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Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) 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. Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Lucille Marie (née Scott), a police officer, school teacher, and beauty shop owner, and Clyde C. Jones, an oil field worker; the two were married and divorced twice. Jones, an eighth-generation Texan, has a Cherokee grandparent. He was a resident of Midland, Texas and attended Robert E. Lee High School. Jones 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.

At the 2000 Democratic National Convention, he presented the nominating speech for his college roommate, Al Gore, as the Democratic Party`s nominee for President of the United States. Jones was married to Kate Lardner, the daughter of Ring Lardner Jr. from 1971 to 1978. Jones has two children from his second marriage to Kimberlea Cloughley, the daughter of Phil Hardberger, the mayor of San Antonio: Austin Leonard (born 1982) and Victoria Kafka (born 1991). On March 19, 2001, he married his third wife, Dawn Laurel. Jones resides 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 Jones` film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

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