Felicity Jones

Felicity Jones
Felicity Jones at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Felicity Rose Hadley Jones (1983-10-17) 17 October 1983 (age 33) Birmingham, England
Education	King Edward VI Handsworth School Kings Norton Girls' School
Alma mater	Wadham College, Oxford
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present
Partner(s)	Ed Fornieles (2003–13)

Felicity Rose Hadley Jones (born 17 October 1983) is an English actress. She started her professional acting career as a child, appearing at age 12 in The Treasure Seekers (1996). Jones went on to play Ethel Hallow for one season in the television show The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College. She took time off from acting to attend university at Wadham College, Oxford where she performed in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors for the Oxford University Dramatic Society, and has worked steadily since graduating in 2006. 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.

Since 2006, Jones has appeared in numerous films, including Northanger Abbey (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Chéri (2009), and The Tempest (2010). Her performance in the 2011 film Like Crazy 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 The Theory of Everything also met with critical acclaim, garnering her nominations for the Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2016, Jones starred in the adventure-thriller Inferno, the fantasy drama A Monster Calls and the Star Wars anthology film Rogue One. In 2016, she received the BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year.