Gemma Jones
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Jones at the screening of You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
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Jennifer Gemma Jones 4 December 1942 Marylebone, London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1962–present |
Jennifer Gemma Jones (born 4 December 1942) is an English character actress on both stage and screen. Her film appearances include Sense and Sensibility (1995), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010). For her role in the BBC TV film Marvellous (2014), she won the 2015 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Jones was born in Marylebone, the daughter of Irene (née Isaac) (1911–1985) and Griffith Jones, an actor (1909–2007). Her brother, Nicholas Jones, is also an actor. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she won the Gold Medal.
Jones had a relationship with the actor and director Sebastian Graham-Jones with whom she had a son Luke, who is a film producer.
Gemma Jones appeared at Nottingham Playhouse in 1965, as Anya, in The Cherry Orchard. Jones became known to television viewers after starring in the BBC serial Kenilworth (1967) as Queen Elizabeth I, and in BBC 2's 1970 dramatisation of The Spoils of Poynton.
She was first recognised outside the UK in 1974, after playing the Empress Frederick in the BBC television drama series Fall of Eagles and Louisa Trotter in another BBC drama, The Duchess of Duke Street. In 1980, she played the role of Portia in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of The Merchant of Venice, opposite Warren Mitchell's Shylock. In 1966, she played the great soprano Giuseppina Strepponi in After Aida at the Old Vic Theatre. Jones played Mrs. Dashwood alongside Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson in the Academy Award-winning period drama Sense and Sensibility (1995).
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