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4 August 1955
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Billy Bob Thornton was raised in the tiny town
of Malvern. As a child his interests were split between music, acting and
sports. His father, a high school coach, pushed him toward athletics, while
his mother encouraged more cultural pursuits. In the end, when Billy Bob
first saw Elvis Presley movies, he knew that he wanted to be a movie star
or a rock-and-roll singer.
Billy Bob spent several years as a rock
singer and drummer in Arkansas, Texas and California before deciding to
pursue a career in acting. In 1981 he moved to Los Angeles with childhood
friend and writing partner, Tom Epperson, and started acting classes. He
struggled for several years until he landed a role in the Fox series The
Outsiders, which began his extraordinary career. In 1991 he had a small
role in For the Boys, but in 1992 he received critical acclaim for his
performance in One False Move, which he co-wrote with Epperson. Billy Bob
then appeared in a string of films including Bound By Honor, On Deadly
Ground and Dead Man.
His biggest success to date came with Sling Blade,
which he wrote and directed. It was a story based on stage work and a short
he had done in the past. The film, about a mentally- challenged murderer,
won him an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and a nomination as Best Actor.
He was recently married to actress Angelina Jolie.
This was his fifth marriage. Jolie's second.
(Written by K. Kamarauskas © 2000)
FILMBIOGRAFIE:
Monsters Ball (2001)/
The Man Who Wasn´t There (2001)/Behind
The Sun (2001)/
Bandits (2001)/
The Barber Project (2001)/
Daddy and Them (2001)/Wakin'
Up In Reno (2000)/
Last Real Cowboys (2000)/
South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000)/
Franky Goes to Hollywood (1999)/Pushing
Tin (1999)/Armageddon
(1998)/Homegrown
(1998)/Primary Colors (1998)/A
Gun, a Car, a Blonde (1998)/A
Simple Plan (1998)/
U Turn (1997)/An
Alan Smithee Film... (1997)/The
Apostle (1997)/Sling
Blade (1996)/
Don't Look Back,TV (1996)/
The Winner (1996)/Out
There,TV (1995)/
The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995)/Dead
Man (1995)/On
Deadly Ground (1994)/Floundering
(1994)/Tombstone
(1993)/Indecent
Proposal (1993)/Bound
by Honor (1993)/The
Killing Box (1993)/Living
and Working in Space... (1993)/Some
Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1993)/Hearts
Afire,TV (1992)/Trouble
Bound (1992)/For
the Boys (1991)/One
False Move (1991)/The
Outsiders,TV (1990)/Chopper
Chicks in Zombietown (1989)/Going
Overboard (1989)/South
of Reno (1988)/The
Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains,TV (1987)/Hunter's
Blood (1987).
Director: All The
Pretty Horses,2001/Sling
Blade,1996
Book: The Gift ,2000