The Lowdown

Lee’s estranged grifter father, "Lee Raybon Senior," portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones, makes an unexpected arrival in town – especially awkward since Lee has always told Francis that her grandfather was dead.

Career Highlights

One of the most acclaimed and accomplished actors, Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones brings a distinct character to every film.Jones made his feature film debut in Love Story and, in a career spanning four decades, has starred in such films as Eyes of Laura Mars, Coal Miner's Daughter – for which he received his first Golden Globe nomination – Stormy Monday, The Package, JFK, Under Siege, The Fugitive, Heaven and Earth, The Client, Natural Born Killers, Blue Sky, Cobb, Batman Forever, Men in Black, U.S. Marshalls, Double Jeopardy, Rules of Engagement, Space Cowboys, Men in Black 2, The Hunted, The Missing, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, A Prairie Home Companion, In the Electric Mist, The Company Men, Captain America: The First Avenger, Men in Black 3, Hope Springs, Emperor, The Family, Criminal, Jason Bourne, Mechanic: Resurrection, Wander, Ad Astra, Just Getting Started and Shock and Awe.Recently, Jones starred in Amazon's courtroom drama film The Burial alongside Jamie Foxx and Jurnee Smollett, and in 101 Studios' Finestkind directed by Brian Helgeland.This fall he stars in season two of the acclaimed FX series The Lowdown alongside Ethan Hawke for creator Sterlin Harjo. He also stars in the remake of the John Wayne film Angel and the Badman.Jones was awarded the "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar Award for his portrayal of the uncompromising U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard in the box office hit, The Fugitive, in 1994. For this performance, he also received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Three years earlier, Jones received his first Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Clay Shaw in Oliver Stone's JFK.In 2007 Jones starred in the critically acclaimed film In the Valley of Elah for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor and in the same year he starred in the Academy Award-winning film No Country for Old Men written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and based on the Cormac McCarthy novel.In 2012, Jones starred as Theddeus Stevens in Steven Spielberg's epic portrait Lincoln, garnering an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, along with nominations from BAFTA, Broadcast Film Critics Association and National Society of Film Critics; his portrayal was also recognized as Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role by the Screen Actors Guild.Jones made his directorial debut in 1995 with the critically acclaimed telefilm adaptation of the Elmer Kelton novel The Good Old Boys for TNT. Jones also starred in the telefilm with Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Frances McDormand and Matt Damon. For his portrayal of Hewey Calloway, he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination and a CableACE Award nomination.In 2005, Jones starred in the critically acclaimed film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which he also directed and produced. The film debuted in competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and garnered Jones the award for Best Actor and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga the award for Best Screenplay for this film about friendship and murder along the Texas-Mexican border. The film was also nominated for the Palme d'Or and the film received four Independent Spirit Award nominations for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Male.Jones directed The Sunset Limited for HBO. The telefilm, which premiered in February 2011, is based on the play of the same name by Cormac McCarthy and starred Jones and Samuel L. Jackson.In 2014, he directed and co-starred in The Homesman with Hillary Swank. The film tells the story of a pioneer woman and a claim-jumping rascal of a man who usher three insane women on an odyssey from Nebraska to Iowa, braving the elements along the way.Jones has also had success on the small screen. In 1983, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special for his portrayal of Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song and, in 1989 he was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for Lonesome Dove.His numerous network and cable credits include the title role in The Amazing Howard Hughes, the American Playhouse production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Rainmaker for HBO, the HBO/BBC production of Yuri Noshenko, KGB and April Morning.In 1969, Jones made his Broadway debut in John Osborne's A Patriot for Me. His other Broadway appearances include Four on a Garden with Carol Channing and Sid Caesar, and Ulysses in Nighttown with the late Zero Mostel.Born in San Saba, Texas, he worked briefly with his father in the oil fields before attending St. Mark's School of Texas, then Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in English. In 2015, Jones was inducted into the Texas Hall of Fame at the Austin Film Society Awards.

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Lee’s estranged grifter father, Lee Raybon Senior makes an unexpected arrival in town.

Headshot of Tommy Lee Jones as Lee Raybon Senior in FX's The Lodown wearing a striped button up holding a book.

Tommy Lee Jones as “Lee Raybon Senior” | The Lowdown on FX

The Lowdown

Tommy Lee Jones

Career Highlights

Betty Gilpin
as Ginger

Kaniehtiio Horn
as Samantha

Ethan Hawke
as Lee Raybon / Executive Producer

Tommy Lee Jones as “Lee Raybon Senior” | The Lowdown on FX

Tommy Lee Jones

Kaniehtiio Hornas Samantha

Ethan Hawkeas Lee Raybon / Executive Producer

Kaniehtiio Horn
as Samantha

Ethan Hawke
as Lee Raybon / Executive Producer