
Biography
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 the 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 since portrayed Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the biopic On the Basis of Sex (2018). She 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Felicity Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Empire Award — Best Actress · 2017
- Empire Awards · 2017
- Empire Award — Best Newcomer · 2012
- Gotham Independent Film Award — Breakthrough Actor · 2011
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 2025 · nominated
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- Academy Award — Best Actress · 2015 · nominated
Filmography46 titles

Weirdsister College

Servants

The Theory of Everything

Doctor Who

The Worst Witch

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Train Dreams

The Last Letter from Your Lover

On the Basis of Sex

A Monster Calls

The Graham Norton Show

The Brutalist

Dragon Rider

Saturday Night Live

The Aeronauts

Northanger Abbey

Hysteria

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Cemetery Junction

Girls

Like Crazy

Chalet Girl

True Story

Brideshead Revisited

Flashbacks of a Fool

Meadowlands

Inferno

Chéri

100 Nights of Hero

Albatross

Breathe In

The Invisible Woman

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Midnight Sky

Oh. What. Fun.

Collide

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Dead Shot

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

The Tempest

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Chelsea

Star Wars: Forces of Destiny

The View

The One Show

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors