David Thornton

David Thornton Biography

David Thornton (born June 12, 1953) is an American actor. He has appeared in John Q, Home Alone 3, Law & Order, The Notebook, and The Other Woman, among other roles. He is the husband of Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Cyndi Lauper.

Personal life

Thornton is the son of Dr. Robert Donald Thornton, an international authority on the Scottish poet Robert Burns who taught English at Harvard University for 45 years. He graduated from Hamilton College and Yale Drama School and studied at Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio.

Thornton met singer Cyndi Lauper on the set of the film Off and Running. They married in November 1991 and have a son, Declyn Wallace Thornton (b. 1997).

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	Sessions	Marc	TV movie
1985	Miami Vice	Lile	TV series (1 episode "Rites of Passage")
1986	Tales from the Darkside	Werewolf	TV series (1 episode "The Circus")
1988	Crime Story	Thalberg	TV series (1 episode "Femme Fatale")
1988	Java Burn	Lomax
1989	American Playhouse	Nelson's Pal	TV series (1 episode "Ask Me Again")
1991	Off and Running	Reese
1991	Men of Respect	Philly Como
1993	Blind Spot	Frank	TV series
1994	The Cosby Mysteries		TV series (1 episode "The Lottery Winner Murders")
1994	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle	George S. Kaufman
1995	New York News		TV series (1 episode "New York News")
	Jeffrey	Man #3
	Search and Destroy	Rob
	New York Undercover	Alan Warwick	TV series (1 episode "The Shooter")
1996	Breathing Room	Brian
	Unhook the Stars	Frankie Warren
	If Lucy Fell	Ted
	Ripper	Twig (voice)	Video game
	Law & Order	Paul Medici	TV series (1 episode "Family Business")
1997	Home Alone 3	Earl Unger
	The Real Blonde	Alex
	Office Killer	Gary Michaels
	She's So Lovely	Saul Sunday
1998	A Civil Action	Richard Aufiero
	The Last Days of Disco	Berrie Rafferty
	Illuminata	Orlandini
	Hush	Gavin
	High Art	Harry
	Too Tired to Die	Lulu
2000	The $treet	Carl Kettner	TV series (1 episode "Closet Cases")
	Blessed Art Thou	Elmo
	Blue Moon	Frank's Father
	Dead Dog	Stevenson Nagel
2001	The Girl Under the Waves
2002	Swept Away	Michael
	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Kenny Strick	TV series (1 episode "Maledictus")
	Garmento	Ronnie Grossman
	John Q	Jimmy Palumbo
	XX/XY	Miles
	For Earth Below	Ron
	Private Property	Sam
	100 Mile Rule	Jerry
	Law & Order	Jeremy Cook	TV series (1 episode "True Crime")
2003	Prologue
2003	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Lionel Granger	TV series (10 episodes)
2004	The Notebook	John Hamilton
	Noise	Elliot
	The Warrior Class	Sancerre
2005	Law & Order	Lionel Granger	TV series (1 episode "Sects")
	Life on the Ledge	Mr. Eddy
	Romance & Cigarettes	The Urologist/Additional Voices
2006	Alpha Dog	Butch Mazursky
2009	Here and There	Robert
2009	My Sister's Keeper	Dr. Chance
2010	Zenith	Berger
2011	Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life	Simon Rudolph
	Dirty Movie	Little Johnny's Dad
	Fake	Tay Murphy
	Trophy Kids	Charlie
2013	Cyndi Lauper: Still So Unusual	Himself	TV series
2013	Transfer at Aachen	Ludwig Vnuk	Pre-production
2014	The Other Woman	Nick

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