biography of Felicity Jones

Felicity Rose Hadley Jones

 (born 17 October 1983) is an English actress. She began her professional acting career as a child, appearing in The Treasure Seekers (1996) at age 12. She went on to play Ethel Hallow for one series of the television series The Worst Witch (1998). In 2008, she appeared in the Donmar Warehouse production of The Chalk Garden.

Since 2006, Jones has appeared in the films Northanger Abbey (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Chéri (2009), The Tempest (2010), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), and True Story (2015). She received praise for her performances in the romantic drama Like Crazy (2011) and the biopic The Theory of Everything (2014). Her portrayal of Jane Hawking in the latter earned her nominations for the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 2016, Jones starred in the thriller Inferno, the fantasy drama A Monster Calls, and the space opera Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as Jyn Erso. She has portrayed Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the biopic On the Basis of Sex (2018), and has starred in the streaming films The Aeronauts (2019), The Midnight Sky (2020) and The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021), as well as the period drama The Brutalist (2024), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Felicity Rose Hadley Jones was born in Birmingham on 17 October 1983,  and grew up in Bournville.  Her mother worked in advertising and her father was a journalist. They separated when she was three years old and she and her elder brother lived with her mother. 

One of her great-great-grandmothers was Italian and hailed from Lucca. Her uncle Michael Hadley is also an actor, which prompted Jones's interest in acting as a child. 

After Kings Norton Girls' School, Jones attended King Edward VI Handsworth School, to complete A-levels and went on to take a gap year (during which she appeared in the BBC series Servants). She then studied English at Wadham College, Oxford.^[8] She appeared in student plays, including Attis in which she played the titular role, and, in 2005, Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors for the Oxford University Dramatic Society summer tour to Japan, starring alongside Harry Lloyd

Jones began acting at the age of 11 at after-school workshop Central Junior Television, which was funded by Central Television. At age 14, she appeared in the first series of The Worst Witch. When Weirdsister College began in 2001, Jones returned as Hallow. Her longest-running role around this time was on the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers, where she played Emma Carter until 2009. 

In 2003, she starred as Grace May in the BBC drama Servants.  She took the leading role in the 2007 ITV adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, and starred in Polly Stenham's That Face at the Royal Court Theatre in April 2007.

In 2008, Jones appeared in the films Brideshead Revisited and Flashbacks of a Fool,  the Doctor Who episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp" and a revival of Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London.  In January 2009, the five-part TV serial The Diary of Anne Frank, in which Jones played the role of Margot Frank alongside Tamsin Greig (as Edith Frank-Holländer) and Iain Glen (as Otto Frank), was broadcast on BBC One. Later that year in May, she performed in a rehearsed reading of Anthony Minghella's Hang Up at the High Tide Festival.  Jones played the role of Julie in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's 2010 film Cemetery Junction.  She appeared in Soulboy  and in Julie Taymor's big screen adaptation of The Tempest as Miranda.

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