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Bill Paxton

Bill Paxton has been working steadily as an actor in Hollywood for the past twenty five years. In that time he has amassed a large and diverse body of work in every genre. He has appeared in several blockbusters including; Titanic, Aliens, Twister, Tombstone, True Lies, Apollo 13, U-571 and Vertical Limit. As well as acting, he has worked as a producer on the feature film Traveler and a director on Frailty and The Greatest Game Ever Played. Moving to Hollywood from Fort Worth, Texas at eighteen, Paxton began his career as a set dresser on Roger Corman’s Big Bad Mama. After working in the art department on several features, he moved to New York to study acting. Returning to Los Angeles in 1980, he met James Cameron while moonlighting as a set dresser on the low-budget sci-fi movie Galaxy of Terror. Subsequently he started landing his first acting jobs, in the B-horror movies Mortuary and Night Warning. After gaining critical attention in the John Hughes comedy Weird Science, Paxton’s performance as the small-town sheriff in Carl Franklin’s One False Move marked his emergence as a leading man. In 1998, Roger Ebert cited Paxton as best actor for his turn as Hank Mitchell in Sam Raimi’s A Simple Plan. In addition, he received a Golden Globe® nomination that year for... Next

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