Toby Edward Heslewood Jones was born on 7 September 1966 and is an English actor.
30 Facts About Toby Jones
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Toby Jones made his stage debut in 2001 in the comedy play The Play What I Wrote, which played in the West End and on Broadway, earning him a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
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Toby Jones made his film debut in Sally Potter's period drama Orlando in 1992.
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Toby Jones appeared in minor roles in films such as Naked, Les Miserables, Ever After, Finding Neverland, and Mrs Henderson Presents.
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Toby Jones won critical acclaim for his leading role as Truman Capote in the biopic Infamous.
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Toby Jones is known for his voice roles as Dobby in the Harry Potter films, Aristides Silk in The Adventures of Tintin and Owl in Disney's Christopher Robin.
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Toby Jones is known for his blockbuster roles as Claudius Templesmith in The Hunger Games franchise, Arnim Zola in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the Disney+ television series What If.
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Toby Jones has two brothers: Rupert, a director, and Casper, an actor.
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Toby Jones attended Christ Church Cathedral School and Abingdon School in Oxfordshire in the 1980s.
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Toby Jones studied drama at the University of Manchester from 1986 to 1989, and at L'Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris from 1989 to 1991.
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Toby Jones has appeared in more than 20 films since his first acting role in the 1992 film Orlando.
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Toby Jones appeared in the film adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist in 2007.
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Toby Jones appeared alongside his father in the 2004 film Ladies in Lavender.
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Toby Jones appeared in the 2010 episode "Amy's Choice", of Doctor Who, as the Dream Lord, and in the Big Finish Productions series' Dark Eyes as Kotris.
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Toby Jones played the role of Samuel Ratchett in Agatha Christie's Poirot TV Series 12 episode "Murder on the Orient Express".
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Toby Jones portrayed film director Alfred Hitchcock in the HBO television film The Girl, a role that earned him his first Golden Globe Award nomination, as well as his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Toby Jones played Neil Baldwin in the BBC drama Marvellous in 2014.
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In 2015, Toby Jones played the part of Roger Yount, a banker, in the three-part BBC series Capital based on John Lanchester's novel of the same name.
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Toby Jones always wants to know a character's needs, and what's beneath those needs.
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Toby Jones carries the emotional complexities in every tiny gesture that his character makes so that you immediately can see what his character is like.
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Toby Jones played Captain Mainwaring in the film Dad's Army, released in February 2016.
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In 2003 Toby Jones played the part of Lord Brideshead in a BBC Radio adaptation of Brideshead Revisited.
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Toby Jones voiced the title character in the 2005 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Oblomov.
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Toby Jones read the 2009 Radio 4 adaptation of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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Toby Jones played Inspector Goole in the 2010 BBC Radio adaptation of An Inspector Calls.
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Since 2013 Jones has been the voice of the lead character, Joey Oldman in the BBC Radio 4 series The Corrupted, an adaptation of the G F Newman novel Crime and Punishment.
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In 2021, Toby Jones recorded the audiobook version of John Le Carre's final novel Silverview for Penguin Audio.
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Toby Jones's comic turn as Arthur earned him the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and the play moved to Broadway in 2003.
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Toby Jones starred as Stanley in the 2018 revival of The Birthday Party at The Harold Pinter Theatre.
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Toby Jones was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to drama.