William Robert Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton says that he would have amassed a Grammy collection if one day he had not found out that there is also an acting profession. It is now enough for him to communicate with children and ponder a new role in order to enjoy life.

Billy Bob Thornton was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The mother of the future actor, Virginia Robert Faulkner, whose ancestors were Italians and Indians, was engaged in esotericism and considered herself a medium. Willie Ray Thornton's father is of Irish descent, worked as a history professor at the local university and led the student baseball team.

The movie star has a brother, John David, and another, Jimmy Don, died at 30. The family lived in an old house, which did not even have electricity. It is curious that 7-month-old Billy Bob with a weight of almost 14 kg got into the Clark County Book of Records, where the heaviest babies are brought.

Thornton attended a public school and proved to be a good athlete, although as a child he dreamed of becoming a famous musician with his brothers. The young man played drums in the school band "Stone Cold Fever", and later as a vocalist he performed with the band "Tres Hombres", in which he performed several songs written by his brother Jimmy.

After leaving school in 1973, Thornton, thanks to his sporting success, got into the professional baseball club "Kansas City Royals", but soon suffered a knee injury that put an end to the player's career.

Billy Bob then worked as an asphalt paver, and the following year entered Henderson University, where he majored in psychology. However, the young man managed to hold out in the university for only 2 semesters, after which he was expelled. In the mid-80s, Thornton moved to Los Angeles and decided to pursue a career in film.

Between auditions and auditions, Billy Bob worked as a waiter, a salesman of household chemicals, in a fast food cafe, and also played drums in a Jack Hammer folk group.

First, Billy Bob appeared in episodes of TV series and sitcoms. In 1992, he starred as police officer Ray Malcolm, investigating a crime in Arkansas, in the detective drama One Wrong Move. The actor also became a co-writer of the film's script, helping in writing to Tom Epperson, whom he had previously met in a restaurant where he worked as a waiter. Thanks to the dramatic plot and good acting, the actor attracted the attention of specialists and spectators.

Billy became famous on a global scale with the psychological drama Sharpened Blade, for which he himself wrote the script, and also acted as a director and film actor. The actor played a mentally retarded man who spent years in a mental hospital for an unexplained murder. The film became popular and Billy Bob received an Oscar for Best Writer and many other awards as an actor.

A new stage began in Thornton's creative biography. The psychological western "Dead Man" was nominated for the Independent Spirit in 4 nominations and entered the competitive program of the Cannes Film Festival, and in the mid-2000s was awarded the title of one of the best films of the 90s.

Billy appeared in the role of a mercenary looking for the hero Johnny Depp, who is accused of murder. The film is directed by the genius of American independent cinema, Jim Jarmusch. Thornton generally prefers independent cinematography, which, he says, at least seems real.

After such success, he had no problems with proposals from directors. The actor starred in dozens of films, which the public was bursting with, including in the apocalyptic movie Armageddon with Bruce Willis in the title role, where he appeared as the director of NASA.

In 2001, Thornton starred in the drama Monster Ball, where Halle Berry and Heath Ledger also played the main characters. In the film, it was about a hereditary professional racist executioner who, after the suicide of his son and meeting a black woman, decides to change his own life.

In the same year, Billy Bob's filmography was replenished with the Coen brothers' eccentric parable "The Man Who Wasn't There" and the crime comedy "Bandits". The actor appeared in the New Year's tragicomedy Love Actually, where he portrayed the President of the United States. For Americans, the latter picture has become virtually a must-see on the winter holidays.

In 2003, the actor played the role of a bum, lustful alcoholic and loser Willie in the black comedy Bad Santa. The film was a huge box office success, and film critics called it destroying all the stereotypes about Christmas pictures. The comedy ridicules the problems of society associated with political correctness beyond reason.

Billy Bob Thornton was cast as the host of Christmas ahead of movie stars such as Jack Nicholson and Bill Murray. This work cemented the fame of the actor as a comedian, capable of causing laughter in the auditorium almost out of the blue. This opinion was fueled by the comedy School of Scoundrels, in which the role of Dr. Pi was specially written for Thornton. After filming this film, the actor was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The genre palette in which Thornton is capable of working is incredibly variegated. In addition to comedic roles, the actor transformed into a military man, recreating the image of the Civil War hero David Crockett in the drama Fort Alamo, football coach Gary Gaines in the sports tape In the Rays of Glory, the robber Vic Keveno in the action movie Ice Harvest, an astronaut Farmer in the film of the same name.

In 2007, Thornton again became the main character of the comedy, starring in the film "Mr. Woodcock". A year later, the actor starred in two thrillers - "Informants" and "On the Hook". In the action movie "Faster than a Bullet" he had the opportunity to turn into a police officer who enters into a battle with the underworld. In the biographical film about the assassination of Kennedy "Parkland" Thornton tried on the image of a secret agent.

In 2014, Billy Bob took part in the popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory, where he played the elderly urologist Lorvis, who gets aroused even from the light touch of a woman. In the same year, the actor starred as a sociopath and criminal in the mini-series "Fargo", created in the genre of black comedy.

Thornton's partner on the jobsite was Martin Freeman, the British actor who played Dr. Watson in the acclaimed TV series Sherlock. Fargo was broadcast on the FX TV channel and brought the creators a number of international awards. Thornton's excellence was recognized by film critics with the Golden Globe Award.

In 2016, Thornton was featured in the comedy The Reporter, which tells about the adventures of an American journalist in Pakistan. In the same year, the filming of the second part of the "Bad Santa" franchise was completed, where he appeared before the audience in the familiar image of the hero Willie.

In October, the premiere of the legal series "Goliath" took place, in which the artist played the role of a lawyer who was fired and forced to look for clients on his own. But one day he had the opportunity to take revenge on his former boss. The first season received high ratings and positive reviews from critics, so in 2017 the creators announced the continuation of the series. For the image of a cynical and sharp-tongued lawyer, Billy Bob was awarded another Golden Globe.

In 2018, 2 projects with Thornton's participation are presented to the audience. The central character of the drama "A Million Small Pieces" is a drug addict writer trying to get rid of a dangerous addiction in a rehab clinic. Hero Billy helps him with this. The film was directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, the author of the controversial "50 Shades of Gray", the main role is given to her husband Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

In the thriller "London Fields", the actor himself plays a writer in a creative crisis. To continue his work, he is inspired by a girl who foresees her own murder and knows who will decide on such a step. The potential victim was played by Amber Heard. The film, created by Katy Perry's clip-maker Matthew Cullen, received unpleasant reviews in the American press.

When Billy Bob Thornton became a popular film actor, he resumed his musical activity and recorded several country albums, which also included Jimmy Don's author songs "Island Avenue" and "Emily", which Billy sang as a teenager.

Having released 4 solo discs, Thornton gathered his own band The Boxmasters, with which he toured North America and recorded country and rockabilly records. He writes lyrics himself and sometimes devotes songs to loved ones. For example, in 2001, Billy Bob composed "Angelina", in which he talked about his feelings for his wife Angelina Jolie.

The first disc, The Boxmasters, was released in June 2008. The next Christmas Cheer, writer and journalist Brian Mansfield of USA Today, whose opinion is listened to in the music community, recommended playing on holidays. The reviewers also liked the Modbilly album, followed by a 5-year hiatus from the tour.

During this time, Thornton directed the drama Jane Mansfield's Car. The actor did not find funding at home, with the creation of a film in which Robert Patrick, Ray Stevenson, Robert Duvall and Kevin Bacon are involved, the Russian producer Alexander Rodnyansky helped.

In 2015, Boxmasters returned with Somewhere Down The Road. "Boys and Girls ... & The World" and "Tea Surfing" were added to it a year later. In 2019, the studio album "Speck" is presented.

Six attempts to arrange a personal life gave Billy Bob four children. In 1978, the actor married Melissa Lee Gatlin, with whom he was married for 2 years. During this time, daughter Amanda was born. In 1986, Thornton took his colleague Tony Lawrence down the aisle, a year later the family broke up, and a year later an official divorce followed.

Then the actress Cinda Williams was married to a celebrity for 2 years. In 1993, Thornton became the husband of the model Pietra Chernyak, who gave him the sons of Harry James and William. The marriage was dissolved in 1997, when the wife accused Billy Bob of domestic violence.

The next wife of the actor in 2000 was Angelina Jolie. The famous performer of the role of Lara Croft is almost 20 years younger than Billy. Their relationship was not easy, if not eccentric. The couple demonstratively showed affection for each other, each wearing a medallion with a drop of partner's blood around his neck. The stars broke up 2 years after the wedding.

Later, talking about this part of the biography, Thornton jokingly remarked that men should not get a tattoo with the name of their beloved woman, unless they are sure that another will not appear over the first. The actor himself turned the name of his ex-wife, gouged out on his left shoulder, into an angel and added the word peace as a sign that there were no offenses left.

Since 2003, Billy Bob Thornton has lived in a civil marriage with make-up artist Connie England, who gave birth to his daughter Bella. Billy and Connie publicly stated that they did not intend to legalize the relationship, nevertheless, they signed in October 2014.

Due to health problems, Thornton developed a large number of phobias, including a widespread fear of air travel and an unusual fear of antiques. The actor does not smoke, although in some roles he can be seen with a cigarette. A slender physique (weight 80 kg with a height of 178 cm) Billy owes a rigid diet (a man is allergic to certain foods) and daily sports.

The movie star is an honorary resident of his hometown of Hot Springs, whose mayor has immortalized his name by declaring one day of the year an official holiday named after Billy Bob Thornton.

The man leads a secluded life, he does not have a single account on social networks, including Instagram. Photos and videos with him are easy to find on information Internet resources.

Now fans of Billy Bob are watching the actor play in the third season of the series "Goliath".

The unexpected death of an old friend leads the hero to a new business, where he faces a worthy opponent - a billionaire farmer and his sister. These roles are played by Dennis Quaid and Amy Brenneman. In their quest for the truth, Thornton and his team face old enemies and personal problems.

1992 - "One Wrong Move" 1996 - "Sharpened Blade" 1998 - "Simple Plan" 1999 - "Controlling the Flights" 2001 - "The Man Who Wasn't" 2002 - "Monster Ball" 2003 - "Love Actually" 2003 - "Bad Santa 2004 - In the Rays of Glory 2006 - School of Scoundrels 2008 - Informants 2012 - Jane Mansfield's Car 2014 - Fargo 2016 - The Reporter 2016-2019 - Goliath 2018 - London Fields

2001 - "Private Radio" 2003 - "The Edge of the World" 2005 - "Hobo" 2007 - "Beautiful Door" 2008 - "The Boxmasters" 2008 - "Christmas Cheer" 2009 - "Modbilly" 2015 - "Somewhere Down the Road "2015 -" Providence "2016 -" Tea Surfing "2019 -" Speck "

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