page_title: Timothy Spall
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Timothy Spall / Personal life
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context_page_description: Timothy Leonard Spall OBE is an English actor and occasional presenter. He became a household name in the UK after appearing as Barry Spencer Taylor in the 1983 ITV comedy-drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
  Spall performed in Secrets & Lies, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Subsequently, he starred in many films, including Hamlet, Nicholas Nickleby, The Last Samurai, Enchanted, The Damned United, The King's Speech, Ginger and Rosa, Denial, and The Party. He also performed as Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter films.
  He has collaborated with director Mike Leigh, making six films together: Home Sweet Home, Life is Sweet, Secrets & Lies, Topsy-Turvy, All or Nothing, and Mr. Turner.
  In 2019 he appeared as Lord Arthur Wallington in the 6-part BBC Cold War drama Summer of Rockets.
  He starred in the television documentary Timothy Spall: ...at Sea and in 2014 won the Best Actor award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for portraying J. M. W. Turner in Mike Leigh's biographical film Mr. Turner.
context_section_description: Spall and his wife Shane have three children: Pascale (born 1976), Rafe (born 1983), who is also an actor, and Mercedes (born 1985). He lives in Forest Hill, south east London.
  
  In 1996, Spall was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, but has since been in remission. He has said of his illness: 
  I didn't know what made me ill but stress had something to do with it and the point is now to head off stress at the pass. It made me aware of things and become more selective. I am less worried about employment. I really do my homework so I am not getting stressed on the set because I don't know what I'm doing.
  He is the owner of a Dutch barge, in which he and his wife sailed around the British Isles as part of a BBC Four TV series Timothy Spall: Back at Sea.
caption: Spall filming Enchanted in New York City, March 2007
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