Director, producer, scriptwriter and actor, Tommy Lee Jones was born on September 15, 1946, in San Saba, Texas. He began his artistic career as an actor at St. Mark’s School of Texas and later graduated from Harvard in 1969 with a degree in English.
He landed his first film role in
Love Story (1970). That same year he made his theatrical debut on Broadway in the play
A Patriot of Me and was part of the cast for the TV soap opera
One Life to Live until 1975. During this time he also participated in the famed TV series
Charlie’s Angeles.
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