Billy Bob Thornton, the Actor Who Didn't Want to Be a Star

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The son of dust and omens In a wooden house in Hot Springs, Arkansas, William Robert Thornton was born on August 4, 1955. His mother, Virginia Faulkner, declared himself psychic; his father, Billy Ray, taught history and trained basketball. The boy grew between the invisible and the concrete, between visions and school matches. Such ambivalence would mark his life and work. Of English, Irish and supposedly Cherokee ancestry, he lived in differen…