Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
04 Aug, 1955 (69 years old)
Billy Bob Thornton
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.
Known For
Acting
2024
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story
2024
Landman
2023
Devil's Peak
2022
Immediate Family
2022
The Gray Man
2021
Hollywood.Con
2020
Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man
2020
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars
2019
A Million Little Pieces
2019
Untouchable
2019
ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas
2018
Temple of Art
2018
London Fields
2016
Bad Santa 2
2016
Goliath
2016
The First Boys of Spring
2016
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2015
Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed: Live In Austin
2015
Our Brand Is Crisis
2015
Entourage
2015
Into the Grizzly Maze
2015
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
2014
21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014
The Judge
2014
Cut Bank
2013
Parkland
2013
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2012
The Baytown Outlaws
2011
Puss in Boots
2011
The Smell of Success
2010
Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
2010
Faster
2008
The Informers
2008
Eagle Eye
2007
Mr. Woodcock
2007
The Astronaut Farmer
2006
School for Scoundrels
2005
The Ice Harvest
2005
Bad News Bears
2004
Friday Night Lights
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
The Alamo
2003
Bad Santa
2003
Love Actually
2003
Intolerable Cruelty
2003
Levity
2002
Waking Up in Reno
2002
The Badge
2001
Daddy and Them
2001
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
Bandits
2001
Monster's Ball
2000
South of Heaven, West of Hell
1999
Pushing Tin
1998
A Simple Plan
1998
Armageddon
1998
Homegrown
1998
Primary Colors
1998
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
1997
The Apostle
1997
U Turn
1997
A Gun, a Car, a Blonde
1996
The Winner
1996
Sling Blade
1995
Dead Man
1995
Out There
1994
On Deadly Ground
1993
Tombstone
1993
Indecent Proposal
1993
Bound by Honor
1993
Atados al destino
1992
One False Move
1991
For the Boys
1991
The Dark Backward
1989
Going Overboard
1989
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
1988
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night