mission To Mars
2000- Rated:
- PG
Patchy Apollo 13-2001: A Space Odyssey-Contact hybrid. Director Brian De Palma's first pure sci-fi foray, it stars Don Cheadle as an astronaut trapped on Mars, and Tim Robbins as the head of the team sent to save him
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Last Party 2000
2000- Rated:
- TBC
Philip Seymour Hoffman presents a liberal view of the farcical events leading up to George W Bush's enrolment as President of the USA in 2000
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High Fidelity
2000- Rated:
- 15
Nick Hornby adaptation that remains strangely faithful despite a transatlantic transposition from north London to Chicago. John Cusask heads up a fine cast in this tale of love and music obsession
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Cradle Will Rock, The
1999- Rated:
- 15
Robbins comes up directorial trumps once again, telling the true story of a theatrical troupe, headed by Orson Welles (McFadyen), who defied Congress in order to perform their titular political music
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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999- Rated:
- 12
The second of Mike Myers' groovy espionage pastiches. Travelling back through time in search of his mojo, Mr Powers takes on Dr Evil, this time with the help of Heather Graham's Felicity Shagwell
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Arlington Road
1998- Rated:
- TBC
Slow burning, tense psychological thriller making use of one of cinema's staple commandments: 'Distrust thy neighbour'. Stars Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack
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Nothing to Lose
1997- Rated:
- 15
Because Robbins is so conspicuously talented, nobody ever mentions that he looks like a piglet who's managed to get himself a very good tailor. But if enough people make the mistake of watching him i
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Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera, The
1996- Rated:
- TBC
Weapons of war in Fuller's battle to make truly independent movies. A larky portrait of this cigar-chomping, egotistical maverick, full of his own rat-a-tat-tat opinions when interviewed by Robbins a
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Dead Man Walking
1995- Rated:
- 15
Susan Sarandon dons a habit to star as real-life nun Sister Helen Prejean in her husband Tim Robbins' indictment of capital punishment. Sean Penn plays the death row convict befriended by the nun
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994- Rated:
- 15
Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman star in Frank Darabont's memorably moving prison-set fable, adapted from a short story by Stephen King.
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Pret-a-Porter
1994- Rated:
- 15
Oh dear. Having rediscovered his ruthless accuracy (and critical acclaim) with Short Cuts and The Player - a lean, stalking satire on the monstrosity of Hollywood's studio system - Altm
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I.Q.
1994- Rated:
- U
Don't let the title fool you, there's nothing clever about this ditsy romantic comedy which, despite the strong premise of having Matthau, Ryan and Robbins in the same film, fails to come up trumps.
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The Hudsucker Proxy
1994- Rated:
- PG
A lowly post-room boy suddenly finds himself promoted to the head of a vast corporation. Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Paul Newman star in the Coen brothers' fantastical 1950s-set comedy
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Short Cuts
1993- Rated:
- 18
Julianne Moore, Tom Waits and Tim Robbins are among a dozen big names in Robert Altman's Oscar nominated adaptation of Raymond Carver's short stories. At once rambling and finely tuned, it skilfully weaves together several strands of everyday life in LA
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The Player
1992- Rated:
- 15
Tim Robbins is the ambitious studio exec who accidentally murders a writer in Robert Altman's star-studded Hollywood satire
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