Tommy Lee Jones is a 76-year-old American actor and filmmaker who was born on September 15, 1946. He was nominated for four Academy Awards and won for his portrayal of U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the suspenseful 1993 movie The Fugitive.

Other notable roles he has played as a star include Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call in the television miniseries Lonesome Dove; Agent K in the Men in Black movie series; Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men; Hank Deerfield in In the Valley of Elah; the bad guy Two-Face in Batman Forever; Mike Roark in the disaster movie Volcano; terrorist William “Bill” Strannix in Under Siege; and many others.

Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba and raised in Midland, Texas. His father, Clyde C. Jones, was a rancher and an oil field worker, while his mother, Lucille Marie, was a police officer, a teacher, and the proprietor of a beauty parlor. The parents of Tommy Lee Jones were married twice before divorcing. He went to Robert E. Lee High School back then. Tommy Lee Jones relocated to Dallas and completed his studies at St. Mark’s School of Texas, where he received financial aid, in 1965.

In order to pursue his acting career, Tommy Lee Jones relocated to New York. He made his Broadway debut in 1969’s “A Patriot for Me” in a series of supporting roles. He got his first acting job in the 1970s Love Story, where he coincidentally played a Harvard student.

From 1971 to 1978, Tommy Lee Jones was married to Kate Lardner, the niece of the author and journalist Ring Lardner Jr. He then got married to Kimberlea Cloughley (a relative of the former San Antonio mayor Phil Hardberger) from 1981 to 1996. His two children were born from this marriage. Tommy Lee Jones then got married to Dawn Laurel, his third wife, on March 19, 2001.

Tommy Lee Jones currently lives in Terrell Hills, Texas, which is a suburb of San Antonio. Tommy Lee Jones is known to be a businessman aside from being an actor, and in addition to his business, he has a ranch outside Van Horn, Texas, which served as the backdrop for his movie The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. He also owns a 3,000-acre (1,200-ha) cattle ranch in San Saba County, Texas. He was the owner of an equestrian estate in Wellington, Florida, until he sold it in 2019.

Tommy Lee Jone’s son, Austin Leonard Jones, has worked as an actor and composer. The Homesman (2014), Metamorphosis: Junior Year (2017), and Frontera are just a few of the movies he has worked on. His daughter, Victoria Jones, is a theatre director and a writer and has been featured as an actress in movies such as Men in Black, among others.

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