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Tommy Lee Jones Biography
Tommy Lee Jones Early life
Tommy Lee is a great actor! 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; 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 graduated the St. Mark's School of Texas and attended Harvard on a scholarship, where Tommy Lee Jones 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 graduated cum laude with a degree in English in 1969.
Tommy Lee Jones Career
Jones then moved to New York City to become an actor. Tommy Lee Jones started acting on Broadway and in television. Tommy Lee Jones made his debut in movies in Love Story, in 1970 (Erich Segal, the author of "Love Story" has said that Tommy Lee Jones based the lead character of Oliver on the two undergrad roommates Tommy Lee Jones knew while teaching at Harvard, Jones and Al Gore. Gore brought this up during the 2000 Presidential campaign). Between 1971 and 1975, Tommy Lee Jones portrayed Dr. Mark Toland on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, and then Tommy Lee Jones played the role of an escaped convict who was hunted down by the police in Jackson County Jail (1976). In 1981, Tommy Lee Jones 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 Tommy Lee Jones 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 Tommy Lee Jones tens of millions of dollars and made Tommy Lee Jones one of the top actors of Hollywood. His role in The Fugitive won Tommy Lee Jones wide acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
In 2005, Tommy Lee Jones released his first feature-film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, that was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. It won Tommy Lee Jones the Best Actor Award. His first film as director was in 1995, a made-for-television movie.
Tommy Lee Jones Private life
At the 2000 Democratic National Convention Tommy Lee Jones nominated his college roommate, Al Gore, as the Democratic party's nominee for President of the United States.On March 19, 2001, Tommy Lee Jones married his third wife, Dawn Laurel.
Tommy Lee Jones Filmography
American Dog (2008)No Country for Old Men (2007)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2006) (director)
Man of the House (2005)
The Missing (2003)
The Hunted (2003)
Men in Black II (2002)
Space Cowboys (2000)
Rules of Engagement (2000)
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Small Soldiers (1998) (voice)
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Men in Black (1997)
Volcano (1997)
Batman Forever (1995)
The Good Old Boys (1995) (TV) (director)
Cobb (1994)
Blue Sky (1994)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
The Client (1994)
Blown Away (1994)
The Fugitive (1993)
House of Cards (1993)
Heaven & Earth (1993)
Under Siege (1992)
JFK (1991)
Fire Birds (1990)
The Package (1989)
Lonesome Dove (1989)
Gotham (1988) (TV)
Stormy Monday (1988)
April Morning (1988) (TV)
Stranger on My Land (1988) (TV)
The Big Town (1987)
Broken Vows (1987) (TV)
Yuri Nosenko, KGB (1986) (TV)
Black Moon Rising (1986)
The Park Is Mine (1986) (TV)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985) (TV)
The River Rat (1984)
Nate and Hayes (1983) (aka Savage Islands)
The Rainmaker (1982) (TV)
The Executioner's Song (1982) (TV)
Back Roads (1981)
Barn Burning (1980) (TV)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
The Betsy (1978)
Rolling Thunder (1977)
The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977) (TV)
Jackson County Jail (1976)
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976) (TV)
Charlie's Angels (1976) (TV)
Eliza's Horoscope (1975)
Life Study (1973)
Love Story (1970)
One Life to Live (1968)
