Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild- and Emmy Award-winning American actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his appearances as Samuel Gerard on The Fugitive and U.S. Marshals, Two-Face on Batman Forever, as Agent K on the Men in Black films, as Woodrow F. Call in the Lonesome Dove series and as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men.
Tommy 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 a freshman, across the hall from future Vice President Al Gore. As an upperclassman, he was roommates with Gore . Tommy played offensive tackle on Harvard's undefeated 1968 varsity football team, was nominated as a first-team All-Ivy League selection, and played in the memorable and literal last-minute Harvard sixteen-point comeback blitz to tie Yale in the 1968 Game. He graduated cum laude with a degree in English in 1969.
Tommy moved to New York City to become an actor, making his Broadway debut in the 1969 play A Patriot for Me where he portrayed a number of supporting roles. In 1980, he earned his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of Doolittle 'Mooney' Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter, and won Emmys and Emmy nominations for a number of other starring roles.
In the 1990s, movies such as The Fugitive co-starring Harrison Ford, 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. 1991 brought him his first Academy Award nomination for JFK. His role in The Fugitive won him wide acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
In 2005, Tommy released the first theatrical feature film he directed, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In it, Tommy regularly speaks Spanish. It won him the Best Actor Award. His first film as director was in 1995, a made-for-television movie. Two strong performances in 2007 have marked a resurgence in Tommy's career, with his portrayal of a beleaguered father looking for his son in In the Valley of Elah and as a sheriff hunting an assassin in the critically acclaimed No Country for Old Men. For the former, he was nominated for an Academy Award.
Tommy has also become a spokesperson for popular Japanese brewing company Suntory since April 2006. He can be seen in various Japanese TV commercials of Suntory's Coffee brand BOSS as a character "Alien Jones", an extraterrestrial who takes the form of a human being to check on the world of humans. There are 17 such commercials that can be seen on Youtube.
Tommy was married to Kate Lardner, the daughter of Ring Lardner Jr. from 1971 to 1978. He has two children from his second marriage to Kimberlea Cloughley, the daughter of Phil Hardberger, the mayor of San Antonio: Austin Leonard and Victoria Kafka. On March 19, 2001, he married his third wife, Dawn Laurel.
Tommy lives in Terrell Hills, Texas, a town near San Antonio. He reportedly owns a large ranch in San Saba County, Texas off Chappell Hill Road. He also owns another ranch near Van Horn, Texas which served as the set for his film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
I sought for quite a while to find a hint as to what Tommy believes about God to no avail. The information I found was overwhelmingly about his successful career with a bit about his personal life. Jesus knows about Tommy Lee. Just lift him up this week and ask God to reveal his Son to Tommy and draw him to the foot of the cross!