Timothy Tarquin Hutton (born August 16, 1960) is an American actor. 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

Hutton was born in Malibu, California. His mother, Maryline Adams (née Poole), was a teacher and ran a small publishing company, and his father was actor Jim Hutton, star of NBC TV's Ellery Queen. Hutton attended Fairfax High School and Berkeley High School, and made his acting debut in 1965 at the age of 5, playing a small uncredited role in the film Never Too Late, which starred his father.

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

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1965	Never Too Late	Boy running to his daddy	uncredited
1972	The Wonderful World of Disney		"Dad, Can I Borrow the Car"
1978	Zuma Beach	Art	(TV)
1979	Friendly Fire	John Mullen	(TV)
	The Best Place to Be	Tommy Callahan	(TV)
	And Baby Makes Six	Jason Cramer	(TV)
	Young Love, First Love	Derek Clayton	(TV)
1980	The Oldest Living Graduate	Cadet	(TV)
	Disney's Wonderful World		"The Sultan and the Rock Star"
	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 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
	Father Figure	Jim	(TV)
1981	Teenage Suicide: Don't Try It!		narrator
	A Long Way Home	Donald Branch	(TV)
	Taps	Cadet Major Brian Moreland
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"
1989	Torrents of Spring	Dimitri Sanin
1990	Q&A	Asst. District Attorney Aloysius Francis Reilly
1991	Strangers	Tom
1993	The Temp	Peter Derns
	The Dark Half	Thad Beaumont/George Stark
	Zelda	F. Scott Fitzgerald	(TV)
1995	French Kiss	Charlie
	The Last Word	Martin Ryan
1996	Beautiful Girls	Willie Conway
	Mr. and Mrs. Loving	Richard Loving	(TV)
	The Substance of Fire	Martin Geldhart
1997	City of Industry	Lee Egan
	Playing God	Raymond Blossom
	Dead by Midnight	John Larkin/Sam Ellis	(TV)
	Aldrich Ames: The Traitor Within	Aldrich Ames	(TV)
1998	Vig	Frankie
1999	The General's Daughter	Col. William Kent
	Deterrence	Marshall Thompson
2000	The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery	Archie Goodwin	(TV)
	Deliberate Intent	Rod Smolla	(TV)
	Just One Night	Isaac Alder
2001	WW3	Larry	(TV)
2001–2002	A Nero Wolfe Mystery	Archie Goodwin	(TV series)
2002	Sunshine State	Jack Meadows
2004	Secret Window	Ted Milner
	5ive Days to Midnight	J.T. Neumeyer	(TV miniseries)
	Kinsey	Paul Gebhard
2005	Turning Green	Bill the Breaker
2006	Last Holiday	Matthew Krager
	Stephanie Daley	Paul
	Avenger	Frank McBride	(TV)
	The Kovak Box	David Norton
	Heavens Fall	Samuel Liebowitz
	Falling Objects	Oscar Peters
	Off the Black	Mr. Tibbel
	The Good Shepherd	Thomas Wilson
2006–2007	Kidnapped	Conrad Cain	(TV series)
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
2008–present	Leverage	Nate Ford	(TV series)
2009	Broken Hill	George McAlpine
	The Killing Room	Crawford Haines
	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men	Subject #30
	Multiple Sarcasms	Gabriel
	Serious Moonlight	Ian
2010	The Ghost	Sidney Kroll

Director

Year	Title	Notes
1986	Amazing Stories (TV series)	"Grandpa's Ghost"
1998	Digging to China	Children's Jury Award, Chicago International Children's Film Festival
2001–2002	A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV series)	"The Doorbell Rang" "Champagne for One" "Over My Dead Body" "Death of a Doxy"

References

1. Timothy Hutton Biography (1960-)

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