Tommy Lee Jones

ABOUT TOMMY LEE JONES

He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the The Fugitive . His other major roles include Agent K in Men in Black and Colonel Chester Phillips in Captain America: The First Avenger .

Raised in Midland, Texas, he attended Robert E. Lee High School. He attended Harvard University , and wrote his senior thesis on the role of Catholicism in the works of Flannery O'Connor .

While attending Harvard, he was roommates with Al Gore and Bob Somerby.

His mother, Lucille Marie Scott, was a police officer, teacher, and beauty shop owner. His father worked in an oil field. He married Dawn Laurel on March 19, 2001. He has a daughter named Victoria and a son named Austin.

He starred in Men in Black with Will Smith , and had supporting roles in No Country for Old Men and Lincoln .