Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee JONES (1946, San Saba, Texas) studied at Harvard. He has a BA in English literature and graduated with distinction in 1969. After his acting début on Broadway in 1969 he was first seen on the silver screen in Love Story (1970). Since then he has played in dozens of productions, including Coal Miner's Daughter (1984, Michael Apted), Natural Born Killers (1994, Oliver Stone) and Men in Black I and II (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997 and 2002). For his glorious role as a stubborn marshal in The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993) he received an Oscar. His directing début was the television film The Good Old Boys (1995), a Western for which he also wrote the script and in which he played a leading role.