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Tommy Lee Jones Bio
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Tommy-Lee Jones
Tommy-Lee Jones was born on September 15, 1946 in San Saba, Texas. His father Clyde worked in the oil fields in Texas. His mother Lucille was both a police officer and a hairdresser who owned her own beauty parlor. Tommy comes from a long line of Texans and is also ¼ Cherokee Native American.
Tommy graduated from St. Mark’s School of Texas and then received a scholarship to attend Harvard University. His college roommate is ex-vice president, Al Gore. The two remain close friends to this day and Jones has supported Gore in his political campaigns. While attending Harvard studying English, Jones played offensive tackle on the 1968 varsity football team. He graduated cum laude in 1969.
After graduating college, Jones moved to New York City to pursue a career in acting. His career began ten days after he moved to New York when he landed a role in the Broadway play, A Patriot for Me (1969). Tommy made his film debut in Love Story (1970). The author of the novel, Erich Segal, actually based the main character Oliver on the real life friendship between Tommy-Lee Jones and Al Gore, whom he knew while teaching at Harvard.
Following his success in New York City, Jones moved with his wife at the time, Kate Lardner and her family to Los Angeles to further his acting career. The couple divorced in 1978.
Tommy’s next big role was on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live between 1971 and 1975, where he played Dr. Mark Toland. This was followed by a role in Jackson County Jail (1976).Tommy’s big role was in the TV adaptation of The Executioner’s Song (1983). His performance as the murderer Gary Gilmore won him an Emmy Award for Best Actor.
In 1981, Jones married Kimberlea Gayle Cloughley. The couple has two children together. Austin Leonard Jones was born in 1983 and Victoria Kafka Jones was born in 1991. The couple divorced in 1996.
Tommy’s career really began to take off in the 1990’s when he starred in films like, The Fugitive (1993) opposite Harrison Ford, Julianne Moore, and Sela Ward. Tommy’s performance won him an Academy Award for best Supporting Actor.
Jones also starred in the hit, Men in Black (1997) alongside Will Smith. His salary for that film was $7 million. That film was so successful at the box office that they made the sequel, Men in Black II in 2002. His reported salary for the sequel was $20 million, plus a percentage of the gross profits. In 2005, Tommy directed and starred in the film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. The film earned him the Best Actor award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2001, Jones married his present wife, Dawn Jones, who worked as Tommy’s personal assistant on several movie projects after their marriage. On Tommy’s film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada she worked as the still photographer.
When not acting, Tommy-Lee is a part time cattle rancher; he owns a 3,000 acre ranch close to San Antonio, Texas. He also plays polo and his polo team won the U.S. Polo Association’s Western Challenge Cup in 1993. Every year he invited members of Harvard’s polo team to practice at his ranch.
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Tommy Lee Jones - Appeared with Will Smith in Men in Black |
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Tommy Lee Jones - Appeared with Linda Fiorentino in Men in Black |
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Tommy Lee Jones - Appeared with Rip Torn in Men in Black |
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Tommy Lee Jones - Appeared with Tony Shalhoub in Men in Black |
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Tommy Lee Jones - Appeared with Siobhan Fallon in Men in Black |
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Tommy Lee Jones - Appeared with Mike Nussbaum in Men in Black |
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Tommy Lee Jones - Appeared with Jon Gries in Men in Black |
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Tommy Lee Jones - Appeared with Sergio Calderón in Men in Black |
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Tommy Lee Jones - Appeared with Will Smith in Men in Black II |
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Tommy Lee Jones - Appeared with Rip Torn in Men in Black II |
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