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Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. He received international attention after writing, directing and starring in the independent drama film Sling Blade (1996), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. For his role in A Simple Plan (1998), he was nominated for the Academy…
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Born 4 August 1955 · Q202735
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2026· 2 entries
Thornton elaborated that he has the "A-B negative" blood type, which caused him to have less digestive enzymes and made him allergic to wheat, dairy, shellfish and meat
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Billy Bob Thornton: ‘I didn’t want Johnny Cash to catch me looking in his fridge in my underpants’
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: Landman review – Billy Bob Thornton lets rip with the one-liners in this gritty oil industry drama
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The Guardian: Post your questions for Billy Bob Thornton
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Began playing the lead role of Tommy Norris in the Paramount+ series Landman
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2020· 1 entry
After a deal was reached with prosecutors prior to an evidentiary hearing to provide medical and scientific evidence of her innocence
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2017· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Goliath (2017).
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Thornton starred in the music video "Stand Down" by Kario Salem (musically known as K
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: Goliath review – another legal drama? Billy Bob Thornton makes a good case
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Reprised his role as a bad mall Santa in Bad Santa 2
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2015· 3 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Fargo (2015).
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And claims that the child's death was entirely accidental
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Thornton appeared in Entourage, the film adaptation of the television series
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2014· 3 entries
Starred as sociopathic hitman Lorne Malvo in the FX miniseries Fargo, inspired by the 1996 film of the same name, for which he won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Mini-Series
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Starred as Lorne Malvo in the first season of the FX anthology series Fargo, earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie and winning a Golden Globe Award for B
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Where he played a middle-aged urologist who gets excited about every woman who touches him
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2011· 1 entry
Thornton voiced Jack in the animated comedy film Puss in Boots
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2009· 1 entry
Thornton and The Boxmasters appeared on the CBC Radio One program Q
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2008· 1 entry
Was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the death of her friend's one-year-old daughter
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Beautiful Door”.
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Thornton formed The Boxmasters with J
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Hobo”.
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2004· 1 entry
Thornton starred as Davey Crockett in The Alamo, and played Coach Gary Gaines in the football drama film Friday Night Lights
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “The Edge Of the World”.
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Thornton began a relationship with makeup effects crew member Connie Angland, with whom he has a daughter
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2002· 1 entry
Thornton appeared in Travis Tritt's music video for the song "Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde"
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “Private Radio”.
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Thornton released the album Private Radio on Lost Highway Records
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Directed Daddy and Them while securing starring roles in three Hollywood films: the romantic drama Monster's Ball, the crime comedy-drama Bandits, and the neo-noir film The Man Who Wasn't There
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2000· 2 entries
An early script which he and Tom Epperson wrote together was made into The Gift
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Married actress Angelina Jolie, with whom he starred in Pushing Tin (1999) and who was nearly 20 years his junior
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1998· 1 entry
Portrayed the James Carville-like Richard Jemmons in Primary Colors
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for Sling Blade (1997).
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With Cherniak accusing Thornton of spousal abuse, sometimes in front of his children
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1995· 1 entry
“Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.”
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1993· 1 entry
Thornton married Playboy model Pietra Dawn Cherniak, with whom he had two sons
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1989· 1 entry
Appeared as an angry heckler in Adam Sandler's debut film Going Overboard
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1985· 1 entry
Thornton joined Piet Botha in the South African rock band Jack Hammer, while Botha worked in Los Angeles
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1983· 1 entry
The band released their only studio album, Gunslinger on Trigger Records
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1973· 2 entries
Referred to the band as "the best little cover band in Texas", and Thornton bears a tattoo with the band's name on it
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And spent a short period laying asphalt for the Arkansas State Transportation Department, before attending Henderson State University to pursue a degree in psychology but dropped out after two semesters
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1955· 2 entries
Born 1955-08-04.
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In Hot Springs, Arkansas, the son of Virginia Roberta (née Faulkner; 1934–2017), a self-proclaimed psychic, and William Raymond "Billy Ray" Thornton (1929–1974), a high school history teacher and basketball coach
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