Felicity Jones
Born Felicity Rose Hadley Jones
17 October 1983
Birmingham, England
Nationality British
Alma mater Wadham College, Oxford
Occupation Actress
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones (born 17 October 1983) is an English actress. She started her professional acting career as a child, appearing at age 12 in The Treasure Seekers (1996). Jones went on to play Ethel Hallow for one season in the television show The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College. She took time off from acting to attend university at Wadham College, Oxford where she performed in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors for the Oxford University Dramatic Society, and has worked steadily since graduating in 2006. On radio, she has played the role of Emma Grundy in the BBC’s The Archers. In 2008, she appeared in the Donmar Warehouse production of The Chalk Garden.
Since 2006, Jones has appeared in numerous films, including Northanger Abbey (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Chéri (2009), The Tempest (2010), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and True Story (2015). Her performance in the 2011 film Like Crazy was met with critical acclaim, garnering her numerous awards, including a special jury prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
In 2014, her performance as Jane Hawking in The Theory of Everything also met with critical acclaim, garnering her nominations for the Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2016, Jones starred in the adventure-thriller Inferno, the fantasy drama A Monster Calls and the Star Wars film Rogue One as Jyn Erso. In 2016, she received the BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year.
In 2014, Jones portrayed Jane Wilde Hawking in the film The Theory of Everything, a biopic charting the life and love between Wilde Hawking and the world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, with Eddie Redmayne starring as Hawking. After being given the script by her agent, Jones read it in its entirety in one sitting, and said that she enjoyed that it was a “love story and not a straightforward biopic.” She auditioned for the film and its director, James Marsh, offered the part immediately after, surprising Jones who was accustomed to waiting several weeks for a confirmation. Jones was aided by Jane Hawking in preparing for the role, meeting with her. The film has been praised largely due to her and Redmayne’s performances. Jane Hawking was so impressed by the portrayal she wondered if it was herself when watching Jones. For her role as Jane, she received widespread acclaim from a number of organisations, including nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.
Filmography
Film
2008 Flashbacks of a Fool Young Ruth Baillie Walsh [35]
2008 Brideshead Revisited Cordelia Flyte Julian Jarrold [36]
2009 Chéri Edmée Stephen Frears [37]
2010 Cemetery Junction Julie Kendrick Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant [38]
2010 Soulboy Mandy Hodgson Shimmy Marcus [39]
2010 The Tempest Miranda Julie Taymor [40]
2011 Chalet Girl Kim Matthews Phil Traill [41]
2011 Like Crazy Anna Gardner Drake Doremus [42]
2011 Albatross Beth Fischer Niall MacCormick [43]
2011 Hysteria Emily Dalrymple Tanya Wexler [44]
2012 Cheerful Weather for the Wedding Dolly Thatchem Donald Rice [45]
2013 Breathe In Sophie Drake Doremus [46]
2013 The Invisible Woman Nelly Ternan Ralph Fiennes [47]
2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Felicia Hardy Marc Webb [48]
2014 The Theory of Everything Jane Wilde Hawking James Marsh [49]
2015 True Story Jill Barker Rupert Goold [50]
2016 Collide Juliette Eran Creevy [51][52]
2016 A Monster Calls Lizzie O’Malley J. A. Bayona [53]
2016 Inferno Sienna Brooks Ron Howard [54]
2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Jyn Erso Gareth Edwards [55]
2018 On the Basis of Sex Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mimi Leder [56]
Television
1996 The Treasure Seekers Alice Bastable Television film [57]
1998–1999 The Worst Witch Ethel Hallow Main role (series 1), 11 episodes [58]
2001 Weirdsister College Ethel Hallow Main role, 13 episodes [59]
2003 Servants Grace May Main role, 6 episodes [60]
2007 Northanger Abbey Catherine Morland Television film [61]
2007 Cape Wrath Zoe Brogan Main role, 8 episodes [62]
2008 Doctor Who Robina Redmond Episode: “The Unicorn and the Wasp” [63]
2009 The Diary of Anne Frank Margot Frank Main role, 5 episodes [64]
2011 Page Eight Julianne Worricker Television film [65]
2014 Salting the Battlefield Julianne Worricker Television film [66]
2014 Girls Dottie Episode: “Role-Play” [67]
2017 Saturday Night Live Host Episode: “Felicity Jones / Sturgill Simpson” [68]
2017 Star Wars: Forces of Destiny Jyn Erso Voice role [69]
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