Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor. He has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
For the American musician, see Tommy Lee. For other people with similar names, see Tommy Jones.
Tommy Lee Jones
September 15, 1946
- Actor
- film director
1969–present
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Katherine Lardner(m. 1971; div. 1978)
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Kimberlea Cloughley(m. 1981; div. 1996)
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Dawn Laurel(m. 2001)
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While fame somewhat eluded him for much of the 1970s and 1980s, Jones established himself as a leading man in the 1990s, known for his gruff and authoritative film roles. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the thriller film The Fugitive (1993).[1] His other Oscar-nominated roles were as businessman Clay Shaw in JFK (1991), Hank Deerfield in In the Valley of Elah (2007), and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln (2012). He played Agent K in the Men in Black franchise. Other notable roles were in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Natural Born Killers (1994), The Client (1994), Batman Forever (1995), Double Jeopardy (1999), No Country for Old Men (2007), The Company Men (2010), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Jason Bourne (2016), and Ad Astra (2019).
Jones won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his role as executed murderer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song (1982). He was further nominated for playing Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call in the television miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989). He portrayed Howard Hughes in the CBS film The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977). He directed and starred in the western TNT movie The Good Old Boys (1995). He directed, starred in and executive produced the HBO film The Sunset Limited (2011).
No. 61
English
September 15, 1946 (age 77)
San Saba, Texas
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
200 lb (91 kg)
- Harvard (1965–1968)
Personal life[edit]
Jones was married to Kate Lardner, the niece of screenwriter and journalist Ring Lardner Jr., from 1971 to 1978.[22] He has two children from his second marriage to Kimberlea Cloughley, the daughter of Phil Hardberger, former mayor of San Antonio.[23] On March 19, 2001, he married his third wife, Dawn Laurel.[24][25]
Jones resides in Terrell Hills, Texas, a city just outside of downtown San Antonio, and speaks Spanish.[26] He owns a 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) cattle ranch in San Saba County, Texas,[27] and a ranch near Van Horn, Texas, which served as the set for his film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. He owned an equestrian estate in Wellington, Florida, until he sold it in 2019. Jones is a polo player, and he has a house in a polo country club in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a supporter of the Polo Training Foundation.[28] He is an avid San Antonio Spurs fan; he is often seen courtside at Spurs games.[29][30] At the 2000 Democratic National Convention, he gave the nominating speech for his former college roommate, Al Gore, as the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States.[31]