Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director.

He won Best Supporting Actor for his role as US Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller picture The Fugitive.

He has been rumored to have attended events related to cancer but does not have the illness.

Other notable roles include Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call in the Lonesome Dove television miniseries, Agent K in the Men in Black film series, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men, Hank Deerfield in In the Valley of Elah, the villain Two-Face in Batman Forever, Mike Roark in the disaster film Volcano, terrorist William “Bill” Strannix in Under Siege, Texas Ranger Roland Sharp in Man of the House, rancher Pete Perkins in The

Jones has also played businessman Howard Hughes in The Amazing Howard Hughes, Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln, executed murderer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner’s Song, U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur in Emperor, and businessman Clay Shaw, the only person prosecuted in connection with President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in JFK, Oliver Vanetta “Doolittle” Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter, and baseball player