Tommy Lee Jones’ late daughter Victoria had also pursued acting during her life – even making her film debut in a movie starring her famous father.
Victoria was tragically found dead at age 34 in an upscale San Francisco hotel, in the small hours of the morning on New Year’s Day.
A source has told The Daily Mail that there were no signs of foul play, such as trauma to the body, and police did not find any drug paraphernalia on the scene. There were also no signs that Victoria may have taken her own life.
It’s been more than 10 years since she last appeared on camera, but as a child and young adult, Victoria was building an acting career which included a brief role in the 2002 film starring her father, Men In Black II.
Victoria made her film debut in the comedy, playing a member of a family whose home was being used as a weapons storage by the secret agents.
Her brief yet memorable scene saw her watching television with her on-screen father and mother when the agents abruptly walk in to gather weapons that were secretly being stashed in the living room.
Tommy Lee Jones’ daughter Victoria appeared in several productions during her life, including this scene in Men In Black II
She is pictured with her father attending the 2003 premiere of his movie The Missing
Victoria and her stunned on-screen family watched as the group picked up their items before their memory was wiped by the secret agents.
It would not be the first time Victoria would appear in a production featuring her father.
Victoria’s next role was in another film starring and directed by her father, the 2005 drama The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. She played an ‘immigrant girl’, according to her IMDb.
That same year Victoria appeared in two other projects – she played a mugging victim in Sorry, Haters, a drama starring Robin Wright, as well as a cheerleader in an episode of One Tree Hill.
Victoria’s last role was in the 2014 film The Homesman, which starred and was directed by her dad.
According to her IMDb, her role was that of ‘Woman (Hebron).’
After directing his daughter in The Three Burials of Melquiades, Jones showered praise on Victoria in an interview promoting the film.
‘She’s a good actress, has her SAG card, speaks impeccable Spanish,’ he said. ‘When she was a baby, I told Leticia, her nurse, to speak to her in Spanish.’
He also related a charming anecdote about having to acclimatize his then 14-year-old daughter to the rigors of working on a Hollywood movie set.
‘She had to get up at 5am for her part. One morning, she wouldn’t get out of bed. I said: “Honey, this is work.” But she wouldn’t budge,’ he told the New Yorker.
‘So I fired her. Then, without telling me, the production staff went over and woke her and rushed her out to the set just in time,’ he recalled.
Victoria was found dead in an upscale San Francisco hotel room aged 34, in the small hours of the morning on New Year’s Day; they are pictured at the premiere of Just Getting Started in 2017
Jones and Victoria are pictured in October 2017 at the opening of that year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, where he was serving as president of the international competition
Although she has not acted onscreen since The Homesman, she has attended the occasional red carpet with Jones as an adult.
In 2017, she posed proudly at his side at the ArcLight Hollywood for the premiere of his movie Just Getting Started, also starring Morgan Freeman and Rene Russo.
That October, she made an appearance with her father at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival, where he was serving as president of the international competition jury.
Heartbreakingly, Victoria was found dead on New Year’s Day at just age 34.
The San Francisco Fire Department told the Daily Mail that they responded to a call for medical aid at 2:52am Thursday at the address of the Fairmont San Francisco.
Jones is pictured with his third and current wife Dawn Laurel-Jones (right), as well as with Victoria, at the Cannes premiere of the 2014 movie The Homesman, which he directed
Emergency personnel performed an assessment and pronounced one person dead at the scene. The San Francisco Police Department and the San Francisco Medical Examiner also responded, but at present the cause of death is unknown.
‘A white female around her mid-30s was found unresponsive and the hotel staff was alerted,’ a source informed the Daily Mail. ‘CPR was done, but she was pronounced deceased by the emergency/ambulance crew that responded to the scene.’ The Daily Mail has confirmed the woman was Victoria.
The news was first reported by TMZ, which said that the scene was turned over to the police department once she was pronounced dead.
Jones welcomed Victoria and his son Austin, 42, with his second wife Kimberlea Cloughley, whom he was married to from 1981 to 1996.
A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department told the Daily Mail: ‘On 1/1/26 at approximately 3:14 a.m., San Francisco Police officers responded to a hotel located on the 900 block of Mason street regarding a report of a deceased person.’
The San Francisco Fire Department told the Daily Mail that they responded to a call for medical aid at 2:52am Thursday at the address of the Fairmont San Francisco (pictured)
The statement continued: ‘At the scene, officers met with medics, who declared the adult female deceased. The Medical Examiner arrived on scene and conducted an investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact the SFPD at 415-575-4444 or Text a Tip to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.’
A source has since told The Daily Mail that Victoria was lying on the ground of the 14th floor of the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco when a guest who thought she might be drunk alerted hotel staff.
The staffers quickly realized Victoria was unresponsive and immediately started CPR and called for an ambulance.
The San Francisco Fire Department said they responded to a call for medical aid at 2.52am, at which point first responders tried to revive Victoria before she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The source said there were no signs of foul play, such as trauma to the body, and police did not find any drug paraphernalia on the scene. There were also no signs that Victoria may have taken her own life.
It remains unclear whether Victoria was a guest at the hotel or how she came to be on the 14th floor, according to the Daily Mail’s insider.
