Timothy Hutton

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.{{cite web |last=Gritten |first=David |date=February 8, 1982 |title=Riding on Taps, Teens and Talent |url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-riding-on-taps-teens-and-talent-vol-17-no-5/ |work=People |access-date=July 26, 2021}} The family returned to California when Hutton was 12.{{Citation needed |date=June 2024}}

"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.

In 1976, when Hutton was 15, he sought out his father and moved in with him in Los Angeles."Timothy Hutton Is Too Good to Be True". Rolling Stone, February 1982. 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.Cook, Bruce, "Doing What Comes Naturally." American Film, March 1981, pp. 62–65 and 74.

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.{{cite web|last1=Hutton|first1=Timothy|title=Academy Award Acceptance Speech, March 31, 1981|url=http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/053-2/|department=oscars.org|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=2 February 2016}}

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 |date=June 2024}}

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 |date=June 2024}} 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.{{cite magazine|last=Herman|first=James Patrick|url=https://variety.com/2019/music/news/ric-ocasek-timothy-hutton-directed-drive-the-cars-video-1203336892/|title=How Timothy Hutton Came to Direct the Cars' 'Drive' Music Video|date=September 16, 2019|magazine=Variety|access-date=January 27, 2021}}

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 |date=June 2024}}

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.{{cite web|last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |url=https://deadline.com/2014/05/abc-picks-up-shonda-rhimes-how-to-get-away-with-murder-anthony-anderson-american-crime-727191/ |title=ABC New Series Pickups: 'Selfie', 'Forever', Galavant', 'Whispers', 'How To Get Away With Murder', 'American Crime', 'Black-ish', Jeff Lowell Comedy |date=May 9, 2014 |publisher=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=2014-05-12}}

Hutton is one of the owners of the New York City restaurant and bar P. J. Clarke's.{{cite magazine|last=Paumgarten|first=Nick|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/06/09/p-j-clarkes|title=Tables for Two: P. J. Clarke's|date=June 1, 2003|magazine=The New Yorker|issue=June 9, 2003|access-date=January 27, 2022}} 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.{{cite web|last=Dallke|first=Jim|title=5 Years Later, a Look Back at Groupon's Disastrous Super Bowl Ad|url=https://www.americaninno.com/chicago/groupon-super-bowl-ad-tibet-commercial-still-a-flop-5-years-later/|website=Chicagoinno|date=February 5, 2016|access-date=September 2, 2017}}

Hutton has been married twice. His first marriage (1986–1990) was to actress Debra Winger; they had a son in 1987.{{cite news|last=O'Malley|first=Kathy|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-11-17-8703260578-story.html|title=To Hutton, a Son Seems Made in Heaven|date=November 17, 1987|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=February 1, 2022}}{{cite news|last=Mansfield|first=Stephanie|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/11/12/timothy-hutton-theres-poppa/776ea8fd-b42e-4178-9699-5da5686e6c68/|title=Timothy Hutton There's Poppa!|date=November 12, 1987|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=February 1, 2022}}{{cite news|author=|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-13-vw-403-story.html|url-access=subscription|title=Names in the News: A Romance Redux for Winger|date=March 13, 1990|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|department=Times Wire Services|access-date=February 1, 2022}}

Hutton dated Elizabeth McGovern,[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/91423%7C201501/Timothy-Hutton/#family-companions "Companions"]. tcm.com Diane Lane,[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vIZVAAAAIBAJ&pg=2301%2C2507288 "Walter Scott's Personality Parade"]. May 24, 1981. Patti Davis,Radcliffe, Donnie (April 30, 1992). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/04/30/patti-davis-says-mother-popped-pills/abc9ac5a-7838-41a3-a587-9f6dc32030c6 "Patti Davis Says Mother Popped Pills"]. The Washington Post. Demi Moore,{{cite news|title=Show Biz Q&A|work=Public Opinion|date=February 17, 1984|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/449919553/|quote="Demi and husband musician Freddy Moore separated a few months ago, and Demi has been seeing eligible and wonderful Tim Hutton."}} Mary-Louise Parker, Uma Thurman,E! True Hollywood Story: "Uma Thurman" (April 18, 2004) and Angelina Jolie.{{cite news|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/books/angelina_the_girl_with_the_bangin_450OLpMC69EF5uiO5oJurO|title=Angelina: The girl with the bangin' tattoo |first=Susannah|last=Cahalan|author-link=Susannah Cahalan|date=August 1, 2010|work=The New York Post|access-date=August 28, 2010}}

In 2000, he married illustrator Aurore Giscard d'Estaing, niece of former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Their son was born the following year, in Paris.Hampson, Sarah. Timothy Hutton interview, The Toronto Globe and Mail (December 28, 2002). In July 2009, Us Weekly reported that Hutton and Giscard d'Estaing had separated."It's Over!" US Weekly (July 20, 2009).

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.{{cite web|first=Jordan|last=Crucchiola|url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/03/woman-says-timothy-hutton-raped-her-when-she-was-14.html|title=A Canadian Woman Says Timothy Hutton Raped Her When She Was 14|website=Vulture|date=March 2, 2020|access-date=March 3, 2020}} Hutton, who was 22 when the alleged incident occurred, "completely and unequivocally" denied the accusations and filed a criminal complaint against Johnston for extortion.{{cite web|title=Timothy Hutton denies allegation that he raped a 14-year-old girl in 1983|url=https://ew.com/celebrity/timothy-hutton-denies-rape-allegation/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=3 March 2020|first=Tyler|last=Aquilina|date=2 March 2020}} In July 2021, Canadian authorities closed their investigation into Johnston's accusations without filing charges.{{cite web|first1=Etan|last1=Vlessing|title=Timothy Hutton to Face No Charge for 1983 Rape Allegation|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/timothy-hutton-to-face-no-charge-1983-rape-allegation-1234986021/|website=Hollywood Reporter|date=July 21, 2021|access-date=July 30, 2021}}

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