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They were married and divorced twice. Young Tommy attended Dallas's prestigious St. Mark's School (on a scholarship, Jones points out). He played football and stumbled into acting by accident, and it changed his life. "One day I happened to walk into a practice room and came upon a rehearsal of <I>Mister Roberts</i>. Almost immediately, I started acting in plays... My feelings at this discovery were indescribable". He attended Harvard, where he played offensive guard on the football team and won all-Ivy League athletic honors, but Jones was too scrawny to play professional football. At Harvard, his roommates were <a href="/people/499/000023430/">Al Gore</a> and, later, <a href="/people/586/000023517/">John Lithgow</a>. <a href="/people/341/000212702/">Erich Segal</a>, who attended and later taught at Harvard, has mentioned both Jones and Gore as models for the character of Oliver in Segal's novel, <i>Love Story</i>. Jones actually had a small role in the film version of <i>Love Story</i>, long before he was famous.<P> Jones performed in summer rep in Cambridge and Boston, and eventually came to New York, where he made his Broadway stage debut in <I>A Patriot for Me</i>, in 1970. He played Dr. Mark Toland on the soap opera <I>One Life to Live</i> from 1971-75, while still appearing in plays. Weary of holding two jobs, Jones left for Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, where he quickly found work in low-budget films and the pilot episode of TV's <I>Charlie's Angels</i>. In 1976 he landed the lead in the film <I>Jackson County Jail</i>, and in 1977 he played <I>The Amazing Howard Hughes</i> in a TV movie, to great acclaim. Jones worked steadily in films and TV until 1989's <I>Lonesome Dove</i> made him a household name. Since then, he's worked almost exclusively in film, including <I>JFK</i>, <I>The Client</i>, <I>The Fugitive</i>, <I>Men in Black</i> and its sequel, <I>Space Cowboys</i>, and <I>The Missing</i>.<P> In front of the camera, Jones is famous for his short temper with other actors and general grumpiness with journalists. When he's not working, Jones frequently hobnobs with pals <a href="/people/636/000022570/">Willie Nelson</a>, <a href="/people/848/000022782/">Gary Busey</a>, <a href="/people/545/000022479/">Oliver Stone</a>, and <a href="/people/008/000022939/">Robert Duvall</a>. Jones owns a working cattle ranch near San Antonio, TX. He plays polo competitively, and his team won the U.S. Polo Association's Western Challenge Cup in 1993. In 1998, Jones was injured falling from his horse in a polo match.<p><b>Father:</b> Clyde L. Jones (oil rigger)<br><b>Mother:</b> Lucille Marie Scott Jones (police officer)<br><b>Wife:</b> Katherine Lardner (actress, m. 1971; div. 1978)<br><b>Wife:</b> Kimberlea Gayle Cloughley (photographer, m. 30-May-1981, div. 1996)<br><b>Son:</b> Austin Leonard "Bubba" Jones (b. 1983)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Victoria Kafka "Tory" Jones (b. 1991)<br><b>Girlfriend:</b> Lisa Taylor (model)<br><b>Wife:</b> Dawn Laurel (camera assistant, m. 19-Mar-2001)<br><p> High School: <a href="/edu/452/000114110/">St. Mark's School of Texas (1965)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/473/000068269/">BA American Literature, Harvard University (1969)</a><br><p> <a href="/org/781/000167280/">Gore 2000</a> <br> <a href="/org/551/000169044/">Kerry Victory 2004</a> <br> <a href="/honors/860/000048716/">Oscar for Best Supporting Actor</a> 1994 for <i>Fugitive</i><br> <a href="/honors/636/000044504/">Golden Globe</a> 1994 for <i>Fugitive</i><br> <a href="/honors/534/000044402/">Emmy</a> 1983 for <i>The Executioner's Song</i><br> <a href="/honors/312/000044180/">Hollywood Walk of Fame</a> 6925 Hollywood Blvd.<br><p> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR</font><br> <a href="/films/654/000388487/">The Homesman (18-May-2014)</a> <br> <a href="/films/576/000273754/">The Sunset Limited (12-Feb-2011)</a> <br> <a href="/films/444/000112108/">The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (20-May-2005)</a> <br> <a href="/films/637/000089370/">The Good Old Boys (5-Mar-1995)</a> <br><p> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR</font><br> <a href="/films/273/000402064/">Mechanic: Resurrection (22-Aug-2016)</a> <br> <a href="/films/306/000402097/">Jason Bourne (3-Jul-2016)</a> <br> <a href="/films/246/000405028/">Criminal (5-Apr-2016)</a> <br> <a href="/films/654/000388487/">The Homesman (18-May-2014)</a> <br> <a href="/films/374/000370261/">The Family (10-Sep-2013)</a> <br> <a href="/films/626/000357552/">Lincoln (8-Oct-2012)</a> <br> <a href="/films/631/000364536/">Emperor (14-Sep-2012)</a> <br> <a href="/films/019/000354951/">Hope Springs (8-Aug-2012)</a> · Arnold<br> <a href="/films/731/000348684/">Men in Black III (23-May-2012)</a> <br> <a href="/films/159/000275331/">Captain America: The First Avenger (22-Jul-2011)</a> · Col. 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