Tommy Lee Jones
Born: September 15, 1946
Place: San Saba, TX
Jones graduated from the St. Mark’s School of Texas, where he is now on the board of directors, and attended Harvard on a need-based scholarship, staying in Mower B-12 as freshman, across the hall from future Vice President Al Gore. As an upperclassman, he was roommates with Gore and Bob Somerby, who later became editor of the media criticism site, the Daily Howler. Jones played offensive tackle on Harvard’s undefeated 1968 varsity football team. Jones graduated cum laude with a degree in English in 1969.
He then moved to New York City to become an actor. He started acting on Broadway and in television. He made his debut in movie in Love Story, in 1970. Between 1971 and 1975, he portrayed Dr. Mark Toalnd on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, and then he played the role of an escaped convict who was hunted down by the police in Jackson County Jail.
In 1983, he received an Emmy Best Actor for his performance as murderer Gary Gilmore in a TV adaptation of Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song.
In the 1990s, movies such as The Fugitive co-starring Harrison Ford, which won him wide acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Batman Forever co-starring Val Kilmer, and Men in Black, with Will Smith brought him tens of millions of dollars and made him one of the top actors of Hollywood.
Jones was married to Kate Lardner from 1971 to 1978. Jones has two children from his second marriage to Kimberlea Cloughley, Victoria Kafka (born 1991) and Austin Leonard (born 1982). On March 19, 2001. he married his third wife, Dawn Laurel.
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