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Tommy Lee Jones
at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	September 15, 1946 (1946-09-15) (age 63) San Saba, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actor/Director
Years active	1969–present
Spouse(s)	Katherine "Kate" Lardner (1971–1978) Kimberlea Cloughley (1981–1996) Dawn Laurel (2001–present)

Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director.

His film roles include federal marshal Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive and U.S. Marshals, the villain "Two-Face" in Batman Forever, terrorist William Strannix in Under Siege, Agent K in the Men in Black films, Western police officers Woodrow F. Call in Lonesome Dove and Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men. Jones has also portrayed real-life figures such as billionaire Howard Hughes, executed murderer Gary Gilmore and baseball great Ty Cobb.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Film and television credits 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Jones was born in San Saba, Texas,¹ the son of Lucille Marie (née Scott), a police officer, school teacher, and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, an oil field worker;² the two were married and divorced twice. Jones, an eighth-generation Texan of Welsh descent, had a Cherokee grandparent.³ He was a resident of Midland, Texas and attended Robert E. Lee High School.

Jones graduated from the St. Mark's School of Texas, where he attended on scholarship and is now on the board of directors, and attended Harvard College on a need-based scholarship, staying in Mower B-12 as a freshman, across the hall from future Vice President Al Gore. As an upperclassman, he was roommates with Gore and Bob Somerby, who later became editor of the media criticism site the Daily Howler. Jones played offensive guard on Harvard's undefeated 1968 varsity football team, was nominated as a first-team All-Ivy League selection, and played in the memorable and literal last-minute Harvard sixteen-point comeback to tie Yale in the 1968 Game. Jones graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1969.⁴

Career

Jones moved to New York to become an actor, making his Broadway debut in 1969's A Patriot for Me in a number of supporting roles. In 1970, he landed his first film role, appropriately playing a Harvard student in Love Story (Erich Segal, the author of "Love Story," said that he based the lead character of Oliver on the two undergrad roommates he knew while teaching at Harvard, Jones and Gore).⁵

In early 1971, he returned to Broadway in Abe Burrows' Four on a Garden where he shared the stage with Carol Channing and Sid Caesar. Between 1971 and 1975, he portrayed Dr. Mark Toland on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live. He returned to the stage for a 1974 production of Ulysses in Nighttown with Zero Mostel. In films, he played an escaped convict hunted in Jackson County Jail (1976), a Vietnam veteran in Rolling Thunder (1977) and an automobile mogul, co-starring with Laurence Olivier, in the Harold Robbins drama The Betsy.

In 1980, Jones earned his first Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of country singer Loretta Lynn's husband, Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn, in the popular Coal Miner's Daughter. In 1981, he played a drifter opposite Sally Field in Back Roads, a comedy that received middling reviews.⁶

In 1983, he received an Emmy for Best Actor for his performance as murderer Gary Gilmore in a TV adaptation of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song. That same year he starred in a pirate adventure, Nate and Hayes, playing the heavily bearded Captain Bully Hayes.

In 1989, he earned another Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Texas Ranger lawman Woodrow F. Call in the acclaimed television mini-series Lonesome Dove, based on the best-seller by Larry McMurtry.

In the 1990s, blockbuster hits such as The Fugitive co-starring Harrison Ford, Batman Forever co-starring Val Kilmer, and Men in Black with Will Smith made Jones one of the best-paid and most in-demand actors in Hollywood. His role in The Fugitive won wide acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. When he accepted his Oscar, his head was shaved for his role in the film Cobb, a situation he made light of in his speech with: "All a man can say at a time like this is 'I am not really bald.'"

Among his other well-known performances during the 1990s were those as an accused conspirator in the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1991's JFK (earning him another Oscar nomination), as a terrorist who hijacks a U.S. Navy battleship in 1992's Under Siege and as a maximum-security prison warden in way over his head in 1994's Natural Born Killers.

Jones co-starred with director Clint Eastwood as astronauts in the 2000 film Space Cowboys, leading a space rescue mission.

In 2005, the first theatrical feature film Jones directed, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In it, Jones speaks both English and Spanish. It won him the Best Actor Award. His first film as a director had been in The Good Old Boys in 1995, a made-for-television movie.

Two strong performances in 2007 marked a resurgence in Jones' career, one as a beleaguered father investigating the disappearance of his soldier son in In the Valley of Elah, the other as a Texas sheriff hunting an assassin in the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men. For the former, he was nominated for an Academy Award.

Jones has been a spokesperson for Japanese brewing company Suntory since 2006. He can be seen in various Japanese TV commercials of Suntory's Coffee brand Boss as a character called "Alien Jones," an extraterrestrial who takes the form of a human being to check on the world of humans. There are 21 such commercials that can be seen on YouTube.

Personal life

At the 2000 Democratic National Convention, he presented the nominating speech for his college roommate, Al Gore, as the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States.

Jones was married to Kate Lardner, the daughter of Ring Lardner Jr. from 1971 to 1978. Jones has two children from his second marriage to Kimberlea Cloughley, the daughter of Phil Hardberger, the mayor of San Antonio: Austin Leonard (born 1982) and Victoria Kafka (born 1991). On March 19, 2001, he married his third wife, Dawn Laurel.

Jones resides in Terrell Hills, Texas, a town near San Antonio. He reportedly owns a large ranch in San Saba County, Texas off Chappell Hill Road. He also owns another ranch near Van Horn, Texas which served as the set for Jones' film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

Film and television credits

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1970	Love Story	Hank Simpson
1971	One Life to Live	Dr. Mark Toland	TV soap opera
1973	Life Study	Gus
1975	Eliza's Horoscope	Tommy Lee
1976	Charlie's Angels	Aram Kolegian	TV, 1 episode
	Smash-Up on Interstate 5	Officer Hutton	TV
	Jackson County Jail	Coley Blake
	Family	David Needham	TV, 1 episode
1977	The Amazing Howard Hughes	Howard Hughes
	Rolling Thunder	Corporal Johnny Vohden
1978	The Betsy	Angelo Perino
	Eyes of Laura Mars	John Neville
1980	Coal Miner's Daughter	Doolittle 'Mooney' Lynn aka 'Doo'	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
	Barn Burning	Ab Snopes	TV
1981	Back Roads	Elmore Pratt
1982	The Executioner's Song	Gary Mark Gilmore	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie
	The Rainmaker	Starbuck	TV
1983	Nate and Hayes	Captain Bully Hayes
1984	The River Rat	Billy
1985	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Brick Pollitt	TV
1986	The Park is Mine	Mitch	TV
	Black Moon Rising	Quint
	Yuri Nosenko, KGB	Steve Daley	TV
1987	Broken Vows	Pater Joseph McMahon	TV
	The Big Town	George Cole
1988	Stranger on My Land	Bud Whitman	TV
	April Morning	Moses Cooper	TV
	Stormy Monday	Cosmo
	Gotham	Eddie Mallard	TV
1989	Lonesome Dove	Woodrow F. Call	Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film
	The Package	Thomas Boyette
1990	Fire Birds	Brad Little
1991	JFK	Clay Shaw/Clay Bertrand	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1992	Under Siege	William Strannix
1993	Heaven & Earth	Steve Butler
	House of Cards	Jake Beerlander
	The Fugitive	Marshal Samuel Gerard	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture KCFCC Award for Best Supporting Actor LAFCA Award for Best Supporting Actor SEFCA Award for Best Supporting Actor MTV Movie Awards Best On-Screen Duo Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1994	Blown Away	Ryan Gaerity	Nominated - MTV Movie Awards Best Villain
	The Client	'Reverend' Roy Foltrigg
	Natural Born Killers	Warden Dwight McClusky
	Blue Sky	Maj. Henry 'Hank' Marshall
	Cobb	Ty Cobb
1995	The Good Old Boys	Hewey Calloway	also Director Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
	Batman Forever	Harvey Dent/Two-Face	Nominated - MTV Movie Awards Best Villain
1997	Volcano	Mike Roark
	Men in Black	Kevin Brown/Agent K	Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated - MTV Movie AwardsBest On-Screen Duo
1998	U.S. Marshals	Chief Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard
	Small Soldiers	Chip Hazard	Voice
1999	Double Jeopardy	Travis Lehman
2000	Rules of Engagement	Col. Hayes 'Hodge' Hodges
	Space Cowboys	Hawk Hawkins
2002	Men in Black II	Kevin Brown/Agent K
2003	The Hunted	L.T. Bonham
	The Missing	Samuel Jones/Chaa-duu-ba-its-iidan
2005	Man of the House	Roland Sharp
	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	Pete Perkins	also Director Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival) Flanders International Film Festival Grand Prix Nominated — Palme d'Or Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature (shared with Michael Fitzgerald, Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam) Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
2006	A Prairie Home Companion	Axeman	Gotham Awards Best Ensemble Cast
2007	No Country for Old Men	Ed Tom Bell	San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
	In the Valley of Elah	Hank Deerfield	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
2009	In the Electric Mist	Dave Robicheaux	completed
2010	The Company Men	Gene McClary	post-production

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tommy Lee Jones

• Tommy Lee Jones at the Internet Movie Database
• Tommy Lee Jones at the TCM Movie Database
• Tommy Lee Jones at the Internet Broadway Database
• Tommy Lee Jones at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• No Country for Old Men Official Canadian site

Awards for Tommy Lee Jones v • d • e Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor John Gielgud (1981) · Louis Gossett, Jr. (1982) · Jack Nicholson (1983) · Haing S. Ngor (1984) · Don Ameche (1985) · Michael Caine (1986) · Sean Connery (1987) · Kevin Kline (1988) · Denzel Washington (1989) · Joe Pesci (1990) · Jack Palance (1991) · Gene Hackman (1992) · Tommy Lee Jones (1993) · Martin Landau (1994) · Kevin Spacey (1995) · Cuba Gooding, Jr. (1996) · Robin Williams (1997) · James Coburn (1998) · Michael Caine (1999) · Benicio del Toro (2000) Complete list · (1936–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present) v • d • e Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture John Gielgud (1981) · Louis Gossett, Jr. (1982) · Jack Nicholson (1983) · Haing S. Ngor (1984) · Klaus Maria Brandauer (1985) · Tom Berenger (1986) · Sean Connery (1987) · Martin Landau (1988) · Denzel Washington (1989) · Bruce Davison (1990) · Jack Palance (1991) · Gene Hackman (1992) · Tommy Lee Jones (1993) · Martin Landau (1994) · Brad Pitt (1995) · Edward Norton (1996) · Burt Reynolds (1997) · Ed Harris (1998) · Tom Cruise (1999) · Benicio del Toro (2000) Complete List · (1943–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–present) v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie Anthony Hopkins (1976) · Hal Holbrook (1976) · Ed Flanders (1977) · Christopher Plummer (1977) · Fred Astaire (1978) · Michael Moriarty (1978) · Peter Strauss (1979) · Powers Boothe (1980) · Anthony Hopkins (1981) · Mickey Rooney (1982) · Tommy Lee Jones (1983) · Laurence Olivier (1984) · Richard Crenna (1985) · Dustin Hoffman (1986) · James Woods (1987) · Jason Robards (1988) · James Woods (1989) · Hume Cronyn (1990) · John Gielgud (1991) · Beau Bridges (1992) · Robert Morse (1993) · Hume Cronyn (1994) · Raúl Juliá (1995) · Alan Rickman (1996) · Armand Assante (1997) · Gary Sinise (1998) · Stanley Tucci (1999) · Jack Lemmon (2000) Complete list: (1952–1975) · (1976–2000) · (2001–present)

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NAME	Jones, Tommy Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jones, Tommy Lee
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American actor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Saba, Texas, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH