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Born | Malibu, California, U.S. | August 16, 1960
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Timothy Hutton (born August 16, 1960) [1] is an American actor and film director. He is the youngest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at age 20 for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980). Hutton has since appeared regularly in feature films and on television, with roles in the drama Taps (1981), the spy film The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), and the horror film The Dark Half (1993), among others.
Between 2000 and 2002, Hutton starred as Archie Goodwin in the A&E drama series A Nero Wolfe Mystery . Between 2008 and 2012, he starred as Nathan "Nate" Ford on the TNT drama series Leverage . He also had a role in the first season of the Amazon streaming drama series Jack Ryan .
Timothy Hutton was born in Malibu, California. His father was actor Jim Hutton; his mother, Maryline Adams (née Poole), was a teacher. His parents divorced when Hutton was three years old, and his mother took him and his older sister, Heidi, with her to Boston, and then to her hometown Harwinton, Connecticut. [2] The family returned to California when Hutton was 12.[ citation needed ]
"A lot of people think that because my father was an actor, I come from this big show-business background," Hutton told Bruce Cook of American Film magazine in 1981.
But that's not how I grew up at all. My mother took us to Cambridge because she wanted to get her M.A. She wound up teaching in Connecticut, but the way she saw it, after a while, if we all stayed there, my sister and I would just wind up as the proprietors of the local drugstore or something, so that was why she took us to Berkeley, California—to get us into the world, I guess. Now she's given up teaching and she's into printing miniature books. [3]
In 1976, when Hutton was 15, he sought out his father and moved in with him in Los Angeles. [4] At Fairfax High School, while playing Nathan Detroit in a school production of Guys and Dolls , he realized he wanted to become an actor. With encouragement from both of his parents, he began acting in television. [3]
On June 2, 1979, Jim Hutton died in Los Angeles from liver cancer, two days after his 45th birthday. In 1981, Hutton thanked his father during his Academy Award speech, which he had won for his role in the movie Ordinary People . [5]
Timothy Hutton's career began with parts in several television movies, most notably the 1979 ABC TV film Friendly Fire . That year, he also played the son of Donna Reed in the Ross Hunter NBC television film The Best Place to Be. He then made two CBS made-for TV films in 1980: Young Love, First Love with Valerie Bertinelli, and Father Figure with Hal Linden. For his first feature film performance, as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980), Hutton won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. His performance also earned him the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture – Male. Immediately following his success, he starred in the acclaimed 1981 ABC television film A Long Way Home co-starring Brenda Vaccaro.[ citation needed ]
Hutton's next feature film, Taps (with George C. Scott, Sean Penn, and Tom Cruise), was popular with critics and audiences, but during the next several years, his motion pictures, such as Iceman , Daniel , Turk 182 , Made in Heaven , and Q&A , struggled at the box office. His only substantial hit[ citation needed ] was 1985's The Falcon and the Snowman which teamed him again with Sean Penn.
In 1984, he directed the music video for the song "Drive" by The Cars. [6]
In 1989, he made his Broadway stage debut opposite his Ordinary People co-star Elizabeth McGovern in the A.R. Gurney play Love Letters . He followed this with another Broadway role in the Craig Lucas hit comedy, Prelude to a Kiss , which also starred Mary-Louise Parker and Barnard Hughes.[ citation needed ]
During the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Hutton began to take large supporting parts in films, most notably in Everybody's All-American with Jessica Lange and Dennis Quaid and French Kiss with Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline. In 1996, he starred in the popular ensemble film, Beautiful Girls , playing opposite 14-year-old Natalie Portman in one of her early standout film roles.
Moving on to television, he starred as Nero Wolfe's assistant and leg-man Archie Goodwin in the A&E television series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002); he also served as an executive producer, and also directed several episodes of the series. His other directing credits include the family film Digging to China (1997). In 2001 Hutton starred in the television miniseries WW3 , and in 2006 he had a lead role in the NBC series Kidnapped , playing Conrad Cain, the wealthy father of a kidnapped teenager. He appeared in 13 feature films from 2006 to 2008.
Hutton starred in the television series Leverage from 2008 to 2012, where he played former insurance investigator Nate Ford, who led a group of thieves who acted as modern-day Robin Hoods.
In 2014, Hutton was cast opposite Felicity Huffman in John Ridley's ABC crime drama American Crime . [7]
Hutton is one of the owners of the New York City restaurant and bar P. J. Clarke's. [8] In 2003 he became president of Players, a New York actors' club, but he resigned in June 2008 due to work keeping him in Los Angeles. He has also made a few forays into directing, the most famous of which includes the music video for the Cars' hit single "Drive" in 1984. In 2010, he directed the music video for "The House Rules" by country rocker/Leverage co-star Christian Kane. He also directed several episodes of A&E's A Nero Wolfe Mystery , in which he also starred.
Hutton starred in a Groupon commercial during the 2011 Super Bowl, which drew public ire for the parodying of the Tibetan resistance movement. The commercials were pulled from rotation on February 10 after continued negative response from the public and activist groups. [9]
Hutton has been married twice. His first marriage (1986–1990) was to actress Debra Winger; they had a son. [10] [11] [12]
Hutton dated Demi Moore, [13] Uma Thurman, [14] and Angelina Jolie. [15]
In 2000, he married illustrator Aurore Giscard d'Estaing, niece of former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Their son was born in Paris. [16] In July 2009, Us Weekly reported that Hutton and Giscard d'Estaing had separated. [17]
In November 2019, Sera Johnston, a former child model and actress, filed a criminal complaint with the Vancouver Police department accusing Hutton of raping her in 1983, when she was 14. [18] Hutton, who was 22 when the alleged incident occurred, "completely and unequivocally" denied the accusations and filed a criminal complaint against Johnston for extortion. [19] In July 2021, Canadian authorities closed their investigation into Johnston's accusations without filing charges. [20]
† | Denotes works that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1972 | The Wonderful World of Disney | — | Episode: "Dad, Can I Borrow the Car?" |
1980 | Paul Winters | Episode: "Sultan and the Rock Star" | |
1991 | Books: Feed Your Head | Man reciting 'Forty Stories' | Episode: "Forty Stories" |
2001–02 | A Nero Wolfe Mystery | Archie Goodwin | 20 episodes |
2004 | 5ive Days to Midnight | J.T. Neumeyer | 5 episodes |
2006–07 | Kidnapped | Conrad Cain | 13 episodes |
2008–12 | Leverage | Nathan Ford | 76 episodes Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television (2009, 2011–13) |
2015 | Public Morals | Mr. O | 2 episodes |
American Crime | Russ Skokie | 11 episodes Satellite Award for Best Cast – Television Series Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama | |
2016 | Coach Dan Sullivan | 10 episodes | |
2017 | Nicholas Coates | 5 episodes | |
2018 | Jack Ryan | Nathan Singer | 5 episodes |
2018–19 | How to Get Away with Murder | Emmett Crawford | Main cast; season 5 (12 episodes) |
2018 | The Haunting of Hill House | Hugh Crain | 6 episodes Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Presentation |
2019–20 | Almost Family | Leon Bechley | 13 episodes |
2022 | Women of the Movement | Jesse J. Breland | 4 episodes |
2023 | S.W.A.T. | Mack Boyle | 2 episodes |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1978 | Zuma Beach | Art | |
1979 | Friendly Fire | John Mullen | |
The Best Place to Be | Tommy Callahan | ||
And Baby Makes Six | Jason Cramer | ||
Young Love, First Love | Derek Clayton | ||
1980 | The Oldest Living Graduate | Cadet Whopper Turnbill | |
Father Figure | Jim | ||
1981 | A Long Way Home | Donald Branch | Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film |
1993 | Zelda | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
1996 | Mr. and Mrs. Loving | Richard Loving | |
1997 | Dead by Midnight | John Larkin/Sam Ellis | |
1998 | Aldrich Ames: The Traitor Within | Aldrich Ames | |
Vig | Frankie | ||
2000 | The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery | Archie Goodwin | |
Deliberate Intent | Rod Smolla | ||
2001 | WW3 | Larry Sullivan | |
2006 | Avenger | Frank McBride | |
Year | Title | Notes |
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1984 | Drive | Music video for The Cars |
1986 | Amazing Stories | Episode: "Grandpa's Ghost" |
1997 | Digging to China | Children's Jury Award Chicago International Children's Film Festival |
2001–02 | A Nero Wolfe Mystery | 7 episodes |
Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film directed by Robert Redford in his feature directorial debut. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent is based on the 1976 novel of the same name by Judith Guest. The film follows the disintegration of a wealthy family in Lake Forest, Illinois, following the accidental death of one of their two sons and the attempted suicide of the other. It stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton.
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Demi and husband musician Freddy Moore separated a few months ago, and Demi has been seeing eligible and wonderful Tim Hutton.