Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones
	; Jones at the 66th Academy Awards
4 Nominations / 1 Win
Role	Actor, Director
Born	September 15, 1946
	San Saba, Texas, USA

Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received numerous nominations and awards in his career. He moved to New York to become an actor, making his Broadway debut in 1969's "A Patriot for Me" in a number of supporting roles. In 1970 he landed his first film role, coincidentally playing a Harvard student in Love Story. Between 1971 and 1975, he appeared on television, stage and screen. Notable include a former Texas Ranger the TV mini-series "Lonesome Dove", Agent K in the Men in Black film series, a sheriff in No Country for Old Men, the villain in Batman Forever, and a terrorist in Under Siege. Jones has also portrayed real-life figures such as businessman Howard Hughes, Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, executed murderer Gary Gilmore, U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur, Oliver Lynn, husband of Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter, and baseball great Ty Cobb.