1. Felicity Rose Hadley Jones was born on 17 October 1983 and is an English actress.
40 Facts About Felicity Jones
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Felicity Jones began her professional acting career as a child, appearing in The Treasure Seekers at age 12.
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Felicity Jones went on to play Ethel Hallow for one series of the television series The Worst Witch.
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Since 2006, Jones has appeared in the films Northanger Abbey, Brideshead Revisited, Cheri, The Tempest, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and True Story.
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Felicity Jones received praise for her performances in the romantic drama Like Crazy and the biopic The Theory of Everything.
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In 2016, Felicity 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.
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Felicity Rose Hadley Jones was born in Birmingham on 17 October 1983, and grew up in Bournville.
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Felicity Jones's mother worked in advertising and her father was a journalist.
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Felicity Jones's uncle Michael Hadley is an actor, which prompted Jones's interest in acting as a child.
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Felicity Jones 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.
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Felicity Jones began acting at the age of 11 at after-school workshop Central Junior Television, which was funded by Central Television.
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When Weirdsister College began in 2001, Felicity Jones returned as Hallow.
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Felicity Jones 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.
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In 2008, Felicity 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.
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In January 2009, the five-part TV serial The Diary of Anne Frank, in which Felicity Jones played the role of Margot Frank alongside Tamsin Greig and Iain Glen, was broadcast on BBC One.
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Felicity Jones played the role of Julie in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's 2010 film Cemetery Junction.
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Felicity Jones appeared in Soulboy and in Julie Taymor's big screen adaptation of The Tempest as Miranda.
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On 29 January 2011, Felicity Jones won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for her performance as Anna in Drake Doremus's Like Crazy.
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Felicity Jones's performance earned comparisons to Carey Mulligan's Academy Award-nominated role in An Education.
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Felicity Jones received the Best New Hollywood Award for this film at the 2011 Hollywood Film Awards.
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Felicity Jones appeared alongside Ed Westwick in Chalet Girl, a romantic comedy released in March 2011, for which she had to undergo two months of snowboarding training and work undercover in a chalet at St Anton, scrubbing toilets and partying at the Krazy Kanguruh bar in preparation for the role.
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Felicity Jones said that the role was "something of a relief" after a string of costume roles and she was keen to take on a comic role.
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Felicity Jones performed in Luise Miller, a new translation of Schiller's Kabale und Liebe by Mike Poulton at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London, in June and July 2011.
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Felicity Jones lived with a Catholic family and attended Mass to prepare for the role.
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In 2011, Felicity Jones was announced as the new face of Burberry.
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In 2013, Felicity Jones portrayed Ellen Ternan in The Invisible Woman.
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Felicity Jones appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which was released on 2 May 2014.
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Felicity Jones played Felicia Hardy; an assistant of Harry Osborn.
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Felicity Jones signed on due to its difference from her previous works.
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In 2014, Felicity Jones portrayed Jane Wilde Hawking in the film The Theory of Everything, a biopic charting the life and love between Wilde Hawking and physicist Stephen Hawking, with Eddie Redmayne starring as Hawking.
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Felicity Jones met with Jane Hawking in preparing for the role.
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Felicity Jones's agent recommended the role to her, and she enjoyed the character's search for an identity, drawing inspiration in her movements from Ronda Rousey.
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Also in 2016, Felicity Jones starred in Inferno, playing a doctor aiding Robert Langdon in his escape.
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Felicity Jones enjoyed the chemistry between her and Tom Hanks's characters as well as Inferno's overall diversity.
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In 2017, Felicity Jones was announced as a global brand ambassador for Cle de Peau Beaute.
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Felicity Jones reunited on-screen with Redmayne in the biographical adventure The Aeronauts, joined George Clooney in Netflix's science fiction film The Midnight Sky, and starred in the romantic drama The Last Letter from Your Lover, an adaptation of Jojo Moyes' 2011 novel of the same name.
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Felicity Jones starred in the thriller Dead Shot, alongside Aml Ameen, Mark Strong and Sophia Brown, in 2023.
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Felicity Jones appeared in the 2024 film The Brutalist, portraying the Holocaust-survivor wife of the central character, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Felicity Jones met artist Ed Fornieles at Oxford when he was at the Ruskin School of Art, and they dated from 2003 to 2013.
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In 2015, Felicity Jones began a relationship with director Charles Guard.