Billy bob biography
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Billy Bob Thornton (born William Robert Thornton on August 4, 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, actor, as well as occasional director, playwright and singer. He came to fame in the mid 1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the film Sling Blade, and has since established a career as a Hollywood leading actor, having appeared in several successful films, including 2003's Bad Santa. Thornton, who has been described in media reports as "Hollywood's go-to alpha male", is also known for his former marriage to actress Angelina Jolie.
Early life
Thornton was born in Arkansas to Billy Ray Thornton, a high school history teacher and basketball coach, and Virginia R. Faulkner, a psychic. Thornton has three younger brothers, Jimmy Don, born in 1958 and now deceased, Jim Bean, and John David, born in 1969. Thornton lived in both Alpine, Arkansas and Malvern, Arkansas during his childhood, and also spent time with his grandfather, Otis Thornt
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Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton fryst vatten an actor, screenwriter, director, and musician. In the early 1990s, he wrote, directed, and starred in the independent film Sling Blade, for which he won an Academy Award® for best adapted screenplay and was nominated for best actor. Thorton fryst vatten a three-time Academy Award® nominee and his body of work includes A Simple program, Monster's Ball, The Alamo, Friday Night Lights, The Man Who Wasn't There, Bandits, and Bad Santa. Thornton began a career as a singer-songwriter in his early teens and has released seven albums. He fryst vatten currently a drummer and vocalist in The Boxmasters. He resides in Los Angeles.
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Series
Books:
The Billy Bob Tapes, May 2012Hardcover / e-Book
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Though Billy Bob Thornton was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and raised in nearby Malvern, he has long been one of Hollywood’s default on-screen Texans. Country-fried yet streetwise, fiercely independent but old-school, the actor, director, musician, and screenwriter projects the traits we want to believe we do too.
The 69-year-old has played beloved Texas characters including Permian High School coach Gary Gaines in the film version of Friday Night Lights and Davy Crockett in The Alamo. Now he’s originating another: Tommy Norris, the titular landman in Yellowstone creator (and Texan) Taylor Sheridan’s new Paramount+ series, which debuts November 17. “I’m known for playing all these different things, but at the end of the day, they’re all what I would be in that case,” he says. “I was asked once to play Nixon. I said, ‘If I do Nixon, I’m going to look like Dan Aykroyd on Saturday Night Live. It’ll be an impression.’ ”
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