Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive.
His other notable starring roles include Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call in the television miniseries Lonesome Dove, Agent K in the Men in Black film series, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men, Hank Deerfield in In the Valley of Elah, the villain Two-Face in Batman Forever, Mike Roark in the disaster film Volcano, terrorist William "Bill" Strannix in Under Siege, Texas Ranger Roland Sharp in Man of the House, rancher Pete Perkins in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (which he also directed), Colonel Chester Phillips in Captain America: The First Avenger, CIA Director Robert Dewey in Jason Bourne, and Warden Dwight McClusky in Natural Born Killers. He most recently appeared in the science fiction film Ad Astra in 2019 and in the comedy The Comeback Trail in 2020.
He has also portrayed historical figures such as businessman Howard Hughes in The Amazing Howard Hughes, Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln, executed murderer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song, U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur in Emperor, businessman Clay Shaw, the only person prosecuted in connection with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in JFK, Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn, in Coal Miner's Daughter, and baseball player Ty Cobb in Cobb.
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Popularity99
Credits6.4
Rating78M
Budget248M
RevenueActing
Primarily2025 The Razor's Edge as Taxman
2023 The Burial as Jeremiah O'Keefe
2023 Finestkind as Ray Eldridge
2021 Val as Self (archive footage)
2020 Wander as Jimmy Cleats
2020 The Comeback Trail as Duke Montana
2019 Reach for the Stars as Self
2019 Flannery as Self
2019 Ad Astra as H. Clifford McBride
2018 Always at The Carlyle as Self
2017 Shock and Awe as Joe Galloway
2017 Just Getting Started as Leo
2016 Mechanic: Resurrection as Max Adams
2016 Jason Bourne as CIA Director Robert Dewey
2016 Criminal as Dr. Franks
2016 Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl as Doolittle Lynn (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014 The Homesman as George Briggs Director, Writer, Executive Producer
2013 The Family as FBI Agent Robert Stansfield
2013 The Fugitive: Thrill of the Chase as Self
2013 Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
2013 Lincoln: An American Journey as Self
2012 Lincoln as Thaddeus Stevens
2012 Emperor as General Douglas MacArthur
2012 Hope Springs as Arnold Soames
2012 Men in Black 3 as Agent K
2011 Captain America: The First Avenger as Colonel Chester Phillips
2011 The Sunset Limited as White Director, Executive Producer
2010 The Company Men as Gene McClary
2009 In the Electric Mist as Dave Robicheaux
2008 Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 as Self
2008 No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes as Self
2008 The Making of 'No Country for Old Men' as Self
2007 No Country for Old Men as Ed Tom Bell
2007 In the Valley of Elah as Hank Deerfield
2007 The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández as Narrator (voice)
2006 A Prairie Home Companion as Axeman
2005 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada as Pete Perkins Director, Producer
2005 Man of the House as Ranger Roland Sharp Executive Producer
2003 The Missing as Samuel Jones
2003 The Cutting Edge as Self
2003 Filming “The Hunted” as Self
2003 Pursuing “The Hunted” as Self
2003 The Hunted as L.T. Bonham
2002 Design in Motion: The Look of 'Men in Black II' as Self
2002 Barry Sonnenfeld's Intergalactic Guide to Comedy as Self
2002 Men in Black II as Kay
2000 Metamorphosis of 'Men in Black' as Self
2000 Space Cowboys as Hawk Hawkins
2000 Rules of Engagement as Col. Hayes Lawrence "Hodge" Hodges II
1999 Double Jeopardy as Travis Lehman
1998 Small Soldiers as Chip Hazard (voice)
1998 U.S. Marshals as Samuel Gerard
1998 Inside the Golden Statue as Self
1997 The Making of Men in Black as Self
1997 Men in Black as Kay
1997 Volcano as Mike Roark
1995 Batman Forever as Harvey Dent / Two-Face
1995 Riddle Me This: Why Is Batman Forever? as Self - Two-Face
1995 The Good Old Boys as Hewey Calloway Director, Teleplay
1994 Cobb as Ty Cobb
1994 Blue Sky as Hank Marshall
1994 Natural Born Killers as Warden Dwight McClusky
1994 The Client as Roy Foltrigg
1994 Blown Away as Ryan Gaerity
1994 Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular as Self (archive footage)
1993 Heaven & Earth as Steve Butler
1993 The Fugitive as Samuel Gerard
1993 House of Cards as Jake Beerlander
1993 Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy as Self
1992 Under Siege as William Strannix
1991 JFK as Clay Shaw
1990 Fire Birds as Brad Little
1989 The Package as Thomas Boyette
1988 Gotham as Eddie Mallard
1988 Stormy Monday as Cosmo
1988 April Morning as Moses Cooper
1988 Stranger on My Land as Bud Whitman
1987 The Big Town as George Cole
1987 Broken Vows as Pater Joseph McMahon
1986 The Park Is Mine as Mitch
1986 Double Image as Steve Daley
1986 Black Moon Rising as Quint
1984 The River Rat as Billy
1984 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick
1983 Nate and Hayes as Captain Bully Hayes
1982 The Rainmaker as Starbuck
1982 The Executioner's Song as Gary Mark Gilmore
1981 Back Roads as Elmore Pratt
1980 Barn Burning as Ab Snopes
1980 Coal Miner's Daughter as 'Mooney' Lynn
1978 Eyes of Laura Mars as John Neville
1978 The Betsy as Angelo Perino
1977 Rolling Thunder as Johnny Vohden
1977 The Amazing Howard Hughes as Howard Hughes
1976 Jackson County Jail as Coley Blake
1976 Smash-Up on Interstate 5 as Officer Hutton
1975 Eliza's Horoscope as Tommy Lee
1973 Life Study as Gus
1970 Love Story as Hank - Oliver's Roommate