Tommy Lee - Biography

Last Editor: Speedymartinez				Tommy Lee Biography -   Name : Tommy Lee Profession : Musician Birth Details : born October 3, 1962 Height : 6' 1" (1.85 m) Personal quotes : "Somebody's gonna give you some money to perform a job, you do your best to make 'em a good hand... " "It's no mean calling to bring fu Salary : Men in Black II (2002) $20,000,000+ gross % U.S. Marshals (1998) $10,000,000 Men in Black (1997) $7,000,000 Spouse : Dawn Jones (19 March 2001 - present) Kimberlea Gayle Cloughley (30 May 1981 - 1996) (divorced) 2 children Kate Lardner (1971 - 1978) (divorced) Trade mark : Deadpan delivery

Tommy Lee Trivia -

Never took an acting class. He and Al Gore were roommates while the two were students at Harvard University. The two remain close friends. Part time cattle rancher, owns 3,000-acre ranch near San Antonio, TX. Plays polo and raises polo ponies. His team won the U.S. Polo Association's Western Challenge Cup in 1993. Invites the Harvard's best polo players to his ranch to practice each fall. Father's name was Clyde C. Jones -- he did not have a middle name, just an initial. Father, with Kimberlea Gayle Cloughley, of Austin Leonard Jones (b. 1983) and Victoria Kafka Jones (b. 1991) Real-life son, Austin Leonard Jones, played his son, Tommy, in Yuri Nosenko, KGB (1986) (TV). According to author Erich Segal, Jones and his then Harvard roommate Al Gore, were the models for the character of Oliver in Love Story (1970). Injured after falling from horse during polo match. [30 October 1998] Writes most of his own most memorable lines in films: The Fugitive (1993)... when Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) tells Marshal Gerard, "I didn't kill my wife," Gerard replies, "I don't care!" Under Siege (1992)... William Strannix's speech after he loses his mind: "Saturday morning cartoons... This little piggy... " Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) ... John Neville's revealing speech at the end of the movie. Ten days after graduating from Harvard, he landed his first role in the Broadway production of "A Patriot for Me" (with Maximilian Schell) which closed after 49 performances. He got his agent after giving a letter of introduction to actress Jane Alexander. His story of how he found an agent and a Broadway job so quickly was written about in an issue of "Ripley's Believe It or Not". Good friends with: Al Gore, Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Oliver Stone and Robert Duvall. His ex-wife, Kate Lardner, is Ring Lardner's granddaughter. Speaks Spanish fluently. He is a first cousin of Boxcar Willie, a famous country singer. Owns the movie rights to Cormac McCarthy's controversial novel "Blood Meridian", which many consider unfilmable. Born on the exact same day as filmmaker and good friend Oliver Stone. Was the studio's original (and preferred) choice to play Snake Plisken in John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981). The studio was reluctant to cast Kurt Russell, who ultimately got the part, because of his previous work. Has worked with two "Katherine Hepburns." In The Amazing Howard Hughes, he played Hughes opposite Tovah Feldshuh as Hepburn. In The Missing, his daughter is played by Cate Blanchett, who played Hepburn in The Aviator--another biopic about Howard Hughes. Is the only Texan to have played fellow Texan Howard Hughes. Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator), Jason Robards (Melvin and Howard) and Terry O'Quinn (The Rocketeer) were born in California, Illinois, and Michigan, respectively. Is an avid San Antonio Spurs fan. Played Howard Hughes in The Amazing Howard Hughes, and later appeared in Batman Forever, which was filmed inside the hangar of Hughes's "Spruce Goose."

Tommy Lee Detailed Biography -

Thomas Lee Bass, better known as Tommy Lee (born October 3, 1962), is a Greek-American musician, best known as the drummer for the Glam metal band Mötley Crüe. Lee was born in Athens, Greece. His mother was a Greek beauty queen and his father was a Welsh American soldier. His family moved to California a year after his birth. Lee received his first drum set when he was four. However he received his first real drum kit when he was a teenager. At that time, he was listening to Deep Purple, KISS, and Led Zeppelin. He joined the marching band at his high school, but dropped out of school on his senior year to focus on his musical career. His first real band was called Suite 19, With a fast playing guitarist named Bill Dora from Maryland, and played the Sunset Strip in LA during the early 80s. At this time he met future bandmate, Nikki Sixx. Casually, Sixx was forming a theatrical band that would specialize in anthemic heavy metal, and was impressed by Lee's playing. Sixx conviced Lee to leave Suite 19 and started playing together in what would end up being Mötley Crüe. At this time, he changed his name to Tommy Lee and earned the nickname "T-Bone" from Sixx. Shortly afterwards, guitarist Mick Mars joined the band. Lee recommended a singer he met at high-school, Vince Neil, and after several auditions he got the job. Mötley Crüe quickly built a strong fanbase and they released their debut album, Too Fast for Love in 1981, on their own independent label (Leathür Records). Elektra Records decided to sign the band shortly thereafter, reissuing their debut in 1982. The band then began a string of hit releases throughout the decade -- 1983's Shout at the Devil, 1985's Theater of Pain', 1987's Girls, Girls, Girls, and 1989's Dr. Feelgood -- establishing the quartet as one of the biggest hard rock/metal bands of the '80s. During this time, Lee worked several crowd-pleasing gimmicks during his drum solo at concerts, like having his entire kit revolving and spinning, or having the entire kit float above the crowd, while he continued to play. As the popularity of the band rose, Lee also made the headlines with his numerous romantic involvements. He married Elaine Irwin Bergen in 1984, but they divorced after a month. She later went on to wed singer John Mellencamp. He married actress Heather Locklear in 1986, but divorced in 1993 after he had sex with porn star Debi Diamond on an adult film set following an invitation from friend Ron Jeremy. Pam & Tommy Lee: Hardcore & Uncensored In 1995, he married model Pamela Anderson but divorced again in 1998 after having two children (Brandon Thomas, born June 5, 1996 and Dylan Jagger, born December 29, 1997). It was with Anderson that one of Lee's most famous incidents arose when one of their private videos was stolen in 1997. This resulted in Lee becoming notorious for his large penis size and became well known on his jet black hair, which was widely publicized by Howard Stern, and was one of the first examples of nude celebrities on the Internet. Lee later served four months in prison after pleading no contest to kicking Anderson in the crotch. While he was serving sentence, the couple officially divorced, although they returned briefly upon his release. Lee also decided to leave Mötley Crüe during his stay in prison, and stuck to his promise after the completion of the Crüe's Greatest Hits tour in 1999. With the popularity of rap metal, Lee formed a band called Methods of Mayhem. The band released a self-titled album the same year and toured for it. Although Lee distanced himself from Mötley Crüe after splitting, he agreed to take part in their 2001 autobiography, The Dirt. In addition to Mötley Crüe and Methods of Mayhem, Lee has made guest appearances on albums by other artists (Stuart Hamm -- The Urge, Nine Inch Nails -- Downward Spiral, Rob Zombie -- Hellbilly Deluxe). He also contributed a solo song, "Welcome to Planet Boom" to the soundtrack of then-wife Pamela Anderson's 1996 movie, Barb Wire, and produced an album for the pre-Goldfinger project from John Feldmann and Simon Williams, the Electric Love Hogs. Also in 2001, four-year-old Daniel Karven-Veres drowned at Lee's Malibu, California, home during a birthday party for Lee's son Brandon. On April 17, 2003, a Superior Court jury took less than three hours to reject a wrongful death claim made by Daniel's parents, German actress Ursula Karven and TV producer James (Jim) Veres. The suit accused Lee of negligence for failing to have a lifeguard or someone trained in CPR present during the birthday party. He parted ways with Methods of Mayhem partner Tilo and began recording with members of Incubus and the Deftones. Shortly after, he started recording songs featuring himself almost exclusively, and he ended up releasing his first solo album. The album, 2002's Never a Dull Moment, had tones of rap metal and electronica, and featured little of the Mötley Crüe attitude he was famous for. Tommy Lee in NBC's Tommy Lee Goes to College. In 2004, Lee reunited with the original Mötley Crüe line-up to release the double-disc album hits album entitled Red, White, and Crüe. They launched a monumental reunion tour to support it, The Red, White & Crüe Tour 2005: Better Live Than Dead, the band's first in six years. They also finished the year number 8 on the top concert money earners list. They played 81 shows and grossed $33 million US (Billboard Boxscore). This figure did not include a sell out tour of Australia in December 2005. Lee released his autobiography Tommyland in 2004. That year Lee briefly attended, but did not enroll in, the University of Nebraska for a few weeks in the fall of 2004, while filming a reality television show for NBC called Tommy Lee Goes to College. The show featured a "fish-out-of-water" premise as it followed Lee's effort to fit into the collegiate experience, including trying out for the band (as a drummer), taking courses in horticulture, chemistry, and literature, and receiving constant support from a sexy but smart tutor. Lee was also one of the producers of the reality TV show. He released his latest solo album, Tommyland: the Ride in August 2005, coinciding with his reality TV show. Tommy Lee was also a guest DJ at WXRK "K-Rock" in New York during the Fourth of July Monster Metal Meltdown in 2005.