| After winning an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Los Angeles Film Critic's award for his performance in Robert Redford's ORDINARY PEOPLE, Timothy Hutton went on to star in numerous films, including TAPS, DANIEL, FALCON & THE SNOWMAN, MADE IN HEAVEN, Q & A, GENERAL'S DAUGHTER, FRENCH KISS, BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, and SUNSHINE STATE. With TAPS, Hutton received his second Golden Globe Award nomination. Hutton was last seen in Columbia Pictures' SECRET WINDOW, based on the novella by Stephen King, and directed by David Koepp with Johnny Depp and John Turturro also starring.
As a member of New York's Circle Repertory Company, Hutton originated the lead role in the Broadway Production of Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss and starred in Babylon Gardens with Mary Louise Parker. In addition, Hutton appeared in the Los Angeles stage production of The Oldest Living Graduate, opposite Henry Fonda, which was later broadcast live on NBC. Hutton also directed Nicole Burdette's Busted for the New York-based theatre company, Naked Angels.
On television, Hutton produced and starred in Showtime's Mr. & Mrs. Loving, written and directed by Oscar-nominated writer Richard Friedenberg (A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT), starred as the title character in the acclaimed Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within, also for Showtime, and the docudrama WWIII for the Fox Network. After starring in A&E's highly successful Nero Wolfe: The Golden Spiders, the network went back to Hutton, who agreed to executive produce, direct and star in several additional Nero Wolfe adaptations. These highly acclaimed films premiered in Spring 2001 on A&E, with a repertoire of actors who co-star with Hutton and Maury Chaykin, and ran for two years.
Working behind the camera, Hutton has directed a number of music videos, including Drive by the Cars, Not Enough Love by Don Henley, and the Neil Young Concert Film Freedom, as well as an episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories, entitled Grandpa's Ghost, from a story he wrote.
Hutton's feature film directorial debut, DIGGING TO CHINA, premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival to standing ovations. The off-beat coming-of-age story starred Kevin Bacon and Mary Stuart Masterson, and introduced 10-year old starlet Evan Rachel Wood; the film was in limited release in fall 1998.
In addition to KINSEY, Hutton can also be seen as the lead on the SciFi Channel's action, thriller miniseries, 5ive Days Until Midnight.
Hutton currently serves as the President of The Players Club. Originally founded by Edwin Booth and Mark Twain in New York's Gramercy Park, The Players Club is the oldest and most prestigious theatrical club in America.
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