Tommy Lee Jones Tommy Lee Jones ( born September 15 , 1946 ) is an American actor and film director . He has received four Academy Award nominations , winning one as Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U . S . Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film " The Fugitive " . His other notable starring roles include former Texas Ranger Woodrow F . Call in the award - winning TV mini - series " Lonesome Dove " , Agent K in " Men in Black " and its sequels , Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in " No Country for Old Men " , the villain " Two - Face " in " Batman Forever " , terrorist William Strannix in " Under Siege " , a Texas Ranger in " Man of the House " , rancher Pete Perkins in " The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada " , which also served as his directorial debut , and Colonel Chester Phillips in " " . Jones has also portrayed real - life figures such as businessman Howard Hughes , radical republican congressman Thaddeus Stevens , executed murderer Gary Gilmore , Oliver Lynn , American war general Douglas MacArthur , husband of Loretta Lynn in " Coal Miner ' s Daughter " , and baseball great Ty Cobb . Early life . Jones was born in San Saba , Texas . His mother , Lucille Marie ( née Scott ) , was a police officer , school teacher , and beauty shop owner , and his father , Clyde C . Jones , was an oil field worker . The two were married and divorced twice . Jones has stated that his grandmother was of Cherokee ancestry . He was raised in Midland , Texas and attended Robert E . Lee High School . Jones graduated from the St . Mark ' s School of Texas , which he attended on scholarship ; he now serves on the board of directors . He attended Harvard College on a need - based scholarship . He stayed in Mower B - 12 as a freshman , across the hall from future Vice President Al Gore , the son of Senator Albert Gore , Sr . of Tennessee . As an upperclassman , he stayed in Dunster House with roommates Gore and Bob Somerby , who later became editor of the media criticism site the Daily Howler . Jones played offensive guard on Harvard ' s undefeated 1968 varsity football team , was nominated as a first - team All - Ivy League selection , and played in the 1968 Game , which featured a memorable and literally last - minute Harvard 16 - point comeback to tie Yale . He recounts his memory of " the most famous football game in Ivy League history " in the documentary " Harvard Beats Yale 29 - 29 " . Jones graduated " cum laude " with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1969 ; his senior thesis was on " the mechanics of Catholicism " in the works of Flannery O ' Connor . Career . Jones moved to New York to become an actor , making his Broadway debut in 1969 ' s " A Patriot for Me " in a number of supporting roles . In 1970 he landed his first film role , coincidentally playing a Harvard student in " Love Story " ( Erich Segal , the author of " Love Story " , said that he based the lead character of Oliver on the two undergraduate roommates he knew while attending Harvard , Jones and Gore ) . In early 1971 , he returned to Broadway in Abe Burrows ' " Four on a Garden " where he shared the stage with Carol Channing and Sid Caesar . Between 1971 and 1975 he portrayed Dr . Mark Toland on the ABC soap opera , " One Life to Live " . He returned to the stage for a 1974 production of " Ulysses in Nighttown " with Zero Mostel . It was followed by the acclaimed TV movie " The Amazing Howard Hughes " , where he played the lead role . In films , he played an escaped convict hunted in " Jackson County Jail " ( 1976 ) , a Vietnam veteran in " Rolling Thunder " ( 1977 ) and an automobile mogul , co - starring with Laurence Olivier , in the Harold Robbins drama " The Betsy " . In 1980 , Jones earned his first Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of country singer Loretta Lynn ' s husband , Doolittle " Mooney " Lynn , in the popular " Coal Miner ' s Daughter " . In 1981 he played a drifter opposite Sally Field in " Back Roads " , a comedy that received middling reviews . In 1983 , he received an Emmy for Best Actor for his performance as murderer Gary Gilmore in a TV adaptation of Norman Mailer ' s " The Executioner ' s Song " . That same year he starred in a pirate adventure , " Nate and Hayes " , playing the heavily - bearded pirate Captain Bully Hayes . In 1989 , he earned another Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Texas Ranger lawman Woodrow F . Call in the acclaimed television mini - series " Lonesome Dove " , based on the best - seller by Larry McMurtry . In the 1990s , blockbuster hits such as " The Fugitive " co - starring Harrison Ford , " Batman Forever " co - starring Val Kilmer , and " Men in Black " with Will Smith made Jones one of the best - paid and most in - demand actors in Hollywood . His performance in " The Fugitive " received broad acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a sequel . When he accepted his Oscar , his head was shaved for his role in the film " Cobb , " which he made light of in his speech : " All a man can say at a time like this is ' I am not really bald . ' " Among his other well - known performances during the 1990s were those of the accused conspirator Clay Shaw / Clay Bertrand in the 1991 film " JFK " ( which earned him another Oscar nomination ) , as a terrorist who hijacks a U . S . Navy battleship in " Under Siege " and as a maximum - security prison warden who ' s in way over his head in " Natural Born Killers " . Jones co - starred with director Clint Eastwood as astronauts in the 2000 film " Space Cowboys " , in which both played retired pilots and friends / rivals leading a space rescue mission together . In 2005 , the first theatrical feature film Jones directed , " The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada " , was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival . Jones ' s character speaks both English and Spanish in the film . His performance won him the Best Actor Award . His first film as a director had been " The Good Old Boys " in 1995 , a made - for - television movie . Two strong performances in 2007 marked a resurgence in Jones ' s career , one as a beleaguered father investigating the disappearance of his soldier son in " In the Valley of Elah " , the other as a Texas sheriff hunting an assassin in the Oscar - winning " No Country for Old Men " . For the former , he was nominated for an Academy Award . Jones has been a spokesperson for Japanese brewing company Suntory since 2006 . He can be seen in various Japanese TV commercials of Suntory ' s Coffee brand Boss as a character called " Alien Jones , " an extraterrestrial who takes the form of a human being to check on the world of humans . There are 34 such commercials that can be seen on YouTube . In 2010 , Jones appeared alongside Ben Affleck in the recession drama " The Company Men " . The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival , where early reviews praised Jones ' s performance as " pitch - perfect . " Jones had a role in the Marvel Studios film , " " . He also directed , produced and co - starred with Samuel L . Jackson in an adaptation of " The Sunset Limited " . 2012 saw yet another turning point in Jones ' s career , starting in a reprisal of his role as Agent K in " Men in Black 3 " , the romantic dramedy " Hope Springs " , and co - starring as Thaddeus Stevens in Steven Spielberg ' s " Lincoln " . Jones ' s performance in " Lincoln " received wide critical acclaim , with many reviewers claiming that he stole the film from star Daniel Day - Lewis . For this performance , Jones received his fourth Oscar nomination , for Best Supporting Actor . Personal life . At the 2000 Democratic National Convention , he presented the nominating speech for his college roommate , Al Gore , as the Democratic Party ' s nominee for President of the United States . Jones was married to Kate Lardner , the daughter of screenwriter and journalist Ring Lardner Jr . , from 1971 to 1978 . He has two children from his second marriage to Kimberlea Cloughley , the daughter of Phil Hardberger , former mayor of San Antonio : Austin Leonard ( born 1982 ) and Victoria Kafka ( born 1991 ) . On March 19 , 2001 , he married his third wife , Dawn Laurel . Jones resides in Terrell Hills , Texas , a suburb of San Antonio , and speaks fluent Spanish . He owns a 3000 acre cattle ranch in San Saba County , Texas and a ranch near Van Horn , Texas , which served as the set for his film " The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada " . He also owns a home and farm in polo mecca Wellington , Florida . Jones is a serious polo player and he has a house in a polo country club in Buenos Aires , Argentina . He is a supporter of the Polo Training Foundation . He is an avid San Antonio Spurs fan ; he is often seen courtside at Spurs games . In 2008 , Jones signed on with Chesapeake Energy to be a spokesperson for a public relations campaign to promote shale gas ( natural gas derived from shale rock through hydraulic fracturing or " fracking " ) in Texas .