![]() For the film, Jones did her own hair and make-up and improvised her dialogue. On 29 January 2011, Jones won a Special Jury Prize (Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival for her performance as Anna in Drake Doremus's Like Crazy. Jones at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival She also appeared in Soulboy and in Julie Taymor's big screen adaptation of The Tempest as Miranda. Jones played the role of Julie in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's 2010 film Cemetery Junction. Later that year in May, she performed in a rehearsed reading of Anthony Minghella's Hang Up at the High Tide Festival. 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. In 2008, she 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. 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 2003, she starred as Grace May in the BBC drama Servants. Her longest running role around this time was on the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers, where she played Emma Carter until 2009 (currently played by Emerald O'Hanrahan). When Weirdsister College began in 2001, Jones returned as Hallow. At age 14, she appeared in the first series of The Worst Witch. Jones began acting at the age of 11 at after-school workshop Central Junior Television, which was funded by Central Television. Main article: List of Felicity Jones performances 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. She then read English at Wadham College, Oxford. 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). 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. Her mother worked in advertising and her father was a journalist. She has since 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, and The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021).įelicity Rose Hadley Jones was born in Birmingham on 17 October 1983. In 2016, Jones starred in the adventure-thriller Inferno, the fantasy drama A Monster Calls, and the space opera Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as Jyn Erso. Her performance as Jane Hawking in the 2014 biographical film The Theory of Everything earned her nominations for the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actress. Her performance in the 2011 film Like Crazy was met with critical acclaim and awards including a special jury prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. 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). In 2008, she appeared in the Donmar Warehouse production of The Chalk Garden. On radio, she has played the role of Emma Grundy in the BBC's The Archers. She went on to play Ethel Hallow for one series of the television series The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College. She started her professional acting career as a child, appearing in The Treasure Seekers (1996) at age 12. Felicity Rose Hadley Jones (born 17 October 1983) is a British actress.
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