Editing Timothy Hutton (section)

==Early life==
Timothy Hutton was born in [[Malibu, California]]. His father was actor [[Jim Hutton]]; his mother, Maryline Adams (née Poole), was a teacher. His parents divorced when Hutton was three years old, and his mother took him and his older sister, Heidi, with her to Boston, and then to her hometown [[Harwinton, Connecticut]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Gritten |first=David |date=February 8, 1982 |title=Riding on Taps, Teens and Talent |url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-riding-on-taps-teens-and-talent-vol-17-no-5/ |work=People |access-date=July 26, 2021}}</ref> The family returned to California when Hutton was 12.{{Citation needed |date=June 2024}} 

"A lot of people think that because my father was an actor, I come from this big show-business background," Hutton told [[Bruce Alexander Cook|Bruce Cook]] of ''[[American Film Institute|American Film]]'' magazine in 1981.

<blockquote>But that's not how I grew up at all. My mother took us to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]] because she wanted to get her M.A. She wound up teaching in Connecticut, but the way she saw it, after a while, if we all stayed there, my sister and I would just wind up as the proprietors of the local drugstore or something, so that was why she took us to [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], California—to get us into the world, I guess. Now she's given up teaching and she's into printing miniature books.<ref name="Cook" /></blockquote>

In 1976, when Hutton was 15, he sought out his father and moved in with him in Los Angeles.<ref name="RollingStone">"Timothy Hutton Is Too Good to Be True". ''Rolling Stone'', February 1982.</ref>  At [[Fairfax High School (Los Angeles)|Fairfax High School]], while playing Nathan Detroit in a school production of ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'', he realized he wanted to become an actor. With encouragement from both of his parents, he began acting in television.<ref name="Cook">[[Bruce Alexander Cook|Cook, Bruce]], "Doing What Comes Naturally." ''American Film'', March 1981, pp. 62–65 and 74.</ref>

On June 2, 1979, Jim Hutton died in Los Angeles from [[liver cancer]], two days after his 45th birthday. In 1981, Hutton thanked his father during his [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] speech, which he had won for his role in the movie ''[[Ordinary People]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hutton|first1=Timothy|title=Academy Award Acceptance Speech, March 31, 1981|url=http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/053-2/|department=oscars.org|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=2 February 2016}}</ref>