Timothy Hutton Biography

Timothy Tarquin Hutton (born August 16, 1960) is an American actor and director.

He is the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at the age of 20 for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980). Hutton has since appeared regularly in feature films and on television, with featured roles in Taps, The Falcon and the Snowman, and The Dark Half, among others.

Between 2008 and 2012 he starred as Nathan "Nate" Ford on the TNT drama series Leverage. The final episode aired on December 25, 2012.

Early life

Timothy Hutton was born in Malibu, California. His father was actor Jim Hutton; his mother, Maryline Adams (née Poole), was a teacher. His parents' marriage dissolved when Hutton was three years old, and his mother took him and his older sister with her to Boston. The family returned to California when Hutton was 12.

"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 " to get us into the world, I guess. Now she's given up teaching and she's into printing miniature books."

When he was 16, Hutton sought out his father, living with him in Los Angeles while attending Fairfax High School. There, 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 carefully built himself a career in television.

Career

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.

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 was 1985's The Falcon and the Snowman which teamed him again with Sean Penn.

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.

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 (1998). 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.

Other pursuits

Hutton is one of the owners of the New York City restaurant and bar P. J. Clarke's. In 2003 he became president of the prestigious 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.

Hutton starred in a Groupon commercial during the 2011 Super Bowl which drew public ire from the parodization of the Tibetan resistance movement. The commercials were pulled from rotation on February 10 after continued negative response from the public and activist groups.

Personal life

Hutton has married twice. His first marriage (1986"1990) was to actress Debra Winger; they have a son, Noah, born in 1987. Hutton dated Angelina Jolie for a few years before she married Billy Bob Thornton. In 2000, he married illustrator Aurore Giscard d'Estaing, niece of former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Their son Milo was born in Paris in 2001. In July 2009, US Weekly reported that Hutton and his second wife, Giscard d'Estaing, had separated.

Hutton became a Freemason at Herder Lodge No. 698 in New York City in 2005.

Filmography

Actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1965	Never Too Late	Boy running to his daddy	uncredited
1972	The Wonderful World of Disney		"Dad, Can I Borrow the Car"
1978	Zuma Beach	Art	(TV)
1979	Friendly Fire	John Mullen	(TV)
	The Best Place to Be	Tommy Callahan	(TV)
	And Baby Makes Six	Jason Cramer	(TV)
	Young Love, First Love	Derek Clayton	(TV)
1980	The Oldest Living Graduate	Cadet	(TV)
	Disney's Wonderful World	Paul Winters	"The Sultan and the Rock Star"
	Ordinary People	Conrad Jarrett	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe for New Actor of the Year Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor " Motion Picture Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated " BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer Nominated " National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated " New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
	Father Figure	Jim	(TV)
1981	Teenage Suicide: Don't Try It!	Narrator
	A Long Way Home	Donald Branch	(TV) Nominated " Golden Globe Award for Best Actor " Miniseries or Television Film
	Taps	Cadet Major Brian Moreland	Nominated " Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
1983	Daniel	Daniel Isaacson
1984	Iceman	Dr. Stanley Shephard
1985	The Falcon and the Snowman	Christopher Boyce
	Turk 182	Jimmy Lynch
1987	Made in Heaven	Mike Shea/Elmo Barnett
1988	A Time of Destiny	Jack
	Betrayed	Juggler at the fair	uncredited
	Everybody's All-American	Donnie "Cake"
1989	Torrents of Spring	Dimitri Sanin
1990	Q&A	Asst. District Attorney Aloysius Francis Reilly
1991	Strangers	Tom
1993	The Temp	Peter Derns
	The Dark Half	Thad Beaumont/George Stark
	Zelda	F. Scott Fitzgerald	(TV)
1995	French Kiss	Charlie
	The Last Word	Martin Ryan
1996	Beautiful Girls	Willie Conway
	Mr. and Mrs. Loving	Richard Loving	(TV)
	The Substance of Fire	Martin Geldhart
1997	City of Industry	Lee Egan
	Playing God	Raymond Blossom
	Dead by Midnight	John Larkin/Sam Ellis	(TV)
	Aldrich Ames: The Traitor Within	Aldrich Ames	(TV)
1998	Vig	Frankie
1999	The General's Daughter	Col. William Kent
	Deterrence	Marshall Thompson
2000	The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery	Archie Goodwin	(TV)
	Deliberate Intent	Rod Smolla	(TV)
	Just One Night	Isaac Alder
2001	WW3	Larry	(TV)
2001"2002	A Nero Wolfe Mystery	Archie Goodwin	(TV series)
2002	Sunshine State	Jack Meadows
2004	Secret Window	Ted Milner
	5ive Days to Midnight	J.T. Neumeyer	(TV miniseries)
	Kinsey	Paul Gebhard
2005	Turning Green	Bill the Breaker
2006	Last Holiday	Matthew Kragen
	Stephanie Daley	Paul
	Avenger	Frank McBride	(TV)
	The Kovak Box	David Norton
	Heavens Fall	Samuel Leibowitz
	Falling Objects	Oscar Peters
	Off the Black	Mr. Tibbel
	The Good Shepherd	Thomas Wilson
2006"2007	Kidnapped	Conrad Cain	(TV series)
2007	The Last Mimzy	David Wilder
	When a Man Falls in the Forest	Gary
2008	The Alphabet Killer	Richard Ledge
	Reflections	Tom
	Lymelife	Charlie Bragg
2008"2012	Leverage	Nathan Ford	(TV series)
2009	Broken Hill	George McAlpine
	The Killing Room	Crawford Haines
	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men	Subject No.30
	Multiple Sarcasms	Gabriel
	Serious Moonlight	Ian
2010	The Ghost Writer	Sidney Kroll

Director

Year	Title	Notes
1986	Amazing Stories (TV series)	"Grandpa's Ghost"
1998	Digging to China	Children's Jury Award, Chicago International Children's Film Festival
2001"2002	A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV series)	"The Doorbell Rang" "Champagne for One" "Over My Dead Body" "Death of a Doxy"