Tommy Lee Jones

Accepted the Texas Legend Award during the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards ceremony held on March 12, 2015 in Austin, Texas.

As of 2014, has appeared in six films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Love Story (1970), Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), JFK (1991), The Fugitive (1993), No Country for Old Men (2007) and Lincoln (2012). Only No Country for Old Men (2007) won in the category. His three Best Supporting Actor nominations have all been for roles in Best Picture nominees, JFK (1991), The Fugitive (1993) and Lincoln (2012). He won the award for The Fugitive.

He was originally cast as Luke Hobbs in Fast Five (2011), but the role was given to Dwayne Johnson.

Is the only Texan to have played fellow Texan Howard Hughes. Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator (2004)), Jason Robards (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Terry O'Quinn (The Rocketeer (1991)), and Warren Beatty (Rules Don't Apply (2016)) were born in California, Illinois, Michigan and Virginia, respectively.

At the 2000 Democratic National Convention, he presented the nominating speech for Al Gore as the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States.

Injured after falling from horse during polo match. [October 1998]

An animated caricature of him appeared in season two, episode 12, "The Star System Syndrome", of the animated series adaptation of Men In Black (1997) alongside an animated caricature of his MIB co-star Will Smith, set against a scene parodying another hit film starring Smith, Independence Day (1996).

In Batman Forever (1995), his character Harvey Two-Face flips a coin to see if his victims should live or die. Twelve years later, he played a sheriff in No Country for Old Men (2007) pursuing an assassin who kills random victims by asking them to call a coin toss.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 30, 1994.

Plays polo and raises polo ponies. His team won the U.S. Polo Association's Western Challenge Cup in 1993. Invites Harvard University's best polo players to his ranch to practice each fall.

Was set to star in Everybody's All-American (1988) in 1982, but the studio backed out partly because they did not believe that Jones was leading man material. Jones has said that he found it all amusing. Dennis Quaid got the part when Taylor Hackford took over the project.

Real-life son, Austin Leonard Jones, played his son, Tommy, in Screen Two: Double Image (1986).

He appeared in Billy Joel's music video "Piano Man" (1985).

Father, with Kimberlea Cloughley, of Austin Leonard Jones (born November 9, 1982) and Victoria Jones (born September 3, 1991).

While working on the movie Back Roads (1981), he met and fell in love with Kimberlea Cloughley, whom he later married. More roles in television--both on network and cable--stage and film garnered him a reputation as a strong, explosive, thoughtful actor who could handle supporting as well as leading roles.

Has worked twice with actresses playing Katharine Hepburn. In The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977), he played Howard Hughes opposite Tovah Feldshuh as Hepburn. In The Missing (2003), his daughter is played by Cate Blanchett, who played Hepburn in The Aviator (2004)--another biopic about Hughes.

There he began to get some roles on television: Charlie's Angels (1976) (pilot episode); Smashup On Interstate 5 (1976); and The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977).

Mark Toland from 1971-75. He moved with wife Kate Lardner, granddaughter of short-story writer/columnist Ring Lardner, and her two children from a previous marriage, to Los Angeles.

In 1970, he made his film debut in Love Story (1970).

Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, who worked on oil fields. Tommy himself worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school for boys in Dallas, on a scholarship, and went to Harvard on another scholarship. He roomed with future Vice President Al Gore and played offensive guard in the famous 29-29 Harvard-Yale football game of '68 known as "The Tie. " He received a B. A. in English literature and graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1969.

Following college, he moved to New York and began his theatrical career on Broadway in "A Patriot for Me" (1969).

While living in New York, he continued to appear in various plays, both on- and off-Broadway: "Fortune and Men's Eyes" (1969); "Four on a Garden" (1971); "Blue Boys" (1972); "Ulysses in Nighttown" (1974).

During this time, he also appeared on a daytime soap opera, One Life to Live (1968) as Dr.