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Nelson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Ruth Kaiser Nelson. He is a graduate of Holland Hall School and Brown University and a classicist. Nelson is Jewish; his maternal grandparents escaped the Nazis shortly before World War II, fleeing to the UK in 1938 and emigrating to the U.S.A. in 1940. He currently resides In New York City with his wife, Lisa Benaveides, and his three sons. Nelson has appeared as an actor in Heavyweights, Minority Report, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Meet the Fockers, The Good Girl, Syriana, Hoot, Holes and the critically-acclaimed HBO film, Warm Springs. Nelson also had a featured role as Delmar in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?. According to directors Joel and Ethan Coen, he was the only one in the cast or crew who had read Homer's Odyssey, a work upon which the film is loosely based. He sings "In the Jailhouse Now" on the soundtrack.

Films he has written and directed include The Grey Zone, based on his play of the same name, and Eye of God. He is also the director of O, based on William Shakespeare's play Othello but set in a modern-day high school. Nelson plays Samuel Sterns in the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk.

He is on the Board of Directors for The Actors Center in New York City, as well as Soho Rep Theatre.