• Name: Timothy Hutton
  • Date of Birth: August 16, 1960
  • Place of Birth: Malibu, California, USA
Mini-bio: After 19-year-old Timothy Hutton won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the powerful family drama Ordinary People (1980), he spent the rest of the decade and most of the '90s playing se...( read more)nsitive characters in offbeat, intellectually oriented films, though he also occasionally got to play villains. Hutton was primarily raised in Berkeley, CA, by his mother as she and his father, actor Jim Hutton, best known for playing Ellery Queen in the 1960s, divorced. Young Hutton gained early acting experience in high school and during a summer vacation, toured the country with his father in a road show production of +Harvey. Hutton moved to Southern California to live with his dad and break into movies. During his early years, Hutton appeared in television movies such as And Baby Makes Six (1979) and the hard-hitting Friendly Fire (1979). Robert Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People, was Hutton's feature-film debut. In part, the realism of Hutton's wrenching portrayal of the anguished teen who blames himself for his brother's death was fueled by his grief over his father's recent death from cancer. Hutton was the youngest actor to win in the Best Supporting Actor category. Despite his early promise, Hutton remains a well-respected but not terribly high-ranking star. In part it could be a backlash from Ordinary People, for Hutton was so good at playing the tormented young man that he was relegated to playing similarly troubled youths, though he also occasionally appeared in comedies, sci fi, and other genres. Roles in Taps (1981) and Turk 182 showed that, given the chance, Hutton could indeed expand the boundries of troubled youth niche to compelling results, and though his roles in the following decade weren't always in A-list features, Hutton did impress in such high profile releases as Q & A (1990), The Dark Half (1993), French Kiss (1995) and The General's Daughter (1999). As a general ruke Hutton would frequently avoid mainstream films in favor of smaller roles as deeper characters in such offbeat fare as City of Industry (1997) and Deterrence (1999), though the new millennuim did find him stepping back into the spotlight somewhat with the release of John Sayles' Sunshine State and the Steven King adaptation Secret Window - which found him cast opposite Hollywood heavyweight Johnny Depp. Of course having appeared in the acclaimed thriller The Dark Half this wasn't Hutton's first foray into the King's twisted universe, and in 2004 Hutton would continue to keep audiences' pulses pounding with a role as a college professor who discovers a record of his murder five days before it occurs in 5 Days to Midnight (2004).
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Replace this image with an actor photoTimothy Hutton mini-bio: After 19-year-old Timothy Hutton won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the powerful family drama Ordinary People (1980), he spent the rest of the decade and most of the '90s playing sensitive characters in offbeat, intellectually oriented films, though he also occasionally got to play villains. Hutton was primarily raised in Berkeley, CA, by his mother as she and his father, actor Jim Hutton, best known for playing Ellery Queen in the 1960s, divorced. Young Hutton gained early acting experience in high school and during a summer vacation, toured the country with his father in a road show production of +Harvey. Hutton moved to Southern California to live with his dad and break into movies. During his early years, Hutton appeared in television movies such as And Baby Makes Six (1979) and the hard-hitting Friendly Fire (1979). Robert Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People, was Hutton's feature-film debut. In part, the realism of Hutton's wrenching portrayal of the anguished teen who blames himself for his brother's death was fueled by his grief over his father's recent death from cancer. Hutton was the youngest actor to win in the Best Supporting Actor category. Despite his early promise, Hutton remains a well-respected but not terribly high-ranking star. In part it could be a backlash from Ordinary People, for Hutton was so good at playing the tormented young man that he was relegated to playing similarly troubled youths, though he also occasionally appeared in comedies, sci fi, and other genres. Roles in Taps (1981) and Turk 182 showed that, given the chance, Hutton could indeed expand the boundries of troubled youth niche to compelling results, and though his roles in the following decade weren't always in A-list features, Hutton did impress in such high profile releases as Q & A (1990), The Dark Half (1993), French Kiss (1995) and The General's Daughter (1999). As a general ruke Hutton would frequently avoid mainstream films in favor of smaller roles as deeper characters in such offbeat fare as City of Industry (1997) and Deterrence (1999), though the new millennuim did find him stepping back into the spotlight somewhat with the release of John Sayles' Sunshine State and the Steven King adaptation Secret Window - which found him cast opposite Hollywood heavyweight Johnny Depp. Of course having appeared in the acclaimed thriller The Dark Half this wasn't Hutton's first foray into the King's twisted universe, and in 2004 Hutton would continue to keep audiences' pulses pounding with a role as a college professor who discovers a record of his murder five days before it occurs in 5 Days to Midnight (2004).

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  • mindyth24
    Actor:
    In Production
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    1980s
    1970s
    1960s
    Lymelife (2007) (in production) .... Charlie Bragg
    The Alphabet Killer (2007) (post-production) .... Richard Ledge
    Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2007) (post-production)


    "Kidnapped" .... Conrad Cain (6 episodes, 2006-2007)
    - My Heart Belongs to Daddy (2007) TV Episode .... Conrad Cain
    - Burn, Baby, Burn (2006) TV Episode .... Conrad Cain
    - Number One with a Bullet (2006) TV Episode .... Conrad Cain
    - Sorry, Wrong Number (2006) TV Episode .... Conrad Cain
    - Special Delivery (2006) TV Episode .... Conrad Cain
    (1 more)
    When a Man Falls in the Forest (2007) .... Gary
    The Last Mimzy (2007) .... David Wilder
    The Good Shepherd (2006) .... Thomas Wilson
    Off the Black (2006) .... Mr. Tibbel
    Falling Objects (2006) .... Oscar Peters
    Heavens Fall (2006) .... Samuel Leibowitz
    The Kovak Box (2006) .... David Norton
    ... aka Caja Kovak, La (Spain)
    Avenger (2006) (TV) .... Frank McBride
    Stephanie Daley (2006) .... Paul
    Last Holiday (2006) .... Matthew Kragen
    Turning Green (2005) .... Bill the Breaker
    Kinsey (2004) .... Paul Gebhard
    5ive Days to Midnight (2004) (TV) .... J.T. Neumeyer
    ... aka Five Days to Midnight (Australia)
    Secret Window (2004) .... Ted Milner
    "A Nero Wolfe Mystery" .... Archie Goodwin (27 episodes, 2001-2002)
    ... aka Nero Wolfe (USA: promotional title)
    - Immune to Murder (2002) TV Episode .... Archie Goodwin
    - Cop Killer (2002) TV Episode .... Archie Goodwin
    - The Silent Speaker: Part 2 (2002) TV Episode .... Archie Goodwin
    - The Silent Speaker: Part 1 (2002) TV Episode .... Archie Goodwin
    - Help Wanted, Male (2002) TV Episode .... Archie Goodwin
    (22 more)
    Sunshine State (2002) .... Jack Meadows
    WW3 (2001) (TV) .... Larry Sullivan
    ... aka WWIII (USA)
    ... aka Winds of Terror (USA: video title)
    Just One Night (2000) .... Isaac Alder
    Deliberate Intent (2000) (TV) .... Rod Smolla
    The Golden Spiders: A Nero
    posted 519 days ago
  • mindyth24
    Biography for
    Timothy Hutton
    advertisement Date of Birth
    16 August 1960, Malibu, California, USA


    Height
    6' 1" (1.85 m)


    Spouse
    Aurore Giscard d'Estaing (21 January 2000 - present) 1 child
    Debra Winger (16 March 1986 - 1990) (divorced) 1 child


    Trivia
    Son of actor Jim Hutton.

    Discovered acting in the ninth grade.

    Is a big fan of the New York band Black 47.

    His wife, Aurore Giscard d'Estaing, a Parisian-born children's book illustrator, is the niece of former French President (1974 - 1981) Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

    Was the original choice to play the role of Joel Goodson in Risky Business (1983), but turned it down.

    Co-owner of the Bar/Restaurant "P.J. Clarke's" in New York City.

    Current president of the exclusive Players Club in New York City (2004).

    Son with second wife born in 2002.

    Children: Noah Hutton with Debra Winger and Milo with wife Aurore Giscard d'Estaing.

    At the age of 20 years and 227 days, he became the youngest Academy Award winner for best supporting actor for Ordinary People (1980). As of 2005, he still holds the record.

    He has twice played real-life traitors to the United States. He played Christopher Boyce in The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) and Aldrich Ames in Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998) (TV). Both men were convicted of having sold secrets to the Soviet Union.



    Personal Quotes
    [On following his own gut in career choices]: I was 18, did a couple of things on TV, then I did Ordinary People (1980) and when you are fortunate enough to be in a movie like that, working with Robert Redford as the director and the movie is as well received as it was, it would be ludicrous to have a master plan for a career. So next, I was in Wayne, PA doing Taps (1981) and then I was back in New York working with Sidney Lumet doing an ensemble movie called Daniel (1983). And I turned down a starring role in Risky Business (1983), even though all my agents and manager said I was crazy. But I looked at i
    posted 519 days ago

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