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Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones

Biography

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.

CritifyHub Reviews Featuring Tommy Lee Jones

Lincoln’s Whisper: Power, Pain, and a Nation’s Soul in Spielberg’s Gaze

on Lincoln | Aug 24, 2025

Ever wonder what it takes to bend history’s arc with words sharper than swords? Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012) doesn’t just dramatize the 16th president’s fight to pass the 13th Amendment; it disse... Read more

Shadows of Truth: Oliver Stone’s JFK as a Cinematic Crucible

on JFK | Aug 03, 2025

Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991) is less a historical document than a fevered alchemical brew, transmuting raw skepticism into a mesmerizing inquiry about truth and power. Anchored by Kevin Costner’s steely ... Read more

Cosmic Wit and Earthly Charm: The Enduring Spark of Men in Black

on Men in Black | Jul 23, 2025

Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black (1997) is a masterclass in balancing high-concept science fiction with razor-sharp humor, a film that wields its absurdity like a neuralyzer to both dazzle and disarm. ... Read more

The Fever Dream of Fury: Natural Born Killers as a Chaotic Mirror

on Natural Born Killers | Jun 06, 2025

Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers (1994) is a Molotov cocktail of a film, a frenetic, kaleidoscopic assault on the senses that doesn’t so much tell a story as detonate one. Born from a Quentin Taran... Read more

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