Biography
Tommy Lee Jones is not just a Hollywood star. This is a kind of symbol of a dream factory, a lighthouse for beginner actors. The artist's filmography is so bright and long that it is difficult to list all the best roles. The artist was 4 times nominated to the main Prize of the film industry. And although getting Oscar Jones succeeded only once, it does not diminish the meaning of his legendary figure for world cinema.Childhood and youth
Tommy Lee Jones was born in Texas. In the town of San Saba, the childhood of the future artist was held. There were no people creative professions in the family. The father worked at the oil field, the mother on education teacher, but after several years of work at school opened a cosmetic salon.
In Tommy Lee Jones, there is Indian - from the grandmother on the mother's line. At school, the guy did not give parents to parents and managed well. This allowed the young man to enter Harvard, where Jones divently studied English and literature.
In childhood and youth Tommy was lucky for familiarity with future celebrities. At school, the future first lady Laura Bush studied with the boy. And at Harvard University, Jones closely was friends with the future politician Alan Mountain. Young people played American football together.
Having received the degree of bachelor of arts, the young man went to New York. Here, the bright creative biography of Tommy Lee Jones began.
Films
Artist's debut took place in the Broadway Theater. Tommy Lee played in the Patriot for me play. But soon the audience saw Jones and on the screen. The actor received a secondary role in the Melodrame "Love Story." And although the debut in the movie turned out to be quite successful, Tommy did a 5-year-old pause, focusing at work in the theater and raising acting skills.
A young actor on the screens in the 1975th returned. Jones played the main character in the tape "Horoscope of Eliza". But Tommy Lee Theater did not quit, the filmmakers alternated with theatrical.
The long-awaited glory hit the artist in 1977 after the premiere of the film "Groma Rabat", where Tommy Lee Jones appeared in the form of a veteran of the Vietnam War. This role brought the first awards to the actor. The following two projects were successful - the painting "Betsy", where Jones played in a brilliant tandem with Lawrence Olivier, and the biographical film "Miner's daughter". The latter presented the first nomination to the prestigious "Golden Globe".
The numerous fans of the artist love Tommy whether the role of brave and unperturbed police officers. In this hat, Tommy Lee Jones first appeared in the film "Eyes Laura Mars". Later, the directors have repeatedly used the acting dar Jones in this amplua. The artist played dozens of bold sheriffs and even agents of intergalactic services. These works brought Tommy Lee world fame.
There are in the filmography of the actor and many other works in other roles, which also brought Tommy whether success. The star is organically playing and comedy characters, and the heroes of past historical eras.
One of the most famous projects Tommy Lee Jones is the drama "Song of the Pale". Here the artist got a complex image of a murderer who was sentenced to death and expects a sentence. For this role, the actor was awarded the first AMMI award.
But the first nomination for Oscar came to Tommy whether in 1992, when the actor starred in the picture "John F. Kennedy. Shots in Dallas. " But at that time, the cherished figurine got another artist. But after entering the screens of the dismanting project "Fugitive", where Jones appeared in his best role - a police officer, the actor received the founded major prize.
The nomination for Oscar has not happened more than once in the brilliant biography of Tommy Lee Jones. The artist was introduced to the lists on this award for the painting "in the Alley Valley" in 2008 and the historic film Stephen Spielberg "Lincoln" in 2012.
The fans of the Hollywood star among the best films of Jones are called "Batman forever", "good old guys", "First Avenger", "People in black" and "old men are not here." In 2012, two historical images appeared in the repertoire of Tommy Lee at once - this is the commander-in-chief of the Allied Army Douglas MacArthur in the Military Drama "Emperor" and a member of the US Chamber of Representatives Tadeusche Stevens in the Biographical film "Lincoln".
One of the latest most striking projects is "Malavita". In this tape, Tommy Lee Jones appeared on the screen along with other stars of the American film industry - Robert De Niro and Michel Pfaiffer.
In 2015, Tommy Lee Jones presented his fans the director's project - the Dramatic Western "Local", in which the producer became Luke Veson. The movie action takes place in America in the middle of the XIX century. In Ribe, the actor performed the role of the elderly cowboy George, who, together with the heroine, the actress Hilary Swank is taken to accompany the three soul female women from the village to the city.
In 2016, he reincarnated in Professor of Medicine in the criminal thriller. The star cast came Jones in the spy fighter "Jason Born", where the company of Hollywood's legend was Matt Damon, Alicia Victander, Vensean Kassel.
Personal life
Jones reluctantly speaks of a personal, trying to bypassed this topic in every possible way. Personal life Tommy Lee Jones is three marriages, the first two of which ended with divorces. In 1971, the wife of Tommy was the granddaughter of the classics of American literature Ring Lardner - Actress Kate Lardner. But the representative of Bohemia New York could not get along with the artist, who was still at the beginning of a creative career and received roles in the spent serials. Union lasted seven years. Kate did not wait for the long-awaited glory and the confession of her husband, who fell on him immediately after the divorce.
In the second marriage with the actress Kimberly Klofley, who took place a few months after the acquaintance in 1981, Tommi was born two children - the son of Austin and daughter Victoria. In the mid-80s, accumulating the right amount, the actor carried out a dream and bought a ranch in the Texas Prairies, where he took up the cone. The spouse supported Jones's undertakes, and soon the family settled in his own mansion. With the children of Tommy, from the first years of their lives supported a close connection. But this union was short-lived.
In 2001, Jones married for the third time. The famous photographer Don Laurel became his wife of the artist. The novel between Jones and Laurel began during the second marriage of the actor. Kim The first filed for a divorce, she did not insist on the section of the property, did not claim the ranch and did not interfere with the father to continue to raise children. Austin and Victoria eventually became friends with Laurel.
Tommy Lee Jones now
Tommy Lee does not give positions and continues to be filmed in Hollywood projects on the rights of the first class. In 2017, along with Morgan Fremen, the artist appeared in the comedy militant Ron Shelton "everything is just beginning." Jones played Leo, the FBI agent on a pension, and Freimman reincarnated in the former lawyer Duke, who hides from Mafia under the Witness Program. Fate drives two heroes at a party, during which a big stir begins.Another new project of the year was the military thriller "Shock and Treps" about the unofficial operation of the American army in Iraq. In general roles, in addition to Tommy Lee, Jessica Bil, Woody Harrelson, Milla Yovovich starred.
In 2018, Tommy Lee Jones did not please fans with premieres, but the actor began working on a role in the fantastic thriller "to the stars" James Graya. Tommy Lee hero disappears on the expanses of the galaxy, where the traces of extraterrestrial civilization went to seek. His son, an autistic engineer, who played Brad Pitt, goes to search for his father. Now the film is at the stage of post-sales.
Filmography
- 1971-1979 - "One life to live"
- 1976 - "Family"
- 1977 - "Groma Rabat"
- 1978 - "Betsy"
- 1987 - Chicago Blues
- 1988 - "Thunderstorm Monday"
- 1991 - "John F. Kennedy. Shots in Dallas "
- 1993 - "Fugitive"
- 1997 - "People in black"
- 2007 - "In the Valley of Ela"
- 2012 - "Emperor"
- 2012 - Lincoln
- 2013 - "Malavita"
- 2014 - "Local"
- 2016 - "Criminal"
- 2017 - "Everything just begins"