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Billy Bob Thornton is an actor, director, screenwriter, and musician who began his film career in the late s and has since starred in a number of popular and critically acclaimed films.

He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sling Blade ().

Billy Bob Thornton was born on August 4, , in Hot Springs (Garland County), the oldest son of high school basketball coach Billy Ray Thornton and Virginia Faulkner, a psychic.

At seven months of age, he set the Clark County record for heaviest infant, at thirty pounds.

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He has two younger brothers, Jimmy Don and John David.

Residing with over a dozen relatives in a shack with no electricity or plumbing, the Thorntons subsisted on the game caught by Virginia’s father. In , they settled in Malvern (Hot Spring County).

By third grade, Thornton was writing, acting, and playing the drums. At Malvern High School, he excelled in baseball as a pitcher and landed the lead in the school play, Egad, What a C