Timothy Tarquin Hutton (born August 16, 1960, in Malibu, California) is an American actor.1 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).
Early life
Timothy Hutton's 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 if, after awhile, 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, Hutton realized he wanted to become an actor. With encouragement from both of his parents, Hutton carefully built himself a career in television. His most notable performance was in the 1979 ABC TV film Friendly Fire.2
Career
Timothy Hutton's career began with parts in several television movies. For his first feature film performance, Hutton won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in his role as Conrad in Ordinary People; for the same role he also received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture – Male.
Hutton has since played numerous roles in feature films, television films, and television series. Among other roles, he starred as detective 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 15 feature films from 2006 to 2008.
Hutton is currently starring in the television series Leverage, where he plays an insurance investigator who becomes a modern-day Robin Hood.
Other pursuits
Hutton is one of the owners of the New York City restaurant and bar P. J. Clarke's. In 2003 Hutton 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.
Personal life
Hutton has married twice. His first marriage (1986-1990) was to actress Debra Winger; they have a son, Noah. In 2000, he married illustrator Aurore Giscard d'Estaing, niece of former president of the French Republic Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Their son Milo was born in Paris on September 11, 2001 (Timothy Hutton interview with Sarah Hampson, The Toronto Globe and Mail, December 28, 2002). In July 2009, US Weekly reported that Hutton and his second wife had separated (July 20, 2009, "It's Over!").
Filmography
Actor
Director
References
External links
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