Editing Tim Roth (section)

==Early life==
Roth was born on 14 May 1961 in [[Dulwich]], [[London]]. His mother, Ann, was a painter and teacher. His father, Ernie, was a [[Fleet Street]] journalist and painter.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tim Roth Biography (1961–) |publisher=Film Reference |url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/27/Tim-Roth.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Raphael |first=Amy |title=Tim Roth interview |magazine=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]] |volume=9 |issue=9 |url=http://www.tim-roth.com/index.php?id=ukesquiresep99}}</ref><ref name="ref091">{{cite news |last=Simon |first=Alex |date=5 March 2009 |title=Tim Roth: The Hollywood Interview |publisher=The Hollywood Interview |url=http://thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com/2009/03/tim-roth-hollywood-interview.html |access-date=5 March 2009}}</ref> His father was born in [[Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn]], to a family of Irish descent. Although he was not of Jewish background, his father changed his surname from "Smith" to the German/Yiddish "[[Roth (surname)|Roth]]" in the 1940s, as "an act of anti-[[Nazi]] solidarity".<ref>{{cite news |last=Shoard |first=Catherine |date=20 May 2012 |title=Tim Roth: who's the daddy? |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/may/20/tim-roth-whos-the-daddy?}}</ref><ref name="ref091"/><ref name="roth">{{cite news |last=Hicklin |first=Aaron |date=6 January 2019 |title=Tim Roth: 'As messy as your life can be, there has to be a window you can escape through' |newspaper=The Observer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/06/tim-roth-as-messy-as-your-life-can-be-there-has-to-be-a-window-you-can-escape-through- |access-date=6 January 2019}}</ref> Roth's father was a [[World War II]] veteran.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://forward.com/schmooze/416935/all-the-celebrities-you-really-really-thought-were-jewish-but-arent/ | title=These Celebrities Aren't Jewish, You Just Think They Are | date=4 January 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=arts__culture&sc=movies&id=227955 | title=Bay Area Reporter }}</ref> 

Roth is a survivor of [[child sexual abuse]], committed by his paternal grandfather, whom he has stated sexually abused him from childhood until his early teen years. He first revealed that he was a victim of sexual abuse during press for the 1999 film ''[[The War Zone]]'', which dealt with the topics of incest and sexual violence within a family, but declined to name the perpetrator at that time. In December 2016, he gave an interview to ''[[The Guardian]]'' in which he said that his abuser was his grandfather, who had also abused his father when he was a child.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shoard |first=Catherine |date=5 December 2016 |title=Tim Roth: my father and I were abused by my grandfather |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/05/tim-roth-father-and-i-abused-by-grandfather-rillington-place}}</ref>

Roth attended school in [[Lambeth]] before moving to [[Croydon College|Croydon Technical School]], due to bullying.<ref name="roth"/> He attended the [[Strand School]] in [[Tulse Hill]]. Roth wanted to be a sculptor and studied at London's [[Camberwell College of Arts]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Thorpe |first=Vanessa |date=10 February 2008 |title=Low morale devastates art colleges |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/feb/10/art.furthereducation |access-date=4 March 2018}}</ref>