Timothy Hutton

Timothy Hutton (born August 16, 1960)[1] is an American actor and film director. He is the youngest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at age 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 the drama Taps (1981), the spy film The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), and the horror film The Dark Half (1993), among others.

Timothy Hutton
Hutton in 2008
Born
Timothy Tarquin Hutton

(1960-08-16) August 16, 1960
Occupations
  • Actor
  • film director
Years active1965–present
Spouses
(m. 1986; div. 1990)
    Aurore Giscard d'Estaing
    (m. 2000; sep. 2009)
    Children2
    Parent

    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. He also had a role in the first season of the Amazon streaming drama series Jack Ryan.

    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 divorced when Hutton was three years old, and his mother took him and his older sister, Heidi (born in 1959), with her to Boston, and then to her hometown Harwinton, Connecticut.[2] 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, California—to get us into the world, I guess. Now she's given up teaching and she's into printing miniature books.[3]

    In 1976 when he was 15, Hutton sought out his father and moved in with him in Los Angeles.[4] 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.[3]

    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.[5]

    Acting 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 1984, he directed the music video for the song "Drive" by The Cars.[6]

    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 (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.[7]

    Other pursuits

    Hutton is one of the owners of the New York City restaurant and bar P. J. Clarke's.[8] 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.[9]

    Personal life

    Hutton has been married twice. His first marriage (1986–1990) was to actress Debra Winger; they have a son, Emmanuel Noah, born in 1987.[10][11][12]

    Hutton dated Demi Moore,[13] Uma Thurman,[14] and Angelina Jolie.[15]

    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 on Sept. 11, 2001.[16] In July 2009, Us Weekly reported that Hutton and Giscard d'Estaing had separated.[17]

    Hutton became a Freemason at Herder Lodge No. 698 in New York City in 2005.[18]

    Rape accusation

    In March 2020, Sera Johnston, a former child model and actress, accused Hutton of raping her in 1983, when she was 14.[19]

    Hutton has denied ever meeting Johnston. One of Johnston's friends who was there the night of the alleged incident has signed an affidavit that Hutton and Johnston were there together that night, and she heard noises from the room they left to that sounded like Johnston was in pain and may have been muffled. Between a few days after the alleged rape to over the years following, Johnston told her mother and four friends. After Johnston began her legal complaint, Johnston's former step-father stated he had heard of the incident years before. Réal Andrews said in an interview that he had seen Johnston in Hutton's hotel room, but later denied it in a legal statement.[19]

    Johnston filed a criminal complaint against Hutton with the Vancouver Police Department the previous November.[20] Hutton, who was 22 when the alleged incident occurred, "completely and unequivocally" denied the accusations and filed a criminal complaint against Johnston for extortion.[21] In July 2021, Canadian authorities closed their investigation into Johnston's accusations without filing charges.[22]

    Filmography

    Key
    Denotes works that have not yet been released

    Film

    Year Title Role Notes
    1965 Never Too Late Boy running to his father Uncredited
    1980 Sultan and the Rock Star Paul Winters
    Ordinary People Conrad Jarrett Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
    Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
    Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor
    Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
    Nominated—BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
    Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
    Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
    1981 Teenage Suicide: Don't Try It! Narrator
    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" McCaslin
    1989 Torrents of Spring Dimitri Sanin
    1990 Q&A Asst. District Attorney Aloysius Francis Reilly
    1992 Strangers Tom
    1993 The Temp Peter Derns
    The Dark Half Thad Beaumont/George Stark Fantafestival Award for Best Actor
    Nominated—Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actor
    1995 French Kiss Charlie Lytton
    The Last Word Martin Ryan
    1996 Beautiful Girls Willie Conway
    Mr. and Mrs. Loving Richard Loving Based on the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, prosecuted for miscegenation in Loving v. Virginia.
    The Substance of Fire Martin Geldhart
    1997 City of Industry Lee Egan
    Playing God Raymond Blossom
    1999 The General's Daughter Col. William Kent
    Deterrence Marshall Thompson
    2000 Just One Night Isaac Alder
    2002 Sunshine State Jack Meadows
    2004 Secret Window Ted Milner
    Kinsey Paul Gebhard
    2006 Last Holiday Matthew Kragen
    Stephanie Daley Paul Crane
    The Kovak Box David Norton
    Heavens Fall Samuel Leibowitz
    Falling Objects Oscar Peters Short film
    Off the Black Mr. Tibbel
    The Good Shepherd Thomas Wilson
    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
    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
    2013 Louder Than Words Bruce Komiske
    2015 #Horror Dr. Michael White
    2017 All the Money in the World Oswald Hinge
    2018 Beautiful Boy Dr. Brown
    2020 The Glorias Leo Steinem
    TBA The Long Home Filmed in 2015. Unreleased.

    Television series

    Year Title Role Notes
    1972 The Wonderful World of Disney Episode: "Dad, Can I Borrow the Car?"
    1980 Paul Winters Episode: "Sultan and the Rock Star"
    1991 Books: Feed Your Head Man reciting 'Forty Stories' Episode: "Forty Stories"
    2001–02 A Nero Wolfe Mystery Archie Goodwin 20 episodes
    2004 5ive Days to Midnight J.T. Neumeyer 5 episodes
    2006–07 Kidnapped Conrad Cain 13 episodes
    2008–12 Leverage Nathan Ford 76 episodes
    Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television (2009, 2011–13)
    2015 Public Morals Mr. O 2 episodes
    American Crime Russ Skokie 11 episodes
    Satellite Award for Best Cast – Television Series
    Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
    Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
    2016 Coach Dan Sullivan 10 episodes
    2017 Nicholas Coates 5 episodes
    2018 Jack Ryan Nathan Singer 5 episodes
    2018–19 How to Get Away with Murder Emmett Crawford 15 episodes
    2018 The Haunting of Hill House Hugh Crain 6 episodes
    Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Presentation
    2019–20 Almost Family Leon Bechley 13 episodes
    2022 Women of the Movement Jesse J. Breland 4 episodes
    2023 S.W.A.T. Mack Boyle 2 episodes

    Television films

    Year Title Role Notes
    1978 Zuma Beach Art
    1979 Friendly Fire John Mullen
    The Best Place to Be Tommy Callahan
    And Baby Makes Six Jason Cramer
    Young Love, First Love Derek Clayton
    1980 The Oldest Living Graduate Cadet Whopper Turnbill
    Father Figure Jim
    1981 A Long Way Home Donald Branch Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
    1993 Zelda F. Scott Fitzgerald
    1996 Mr. and Mrs. Loving Richard Loving
    1997 Dead by Midnight John Larkin/Sam Ellis
    1998 Aldrich Ames: The Traitor Within Aldrich Ames
    Vig Frankie
    2000 The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery Archie Goodwin
    Deliberate Intent Rod Smolla
    2001 WW3 Larry Sullivan
    2006 Avenger Frank McBride

    Director

    Year Title Notes
    1984 Drive Music video for The Cars
    1986 Amazing Stories Episode: "Grandpa's Ghost"
    1997 Digging to China Children's Jury Award
    Chicago International Children's Film Festival
    2001–02 A Nero Wolfe Mystery 7 episodes

    See also

    References

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    2. Gritten, David (February 8, 1982). "Riding on Taps, Teens and Talent". People. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
    3. Cook, Bruce, "Doing What Comes Naturally." American Film, March 1981, pp. 62–65 and 74.
    4. "Timothy Hutton Is Too Good to Be True". Rolling Stone, February 1982.
    5. Hutton, Timothy. "Academy Award Acceptance Speech, March 31, 1981". oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
    6. Herman, James Patrick (September 16, 2019). "How Timothy Hutton Came to Direct the Cars' 'Drive' Music Video". Variety. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
    7. Andreeva, Nellie (May 9, 2014). "ABC New Series Pickups: 'Selfie', 'Forever', Galavant', 'Whispers', 'How To Get Away With Murder', 'American Crime', 'Black-ish', Jeff Lowell Comedy". Deadline.com. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
    8. Paumgarten, Nick (June 1, 2003). "Tables for Two: P. J. Clarke's". The New Yorker. No. June 9, 2003. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
    9. Dallke, Jim (February 5, 2016). "5 Years Later, a Look Back at Groupon's Disastrous Super Bowl Ad". Chicagoinno. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
    10. O'Malley, Kathy (November 17, 1987). "To Hutton, a Son Seems Made in Heaven". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved February 1, 2022.
    11. Mansfield, Stephanie (November 12, 1987). "Timothy Hutton There's Poppa!". Washington Post. Retrieved February 1, 2022.
    12. "Names in the News: A Romance Redux for Winger". Times Wire Services. Los Angeles Times. March 13, 1990. Retrieved February 1, 2022.
    13. "Show Biz Q&A". Public Opinion. February 17, 1984. Demi and husband musician Freddy Moore separated a few months ago, and Demi has been seeing eligible and wonderful Tim Hutton.
    14. E! True Hollywood Story: "Uma Thurman" (April 18, 2004)
    15. Cahalan, Susannah (August 1, 2010). "Angelina: The girl with the bangin' tattoo". The New York Post. Retrieved August 28, 2010.
    16. Hampson, Sarah. Timothy Hutton interview, The Toronto Globe and Mail (December 28, 2002).
    17. "It's Over!" US Weekly (July 20, 2009).
    18. Lotven, Amy (March 17, 2005). "Masons Seek New Members As Elder Brothers Pass On". Queens Chronicle Newspaper. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
    19. Aurthur, Kate; Vary, Adam B. (March 2, 2020). "Oscar-Winning Actor Timothy Hutton Raped Me When I Was 14, Says Canadian Ex-Model". Buzzfeed News. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
    20. Crucchiola, Jordan (March 2, 2020). "A Canadian Woman Says Timothy Hutton Raped Her When She Was 14". Vulture. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
    21. Aquilina, Tyler (March 2, 2020). "Timothy Hutton denies allegation that he raped a 14-year-old girl in 1983". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
    22. Vlessing, Etan (July 21, 2021). "Timothy Hutton to Face No Charge for 1983 Rape Allegation". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
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