Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton
Big Love, Titanic, Twister, Aliens
Bill has donated his rendition of a Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600) statue. He was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer; a martyr for free thought and modern scientific ideas. It is drawn on a cream colored 3.5" x 5.5" card (statue on the front, signature and date on the back).
Bill Paxton is an actor and film director who currently stars in the fifth and final season of the HBO series Big Love.
He has been working steadily as an actor in Hollywood for the past 26 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.
In addition, he's worked as a producer on the feature film Traveler and as a director on Frailty and The Greatest Game Ever Played.
Moving to Hollywood from Fort Worth, TX at 18, Bill 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, his performance as the small-town sheriff in Carl Franklin's One False Move marked his emergence as a leading man. In 1998, Rogert Ebert cited him as his Best Actor choice for his turn as Hank Mitchell in Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan. Bill also received a Golden Globe nomination that year for his performance as Colonel John Paul Vann in HBO's A Bright Shining Lie.
Bill is also known as a cult favorite for his work in movies including Near Dark, Boxing Helena, Streets of Fire, The Dark Backward and Broken Lizard's Club Dread.
He is the first and only actor to have visited the wreck site of the Titanic with James Cameron for the documentary Ghosts of the Abyss, making four descents two and a half miles down to the bottom of the North Atlantic.
Bill will be seen in Steven Soderberg's Haywire which is scheduled to be released in the USA in August 2011.
Bill Paxton at the Internet Movie Database