BILL PAXTON BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Bill Paxton was born on May 17th, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas with the birth name William Archibald Paxton, born to Mary Lou and John Lane Paxton. He received his early years education at St. Anne's Catholic School and graduated from Arlington Heights High School. Paxton then enrolled at Southwest Texas State University.
At the age of eighteen, he relocated to Los Angeles, California and began working in the film industry first as a set dresser for New World Pictures. By 1975, he had broken into the film world as an actor first appearing on, "Crazy Mama". Paxton then moved to New York and enrolled at New York University where he studied acting.
In 1981 he was cast in, "Stripes" and his career began to take off with more substantial roles in film as well as television. Some of his more memorable film roles have been in, "The Terminator" (1984) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton, "Weird Science" (1985), "Aliens" (1986), "Near Dark" (1987), "Next of Kin" (1989), "Navy Seals" and his big break in the 1992 film, "One False Move".
Soon, Paxton was being cast in strong supporting roles in such films as, "Tombstone" (1993) starring with Kurt Russell and Sam Elliott, "Apollo 13" (1995) starring with Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon, "True Lies" (1994), "Titanic" (1997) starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, "U-571" (2000) starring Matthew McConaughey, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes and Tom Guiry and "Vertical Limit" (2000). In addition to his many film roles he has also appeared on such television series as, "Miami Vice", "The Hitchhiker", "Tales from the Crypt" and one of his more well known roles on the series, "Big Love" (2006-2011) portraying, Bill Henrickson.
In addition to working as an actor he has also been given the chance to work on the other side of the industry as a director as well as a producer for such films as, "Fish Heads" (1980), "Frailty" (2001), "The Greatest Game Ever Played" (2005) and the short, "Tattoo" (2011).
Most recently, Paxton has appeared on the hit television mini series, "Hatfields & McCoys" (2012) and soon to release in 2013, "To Appomattox".
Bill Paxton is currently married to his second wife, Louise Newbury whom he wed in 1987 and together they have two children. Prior to this marriage, he wed Kelly Rowan in 1979 and they were married till 1980.
Filmography
2013 To Appomattox
2013 The Colony
2012 Hatfields & McCoys
2012 Shanghai Calling
2011 Haywire
2006-2011 Big Love
2007 Big Love: In the Beginning
2007 The Good Life
2005 Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
2004 Haven
2004 Thunderbirds
2004 Club Dread
2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003 Resistance
2003 Frasier
2002 Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
2001 Frailty
2000 Vertical Limit
2000 U-571
1998 Mighty Joe Young
1998 A Simple Plan
1998 A Bright Shining Lie
1997 Titanic
1997 Traveller
1996 The Evening Star
1996 Twister
1995 The Last Supper
1995 Apollo 13
1995 Frank & Jesse
1994 True Lies
1994 Future Shock
1993 Tombstone
1993 Tales from the Crypt
1993 Monolith
1993 Indian Summer
1993 Boxing Helena
1992 Trespass
1992 The Vagrant
1992 One False Move
1991 The Dark Backward
1990 Predator 2
1990 Navy Seals
1990 The Last of the Finest
1990 Brain Dead
1989 Back to Back
1989 Next of Kin
1989 Slipstream
1989 New Order: Substance
1988 Riding Fast
1988 Pass the Ammo
1988 Reach
1987 Near Dark
1987 The Hitchhiker
1986 Miami Vice
1986 Fresno
1986 Aliens
1985 An Early Frost
1985 Commando
1985 Weird Science
1985 The Atlanta Child Murders
1984 The Terminator
1984 Impulse
1984 Streets of Fire
1984 Pat Benatar: Hit Videos
1983 Mortuary
1983 Deadly Lessons
1983 Night Warning
1983 The Lords of Discipline
1983 Great Day
1983 Taking Tiger Mountain
1981 Stripes
1980 The Six O'Clock Follies
1980 Fish Head
1975 Crazy Mama
