Tommy Lee Jones, (born September 15, 1946, San Saba, Texas, U.S.), is an American actor best known for his dryly taciturn portrayals of law-enforcement officials, military men, and cowboys.

Jones was the only surviving child born to an oil field laborer and his wife, who worked in law enforcement, education, and cosmetology. When his father accepted a job overseas, Jones remained in the United States, having obtained a football scholarship that allowed him to attend an exclusive Dallas boarding school.

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He made big-screen appearances in The Betsy (1978), an adaptation of novelist Harold Robbins’s pulpy auto industry melodrama in which he played a race-car driver; Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), a thriller about a fashion photographer who experiences prescient visions of murder in which he featured as the killer and Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), a biographical film about country singer Loretta Lynn, in which he played her husband. Tommy Lee Jones was also nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in Coal Miner’s Daughter. he was 34 years old at the time.

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