Billy Bob Thornton lost his father, William, to lung cancer shortly after graduating high school. And despite the abuse he suffered at the hands of his history teacher father, Thornton chose to ...

Billy Bob Thornton is more than happy to play a foul-mouthed Santa ("Bad Santa") or a high school football coach ("Friday Night Lights") or a NASA scientist ("Armageddon"), but one thing he won't ...

Renowned director Billy Wilder once told him he was "too ugly" to be a star and suggested he write his own projects instead. Thornton took his advice — and it changed his life. In more than four ...