Felicity Jones

Felicity Rose Hadley Jones, born on 17 October 1983, is an English actress. She started acting when she was a child. She was in the film The Treasure Seekers in 1996 and played Ethel Hallow in the TV series The Worst Witch in 1998. She also performed in a play called The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse in 2008.

Jones became well-known for many important roles. She played a student in the film Like Crazy in 2011. In 2014, she played a teacher named Jane Hawking in The Theory of Everything. She also played a character in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in 2016 and another in On the Basis of Sex in 2018.

She has appeared in many other films. These include The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014, Inferno in 2016, and A Monster Calls in 2016. She also starred in The Aeronauts in 2019, The Midnight Sky in 2020, and The Last Letter from Your Lover in 2021. In 2025, she was in Train Dreams, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Early life and education

Felicity Rose Hadley Jones was born in Birmingham on 17 October 1983. She grew up in Bournville. Her mother worked in advertising, and her father was a journalist. Her parents separated when she was three, and she and her older brother lived with their mother.

One of her great-great-grandmothers came from Lucca in Italy. Her uncle Michael Hadley is an actor, which made her love acting when she was young. She went to Kings Norton Girls' School and King Edward VI Handsworth School. After that, she took a gap year and acted in the BBC series Servants. She then studied English at Wadham College, Oxford. While there, she acted in student plays, including Attis and The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare.

Career

Felicity Jones began acting at 11 years old in an after-school workshop. At 14, she appeared in the first series of The Worst Witch. She returned as Ethel Hallow when Weirdsister College began in 2001. Her longest role was on the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers, where she played Emma Carter until 2009.

In 2003, she starred as Grace May in the BBC drama Servants. She took the leading role in the 2007 ITV adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. In 2008, she appeared in the films Brideshead Revisited and Flashbacks of a Fool, and in a revival of Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London.

In 2011, she won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for her role in Like Crazy. In 2014, she portrayed Jane Wilde Hawking in the film The Theory of Everything, earning several award nominations for her performance. In 2016, she played Jyn Erso in the Star Wars film Rogue One, which was very successful. She continued to act in many films over the years, including The Aeronauts in 2019 and The Brutalist in 2024.

Personal life

Felicity Jones met artist Ed Fornieles at Oxford while he was studying at the Ruskin School of Art. They dated from 2003 until 2013.

In 2015, she started a relationship with director Charles Guard. They got engaged in May 2017 and got married in June 2018. They have two children—a son born in 2020 and a daughter in 2022.

Acting credits

Main article: List of Felicity Jones performances

Felicity Jones started acting when she was a child. She was in a show called The Treasure Seekers in 1996. In 1998, she played a character named Ethel Hallow in a TV series called The Worst Witch. Later, in 2008, she acted in a play named The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse.

Accolades

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Felicity Jones

Felicity Jones is a talented actress who has been honored for her work. She has won many awards and has been nominated for others. You can see a full list of her awards and nominations by visiting the linked article above.