Felicity Jones
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones (born 17 October 1983) is an English actress. She started 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 and its sequel Weirdsister College. On radio, she has played the role of Emma Grundy in the BBC's The Archers. In 2008, she appeared in the Donmar Warehouse production of The Chalk Garden.
This article is about the actress. For the naturist, see Felicity Jones (naturist).
Felicity Jones
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). Her performance in the 2011 film Like Crazy was met with critical acclaim and awards including a special jury prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Her performance as Jane Hawking in the 2014 biographical film The Theory of Everything earned her nominations for the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actress.
In 2016, Jones starred in the adventure-thriller Inferno, the fantasy drama A Monster Calls, and the space opera Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as Jyn Erso.[1] She has since portrayed Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the biopic On the Basis of Sex (2018), and has starred in the streaming films The Aeronauts (2019), The Midnight Sky, and The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021).
Early life[edit]
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones was born in Birmingham on 17 October 1983.[2] She has one elder brother.[3][4] Her mother worked in advertising and her father was a journalist.[3] She grew up in Bournville.[3][4] Her uncle Michael Hadley is also an actor, which prompted Jones's interest in acting as a child.[5] One of her great-great-grandmothers was Italian and hailed from Lucca.[6] 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.[7] She appeared in student plays, including Attis in which she played the titular role,[8] and, in 2005, Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors for the Oxford University Dramatic Society summer tour to Japan, starring alongside Harry Lloyd.[9]
Personal life[edit]
Jones met artist Ed Fornieles at Oxford when he was at the Ruskin School of Art,[10][36] and they dated from 2003 to 2013.[10][37]
In 2015, Jones began a relationship with Charles Guard, a director. They became engaged in May 2017,[38] and married in June 2018.[39] In December 2019, a representative for Jones confirmed the couple were expecting their first child.[40] Their son was born in April 2020.[41]