Mark Toland on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1971 to 1975. In addition to his stage work, Jones had a regular role as Dr. He won his first professional role shortly thereafter, in an off-Broadway production. With too slight a frame to make it in the National Football League, Jones headed to New York to pursue a career as an actor upon his graduation from Harvard in 1969. He also loved drama and performed in a number of school productions, most notably playing the lead in Shakespeare's Coriolanus. Jones, an English literature major, became an all-Ivy offensive guard on the football team. His roommate for all four years at Harvard was Al Gore, a future United States senator, vice president and presidential candidate. Mark's, an elite Dallas prep school, so that he could stay in the country.Ī talented athlete and student, Jones eventually won a football scholarship to Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His son worked hard to win a scholarship to St. When Tommy Lee was a teenager, Clyde Jones took a job in the oil fields of North Africa. His parents were married and divorced twice as he later revealed in interviews, Jones had a difficult adolescence, enduring a good deal of physical abuse at the hands of his father. An eighth-generation Texan, Jones was the only child of Clyde Jones, a cowboy-turned-oil-field worker, and his wife, Lucille Marie. Tommy Lee Jones was born on September 15, 1946, in San Saba, Texas. With 1993's The Fugitive, Jones became a household name, and he has followed that role with memorable performances in Men in Black, The Fugitive, No Country for Old Men and Lincoln (2012). Actor Tommy Lee Jones was Al Gore's Harvard roommate for four years, and upon graduation, he moved to New York and then to Hollywood, where his career trajectory changed dramatically.
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