Academy Award(R) Winner Tommy Lee Jones Joins Season Two Cast of "The Lowdown" Coming to FX and Hulu

Jones Joins Ethan Hawke in the Return of Sterlin Harjo's Western-Noir

All Episodes of Season One Currently Streaming on Hulu

LOS ANGELES, March 11, 2026 - Oscar(R) winner Tommy Lee Jones has joined the cast of FX's The Lowdown for the second season of the acclaimed comedy from two-time Peabody-winning creator Sterlin Harjo (Reservation Dogs) and starring current Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke. Jones joins previously announced Betty Gilpin (Glow) in the next season, which begins production this spring in Tulsa.

The Lowdown is created by Sterlin Harjo, who executive produces with Garrett Basch, Ethan Hawke, Ryan Hawke, Duffy Boudreau and Scott Teems. The Lowdown is produced by FX Productions with all episodes currently available to stream on Hulu.

FX's The Lowdown follows the gritty exploits of citizen journalist Lee Raybon (Hawke), a self-proclaimed Tulsa "truthstorian" whose obsession with the truth is always getting him into trouble. While Lee's no idealist, he's fiercely committed to exposing corruption and unearthing the city's hidden rot, even when it puts him at risk.

In season one, the publication of Lee's latest exposé - a deep dive into the powerful Washberg family - is immediately followed by the suspicious suicide of Dale Washberg, and Lee knows he's stumbled onto something big. Following a trail of breadcrumbs Dale has left behind, urging someone to dig deeper into the circumstances surrounding his death, Lee does just that. The first season also starred Keith David and featured guest stars Kyle MacLachlan, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tim Blake Nelson, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Michael "Killer Mike" Render, Kaniehtiio Horn, Tracy Letts, Peter Dinklage and the late, great Graham Greene.

Tommy Lee Jones - Bio

One of the industry's most acclaimed and accomplished actors, Academy Award(R) winner Tommy Lee Jones brings a distinct character to his every role.

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.

Jones most recently starred in Amazon's courtroom drama film, The Burial, alongside Jamie Foxx and Jurnee Smollett and in 101 Studios Finestkind for director Brian Helgeland.

Jones was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar(R) 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 as Best Supporting Actor. Three years earlier, Jones received his first Oscar(R) 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(R) 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 Thaddeus Stevens in Steven Spielberg's epic portrait Lincoln, garnering an Academy Award(R) 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, Tommy was inducted into the Texas Hall of Fame at the Austin Film Society Awards.

Jones is represented by CAA, Viewpoint, and Jacobson, Russell, Saltz, Nassim & De La Torre.

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About FX

FX, a division of Disney Entertainment, is a global multiplatform brand that develops, produces, commissions and markets original programming for Hulu and the FX and FXX linear channels in the U.S., and Disney+ in all other international territories. Over the past two decades, FX has been responsible for some the most-critically acclaimed and award-winning shows on television. Some of the brand's current and legacy titles include the dramas Alien: Earth, American Crime Story, American Horror Story, The Americans, The Beauty, Damages, Dying for Sex, Fargo, FEUD, Justified, Love Story, Nip/Tuck, The Old Man, The Patient, Pose, Rescue Me, The Shield, Shōgun, Say Nothing, Snowfall and Sons of Anarchy; the comedies Archer, Atlanta, The Bear, Better Things, DAVE, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Lowdown, Reservation Dogs and What We Do in the Shadows; and a slate of docuseries and documentary films including Welcome to Wrexham, The New York Times Presents and Dear Mama.