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Tommy
Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning
American actor and director. In the 1990s, movies such as The
Fugitive co-starring Harrison Ford, Batman Forever co-starring Val
Kilmer, and Men in Black with Will Smith brought him tens of
millions of dollars and made him one of the top actors of
Hollywood. 1991 brought him his first Academy Award nomination for
JFK. His role in The Fugitive won him wide acclaim and an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor. When he accepted his Oscar, his
head was shaved for his role in the film Cobb, a situation he made
light of in his speech by saying "All a man can say at a time
like this is 'I am not really bald.'" In 2005, he released
his first feature-film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,
that was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. It won him
the Best Actor Award. His first film as director was in 1995, a
made-for-television movie. Two strong performances in 2007 have
marked a resurgence in Jones' career, with his portrayal of a
beleaguered father looking for his son in In the Valley of Elah
and as a sheriff hunting an assassin in the critically acclaimed
No Country for Old Men. For the former, he was nominated for an
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