Tommy Lee Jones (born
15 September,
1946) is an
Academy Award-,
Golden Globe-,
Screen Actors Guild- and
Emmy Award-winning
American actor and
director. He is perhaps best known for his appearances as Samuel Gerard in
The Fugitive and
U.S. Marshals,
Two-Face[Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones)] in
Batman Forever, as Agent K in the
Men in Black films, as
Woodrow F. Call in the
Lonesome Dove series and as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in
No Country for Old Men.
Biography
Early life
Jones was born in
San Saba, Texas[www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/20/news/tommy.php?page=1], the son of Lucille Marie (
née Scott), a police officer, school teacher, and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, an oil field worker;
[Tommy Lee Jones Biography (1946-)] the two were married and divorced twice. Jones, an eighth-generation Texan, has a
Cherokee Native American grandparent.
[Eric O'Keefe :: WD Ranch] He was a resident of
Midland, Texas and attended
Robert E. Lee High School.
Jones graduated from the
St. Mark's School of Texas, where he is now on the board of directors, and attended
Harvard on a need-based scholarship, staying in Mower B-12 as a freshman, across the hall from future
Vice President Al Gore. As an upperclassman, he was roommates with Gore and
Bob Somerby, who later became editor of the media criticism site the
Daily Howler. Another actor who rose to prominence,
John Lithgow, also lived in
Dunster House. Jones played
offensive tackle on Harvard's undefeated 1968
varsity football team, was nominated as a first-team All-
Ivy League selection, and played in the memorable and literal last-minute Harvard sixteen-point comeback
blitz to tie Yale in the 1968
Game. Jones graduated
cum laude with a degree in English in 1969.
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