Birth Name: Felicity Rose Hadley Jones
Birth Date: October 17, 1983
Birth Place: Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress. Jones was born in Birmingham, West Midlands, and grew up in Bournville. Her parents met while working at the Wolverhampton Express and Star. Her father was a journalist while her mother was in advertising. They divorced when she was three, and she was brought up with her brother by her mother alone. She has said that her family is still “extremely close.” Her uncle is actor Michael Hadley.
She started her professional acting career as a child, appearing at age 12 in The Treasure Seekers (1996). She went on to play Ethel Hallow for one series in the television show The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College. 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 (2003)).
She took time off from acting to attend school during her formative years, and has worked steadily since she graduated with a 2:1 from Wadham College, Oxford in 2006, where she read English. While studying English, she appeared in student plays, including Attis in which she played the title role, and, in 2005, Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors” for the OUDS summer tour to Japan, starring alongside Harry Lloyd.
On radio, she is known for playing the long-running role of Emma Grundy in The Archers. In 2008, she appeared in the Donmar Warehouse production of The Chalk Garden. Since 2006, Jones has appeared in numerous films, including Northanger Abbey (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Askim (2009), and The Tempest (2010). She stars in Star Wars spin-off Rogue One: Bir Star Wars Hikayesi (2016) as Jyn Erso.
Her performance in the 2011 film Çilginlar Gibi (2011) was met with critical acclaim garnering her numerous awards, including a special jury prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, her performance as Jane Hawking in Her Seyin Teorisi (2014) was also met with critical acclaim, garnering her nominations for the Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA, and Academy Award for Best Actress.
Felcity Jones Filmography
2008 Flashbacks of a Fool
2008 Brideshead Revisited
2009 Chéri
2010 Cemetery Junction
2010 Soulboy
2010 The Tempest
2011 Chalet Girl
2011 Like Crazy
2011 Albatross
2011 Hysteria
2012 Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
2013 Breathe In
2013 The Invisible Woman
2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014 The Theory of Everything
2015 True Story
2016 Collide
2016 A Monster Calls
2016 Inferno
2017 Rogue One: A Star Wars Saga
2018 On the Basis of Sex
2019 The Aeronauts
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