Curiosidades

In "The 10 Li'l Grifters" episode of Leverage (2008) (season 4, episode 2), the crew attends a costume party at which everyone dresses up as a character from a mystery story. Nathan Ford (Timothy Hutton) tells someone that he is dressed up as Ellery Queen, the character played by Hutton's father, Jim Hutton in Ellery Queen (1975), the TV show based on a popular mystery book series. Ford is also wearing the trademark hat worn by Ellery Queen on that show.

Became a father for the first time at age 26 when his first wife, Debra Winger, gave birth to their son Emmanuel Noah Hutton, aka Noah Hutton, on April 29, 1987.

He was twenty years old when he won his Oscar for Gente como a Gente (1980), making him the youngest winner to date of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Directed the music video for The Cars' song "Drive".

Son of actor Jim Hutton, star of NBC TV's Ellery Queen (1975), and Maryline Adams (née Poole), a teacher who also ran a small publishing company. Brother of Punch Hutton and Heidi Hutton.(born 1960).

Co-owner of bar/restaurant "P.J. Clarke's" and president of the exclusive Players Club, both in New York City.

Became a father for the second time at age 41, when his second wife, Aurore Giscard d'Estaing, gave birth to their son, Milo Hutton, on September 11, 2001.

Was the original choice to play the role of Joel Goodson in Negócio Arriscado (1983), but turned it down.

In 1981, he and Natalie Wood purchased film rights to the Barbara Wersba book "Country of the Heart" and were planning to team in the drama about the professional/romantic relationship of a young writer and a successful novelist who's dying of cancer.

Dated Diane Lane (1981-83), Demi Moore (1983-84), Uma Thurman (1995-96) and Angelina Jolie (1997-99).

His ex-wife, Aurore Giscard d'Estaing, a Parisian-born children's book illustrator, is the niece of former French President (1974 - 1981) Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

In 1983, he signed to shoot a film titled "Road Show" with Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, and Debra Winger. The studio canceled plans, and Hutton sued claiming fraud and breach of contract. He won the jury trial in 1989 which awarded him $2.25 million in compensatory damages and $7.5 million in punitive damages. He had also gained a wife and son, when he married Winger with whom he had his first son Noah Hutton, but the marriage later dissolved. The title "Road Show" was later changed to O Curandeiro da Selva (1992) and starred Sean Connery.

Was only 19 when his father, actor Jim Hutton, died of liver cancer.

Has three times played characters who fight the system: Toque de Recolher (1981), Como é Feito um Herói (1985) (in fact the slogan was, "you CAN fight city hall!"), and Leverage (2008).

He has twice played real-life traitors to the United States. He played Christopher Boyce in A Traição do Falcão (1985) and Aldrich Ames in Perfil de um Espião (1998). Both men were convicted of having sold secrets to the Soviet Union. In a third instance, Daniel (1983), he played the son of fictionalized versions of real-life traitors, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

His daughter-in-law is film producer Taylor Hess.

Although he played Amanda Plummer's elder brother in Daniel (1983), he is more than three years her junior in real life.

In Toque de Recolher (1981), Leverage (2008), Como é Feito um Herói (1985), and A Traição do Falcão (1985) he played a character who was fighting the system. In two of these (Taps and Leverage) he was formerly a part of the system that screwed him, so he turned on it.

Was in 2 or 3 of his father's films as a child.

Has worn an Army uniform five times: Toque de Recolher (1981), and "The Three Days Of The Hunter Job" episode of Leverage (2008) and Momento do Destino (1988) and A Filha do General (1999), and "Help Wanted, Male" episode of A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001).

He has English, smaller amounts of Irish and Norwegian, and more distant German, ancestry.

Is a big fan of the Irish-American band, Black 47.

Sister Heidi married musician and lives in England.