Felicity Jones

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Felicity Jones
Felicity Jones at the Toronto Film Festival 2011.jpg
Jones at the Toronto Film Festival, September 13, 2011
Born Felicity Rose Hadley Jones
(1983-10-17) 17 October 1983 (age 29)
Bournville, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Alma mater Wadham College, Oxford
Occupation Actress
Years active 1996–present

Felicity Rose Hadley Jones[1] (born 17 October 1983 in Birmingham, West Midlands) is an English actress, best known to television audiences for her role as the school bully Ethel Hallow in the first series of The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College. Jones also co-starred in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's feature Cemetery Junction. She appeared in 2011 in the drama Like Crazy opposite Anton Yelchin and in the romantic comedy Chalet Girl with Ed Westwick.

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Early life [edit]

Jones grew up in Bournville, Birmingham.[2] Her parents met while working at the Wolverhampton Express and Star.[3] Her father was a journalist while her mother was in advertising.[3] They divorced when she was three, and she was brought up with her brother by her mother alone.[2][3] Despite this, she says her family is "extremely close."

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). She then read English at Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with a 2:1 in 2006. While studying English, she appeared in student plays, including Attis in which she played the title role,[4] and, in 2005, Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors for the OUDS summer tour to Japan, starring alongside Harry Lloyd.

Career [edit]

Jones was encouraged to take up acting by her uncle, the actor Michael Hadley.[5] Her mother was also passionate about film and theatre.[3] She began acting at 11 at an after-school workshop funded by Central Television.[3] Jones appeared in the first series of The Worst Witch, after which she was replaced by Katie Allen. She left the series because she missed home.[2] When Weirdsister College began in 2001, Jones returned as Hallow. During the shooting of Weirdsister College she was just seventeen, lived in a flat in Richmond and had a private tutor to get her through her A levels.[5] Her longest and probably best known role overall was on the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers, where she played Emma Carter (who is now played by Emerald O'Hanrahan).[2]

In 2003 she starred as Grace May in the BBC drama Servants.[6] She took the leading role in the 2007 ITV adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, and made her stage debut in Polly Stenham's That Face at the Royal Court Theatre in April 2007.

In 2008, she appeared in the films Brideshead Revisited and Flashbacks of a Fool,[7] 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.[8] In January 2009, the 5-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. Later that year in May, she performed in a rehearsed reading of Anthony Minghella's Hang Up at the High Tide Festival.[9] Jones played the role of Julie in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's 2010 film Cemetery Junction.[10] She also appeared in Soulboy[11] and in Julie Taymor's big screen adaptation of The Tempest as Miranda.

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.[2] She had to do her own hair and make-up in the film, while the dialogue was entirely improvised.[2] Her performance earned comparisons to Carey Mulligan's Academy Award-nominated role in An Education.[2] She also received the Best new Hollywood Award for this film at the 2011 Hollywood Film Awards.[12] She appeared alongside Gossip Girl actor 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.[2] Jones said that the role was "something of a relief" after a string of costume roles and she was also keen to take on a comic role.[3] 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.[13] She turned down the title role in Mirror Mirror to appear in the play, to the amazement of director Michael Grandage. Grandage acknowledged: "Everything else has had to be moved to accommodate [the play]… at a time when her career has gone sky-high."[2] Jones lived with a Catholic family and attended Mass to prepare for the role.[2] In 2011, Jones was announced as the new face of Burberry.[2] In November, she was also announced as the new face of Dolce & Gabanna.[14]

Personal life [edit]

Jones currently lives in Bethnal Green, in London's East End, with her long-term boyfriend, Ed Fornieles, who is a sculptor and internet artist.[2][15] She and Fornieles met at Oxford when he was at the Ruskin School of Art.[2]

Filmography [edit]

Year Film Role Notes
1996 The Treasure Seekers Alice Bastable TV movie
1998 The Worst Witch Ethel Hallow TV series; 11 episodes
2001 Weirdsister College Ethel Hallow TV series; Episode: "Good Friends"
2003 Servants Grace May TV series; 6 episodes
2007 Northanger Abbey Catherine Morland TV movie
Cape Wrath Zoe Brogan TV series; 8 episodes
2008 Doctor Who Robina Redmond TV series; Episode: "The Unicorn and the Wasp"
Flashbacks of a Fool Young Ruth
Brideshead Revisited Lady Cordelia Flyte
2009 Chéri Edmée
The Diary of Anne Frank Margot Frank TV miniseries; 5 episodes
2010 Cemetery Junction Julie
Soulboy Mandy
2011
The Tempest Miranda
Chalet Girl Kim
Like Crazy Anna Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer
Gotham Award for Best Breakthrough Actor
National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance
Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performance
Nominated - Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Breakthrough Performance
Albatross Beth
Hysteria Emily Dalrymple
Page Eight Julianne Worricker TV movie
2012 Cheerful Weather for the Wedding Dolly Thatchem
2013 Breathe In Sophie
The Invisible Woman Nelly Ternan Completed
2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Felicia Hardy Filming
True Story Filming

Other works [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005.; at ancestry.com
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Grant, Olly (31 July 2011). "Felicity Jones: rising star". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 August 2011. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f Cadwalladr, Carole (20 February 2011). "Felicity Jones: 'There's a sensation when you're performing of release'". The Observer. Retrieved 3 August 2011. 
  4. ^ Moss, Deborah (9 June 2005). "Mythologies". The Oxford Student. Archived from the original on 1 May 2007. Retrieved 15 April 2010. 
  5. ^ a b White, Lesley (28 September 2008). "Felicity Jones: Ambridge goes to Brideshead". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 15 April 2010. 
  6. ^ "Drama - Servants". BBC. Retrieved 2012-09-07. 
  7. ^ Fanning, Ewan. (13 April 2008). "I reckon I never had that much sex as a kid". Interview with Daniel Craig. Irish Independent. Retrieved on 13 April 2008.
  8. ^ "Roger takes on Piaf at Donmar". 18 April 2008. Official London Theatre Guide. Retrieved on 18 April 2008.
  9. ^ http://www.hightide.org.uk/pages/anthonyminghella.php[dead link]
  10. ^ "Ricky Gervais talks Cemetery Junction". Indie London. Retrieved 1 May 2009. 
  11. ^ "Soulboy". Ipso Facto Films. Retrieved 15 April 2010. 
  12. ^ "2011 Hollywood Film Awards Honorees". Yahoo! Movies. 7 October 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2011. 
  13. ^ "''Luise Miller'' – Donmar Warehouse website". Donmarwarehouse.com. 2011-07-30. Retrieved 2012-09-07. 
  14. ^ WHITELOCKS, SADIE (29 November 2011). "Who's that girl? Brit actress Felicity Jones is new face of D&G". DailyMail. Retrieved 11 December 2012. 
  15. ^ Eyre, Hermione (26 March 2010). "The dream team: Ricky Gervais's bright young things". ES Magazine. Retrieved 15 April 2010. 
  16. ^ Profile in The Belfast Telegraph
  17. ^ "Creation Theatre Company - The Snow Queen". Newburytheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-09-07. 

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