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
Jones was born in San Saba, Texas on September 15, 1946. He was raised in Midland, Texas, and attended the then-named Robert E. Lee High School. Jones’s off-screen life is equally rich. An eighth-generation Texan, he went to a prestigious Dallas prep school on scholarship but worked in oil fields on breaks with his father.
He went to Harvard, also on scholarship, where he lived with Al Gore and befriended the writer Erich Segal. Jones and Gore were allegedly co-inspirations for the preppie hero of Segal’s novel Love Story; Jones appeared in the 1970 film.
What religion is Tommy Lee Jones? Is Tommy Lee Jones Jewish or Christian?
Jones, well-known for giving reporters a hard time during interviews, has not been forthcoming with his religious views. However, many claims he is Jewish, but he attended a non-denominational Christian high school.
In an interview, he was asked about his religion and he said: “I’m a believer in belief. Faith is something that works – it causes people to do things, and it has results. It’s an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival”
