Timothy Tarquin Hutton 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. 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 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. 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, 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, and moved in with him in Los Angeles. 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 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, 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, 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 1984 he directed the music video for The
Cars´s song "Drive". 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; 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. 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 the ABC crime drama American Crime. 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 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. Personal life
Hutton has married twice. His first marriage 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 Director
References
External links Timothy Hutton at the Internet Movie Database
Official website