Acting
Billy Bob Thornton
Born 1955
Known for Armageddon, Fargo, Bad Santa.
79
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Born08/04/1955
Age71 years old
BirthplaceHot Springs, Arkansas, USA
DepartmentActing
Also known asReginald Perry
Biography
Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and musician. Thornton gained early recognition as a cast member on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire and in several early 1990s films including On Deadly Ground and Tombstone. In the mid-1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the independent film Sling Blade, he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He appeared in several major film roles following Sling Blade 's success, including 1998's Armageddon and A Simple Plan. During the late 1990s, Thornton began a career as a singer-songwriter. He has released three albums and was the singer of a blues rock band.
Movie Credits
If These Walls Could Rock (2025)
Devil's Peak (2023)
Bad Santa 2 (2016)
The First Boys of Spring (2016)
The Smell of Success (2009)
The Informers (2008)
Mr. Woodcock (2007)
The Astronaut Farmer (2006)
Bad News Bears (2005)
Chrystal (2004)
Friday Night Lights (2004)
Bad Santa (2003)
Levity (2003)
The Badge (2002)
Daddy and Them (2001)
Monster's Ball (2001)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
A Simple Plan (1998)
Sling Blade (1996)
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars (2020)
A Million Little Pieces (2018)
Faster (2010)
School for Scoundrels (2006)
The Ice Harvest (2005)
The Alamo (2004)
Bandits (2001)
South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000)
Pushing Tin (1999)
Armageddon (1998)
Homegrown (1998)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)
Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)
Waking Up in Reno (2002)
Primary Colors (1998)
One False Move (1991)
The Gray Man (2022)
London Fields (2018)
Temple of Art (2018)
Parkland (2013)
Puss in Boots (2011)
Don't Look Back (1996)
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties (2024)
ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas (2019)
Cut Bank (2014)
Grey Knight (1993)
Into the Grizzly Maze (2015)
The Apostle (1997)
Indecent Proposal (1993)
Trouble Bound (1993)
Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man (2020)
The Judge (2014)
Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
Eagle Eye (2008)
A Gun, a Car, a Blonde (1997)
U Turn (1997)
The Winner (1996)
On Deadly Ground (1994)
Hollywood.Con (2021)
The Baytown Outlaws (2012)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
The Dark Backward (1991)
Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed (2015)
Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (2010)
21 Years: Richard Linklater (2014)
Out There (1995)
Going Overboard (1989)
Bound by Honor (1993)
Immediate Family (2022)
Untouchable (2019)
Entourage (2015)
Dead Man (1995)
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
Love Actually (2003)
Tombstone (1993)
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night (1988)
For the Boys (1991)
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn (1997)
