ACTOR

Tommy Lee Jones

1946 - Today

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Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor. He has received various accolades including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. While fame somewhat eluded him for much of the 1970s and 1980s, Jones established himself as a leading man in the 1990s, known for his gruff and authoritative film roles. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tommy Lee Jones has received more than 16,100,291 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Tommy Lee Jones is the 154th most popular actor (down from 118th in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from United States (down from 226th in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Actor.

Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and filmmaker. He has won two Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in the 1993 film The Fugitive. Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, and raised in Midland, Texas. His father, David Jones, was an oil field worker, and his mother, Lucille Marie (née Scott), was a homemaker.

Memorability Metrics

  • 16M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Tommy Lee Jones by language

Over the past year Tommy Lee Jones has had the most page views in the with 2,619,179 views, followed by Spanish (301,178), and German (257,639). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kazakh (338.06%), Uzbek (180.38%), and Simple English (130.29%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Tommy Lee Jones ranks 154 out of 13,578. Before him are Tony Curtis, Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Laurence Olivier, Ava Gardner, and Eli Wallach. After him are Stan Laurel, Antonio Banderas, Sandra Bullock, Burt Lancaster, Fernandel, and Oliver Hardy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Tommy Lee Jones ranks 31. Before him are Gianni Versace, David Gilmour, Elfriede Jelinek, Hassanal Bolkiah, Susan Sarandon, and Guus Hiddink. After him are Syd Barrett, Fabio Capello, Roh Moo-hyun, Benny Andersson, José Carreras, and Oliver Stone.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tommy Lee Jones ranks 291 out of 20,380. Before him are George S. Patton (1885), Ava Gardner (1922), Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), Eli Wallach (1915), Joe Dassin (1938), and Lisa Marie Presley (1968). After him are Jerry Brown (1938), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), B. F. Skinner (1904), Robert E. Lee (1807), Ronnie James Dio (1942), and P. T. Barnum (1810).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Tommy Lee Jones ranks 76. Before him are Leonardo DiCaprio (1974), Gloria Stuart (1910), Tony Curtis (1925), Orson Welles (1915), Ava Gardner (1922), and Eli Wallach (1915). After him are Sandra Bullock (1964), Burt Lancaster (1913), Oliver Hardy (1892), Rita Hayworth (1918), Angelina Jolie (1975), and Christopher Walken (1943).

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Television and Movie Roles

Captain America: The First Avenger
Chester Phillips
During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.
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Men in Black
Agent K
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
Jul 2o 19977.2 / 10
No Country for Old Men
Ed Tom Bell
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
Jun 13o 20077.936 / 10