The famous Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive.
In 2000, Jones again had success at the box office as a lawyer fighting to defend a marine colonel, played by Samuel L. Jackson, in the courtroom drama Rules of Engagement. Later that year, he starred alongside fellow Hollywood veterans Clint Eastwood, James Garner, and Donald Sutherland in the well-received Space Cowboys, about a team of four ex-astronauts called upon to fly one more big mission.
Did Tommy Lee Jones come from a good family?
Tommy Lee Jones’s maternal grandmother was Indian. The guy did not have any problems and studied well at school. This allowed the young man to enter Harvard, where Jones studied English and literature.
Tommy Lee was lucky to meet future celebrities in childhood and adolescence. At the school, the future first lady, Laura Bush, studied together with the boy. Jones and future politician Alan Gore were close friends at Harvard University. Young people played football together.
