Tommy Lee Jones

Early life


Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (ne Scott), a police officer, school teacher, and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, an oil field worker; the two were married and divorced twice. Jones, an eighth-generation Texan of Welsh descent, had a Cherokee grandparent. 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.
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Career
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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).


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.


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. Additionally, he owns a home and farm in polo mecca, Wellington, Florida.


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


^ a b Tommy Lee Jones Biography (1946-)


^ http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/01/movies/film-tommy-lee-jones-snarls-his-way-to-the-pinnacle.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=2


^ Eric O'Keefe :: WD Ranch


^ Tommy Lee Jones - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times


^ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/books/20segal.html


^ "http://www.imdb.com/". Business Date for Back Roads. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082042/business. Retrieved March 12 2006. 


External links


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Awards for Tommy Lee Jones


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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)


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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  (19431960)  (19611980)  (19812000)  (2001resent)


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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)  Ral Juli (1995)  Alan Rickman (1996)  Armand Assante (1997)  Gary Sinise (1998)  Stanley Tucci (1999)  Jack Lemmon (2000)


Complete list: (19521975)  (19762000)  (2001resent)


Persondata


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


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