Biography
Felicity Jones is an English actress. She began her professional career as a child, appearing in The Treasure Seekers (1996) and playing Ethel Hallow in one series of The Worst Witch (1998). In 2008 she appeared in the Donmar Warehouse production of The Chalk Garden.
Jones is known for her performances in Like Crazy (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014) as Jane Hawking, for which she received BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) as Jyn Erso. She has also appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Inferno (2016), A Monster Calls (2016), On the Basis of Sex (2018), The Aeronauts (2019) and The Midnight Sky (2020). In The Brutalist (2024) she played Erzsébet Tóth and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She studied English at Wadham College, Oxford.
