---
name: "Alethea Jones"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alethea-jones"
fi1m_id: "alethea-jones"
imdb_id: "nm2370148"
tmdb_id: 1449583
wikidata_id: "Q62081671"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "director"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-23T12:59:41.555705+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alethea Jones

## Identity

Alethea Jones

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alethea-jones
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alethea-jones
- **IMDb ID:** nm2370148
- **TMDB ID:** 1449583
- **Wikidata ID:** Q62081671
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alethea_Jones, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62081671, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2370148/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1449583

Director. Born in Northern New South Wales, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2024–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as director, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 71 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Crime 2, Drama 2, Mystery 2, Comedy 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alethea_Jones, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62081671, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2370148/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1449583

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed*](https://film.one/tv/maximum-pleasure-guaranteed.md) (74)
- **Disney+:** [*High Potential*](https://film.one/tv/high-potential.md) (72)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Spider-Noir*](https://film.one/tv/spider-noir.md) (67)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Alethea Jones

> Alethea Jones is an actor-friendly director with a taste for the fanciful. Her television work gives us good reasons to keep watching, chiefly its leading performances, but we have reservations about the stories surrounding them.

Tatiana Maslany's warmth in *Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed* (2026) gives its brisk succession of crises a person worth following. We enjoyed her company because she makes the woman more interesting than the mystery. Jones is among the directors of this comic thriller, which offers good entertainment while making its plot needlessly complicated. The performance is the strongest reason to stay. It is a useful place to start with Jones, provided we do not mistake an episodic directing credit for sole responsibility.

Her move from Australian shorts, including *Lemonade Stand* (2012), to the feature debut *Fun Mom Dinner* (2017) was followed by a sustained turn towards US television. She directed all ten episodes of *Queen America* (2018), and three of *Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies* (2023), also serving as executive producer on the latter. She favours imaginative, whimsical material and has a reputation for helping actors and steadying productions. Her detailed preparation leaves room for other people's suggestions. Those are useful skills in a shared production, even if they do not announce themselves in a shot.

*Spider-Noir* (2026) is the caution. Nicolas Cage's down-at-heel 1930s private eye is the main reason to watch a handsome, faithful noir pastiche that feels slightly hollow. Jones directed two of its eight episodes, so we would not lay the whole series' shortcomings at her door. But eight episodes are too many for the material, and the care taken over the noir conventions cannot make up for the slackness.

We would welcome more room for the actor-led comedy that makes *Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed* enjoyable. Neither series persuades us to treat her directing credit as a recommendation in itself, though her way of working gives us reason to remain interested. Start with Maslany, and allow for a mystery that sometimes gets in her way. — Fi1m

## Biography

Alethea Jones is an Australian film and television director. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2007. Her early short films include *When the Wind Changes* (2010) and *Lemonade Stand* (2012), the latter of which won first prize at the Tropfest Film Festival.

Her feature directorial debut was *Fun Mom Dinner* (2017). She has directed episodes of television series including *Queen America* (2018–2019), *Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies* (2023), *Mrs. Davis* (2023), *Peacemaker* (2025), *Spider-Noir* (2026) and *Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed* (2026), and has served as executive producer on several projects.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed* (2026), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/maximum-pleasure-guaranteed.md)
- *Spider-Noir* (2026), Fi1m 67, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/spider-noir.md)
- *High Potential* (2024), Fi1m 72, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/high-potential.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Spider-Noir* (2026), series, Director — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/spider-noir.md)
- *Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed* (2026), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/maximum-pleasure-guaranteed.md)
- *M.I.A.* (2026), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *56 Days* (2026), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *High Potential* (2024), series, Director, Executive Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/high-potential.md)
- *Mrs. Davis* (2023), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Shining Vale* (2022), series, Director
- *Peacemaker* (2022), series, Director
- *Made for Love* (2021), series, Director
- *Dispatches from Elsewhere* (2020), series, Executive Producer
- *Dollface* (2019), series, Director
- *Evil* (2019), series, Director
- *Queen America* (2018), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Lodge 49* (2018), series, Director
- *Fun Mom Dinner* (2017), Director
- *A History of Radness* (2015), Director, Co-Executive Producer
- *The Humble Beginnings of the Balloon* (2013), Director
- *Dave’s Dead* (2012), Director
- *Lemonade Stand* (2012), Director
- *When the Wind Changes* (2010), Editor, Director, Story
- *Saved* (2009), as Julia's Colleague
- *Rush* (2008), series, as Camilla

## Gallery

- ![Alethea Jones](https://film.one/media/person/22073/gallery-fe261541243a.jpg) Alethea Jones — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Alethea_Jones_Tropfest_2012_%286902264535%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tropfest Opens In Sydney, Australia Australian actor / director / producer John Polson will produce a multi-million dollar film tribute to Sydney in the last ha (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/22073/gallery-c19cda938e3c.jpg) Tropfest Opens In Sydney, Australia Australian actor / director / producer John Polson will produce a multi-million dollar film tribute to Sydney in the last ha (2012) — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Tropfest_2012_%286902263809%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tropfest Opens In Sydney, Australia Australian actor / director / producer John Polson will produce a multi-million dollar film tribute to Sydney in the last ha (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/22073/gallery-4d36fac68ffb.jpg) Tropfest Opens In Sydney, Australia Australian actor / director / producer John Polson will produce a multi-million dollar film tribute to Sydney in the last ha (2012) — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Tropfest_2012_%286902264535%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tropfest Opens In Sydney, Australia Australian actor / director / producer John Polson will produce a multi-million dollar film tribute to Sydney in the last ha (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/22073/gallery-21660d0944d7.jpg) Tropfest Opens In Sydney, Australia Australian actor / director / producer John Polson will produce a multi-million dollar film tribute to Sydney in the last ha (2012) — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Tropfest_2012_%286902265375%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Alethea Jones](https://film.one/media/person/22073/gallery-bf0f34d38d11.jpg) Alethea Jones — Image via TMDB
- ![Alethea Jones](https://film.one/media/person/22073/gallery-d51aeaee8ed1.jpg) Alethea Jones — Image via TMDB
- ![Tropfest 2012 finalists: In the crowd the winner Alethea Jones (film director), actress Matilda Brown .....](https://film.one/media/person/22073/gallery-d2e67a8d9790.jpg) Tropfest 2012 finalists: In the crowd the winner Alethea Jones (film director), actress Matilda Brown ..... — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Tropfest_Finalists_%286902266091%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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