who is billy bob thorton?

Answer 1

Billy Bob Thornton is the oldest son of high school basketball coach Billy Ray Thornton and Virginia Faulkner Thornton, a psychic who predicted his 1997 Oscar® win. Born in Hot Springs, Arkansas on August 4, 1955 (that makes him a Leo), Billy Bob was named after (respectively) his father (Billy) and his mother's grandfather (Bob). Yes, Billy Bob is his legal, given name. At the advanced age of seven months, he became a sensation in the local papers by setting a record as the heaviest infant in Clark County at 30 pounds. He was followed by two brothers: Jimmy Don, born in 1958, and John David, born in 1969.

It was a different kind of South in the mid-1950s to early 1960s. Billy Bob can recall seeing the segregated water fountains and restrooms facilities of the pre-Civil Rights era, as well as the abject poverty of the rural corners of the state. Residing in a small cabin in the woods of Alpine, Arkansas (population 100), the Thornton clan often subsisted on the local game that Billy Bob's maternal grandfather, a forest ranger, culled from the surrounding wilderness. Their cabin had no electricity or running water, and sometimes up to 15 members of the family lived there.

When Billy Bob turned two, his uncle Don Faulkner, a charming, footloose musician whose expertise included playing the saw, gave him something every little boy of that era coveted: a Roy Rogers guitar! With Uncle Don's gift, Billy Bob would do his junior Elvis impersonation atop--of all things--a circus foot-stand for elephants that somehow wound up in the Thorntons' backyard.

In 1963, the Thorntons moved to Malvern, Arkansas, a quintessential all-American small town noteworthy as "The Brick Capital of the World." To make ends meet, Virginia did psychic readings from their home, taking trade in food when the clients had no money. Billy Bob has noted that, when your mother is a psychic and your father is a basketball coach, "It sets you apart."

In Malvern, third-grader Billy Bob began writing short stories, prompted by his mother (an English major), who introduced him to the works of such Southern writers William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Erskine Caldwell (a major influence on Billy Bob's work). He also took up acting for the first time, playing a wise man in a school nativity play. The first line he delivered in his acting debut was, "Hark!" (although it came out "Harp!"). His first directing gig was a grade-school production of Dracula.

As children, he and his younger brother Jimmy were eager participants in the family ritual of listening to albums each night before going to bed, absorbing everything from Elvis Presley, Ray Price, and Jim Reeves to The Beatles and other British Invasion stars. At one point, Virginia actually brought Billy Bob out to the highway so that they could wave at Elvis when The King's tour bus passed by. After lights out, Billy Bob and Jimmy would lie in their beds and listen to classic rock from station KAAY on their transistor radio. Billy Bob took his first crack at the drums when Virginia bought him his own drum set for his ninth birthday. A year later, he made his performance debut at a PTA meeting, delivering Barry Sadler's patriotic hit, The Ballad of the Green Beret. The members of the popular Malvern rock band, the Yardleys, allowed the twelve-year-old Billy Bob to try his hand on a professional set of red Ludwig drums. Inspired by the inventive and witty classic rock of Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, he started forming his own bands, beginning with the British Invasion-inspired McCoveys (named after legendary baseball player Willie McCovey).

In high school, Billy Bob became a popular local baseball star with a talent for pitching (thanks to his father, Billy Ray, who hung a tire from a tree so that Billy Bob could practice delivering sliders and curveballs through the center). His high school rock band, Stone Cold Fever, performed Creedence Clearwater Revival covers. Throughout high school, he would spend his weekends playing drums and singing in the style of his musical idols wherever he could, from VFW clubs to roadhouses where there was chicken wire across the front of the stage. Coached by Malvern High School's drama teacher, Maudie Treadway, Billy Bob studied acting and eventually played the lead in the school play Egad, What a Cad.

Shortly after Billy Bob's graduation from high school in 1973 and mere days after his 18th birthday, his father Billy Ray passed away at the age of 44 from lung cancer likely caused by exposure to chemicals at a factory job. During his father's final months, Billy Bob devotedly cared for him, often cradling Billy Ray in his arms as he carried him up to his room.

Answer 2

Actor

Answer 3

He is an actor who was married to Angelina Jolie. He is also the cousin of Terry Funk.

Answer 4

He's an actor, Angelina Jolies ex-hubby....check out the site below for more info and a bio.

Answer 5

I think hes an actor and terry funk's cousin

Answer 6

not a wrestler. so this question should not be in the wrestling section

Answer 7

i think he's related to randy orton. i think he's also an actor

Answer 8

*rolls eyes* he is an actor......duh!

Answer 9

randy ortons dad