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Tommy Lee Jones "Tommy Lee Jones on the cover of the DVD for U.S. Marshals. Wesley Snipes is pictured in the inset photo." (born September 15, 1946Tommy Lee Jones is an Oscar winning American actor and director from San Saba, Texas. Born to George Elmer Jones and Bessie Lele Whiteaker, he is of Welsh and 14 Cherokee with a dash of Comanche Native American ancestry.

A graduate of the St. Mark's School of Texas, in Dallas, he attended Harvard on a scholarship, where he was a roommate of former Vice President Al Gore and of John Lithgow at Dunster House. Jones 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 last minute (literally) Harvard 16 point come-from-behind blitz to tie Yale in the 1968 Game. 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 movies in (1976).

In 1983 he received an Emmy for Best Actor for his performance as murderer Gary Gilmore in a TV adaptation of Norman Mailer's with Will Smith brought him tens of millions of dollars and made him one of the top actors of Hollywood. His role in won him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

At the 2000 Democratic National Convention he nominated his college roommate, Al Gore, as the Democratic party's nominee for President of the United States.

On March 19, 2001, he married Dawn Laurel (his third marriage).

In 2005, he released his first feature-film , that was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. It won him the Best Actor Award. (His first film as director was in 1995, a made-for-television movie.)