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Academy AwardTM winner TOMMY LEE JONES was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar® for his portrayal of the uncompromising U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard in the box office hit The Fugitive in 1994. For this performance, he also received a Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actor. Three years before, Jones received his first Oscar® nomination for his portrayal of Clay Shaw in Oliver Stone’s JFK. Jones recently directed and starred in the critically acclaimed, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which debuted in competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Jones won Best Actor and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga won Best Screenplay for this film about friendship and murder along the Texas- Mexican border. Jones recently made an appearance in Robert Altman’s big screen spin-off of Garrison Keillor’s U.S. radio show, A Prairie Home Companion.
The film also starred Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. Next Jones will be seen in No Country for Old Men based on the Cormac McCarthy novel, and written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Jones stars with Javier Bardem as a West Texas sheriff in pursuit of a vicious and vengeful drug trafficker and assassin. In 2003, he starred with Cate Blanchett in The Missing for director Ron Howard. Prior to that he starred with Benicio del Toro in The Hunted for director William Friedkin, and re-teamed with Will Smith and director Barry Sonnenfeld in the box office hit, Men in Black 2. In 2000, Jones starred in Space Cowboys with James Garner and Donald Sutherland for director/co-star Clint Eastwood, and in Rules of Engagement with Samuel L. Jackson. Jones starred with Ashley Judd in the box office hit Double Jeopardy in 1999, and in 1998 he reprised his role of U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard in U.S. Marshals, the follow-up to The Fugitive.
In 1997 he starred with Will Smith in the No. 1 box office hit of the year, Men In Black, which grossed over $500 million worldwide. Jones made his feature film debut in Love Story and, in a career spanning four decades, has starred in such films as Eyes of Laura Mars, Coal Miner’s Daughter - for which he received his first Golden Globe nomination - Stormy Monday, The Package, Under Siege, Heaven and Earth, The Client, Natural Born Killers, Blue Sky, Batman Forever, and Cobb. In 1995, Jones made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed telefilm adaptation of the Elmer Kelton book The Good Old Boys for TNT. Jones also starred in the telefilm with Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Frances McDormand and Matt Damon. For his portrayal of Hewey Calloway, he received nominations for both a Screen Actors Guild Award and a CableACE Award.
Jones had had previous success on the small screen. In 1983, he won an Emmy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Gary Gilmore in The Executioner’s Song and, in 1989, was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the miniseries Lonesome Dove. His numerous network and cable credits include the title role in The Amazing Howard Hughes, the American Playhouse production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Rainmaker for HBO, the HBO/BBC production of Yuri Noshenko, KGB and April Morning.
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