Tommy Lee Jones is a veteran American actor and director born on September 15, 1946. The 75-year-old’s portrayal of U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive earned him an Academy Award.
Tommy Jones was born in the small town of San Saba outside of San Antonio. His family relocated as his father worked in the oil fields in Midland.
Tommy Lee Jones house: Where does Tommy Lee Jones live?
Jones resides in Terrell Hills, Texas, a city just outside of downtown San Antonio, and speaks Spanish, which he used to good effect in Men in Black.
Other notable roles include Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call in the Lonesome Dove television miniseries, Agent K in the Men in Black film series, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men, Hank Deerfield in In the Valley of Elah, the villain Two-Face in Batman Forever, Mike Roark in the disaster film Volcano, terrorist William “Bill” Strannix in Under Siege, Texas Ranger Roland Sharp in Man of the House, rancher Pete Perkins in The
Jones has also played businessman Howard Hughes in The Amazing Howard Hughes, Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln, executed murderer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner’s Song, U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur in Emperor, and businessman Clay Shaw, the only person prosecuted in connection with President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in JFK, Oliver Vanetta “Doolittle” Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter, and baseball player
