Timothy Hutton

He was born on August 16, 1960 in Malibu (California). When he was two years old, his parents separated. He was left in the care of his mother, with whom he traveled across the country before returning to the movie mecca. His father was Jim Hutton , an actor, a profession to which he immediately felt attracted. He may have caught the bug at the age of five, when he made his first brief appearance in a movie. It was in The Baby of Discord , a comedy in which his father was acting.

At the age of 18, he began working on television, where he participated in titles in which he played more or less small roles. Everything changed in 1980 when Robert Redford cast him in Ordinary People , his first directing job. Timothy Hutton gave life to the son of a wealthy family who blames himself for the death of his brother, a tragedy that he cannot overcome and that leads him to undergo therapy. This dramatic role, a genre in which he has lavished himself a lot, helped him win two Golden Globes: Best Supporting Actor and Most Promising Actor. In addition, he was awarded the Oscar for best supporting actor. At 20 years old, he became the youngest actor to win the precious statuette in this section. He made history, although his career has not turned out to be so historic.

After the Oscar, Timothy returned to television, a medium he has never left. In 1981 he starred in the telefilm The Long Homecoming , where he was a young man abandoned by his family. It earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a TV Movie. The awards followed one another, they were his golden years. A promising young man, he was chosen, along with two others who were also promising, Sean Penn and Tom Cruise , to star in Taps (Beyond Honor) (1981). Harold Becker ( Seduction Melody ) directed this drama about three army cadets who dig in to prevent the closure of their academy, and which earned Timothy another Golden Globe nomination. He also starred with Sean PennThe Falcon’s Game (1985), an espionage drama where they played two good children who become dangerous enemies for their country. Hutton already knew the field of espionage, as Sydney Lumet chose him to star in Daniel (1983), an adaptation of the work by EL Doctorow . It was a new dramatic role, which led him to be the orphan of a married couple executed for espionage. Sydney Lumet reprized with Hutton in the thriller District 34: Total Corruption (1990). The dramatic lives he led on the screen had nothing to do with her own. In 1986 he married fellow actress Debra Winger ( Officer and a Gentleman), to whom she was united until 1990, and with whom she had a son. The year of her wedding was also chosen to debut behind the scenes and as a screenwriter. He did so in the Grandpa’s Ghost chapter of the Amazing Tales series , although Hutton has not insisted much on this ground, and has only directed one feature, My Friend Ricky (1998). Starring a very young Evan Rachel Wood , Kevin Bacon and Mary Stuart Masterson , the film tells the story of a ten-year-old girl who befriends a mentally retarded adult.

Little by little Timothy Hutton moved on to acting in more inconsequential films, in which there was not always a stellar cast. His new life included all kinds of roles, leading, secondary and brief appearances. The mixture of all of them, both in film and on television, have marked his career that he began in such a brilliant way. If his beginnings were marked by drama, he returned to this genre in numerous titles such as The Force of Destiny (1988), When I Fall in Love (1988), The Essence of Fire (1996), Time for Revenge (1998), Minutes extremes (1999), The promised land (2002) or Kinsey(2004). Even so, not all his career has been ‘to cry’, since he has also participated in other genres: romantic titles like Made in Heaven (1987) and French Kiss (1995), thrillers like Reckoning (1997), from action like Playing with Death (1997), comedies like Just One Night (2000) or Last Vacation (2006) and horror films like The Dark Half (1993) and The Secret Window (2004), both based on works by Stephen King . In this tidal wave of roles, it is worth highlighting the one he performed in the dramatic comedy Beautiful Girls (1996), directed byTed Demme ( Blow ), where he shared the bill with Matt Dillon , Rosie O’Donnell , Natalie Portman , Mira Sorvino , and Uma Thurman . It was a choral work that revolved around the character of Hutton, a pianist who returns to his town where he reunites with his old acquaintances. They all go through something similar to a crisis of their thirties, which each one solves as he can. To this day, Hutton has someone to help him overcome any crisis that befalls him, since since 2000 he has been married to Aurore Giscard d’Estaing, niece of the former French president, with whom he has a son.

Hutton has just premiered in Spain the thriller La caja Kovak , a film by Daniel Monzón , in which he stars alongside the Spanish Lucía Jiménez . And he will soon return to Spanish screens with his supporting role in Robert De Niro ‘s The Good Shepherd .