Tommy Lee Jones
Known for ActingBorn 1946-09-15San Saba, Texas, USA
Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive.
His other notable starring roles include Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call in the television miniseries Lonesome Dove, Agent K in the Men in Black film series, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men, Hank Deerfield in In the Valley of Elah, the villain Two-Face in Batman Forever, Mike Roark in the disaster film Volcano, terrorist William "Bill" Strannix in Under Siege, Texas Ranger Roland Sharp in Man of the House, rancher Pete Perkins in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (which he also directed), Colonel Chester Phillips in Captain America: The First Avenger, CIA Director Robert Dewey in Jason Bourne, and Warden Dwight McClusky in Natural Born Killers. He most recently appeared in the science fiction film Ad Astra in 2019 and in the comedy The Comeback Trail in 2020.
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He has also portrayed historical figures such as businessman Howard Hughes in The Amazing Howard Hughes, Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln, executed murderer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song, U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur in Emperor, businessman Clay Shaw, the only person prosecuted in connection with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in JFK, Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn, in Coal Miner's Daughter, and baseball player Ty Cobb in Cobb.
Known for
No Country for Old Men
2007 · as Ed Tom Bell
Small Soldiers
1998 · as Chip Hazard (voice)
Men in Black
1997 · as Kay
Men in Black II
2002 · as Kay
Mechanic: Resurrection
2016 · as Max Adams
Double Jeopardy
1999 · as Travis Lehman
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 · as Colonel Chester Phillips
Men in Black 3
2012 · as Agent K
Under Siege
1992 · as William Strannix
Jason Bourne
2016 · as CIA Director Robert Dewey
The Hunted
2003 · as L.T. Bonham
The Fugitive
1993 · as Samuel Gerard
Batman Forever
1995 · as Harvey Dent / Two-Face
Natural Born Killers
1994 · as Warden Dwight McClusky
Volcano
1997 · as Mike Roark
Lincoln
2012 · as Thaddeus Stevens
U.S. Marshals
1998 · as Samuel Gerard
The Betsy
1978 · as Angelo Perino