Bill Paxton’s Family 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Bill Paxton’s Family 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know



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The late Bill Paxton was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas and his Texas upbringing was never forgotten in his work. The 61-year-old actor was the son of John Lane and Mary Lou Paxton. He also had an older brother, Bob Paxton, and two younger siblings – Steve and Ann.



Paxton himself had two children, James and Lydia, with his second wife, Louise Newbury.



Here’s a look at Paxton’s family and upbringing.



John Paxton was born in Missouri and died at age 91. Later in life, he perused a dream to act, although he began long after his son became famous. He made his first movie in 1990, Brain Dead. He also co-starred with his son and Billy Bob Thornton in the Oscar-nominated A Simple Plan in 1998.



Paxton played “Houseman” in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy and worked with Raimi again for Oz The Great and Powerful, which was released after his death.



In an interview with Southern Living, Paxton recalled the dream home his parents built. Before his brief time as an actor, his father was in the lumber business.



“My parents built their dream home along Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth when I was about 8,” Paxton recalled. “I’d set up these lemonade stands with all the golf balls I found and sell them back to the golfers. That was my hobby and a way to make extra money.”



Paxton and his siblings were raised as Roman Catholics. Duting an interview with Eric Spitznagel, the Big Love star recalled, “I was raised Catholic, and when we take communion, the wafer is a symbol of the body and blood of Christ. Somebody could think, ‘What the hell? There’s a guy on the cross, he’s been tortured and killed and these people are symbolically eating his body?'”



He told Spitznagel that his father was not religious at all, but his mother was.



“My mother was Roman-Catholic, and my dad professed to be a pagan, although I think he was loosely brought up as a Presbyterian in Kansas City,” Paxton recalled. “I remember when I was ten years old, every Sunday my mother would take me and my brothers and sister to church, and my father would be naked on a chase lounge in the back yard, reading the latest Ian Fleming novel. My father didn’t object to us going to church, but he did make it an ongoing conversation.”