Editing Tim Blake Nelson (section)

==Early life==
Nelson was born to a [[American Jews|Jewish]] family<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aboutfilm.com/features/greyzone/feature.htm|title=Feature Article and Interviews - THE GREY ZONE (2001)|publisher=Aboutfilm.com|access-date=July 15, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Bloom|first=Nate|title=Jewish stars: Whales, ghosts and 'Smash'|newspaper=[[Cleveland Jewish News]]|date=February 2, 2012|url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/archives/jewish-stars-whales-ghosts-and-smash/article_77b968c0-4dde-11e1-a4ef-0019bb2963f4.html|access-date=April 16, 2018}}</ref> in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]], the son of Ruth Nelson (''[[née]]'' Kaiser),<ref name="TW060509">Michael Smith, [http://www.tulsaworld.com/spot/article.aspx?subjectid=243&articleid=20090506_282_D10_Thenew625933 "Bloomer Sooner: Tulsa native Tim Blake Nelson's roots are showing"], ''[[Tulsa World]]'', May 6, 2009.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishmuseum.net/other/images/muse.pdf|title=Star's Talents Return to Tulsa|access-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001110522/http://www.jewishmuseum.net/other/images/muse.pdf|archive-date=October 1, 2011}}</ref> a noted Tulsa social activist and philanthropist, and Don Nelson, a geologist and [[wildcatter]].<ref>Tulsa Historical Society, [http://www.tulsahistory.org/hof/nelson.html 1999 Hall of Fame Inductee: Ruth K. Nelson] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126213615/http://www.tulsahistory.org/hof/nelson.html|date=January 26, 2009}}, tulsahistory.org; accessed June 14, 2017.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/native-tulsan-featured-in-miniseries-tim-nelson-makes-leap-from/article_26a35455-cdb7-5ad9-853d-b7abf7c4a7cf.html|title=Native Tulsan Featured in Miniseries: Tim Nelson Makes Leap From Shakespeare to 'Dead Man's Walk'|first=Rita|last=Sherrow}}</ref> His maternal uncle is businessman [[George Kaiser]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jweekly.com/2015/08/06/celebrity-jews0807|title=Celebrity jews|author=Bloom, Nate|date=August 6, 2015|publisher=jweekly.com|access-date=April 16, 2018}}</ref>

His maternal grandparents Herman Geo. Kaiser and Kate Kaiser, daughter of businessman [[Max Samuel]], were from Germany, and escaped the [[Nazi]]s shortly before [[World War II]]. They moved to Britain in 1938,<ref name="Heinsohn 2022">Ulf Heinsohn, ''Max Samuel: a real mentsh, inventor, self-made-man / Menschenfreund, Erfinder, Selfmademan'', Scott Galliart (trlr.), Stiftung Begegnungsstätte für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in Rostock / Max-Samuel-Haus (ed.), (= Schriften aus dem Max-Samuel-Haus; vol.&nbsp;15), Rostock: Hinstorff, 2022, page as indicated behind the footnote sign. ISBN 978-3-356-02380-0.</ref>{{rp|96seq.}} where Nelson's mother was born,<ref name="Heinsohn 2022" />{{rp|87seq.}}<ref>Stated on ''[[WTF with Marc Maron]]'', December 3, 2018</ref> and immigrated to the United States in 1941.<ref name=NPRgrey>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1152404|title=The Grey Zone|publisher=NPR|date=October 26, 2002|access-date=July 15, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bluntreview.com/reviews/blake.htm|title=Blunt Review: Film Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Music Reviews with Web Celeb Emily Blunt|access-date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002031656/http://www.bluntreview.com/reviews/blake.htm|archive-date=October 2, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/o-brother-who-art-thou-a-_b_3001892|title=Jonathan Valania: O Brother Who Art Thou? A Q&A With Actor/Writer/Director Tim Blake Nelson|website=HuffPost|date=April 3, 2013|access-date=July 1, 2013}}</ref> His father's family were [[Russian Jews|Russian-Jewish]] emigrants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F6F9FF3E0B2D6ED&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=People adapt to 'Grey Zone' Jewish workers in Nazi camp|work=The Washington Times|access-date=July 15, 2014}}</ref>

Nelson attended the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at [[Quartz Mountain Resort Arts and Conference Center]] in [[Lone Wolf, Oklahoma|Lone Wolf]], Oklahoma.<ref>Oklahoma Arts Institute, [http://oaiquartz.com/alumni/listing.cfm Alumni Listing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825111930/http://www.oaiquartz.com/alumni/listing.cfm|date=August 25, 2007|accessdate=January 21, 2009}}</ref>

Nelson is a 1982 graduate of [[Holland Hall School]] in Tulsa,<ref name="TW060509"/> and a graduate of [[Brown University]], where he was a classics major as well as senior orator for his class of 1986. At Brown, he studied under philosopher [[Martha Nussbaum]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/15/tim-blake-nelson-classics-nerd-brings-socrates-to-the-stage|title=Tim Blake Nelson, Classics Nerd, Brings "Socrates" to the Stage|last=Singer|first=Mark|magazine=The New Yorker|date=April 8, 2019|access-date=April 10, 2019|issn=0028-792X}}</ref> He is a member of [[Phi Beta Kappa]] society. He won the Workman/Driskoll award for excellence in classical studies.<ref>Kari Molvar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20011226063441/http://brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=61 "Q&A: Tim Blake Nelson"], ''Brown Alumni Magazine'' (March/April 2001).</ref> He graduated from [[Juilliard]] in 1990, a member of [[List of Juilliard School people|Group 19]].<ref>[http://www.juilliard.edu/alumni/reflections_0603.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219080312/http://www.juilliard.edu/alumni/reflections_0603.html|date=December 19, 2010}}</ref>