---
name: "Laura Jones"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/laura-jones"
fi1m_id: "laura-jones"
imdb_id: "nm0428630"
tmdb_id: 65035
wikidata_id: "Q6499062"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T00:28:11.804338+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."
---

# Laura Jones

## Identity

Laura Jones

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/laura-jones
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** laura-jones
- **IMDb ID:** nm0428630
- **TMDB ID:** 65035
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6499062
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Jones_(screenwriter), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6499062, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65035

Writer. Born 1 January 1951 in Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1951, Australia
- **Active:** 1990–2007
- **Frequently works with:** [Jane Campion](https://film.one/person/jane-campion.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 78 (2), 2000s 64 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, History 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $20m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Jones_(screenwriter), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6499062, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65035

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*An Angel at My Table*](https://film.one/film/an-angel-at-my-table.md) (87)

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

## Biography

Laura Jones is an Australian screenwriter. She began her career writing teleplays for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation before her first feature credit, the original screenplay for *High Tide* (1987), directed by Gillian Armstrong.

Her adaptation of Janet Frame’s autobiography *An Angel at My Table* (1990), directed by Jane Campion, was followed by further literary adaptations including *The Portrait of a Lady* (1996) and *Oscar and Lucinda* (1997). Other credits include *Angela’s Ashes* (1999), *A Thousand Acres* (1997), *Possession* (2002) and *Brick Lane* (2007). She is the daughter of novelist Jessica Anderson.

Jones has received the Australian Writers’ Guild Award three times, the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Screen Writing twice, and the Australian Film Institute’s Byron Kennedy Award.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, hlamgt.com.au, womenaustralia.info.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Brick Lane* (2007), Fi1m 64, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/brick-lane.md)
- *The Portrait of a Lady* (1996), Fi1m 68, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-portrait-of-a-lady.md)
- *An Angel at My Table* (1990), Fi1m 87, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/an-angel-at-my-table.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Brick Lane* (2007), Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/brick-lane.md)
- *Possession* (2002), Screenplay
- *Angela's Ashes* (1999), Screenplay
- *Oscar and Lucinda* (1997), Screenplay
- *A Thousand Acres* (1997), Screenplay
- *The Well* (1997), Screenplay
- *The Portrait of a Lady* (1996), Screenplay — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-portrait-of-a-lady.md)
- *An Angel at My Table* (1990), Screenplay — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/an-angel-at-my-table.md)
- *High Tide* (1987), Screenplay
- *Cass* (1978), Screenplay

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/laura-jones