Tommy Lee Jones - Biography

Last Editor: srivid				Tommy Lee Jones Biography -   Name : Tommy Lee Jones Birth Date : September 15, 1946 Birth Place : San Saba, Texas, USA Height : 6' Education : St. Mark's School in Dallas, Texas (attended on scholarship) Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (majored in Enlish; graduated cum laude Nationality : American Profession : Actor, director, screenwriter Claim to fame : as Mark Toland in One Life to Live (1971-1975)

Tommy Lee Jones Trivia -

Imminently starring in MEN IN BLACK II, Jones has now signed on to another comedy project, cheerleading film CHEER UP. In the futuristic action film ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981), studio heads wanted Tommy Lee Jones for the lead role, but Kurt Russel landed the part. 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). After graduating cum laude from Harvard in 1969, he made his stage bow that same year in A PATRIOT FOR ME. Never took an acting class. Part time cattle rancher, owns 3,000-acre ranch near San Antonio, TX. Billy Dee Williams appears as Harvey Dent in BATMAN (1989), who in the comics became Two-Face. In BATMAN FOREVER (1995) it was Jones who played Harvey Dent/Two-Face. Halted production of THE FIGHT (2001) for four months after Benicio Del Toro broke his wrist while doing a fight scene and pushing back the release date. When he returns to the bombed-out embassy in RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (2000), there is a picture of Vice President Gore on the charred wall. Al Gore and Jones were roomates at Harvard. Actually wrote his own monologue in EYES OF LAURA MARS (1978), unbeknownst to the Writers' Guild, but accredited it to film's director Irvin Kershner. Was nominated for Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actor - Suspense in 2000 for DOUBLE JEOPARDY. Tommy's father was abusive to him when Tommy was a child as Tommy himself has said on many occasions. Trade mark: Deadpan delivery He and Al Gore were roommates while the two were students at Harvard University. The two remain close friends. Plays and raises polo ponies. His team recently won the U.S. Polo Association's Western Challenge Cup (1993). Invites the Harvard's best polo players to his ranch to practice each fall. Father's name was Clyde C. He did not have a middle name, just an initial. Real life son Austin played his son, Tommy, in Yuri Nosenko, KGB (1986) (TV) 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 Maxmillian Schell. Closed after 49 performances. 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. Is a first cousin of Box Car Willie, a famous country singer. Was paid $20,000,000+ gross for MEN IN BLACK II (2002) Was paid $10,000,000 for U.S. MARSHALS (1998) Was paid $7,000,000 for MEN IN BLACK (1997) Played offensive guard in the famous 29-29 Harvard-Yale game of 1968

Tommy Lee Jones Detailed Biography -

Born and raised in Texas, Tommy Lee Jones got his first taste of acting by taking the leads in school plays. His passion for football saw him playing for Harvard University team. The actor was equally at home on the polo fields (he's a champion player) as the oil fields, where he made his living for many years. After graduating cum laude from Harvard in 1969, Jones made his stage debut that same year in A Patriot for Me; in 1970, he appeared in his first film, Love Story (listed way, way down the cast list as one of Ryan O'Neal's fraternity buddies). Interestingly enough, while Jones was at Harvard, he and roommate Gore provided the models for author Erich Segal while he was writing the character of Oliver, the book's (and film's) protagonist. After this supporting role, Jones got his first film lead in the obscure Canadian film Eliza's Horoscope (1975). Following a spell on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live, he gained national attention in 1977 when he was cast in the title role in the TV miniseries The Amazing Howard Hughes, his resemblance to the title character -- both vocally and visually -- positively uncanny. Five years later, Jones won further acclaim and an Emmy for his startling performance as murderer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song. Jones spent the rest of the '80s working in both television and film, doing his most notable work on such TV miniseries as Lonesome Dove (1989), for which he earned another Emmy nomination. It was not until the early '90s that the actor became a substantial figure in Hollywood, a position catalyzed by a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role in Oliver Stone's JFK. In 1993, Jones won both that award and a Golden Globe for his driven, starkly funny portrayal of U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard in The Fugitive. His subsequent work during the decade was prolific and enormously varied. In 1994 alone, he could be seen as an insane prison warden in Natural Born Killers; titular baseball hero Ty Cobb in Cobb; a troubled army captain in Blue Sky; a wily federal attorney in The Client; and a psychotic bomber in Blown Away. Jones was also attached to a number of big-budget action movies, hamming it up as the crazed Two-Face in Batman Forever (1995); donning sunglasses and an attitude to play a special agent in Men in Black (1997); and reprising his Fugitive role for the film's 1998 sequel, U.S. Marshals. The following year, he continued this trend, playing Ashley Judd's parole officer in the psychological thriller Double Jeopardy. The late '90s and millennial turnover found Jones' popularity soaring, and the distinguished actor continued to develop a successful comic screen persona (Space Cowboys [2000] and Men in Black II [2002]), in addition to maintaining his dramatic clout with roles in such thrillers as The Rules of Engagement (2000) and The Hunted (2003). As the gritty top roles come his way more easily these days he’s moved away from L.A and returned to San Saba where he lives on a ranch.