Timothy Hutton

Timothy Hutton (born August 16, 1960) 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 Ordinary People. Hutton has since appeared regularly in feature films and on television, with notable roles including the drama Taps (1981), the spy film The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), and the horror film The Dark Half (1993), 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. 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, with her to Boston, and then to her hometown Harwinton, Connecticut. The family returned to California when Hutton was 12.

Due to his father's being a prominent film actor, Hutton was often thought to have grown up in the entertainment industry. But he told Bruce Cook of American Film magazine in 1981, "That's not how I grew up at all. My mother took us to Cambridge because she wanted to get her M.A." 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.

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.

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 (1981, with George C. Scott, Sean Penn, and Tom Cruise), was popular with critics and audiences. But during the next several years, Hutton was featured in a string of commercially disappointing motion pictures, such as Iceman, Daniel, Turk 182, Made in Heaven, and Q&A, which struggled at the box office. In 1985 he co-starred with Penn in The Falcon and the Snowman, which earned a more positive reception.

In 1984, he directed the music video for the song "Drive" by The Cars.

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 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 Archie Goodwin, an assistant to investigator Nero Wolfe in the A&E television series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002) adapted from the novels by Rex Stout. Hutton also served as an executive producer for the series, and directed several episodes. 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 vigilantes to help ordinary people against corporate and government injustice.

In 2014, Hutton was cast opposite Felicity Huffman in John Ridley's 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 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.

Personal life

Hutton has been married twice. His first marriage (1986–1990) was to actress Debra Winger; they had a son in 1987.

Hutton dated Elizabeth McGovern, Diane Lane, Patti Davis, Demi Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, and Angelina Jolie.

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. In July 2009, Us Weekly reported that Hutton and Giscard d'Estaing had separated.

Rape accusation 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. Hutton, who was 22 when the alleged incident occurred, "completely and unequivocally" denied the accusations and filed a criminal complaint against Johnston for extortion. In July 2021, Canadian authorities closed their investigation into Johnston's accusations without filing charges.

Filmography

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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 ActorGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion PictureGolden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – ActorLos Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated—BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film RolesNominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated—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 in a 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 ActorNominated—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 Mildred and Richard 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 The Long Home Filmed in 2015

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 episodesNominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television (2009, 2011–13) 2015 Public Morals Mr. O 2 episodes American Crime Russ Skokie 11 episodesSatellite Award for Best Cast – Television SeriesNominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or MovieNominated—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 Main cast; season 5 (12 episodes) 2018 The Haunting of Hill House Hugh Crain 6 episodesNominated—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 2026 The Night Agent Senator George Lansing 1 episode

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 AwardChicago International Children's Film Festival 2001–02 A Nero Wolfe Mystery 7 episodes