Tommy Lee Jones

Name: Tommy Lee Jones
Date of Birth: September 16, 1946
Place of Birth: San Saba, Texas, USA

Mini-bio: Jones was born in San Saba, Texas to Clyde C. Jones, who worked in the oil fields of both Texas and Libya, and Lucille Marie Scott, who was a police officer and hairdresser who owned a beauty parlour;...( read more) the two were married and divorced twice. Jones, an eighth-generation Texan, has a Cherokee Native American grandparent, and is mostly of Welsh ancestry. Jones was also a resident of Midland, Texas.

Jones graduated the St. Mark's School of Texas and attended Harvard on a scholarship, where he was a roommate of former Vice President Al Gore and of John Lithgow at Dunster House. Jones played offensive tackle 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 blitz to tie Yale in the 1968 Game.

Jones then moved to New York City to become an actor. He started acting on Broadway and in television. He made his debut in movies in Love Story, in 1970 (Erich Segal, the author of "Love Story" has said that he based the lead character of Oliver on the two undergrad roommates he knew while teaching at Harvard, Jones and Al Gore). Between 1971 and 1975, he portrayed Dr. Mark Toland on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, and then he played the role of an escaped convict who was hunted down by the police in Jackson County Jail (1976). In 1981, he played a drifter opposite Sally Field in Back Roads, a comedy that received middling reviews and grossed $11 million at the box office.

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.

In the 1990s, movies such as The Fugitive costarring Harrison Ford and Men in Black with Will Smith brought him tens of millions of dollars and made him one of the top actors of Hollywood. His role in The Fugitive won him wide acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

In 2005, he released his first feature-film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, that was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. It won him the Best Actor Award. His first film as director was in 1995, a made-for-television movie.

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"You just look for good parts and good stories and a good company to work with. Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity." ~ Jones

Tommy Lee Jones Mini-Bio:

Actor Tommy Lee Jones has emerged to become one of the most admired and respected film stars of his generation. An inauspicious start on the daytime soap “One Life to Live” eventually led to leading roles in made-for-television movies like “The Amazing Howard Hughes” (CBS, 1977) and “The Executioner’s Song” (NBC, 1982) that clearly demonstrated his acting prowess. An Emmy award win for “Lonesome Dove” (CBS, 1989) raised his fortunes for good, leading to defining film roles in “JFK” (1991), “The Fugitive” (1993) and “Men in Black” (1997). Though he settled into a rut playing the grizzled veteran looking for redemption in below the radar fare like “The Hunted” (2003) and “The Missing” (2005), Jones found himself the talk of Oscar buzz once again with empathetic performances in “No Country For Old Men” (2007) and “In the Valley of Elah” (2007), both of which affirmed his status as an actor able to deliver some of the most powerful performances of recent memory.

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Eye color:	Brown
Height:	6 foot
Nickname(s):	Tom
Education:	Robert E. Lee High School St. Mark's School of Texas Harvard~B.A. in English literature, cum laude
Family:	Father: Clyde Jones Mother: Lucille Jones Ex-Wife: Kate Lardner (1971-1978) Ex-Wife: Kimberlea Cloghley (1981-1995) Son: Austin Leonard (born 1982) Daughter: Victoria Kafka (born 1991) Wife: Dawn Laurel (2001-present)
Resides in:	San Antonio, Texas
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Political affiliation:	Democratic
Interests/hobbies:	Plays polo and raises polo ponies. His team won the U.S. Polo Association's Western Challenge Cup in 1993. Jones invites Harvard's best polo players to his ranch to practice each fall. He even bought a house in a Polo Country club in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Charities/Causes:	The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis Miami Project to Cure Paralysis For seven years Jones and his wife Dawn have been honorary chairpersons of Destination Fashion 2009, which benefits The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, the fund raising arm of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. The Miami Project is the world's largest, most comprehensive spinal cord injury research centers. This fund is close to Jones's heart, as he is an avid polo player and has friends who are paralyzed because of it.
Other:	Tommy Lee Jones received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in November 1994.

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simonbawah

yeah hello am simon from ghana and i want u as freind pls hope to hear from u have a nice day

posted 105 days ago
audreyawkerman

TOMMY LEE JONES IS MY FAVORITE ACTOR.IVE NEVER WATCHED A BAD MOVIE OF HIM...

posted 107 days ago
fluffyvolkswagen

One of my all time favourite actors. If not my all time favourite!!! :D

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posted 185 days ago
karen505020001

I absolutely fell in love with you as a child in "The Coal Miner's Daughter". You have never failed me as an actor. You are truly a natural, and I love your masculinity and take charge attitude. You have always been one of my favorite actors. KAREN

posted 192 days ago
brokencuestick2000

i should of gotten that autograph from you when you visted it Raymondville Tex..You were leaving the H.E.B. grocery store while me and my husband were walking to the store..lol.I remember you waving and saying buenos dias..at least you waved at us..

posted 193 days ago
cassandrapagie

i am your greates fan

posted 205 days ago
haleighpadilla

ur an awsome actor keep up the good work my dad thinks ur an awsomne actor i like ur move men and black thatz an awsome movie

posted 221 days ago
cathykins2000

I THINK THAT TOMMY LEE IS ONE OF THE SEXIEST MEN ON TV AND IN THE MOVIES. I LOVE HIS THIGHS AND ASS

posted 243 days ago
cameliadaniela08

the best!muuahhh!

posted 285 days ago