Victoria Jones was 14 when her father, Tommy Lee Jones, “fired” her from a film function after she refused to get away from 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 Yr’s Day on the Fairmont San Francisco resort. Authorities mentioned foul play shouldn’t be suspected, however the reason for loss of life stays below investigation.
Practically 20 years earlier, her father had spoken warmly about working along with his teenage daughter throughout a 2006 interview with The New Yorker.
Jones advised 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 effectively past her years.
“She’s a very good actress, has her SAG card, speaks impeccable Spanish,” Jones mentioned on the time, based on the interview by Lillian Ross. He credited her language expertise to her childhood, explaining that when she was a child, he requested her nurse to talk to her in Spanish.
However Jones mentioned the realities of a movie set finally 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 away from bed. I mentioned, ‘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 employees went over and woke her and rushed her out to the set simply in time,” he mentioned.
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’ appearing résumé was transient 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 appearing profession past her teenage years.
The San Francisco Hearth Division mentioned it acquired a name for a medical emergency at 2:52 a.m. on New Yr’s Day. Paramedics arrived shortly afterward and pronounced the girl useless on the scene.
San Francisco cops arrived at roughly 3:14 a.m. after receiving a report of a deceased particular person, based on the division.
Officers met with medics on the resort, 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 advised NBC Bay Space that foul play shouldn’t be suspected. Authorities haven’t but confirmed an official explanation for loss of life, 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.
In recent times, 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 costs associated to managed substances and home battery.
She pleaded not responsible within the Napa County instances and was launched on bail, based on information.
