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Tommy Lee Jones is among the finest of all American actors of our times. In recent years, he has also tried his hand at direction. His net worth stands at an impressive $85 million.

Tommy is best known for his depiction of Marshal Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive that also starred Harrison Ford in the leading role. Tommy won the Best Supporting Actor Academy award for this thriller movie. He has been nominated four other times – for JFK (1991), In the Valley of Elah (2007), and Lincoln (2012). He has been nominated for plenty of other awards too like the BAFTA, MTV Movie Awards, Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy Award, and many more. Lee Jones has won several awards over his long career.

He is also remembered for his performances in the Men in Black franchise, No Country for Old Men, Batman Forever, and the award winning television mini-series “Lonesome Dove”. His wealth is the result of the fame that Tommy Lee Jones has earned his wealth by delivering some amazing performances in movies and television shows. In recent times, he has not been acting for television, but this is how his career started. His first performance was in a movie though, in Love Story of 1970. But for the next decade and a half, Tommy Lee Jones mostly got television roles. JFK of 1991 and his Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and MTV Movie Award nomination for this movie changed all this.

Al Gore, the former Vice-President of the United States was his roommate at college. He married Katherine "Kate" Lardner in 1971 and divorced her in 1978. Tommy Lee Jones then married Kimberlea Cloughley in 1981, and this marriage lasted for the next 15 years. He is now married to Dawn Laurel since 2001.

Earnings & Financial Data

Date

Category

Description

Amount

2006

Salary

Salary from Men in Black

$10,000,000

2002

Salary

Salary from U.S. Marshals

$17,000,000

2001

Salary

Salary from Men in Black II (plus gross %)

$20,000,000

1997

Salary

Salary from The Hunted

$10,000,000

1996

Salary

Salary from No Country for Old Men

$7,000,000