Victoria Jones was 14 when her father, Tommy Lee Jones, “fired” her from a film function after she refused to get off the bed for an early name time — an anecdote circulating once more after the actor’s daughter died at 34.
Victoria Jones, the daughter of the Academy Award-winning actor, was discovered useless early New 12 months’s Day on the Fairmont San Francisco lodge. Authorities stated foul play will not be suspected, however the reason for demise stays underneath investigation.
Practically twenty years earlier, her father had spoken warmly about working along with his teenage daughter throughout a 2006 interview with The New Yorker.
Jones informed the journal that Victoria, then 14, appeared within the movie “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada” as a younger Mexican woman and had already proven skilled self-discipline nicely past her years.
“She’s a very good actress, has her SAG card, speaks impeccable Spanish,” Jones stated on the time, in response to the interview by Lillian Ross. He credited her language abilities to her childhood, explaining that when she was a child, he requested her nurse to talk to her in Spanish.
However Jones stated the realities of a movie set ultimately examined his daughter’s resolve.
“She needed to rise up at 5 a.m. for her half,” he recalled. “One morning, she wouldn’t get off the bed. I stated, ‘Honey, that is work.’ However she wouldn’t budge. So I fired her.”
Jones added that the firing didn’t final lengthy.
“Then, with out telling me, the manufacturing workers went over and woke her and rushed her out to the set simply in time,” he stated.
On the time, he was touring internationally with the movie, which he directed and starred in, and spoke proudly of his youngsters and their independence.
Victoria Jones’ performing résumé was temporary however notable. Along with “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,” she appeared in “Males in Black II” alongside her father and had a small function within the TV collection “One Tree Hill.”
She didn’t pursue an performing profession past her teenage years.
The San Francisco Hearth Division stated it acquired a name for a medical emergency at 2:52 a.m. on New 12 months’s Day. Paramedics arrived shortly afterward and pronounced the lady useless on the scene.
San Francisco cops arrived at roughly 3:14 a.m. after receiving a report of a deceased particular person, in response to the division.
Officers met with medics on the lodge, and the case was turned over to the San Francisco Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner.
A police supply with direct data of the investigation informed NBC Bay Space that foul play will not be suspected. Authorities haven’t but confirmed an official reason behind demise, and no extra particulars have been launched.
Representatives for Tommy Lee Jones didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark. The Fairmont San Francisco didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Victoria Jones was the daughter of Jones and his second spouse, Kimberlea Cloughley, whom he was married to from 1981 to 1996. She had one brother, Austin Jones.
Lately, Victoria had largely stayed out of the general public eye, although she often appeared alongside her father at movie premieres and worldwide festivals.
Courtroom information present she had a number of run-ins with regulation enforcement, together with arrests in Napa County and Santa Cruz County on expenses associated to managed substances and home battery.
She pleaded not responsible within the Napa County circumstances and was launched on bail, in response to information.
