Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director. He received four Academy Award nominations and won Best Supporting Actor for his role as US Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive.
Jones studied dramatist Robert Chapman at Harvard. He wrote his senior thesis on “the mechanics of Catholicism” in Flannery O’Connor’s works. As a student, he shared a room with Al Gore and Bob Somerby, who later became the editor of The Daily Howler.
Tommy Lee Jones Ranch
He owns a 3,000-acre (1,200-hectare) cattle ranch in San Saba County, Texas, as well as a ranch near Van Horn, Texas, which was used as the setting for his film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. He previously owned an equestrian estate in Wellington, Florida, which he sold in 2019. Jones is a polo player with a home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at a polo country club. He donates to the Polo Training Foundation. He is a die-hard San Antonio Spurs fan, and he is frequently spotted courtside at Spurs games. He delivered the nominating speech for his former college roommate, Al Gore, as the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States at the 2000 Democratic National Convention.
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