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Felicity Jones
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Person

Felicity Jones

b. 1983

British actress (born 1983)

Born
17 Oct 1983 · Birmingham

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 49 years
  1. 17 Oct 1983BornBorn in Birmingham
  2. 2011AwardGotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor
  3. 2012AwardEmpire Award for Best Newcomer
  4. 2017AwardEmpire Award for Best Actress
  5. 2017AwardEmpire Awards

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1983 – today).

  1. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  2. 1985Schengen Agreement
  3. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  4. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  5. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  7. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  9. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  10. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  11. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  12. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  13. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  14. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  15. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  16. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  17. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  18. 20112011 Norway attacks
  19. 2011Libyan civil war
  20. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  21. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  22. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  23. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  24. 2015Paris Agreement
  25. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  26. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  27. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  28. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
  29. 2023Gaza war
  30. 20242024 Summer Olympics
  31. 20262026 Iran war

Biography

Felicity Rose Hadley Jones (born 17 October 1983) is an English actress. She began acting as a child, appearing in The Treasure Seekers (1996) and playing Ethel Hallow for one series of the television series The Worst Witch (1998). She then starred in the Donmar Warehouse production of The Chalk Garden (2008).

Jones received praise for her performances as an exchange student in the romantic drama Like Crazy (2011), teacher Jane Hawking in the biopic The Theory of Everything (2014), and a Holocaust survivor in the period drama The Brutalist (2024). The latter two performances received Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. She also portrayed Jyn Erso in the space opera Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the biopic On the Basis of Sex (2018).

Jones's other films include the superhero feature The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), the thrillers True Story (2015) and Inferno (2016), the fantasy drama A Monster Calls (2016), and the streaming films The Aeronauts (2019), The Midnight Sky (2020) and The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021). She starred in Train Dreams (2025), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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