Hollywod Tommy Lee Jones

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Date of Birth : 15 September 1946, San Saba, Texas, USA

Nickname : TLJ Tom

Height : 5' 10¾" (1.80 m)

Birth Place : San Saba, Texas, USA

Awards: Won 1 Oscar, 1 Golden Globe; nominated for 3 BAFTAs

Nationality : American

Profession : Actor & Producer

Biography:

In building a picture of Tommy Lee Jones, it's interesting to compare him to others born in the same year. Like Dolly Parton, he's a down-home country-type, but with a similar wild streak to David Lynch's. Onscreen, he possesses the same outlandish charisma as Alan Rickman. Off-screen, his passion and artistic tunnel-vision have caused him problems with his peers, much like Syd Barrett. But then that year also saw the arrival of Ted Bundy and Ian Lavender, so go figure. Perhaps it's more revealing to compare him with Oliver Stone. Both are challenging and controversial in their work, both have risen from rough, macho beginnings to the heights of Hollywood (a system in which they excel yet somehow do not fit), and both have peculiar and uncompromising views of how things should be done. And strangely, considering they have so many similarities and have worked together so many times, Stone and Jones were born on exactly the same day - the 15th of September, 1946.Tommy's birthplace was San Saba, Texas, about 80 miles north-west of Austin. He's an 8th generation Texan, though he's one quarter Cherokee, with Welsh ancestry. His father, Clyde C. Jones (he had no middle name, just the C), raised cattle until a drought in the early 1950s drove the Jones family west to Midland, close to the New Mexico border, a town slap bang in the middle of nowhere. Here Clyde would work the oil fields. Tommy's mother, Lucille Marie (nee Scott, known as Marie), was a policewoman, the county's first female officer, and a hairdresser, later owning a beauty parlour. She'd borne another child, a son, when Tommy was 3, but the child sadly died in infancy.Tommy's early life was tough. Clyde was a drinker and Tommy's described his relationship with him as "combative and emotionally abusive. He wasn't there for me that much". Clyde and Marie would divorce when Tommy was still young, then remarry and divorce again. Outside the home life could be tough, too. "It wasn't unusual," Jones would later recall "to settle one's conflicts with physical violence. If you got into an argument you settled it very quickly".Disturbed by his turbulent home-life, Tommy threw himself into both studies and sport. At Alamo Junior High, in Midland, he was a fine student and a keen football player, and these qualities won him, at age 13, a scholarship to St Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school for boys, in Dallas. He'd take the scholarship even though his father had scored a job in Libya and would be moving the family there. St Mark's was a whole new world for young Tom, filled with rich kids with no experience of the trailer life he'd known. Very quickly, he'd have to learn to be a gentleman.

Career

The year will witness you welcoming certain changes in your life. You shun all the inhibitions within and embrace others' feelings with an open mind. In the due process, gradually, you will be distancing yourself from people you no longer relate to. You will be able to gain control over your emotions and win the confidence of loved ones if you try to understand what they want to say. The cosmos has cast a magical spell on you which lets you believe in your intuitive powers. In fact, this is a boon for you to go deep into the realms of the human mind and map your observations with existing perceptions. It is also a possibility that the chain of new events breathes a new life in you. Issues of family take precedence and you are seen donning the hat of a motivator,entertainer and a pivot around which all the activities are centred. The inner urge to be one with the family and the desire to provide them with all the wonderful ingredients of life enables you the buoyancy with which you carry yourself. Mutual admiration and respect will strengthen the societal bonds bringing happiness to life. The spirit of enjoying and losing yourself in the company of friends lets your shun that extra load of bizarre incidents which have been bothering you. In addition, you rekindle the sparks of romance yet again after a hiatus. Along with family members, you will be making efforts to create an ambience of harmony in order to make everyone happy. Your energy levels and enthusiasm will enliven the atmosphere at home. Except a few up and down the year will end with a memorable note.
The harbinger of change will bring with it opportunities and insight aplenty. Career will undergo a magnificent spell of transformations, which will keep you preoccupied. You will be able to achieve what was thought to be unachievable through dedication, and building a pool of effective intelligence which will lead to cumulative results. Completion of major projects in time will let you aim higher and gain recognition at work. The visionary in you will be busy with identifying the long-term goals. You will involve yourself in implementations of new concepts and ideas for your existing business. Financial matters surface in to the foreground as you take a look at your financial situation. In the process, you will try to adjust your lifestyle according to the permissible limit. Monetary gain is a probable outcome of your careful planning.

Movies List

Cheer Up

Man of the House

The Hunted

The Missing

Men in Black II

Rules of Engagement

Space Cowboys

Double Jeopardy

Small Soldiers

US Marshals

Men In Black

Volcano

Batman Forever

Blown Away

Blue Sky

Broken Vows

The Client

Cobb

Natural Born Killers

The Fugitive

Heaven and Earth

House of Cards

Under Siege

JFK

Fire Birds

Lonesome Dove

The Package

Stormy Monday

Strander on My Land

April Morning

The Big Town

Black Moon Rising

Yuri Nosenko, KGB

The Park is Mine

The River Rat

Nate and Hayes

The Executioner's Song

Back Roads

Barn Burning

Coal Miner's Daughter

The Betsy

Eyes of Laura Mars

The Amazing Howard Hughes

Rolling Thunder

Jackson County Jail

Eliza's Horoscope

Upcomming Movies

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Men in Black III (2012)

Awards

Academy Awards, USA

2008 - Nominated Oscar Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Rolefor: In the Valley of Ela(2007).
1994 - Won Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Rolefor: The Fugitive (1993).

1992 - Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Rolefor: JFK (1991).

BAFTA Awards
2008 - Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Supporting Actorfor: No Country for Old Men (2007).

1994 - Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Actor in a Supporting Rolefor: The Fugitive (1993).

1993 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Actor in a Supporting Rolefor: JFK (1991).

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
2001 Nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award
Favorite Action Team (Internet Only)for: Space Cowboys (2000). Shared with:Clint Eastwood James Garner Donald Sutherland

2000 Nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award
Favorite Actor - Suspensefor: Double Jeopardy (1999).

1999 - Nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award
Favorite Duo - Action/Adventurefor: U.S. Marshals (1998). Shared with:Wesley Snipes

1998 Nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award
Favorite Actor - Sci-Fifor: Men in Black (1997).

Boston Film Festival

1993 Won Film Excellence Award

Cannes Film Festival
2005 Won Best Actor for: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005).

Nominated Golden Palm for: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005).

Emmy Awards
1989 Nominated EmmyOutstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Specialfor: "Lonesome Dove" (1989). (CBS). For part IV ("The Return").

1983 Won Emmy Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Specialfor: The Executioner's Song (1982) (TV). (NBC).

Ghent International Film Festival
2005 Won Grand Prix for: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005).

Golden Boot Awards
2003 Won Golden Boot

Golden Globes, USA
1994 Won Golden Globe Best performance by an An Acter in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture : The Fugitive (1993).

1990 Nominated Golden Glob Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TVfor: "Lonesome Dove"(1989).

1981 Nominated Golden Globe
Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedyfor: Coal Miner's Daughter(1980).


Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
1994 Won KCFCC Award
Best Supporting Actorfor: The Fugitive (1993).

London Critics Circle Film Awards
2008 Nominated ALFS AwardActor of the Yearfor: In the Valley of Elah (2007).

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
1993 Won LAFCA Award
Best Supporting Actorfor: The Fugitive (1993).

MTV Movie Awards
1998 Nominated MTV Movie Award
Best On-Screen Duofor: Men in Black (1997). Shared with:Will Smith

1996 Nominated MTV Movie Award
Best Villainfor: Batman Forever (1995).

1995 Nominated MTV Movie Award
Best Villainfor: Blown Away (1994).

1994 Won MTV Movie Award
Best On-Screen Duofor: The Fugitive (1993). Shared with:Harrison Ford