Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an actor and director from San Saba, Texas, USA.

He attended Harvard on a scholarship, where he was a roommate of the future Vice-President Al Gore and there he received a B.A. in English literature and graduated cum laude in 1969.

He then moved to New York to become an actor. He started acting on Broadway and he made his debut in Love Story. Between 1971 and 1975 he acted in a soap opera called One Way To Live[?], then he played the role of an escaped convict that was hunted down by the police in Jackson County Jail[?] (1976).

In 1983 he received an Emmy for Best Actor for his performance as Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song[?].

In the '90s, 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.

Filmography

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• One Life to Live[?], (1968)
• Love Story, (1970)