Timothy Hutton is an Oscar-winning actor with a surprising number of notches on his bedpost. He’s dated everyone from Angelina Jolie to Mary Louise Parker to Uma Thurman to Diane Lane to Elizabeth McGovern. He was married to Debra Winger at one point. He’s 54 years old. And it looks like he’s romancing another costar: a 26-year-old actress playing a teenage meth addict on their new ABC drama American Crime. Her name is Caitlin Gerard. According to the Daily Mail, they’re already living with each other.
Actress Caitlin Gerard, who plays teenage meth addict Aubry Taylor in the controversial new ABC series American Crime, won the role after producers were blown away by the chemistry between her and her on-screen lover Elvis Nolasco, who plays Carter Nix. But the real sparks flew when the pretty 26-year-old arrived on set last summer in Austin, Texas to shoot the show’s pilot, and was introduced her to 54-year-old co-star Timothy Hutton. Now sources tell Daily Mail Online that the two are secretly living together.
‘Even though Caitlin wasn’t born until 1988 – seven years after Tim won his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Ordinary People – she fell head over heels in love with him,’ says a source. ‘And after quietly dating for several months, he’s asked her to move into his new Austin, Texas home with him and his oldest son. This is the first super serious relationship for Caitlin, who portrays a teen on the new series. Tim, on the other hand, has been married and divorced twice.’
His first marriage to actress Debra Winger lasted from 1986 to 1990, and produced their 27-year-old son Noah. His second walk down the aisle was with illustrator Aurore Discard d’Estaing – niece of former French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing – and that eight-year union produced another son, Milo, 13.
When your boyfriend’s son is a year older than you, that’s a dealbreaker, ladies. So, a 54 year old man is dating a 26 year old lady. She’s an adult, for sure, and I guess we should be thankful that she’s not a teenager (although she does PLAY a teenager). Which means this isn’t as creepy as, say, 57-year-old Steven Bauer dating an 18-year-old, right? But it still feels… ugh. Gross.
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Didn’t he date Angelina when she was like 18 and he was 34 or so? They met on the set of one of her early crap movies. I think he was even before JLM.
Point being, dude is an experienced cradle robber.
Hell, now when I think of Hutton all I hear in my head is “that’s the thing about HS girls…I get older. ..they stay the saaaaaaame”
Your comment hadn’t posted when I posted mine down below, but my mind went to the same place!
I remember reading he majorly broke her heart as well. I only remember that because I thought “Timothy Hutton? Why? How?”. Boggles the mind how he gets these gorgeous women. He seems kind of boring,
I’m also scratching my head over his allure. What secret, magical powers does he have to attract these (young) ladies? Because I don’t see the attraction.
He looks Like My Boss and my boss is a Tax Attorney that I privately call Turtle ffs
In Angelina’s case I’ m not surprised she was with him. She had really bad taste in guys. As in always guys who have that ” need a shower” look going. Brad may be the only one of her guys I would ever tap and even he has the occasional hobo day.
@Esmom. The secret is his wallet. LOL.
He used to be good-looking, imho, but he is looking every second of his 54 years and then some lately. Rough! Clearly girlfriend has daddy issues, cuz this fool looks like he goes home and changes into a cardigan and pants belted around his nipples.
Wasn’t Neeson 35 when he dated and moved in with a then 19 Julia Roberts? Interestingly enough, nobody seems to hold that against him.
I guess, since Roberts is apparently the devil incarnate and Neeson the dream catch, in this case she was the predator and he was the poor lamb.
I’m in my 30s and I couldn’t imagine dating someone his age BUT they are both adults so if they are happy I say good for them. Probably just a fling anyway.
Hell I am close to his age and I would pass. Now Keanu yes him no
Hey! You back off of my Keanu!
hmmm – Keanu…I mean, just imagine it…
Sounds like someone really wants us to watch this show.
How old does it make me that I used to have a schoolgirl crush on his DAD when he was on Ellery Queen back in the 70s….
Back to the point: the relationship skeeves me out, but they’re both adults so I guess they don’t care about my opinion!
Jim Hutton! He was great, good-looking and funny in “Where the Boys Are”
I loved Jim Hutton in that show. So that puts me in my ’50! 🙂
“Nero Wolfe’s office, Archie Goodwin speaking”
now he’s just another smarmy : (
Even though he did not age well, all I see is his brilliant Archie and still love him. He used to be gorgeous…. Sigh…
I loved him as Archie Goodwin!
Gross and he looks like hell.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Lol
I watch a lot of old movies, as you know. Look how cute his father was:
http://www.movieactors.com/photos-stars/jim-hutton-elleryqueen-ep-1-333.jpg
not terrible, mid 40’s, although he dressed far older:
http://www.sammaroniesentertainmentfunhouse.com/jim-hutton/
He died around the same time, according to Wiki, so who knows how he might have aged?
I think Timothy would look better if he upped his hair game. But I think he is supposed to look haggard, like any average guy, in his role where his son is murdered? I will say that I do appreciate faces that aren’t plastic.
The hair and the mismatched eyebrow color in the header pic really age him.
And as another classic movie buff, his dad was cute in those 1960s movies. It is sad he died so young, and just a year or so prior to Ordinary People and Timothy’s Oscar win.
His dad was very handsome. And I appreciate someone without a plastic face, too. He looks like he has given up, though. A haircut would help.
Amen girlfriend. Just…yuck.
Second that! Ugh.
I had a big ol’ crush on TH when “The Falcon & the Snowman” came out, but geez, either he’s aged badly or that is one unflattering picture. But, as ncboudicca points out, they are consenting adults. That said, my brain did go straight to this 57-second scene from “Harold & Maude” with the genders reversed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZnQPLJi2t4
I love that movie, Ruth Gordon is such a wacky goddess!
At the risk of starting something scary, remember when AJ was all about the Hutton?
I want to lament all these men dating younger women, but my man is old enough to be my dad, so I guess I can’t really say much.
I’m a little surprised at how he’s aged. He had good features when he was younger, and I think I thought he was handsome in “Ordinary People” when I watched it but, wow, he looks bad now.
He must have skills as a charmer to get the women he gets.
I think it’s the hair. He is just phoning it in now. He needs a serious hair makeover.
I thought he still looked pretty good when he was on Leverage, but now….well…
Second that Lama Bean, he looked good in ( daft but enjoyable) Leverage pretty recently. Also liked Jim Hutton. But that age difference is not appealing.
I really loved Ordinary People. That was one of my favorite books and the movie was great. Hutton should’ve been in the Lead category but being 18 or 19, I guess they thought he’d stand a better chance of winning in Supporting.
I hated that book!
I’m not saying it wasn’t well written. It was part of my high school curriculum after all. But, as a bunch of stressed out, mildly depressed, hormonal 10th graders- we HATED that book in my English class. So depressing. Then we had to watch the movie!
To this day, I still hold a secret grudge against actors Hutton, Sutherland, etc. LOL
Yet another “blame the frigid mom for all our problems” book.
The girl is very pretty. She could do better.
He’s like eight years younger than Liam Neeson, and looks way worse for the wear. I couldn’t imagine having a fling with Tim, but Neeson, even though older, I could. Liam has just aged much better and looks more virile and, of course, the voice and such a big guy. How did Tim get all these women? He looks like that girl’s father. She’s pretty.
At least she is an adult who has had some life experience, but…still such a big age difference. And her being younger than his son is weird.
Yeah, and she, Hutton, and Hutton’s older son are all living together. How awkward a first meeting was that? The brain says they’re consenting adts, but the heart says ick!
I just don’t understand this one bit. To me it seems like she wants credibility and believes dating him will give it to her and he wants to hold on to his youth and status ( think of the fundamentals and concept of masculinity ) and it’s typical of men to want to grab onto a young woman to do it. I don’t want to hear but it’s his personality blah blah. There is nothing a 26 year old has in common with a man who could be her father – vise versa.
You don’t know that though, I find that some people tend to be very rigid with this having nothing in common with people who are not your age. Age isn’t the only thing that shapes someone’s life, you could potentially have lots in common with anybody.
Sure you can have a lot in common with anyone really- if you look. I didn’t mean literally they don’t have a single thing in common ( they do work together after all ) it was more of a point. But there is a big difference between a 26 year old and a 50 something year old in a relationship in THIS day and age. Maybe 20..30..40 years ago I could see it but with the rapid rate of technology , the mentality between the generations and so forth. Come on. There is no denying its harder to have have things in common and keep that connection alive in the long term. Is it impossible – no of course not but doesn’t mean it’s common either. And It’s not ridgid thinking because my view is different from yours.
I didn’t mean you’re rigid, I meant some people tend to be when it comes to age gaps, both in relationships and friendships.
I do agree that of course a 26 year old and a 50 year would be fundamentally very different on SOME things, but that’s it, it’s some. Maybe at the core they’re very similar, or have similar interests or they just fit. I think in general it’s hard to find people you’re really good and happy with, so I don’t necessarily see age gaps as a bigger challenge. That said, a few comments down I did say that 26/50 is pushing it a bit.
I’m a bit with ell here – you can have a lot in common, even when you have a large age difference. We don’t know what their interedts are, maybe they both love medieval epic prose and jazz funk. Maybe they love the same food and love to travel to the same places. And even if they don’t have a lot of things in common, maybe they are still fascinated with each other? Sometimes it can also be interesting to date someone very different and broaden your horizon, sometimes it’s better if you have more in common. And we don’t know if they are into happily ever after. Maybe they just want to have a good time now.
Personally I think he’s absolutely NOT attractive, therefore I can’t wrap my head around that a woman her age would want to date him, but they are both adults, it’s not the first relationship for both and it seems neither forced the other one into this. Therefore… do whatever makes you happy…
The biggest common denominator – SEX! In and out, I predict.
Ugh. After DiCatchAHo and Rihanna, this is Beauty and the Beast round 2. DAT HAIR.
Gross. At least they’re both adults? Not sure that helps. Ok, it doesn’t. Disappointing. I loved him on Leverage. Yes, I unabashedly loved that show.
I don’t know what the deal is in this coupling, but I watched the first episode of the show, and Felicity Huffman is really good in it. The show, overall, was pretty good.
That’s good to know. I was afraid to watch it because the trailer seemed so gimmicky and try hard. Maybe I’ll give it a try, I need something other than Better Call Saul in my life right now.
OMG, I love Better Call Saul. It’s not that level of quality, but there are a lot of characters woven into the story.
Kiddo, this last episode with Mike’s backstory? Perfection. And Bob Odenkirk hits every scene he’s in out of the park. He’s my new actor crush.
Yeah, me too. And Banks already has an Emmy waiting for him, IMO.
Kiddo, yes I was going to say the exact same thing about Banks. Such great acting on BCS, although the daughter in law is kind of a weak link, imo. Her line delivery seemed stilted to me.
Do you have Fortitude in the US? I think it’s pretty good.
I never heard of it @AG-UK. We might, for all I know. I’d like to think that I have fortitude, especially during a fracas.
@Esmom, yeah the actress playing the daughter-in-law kind of sucked, but it was easy to ignore her.
AG-UK, I haven’t heard of Fortitude, thanks for the tip. And Kiddo, I’d say “Fortitude” could be your middle name!
See, Madonna? We do too go after older men with younger women.
I used to have a huge crush on him back in the day, but wow. He didn’t age well.
What do they talk about? And it would get real old having to explain popular culture references all the time that the other didn’t catch.
Acting, and the show. Maybe Hutton listens to Taylor Swift, like mimif’s BF. ‘Don’t sh_t where you eat’ is apparently an idiom largely abandoned. I think it’s easier to get away with work-affairs if the job is finite. But in a TV series, if it doesn’t work, that sure makes for potential uncomfortableness. At least they don’t play lovers in the script.
So, there are 54-year-olds who look sexy and rugged. Then there’s this guy.
Girl, RUN. You can do better.
lol, agreed he doesn’t look great
He has not aged well and always seemed like a bland type of guy.
It would be interesting if she ends up with his son.
Wow Kevin Bacon is in a post above this and is two years older than Tim, and he looks so much younger. Just goes to prove chasing young girls doesn’t really make you look younger guys. The guys who seem to run through the young women look a lot older. Maybe it is all the chasing that ages them.
Maybe they don’t bone. It could just be one of those weird daddy flirty things and ok I’m going to bed now *in my own bedroom.* Goodnight!
That would probably make it even weirder…
He’s giving me some Mickey Rourke vibes.
he is creepy and it seems like she has a screwed up relationship with her father is she needs them that old.
There are no evidence what so ever indicating Angelina and Timothy dated.
Just because the media links every single breathing male to Angelina – it doesn’t mean it is true.
And since they were both single at that time – they had no reason to hide any relationship.
Stop believing that stupid unauthorised book about Angelina which was proven to be completely fake and full of lies.
Even if she did date him so what? It was 20 years ago.
Yeah, and I read the tattoo “h” that she has on her hand was for Timothy, but after they broke up, she changed it to “h” for Haven i.e. her brother. And I had no clue she was that young when they dated, wow. I thought for some reason it was after she and JLM split.
Hutton actually admitted they dated in some radio interview I once heard. The interviewer didn’t get into details, just came up in passing, but it’s out there. The rumors I’ve heRd on the “unauthorized” biography are that she totally cooperated in order to create a revisionist history of many of her relationships. it is interesting that in all the stories pre-book, she chased Hutton and suddenly in the. Ok, the story changes….
I don’t have a problem with age gaps if the younger person is an adult, and at 26 you are. I don’t see what the fact she plays a teen in a show has to do with anything, since it’s all pretend?
Still, he looks very old and not so attractive. I’m down for dating older men, but I wouldn’t date anyone older than early-mid 40s tbh (i’m mid 20s). Older than that is too much imo.
I agree again. Personally I would probably only date until late 30s, but if someone wants to date older… *shrug* It’s weird, but it’s okay. It’s not like you have to rescue anyone.
Meh, consenting adults.
Yeah, I’m ten years older than my husband and people side eye us and whatever, but at home it’s unbelievable how much it is not an issue. You just forget. It’s hard enough to find someone compatible that I don’t really blink at these age differences anymore, some of them are issue laden but some work, just like any other relationship.
Yes, but this is just shy of 30 yrs! There is a big difference in gap of 10 than 30.
Perhaps he *needs* someone younger just to ah-hem… Courtiers figured it was over for King David, when they put a beautiful virgin in bed with him, after he was an old man, and he had “lost” interest. That’s how they disposed of old kings back in the day – the fertility of the land was linked with the fertility of the king…
Not that it makes it any less creepy but….she looks to be in her 30s!! How is she 26 let alone playing a teenager!?
It’s weird, a good (male) friend of mine just started dating a woman 20 yrs. younger. He was so not the type (so we thought) but it happens (She apparently did the pursuing). The only thing I will say is it’s awkward for the friends (trying to converse with millenials, ugh), but to each their own. The only thing I ever found Tim Hutton hot in was Beautiful Girls, which was like 20 yrs ago. His milkshake brings all these girls to the yard though so he must have something going for him!
Ugh—when I was 18, my 36 year old uncle brought a 19 year old girl to meet our great uncle, at a party (long story, but he was a child that our great grandma gave up for adoption in the 40s, after she was raped)…..and I had never been SO embarrassed in my entire life. She was like a 14 year old. She giggled, had a really fake laugh, and it was just awful. AND SHE WAS A YEAR OLDER THAN ME!!! Noooo.
26 is not 19 though. if a 26 year old is dating a 46 year old, it’s an age gap but they’re both adults.
@Virginia C That is cringe! Did the family tease him about it for years to come?!
Well it only happened two years ago, and most of the family just rolled their eyes. He ‘s the uncle that goes through women like toilet paper. And when he gets an actual live in girlfriend, there’s always SOMETHING. The last one was a spoiled brat who had rich parents who basically paid for everything (so she had a “fun” job), and the one before that was a b.i.t.c.h. Like to the max. Every time I saw her she looked like she was smelling something nasty.
I mean…I’m 26 and my boyfriend is 51. If they’re both consenting adults and they’re happy, I can’t see a huge issue. And at least she’s in her twenties, and didn’t just turn 18 or something.
I feel like the older the younger party is, the less of a difference a gap makes (I don’t know a more grammatically clear way to say that in English). Like…..the maturity difference between someone in their late 20s and someone in their early 50s is less than the difference between say, 18 and 30. Obviously there is going to be exceptions but if the younger party is decently mature I don’t think a large gap is as big of an issue. Then again, I also come from a culture where it is very common for younger women to marry older men so maybe I’m just accustomed to it.
I think it’s all about getting hot, and what these folks are needing.
Perhaps she believes that it is all about her, but it is really just Viagra.
Very vain of me, but if you’re going to date someone more than twice your age, at least pick someone attractive. Viggo Mortenson is two years older than Hutton, for instance, but I still would in a heartbeat.
Dating someone the same age or younger than your children is gross. It might just be a fling.
he looks so haggard…
I remember seeing him in Taps w/a young Sean Penn & Tom Cruise. He was v v cute in that movie. Even Sean Penn was. Penn & Hutton were v v (still are) good actors way back then.
Ew.
He looks like Jerry Falwell and the actor who played Falwell in the Larry Flynt movie. He has Ernest Moniz’s hair.
If they’re both adults and they make each other happy, then why not. Just because we couldn’t imagine what it’s like to fall in love with someone so much older/younger doesn’t mean it’s wrong. No judgement here.
When I see an older man with a much younger woman, it screams to me that this guy has insecurity and self-esteem issues, possibly control issues. It means he can’t handle one of the greatest bounties there are in human relationships- a wiser woman. It means he doesn’t want to be challenged.
But yes, they’re both consenting adults…have at it.
this idea that younger women aren’t challenging is completely ridiculous. at 26 you’re closer to 30 than to 20. you’re hardly some gullible little girl smh.
It really depends. There are some young VERY demanding and controlling women out there and their older boyfriends fulfill all their wishes because they are afraid they might lose their hot piece. And there are lot of older women out there who are very meek and thankful that their guy chose them despite their age, so they never dare to challenge him.
In the end such things are more often defined by personalities and not age.
annaloo, you’re talking about a guy who married Debra Winger (five years his senior) when he was 25 years old. Look at that list of girlfriends. I don’t think he’s had a lack of challenging women in his life. It may just be that at the age of 54 he’s finally smart and strong enough himself to properly handle a challenging 26 year old (and he’ll never catch up to his type of woman who is his own age). I know nothing about the woman, but she has smart eyes. I wouldn’t assume she’s meek or pliable.
We, on Celebitchy, may deplore this relationship based on such a huge age gap, but Madonna is right in saying most people will not be grossed out by this and think it is normal or near-normal. At least it won’t get their knickers in a twist the way it would if the woman were 54 and the man 26. For Hollywood, this IS normal and always has been.
No. Most people would snicker at these two in real life. They would scratch their heads and wonder what kind of daddy issues she has and call him a cradle robber.
I do not get the hand wringing over these kinds of relationships. If you want the same things, and you get along, who cares. I find it really unfortunate so many people write off relationships with age-gaps as being less than, or reduced to (often extremely sexist) stereotypes. And the fact that she’s playing a teenager on the show is irrelevant…. she’s not her character.
Thank you! I’m mostly attracted to older men, so I’m probably biased in thinking it’s not creepy. As long as the relationship is between two consenting adults then step out of their business. It’s trite to say “age is just a number” but you can still have a meaningful relationship with someone who has had a different life experience. It’s so hard to find your person (or people) that an age difference shouldn’t impede that (again as long as we’re dealing with consenting adults). I’m only a year older than her and I know some 54 year old dudes I would definitely date haha.
Gross. Both of them. Consenting adults or not. Gross.
He’s not that old, but he has not aged well. I used to think he was really cute. Not now.
Not to be all schoolmarmish, but I find it kind of disturbing that, aside from the age difference, so many people are commenting on how gross the relationship is because Hutton isn’t aging well. If he had had plastic surgery, there would be tons of shaming comments about that as well. I would have denied myself some great experiences if I had refused to date men that weren’t aging well. One older man I dated was bald and had a froggy, bug-eyed look to him but he was witty and charming and I couldn’t get enough, while another one looked like a young Tom Selleck but was tedious and borrring! Remember how Diane Keaton waxed rhapsodic over Wallace Shawn in Manhattan? That’s real life!
I guess he ditched the lovely woman he was seeing before he left for Texas for filming.
who was she?
Interesting how Timothy Hutton’s name is mentioned in the headline but Caitlin Gerard is referred to as 26 year old costar. If I was Tim’s publicist I’d advise him to seize the moral high ground by responding with “I’m dating a person. Not an age” Having said that I’d don’t know why these old farts never evolve past the dating thing. Seriously it gets tedious after awhile.
I had a crush on him when I was younger. I had a weird love for the movie Ordinary People.
I say whatever makes them happy. However, I don’t think he is aging well…
So what? They are both adults. If it floats her and his boat – whatever.
ewwwwww – yuck
I loved him in Beautiful Girls. I’m feeling old if this is what he looks like now.
So what!
google a young picture of him….he was hot back then
I’ve been married for 17 years to an older guy, so obviously can’t say I see the big deal. Not 26 yrs older but closer to 20 than 10. It happens. And sometimes it works. I wasn’t out looking for an older guy, but when we met, it was a chemistry I’d never had with anyone before, and we had so many of the same interests and values, that the emotional side kept getting better and better.
Also, I’m no spring chicken, so let me just say, if you’re throwing stones about his aging, you may find you’re in a glass house when you get there yourself.
Older men are weird … young women are weird … people are so weird … this is weird.
I guess I’m being judgy but still. #SorryNotSorry