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LOS ANGELES – JAN 08: Jones arrives for the ABC Winter TCA Party 2020 on January 08, 2020 in Pasadena, CA, DFree/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Richard Timothy Jones
Place of Birth: Kobe, Japan
Date of Birth: January 16, 1972
Ethnicity: African-American
Richard T. Jones is an American actor. His roles include the films The Trigger Effect , Event Horizon , The Wood , Lockdown , G , Moonlight Mile , Phone Booth , Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? , Vantage Point , Super 8 , Godzilla (2014), Hot Pursuit , A Question of Faith , and The Public , and television’s Brooklyn South , Judging Amy , Full-Court Miracle , Riding the Bus with My Sister , Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles , American Horror Story , Narcos , Wisdom of the Crowd , and The Rookie . He has also been billed by his full name Richard Timothy Jones.
He was born in Kobe, to American parents, Lorene, a computer analyst, and Clarence Jones (Clarence Woodrow Jones), a professional baseball player and coach, from Birmingham, Alabama. His father played for the Nankai Hawks in Osaka at the time, and was also with the Chicago Cubs and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes, as well as a coach for the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians. After his father retired in 1978, Richard was raised in Carson and Torrance, both in California. Richard is married to Nancy, with whom he has three children. He is a Christian.