Conversations with Felicity Jones

Q&A with Felicity Jones. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety

Biography
Felicity Jones won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize in 2011 for Drake Doremus’ romantic drama Like Crazy. The picture also won the Grand Jury Prize. Ms. Jones subsequently went on to win the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor, the National Board of Review Award for Best Breakthrough Performer, and the Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer.

In 2013, Ms. Jones was nominated for a British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in Ralph Fiennes’ The Invisible Woman. Ms. Jones also starred in Julie Taymor’s reimagining of The Tempest, opposite Helen Mirren; Niall McCormick’s Albatross, for which was a British Independent Film Award nominee as Best Supporting Actress; Breathe In, Chalet Girl, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, Chéri, Brideshead Revisited, Hysteria, SoulBoy, Flashbacks of a Fool, Cemetery Junction, The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Ms. Jones also has extensive stage experience. She starred in Michael Grandage’s Domar Warehouse staging of Luise Miller, earning rave reviews for her performance in the title role. At the Royal Court Theatre, she starred in That Face under the direction of Jeremy Herrin. Her performance in Mr. Grandage’s Donmar Warehouse revival of The Chalk Garden, in which she starred with Margaret Tyzack and Penelope Wilton, earned her an Evening Standard Award nomination for Outstanding Newcomer.

Her television credits include the children’s drama The Worst Witch, reprising her character of Ethel Hallow as a series regular on Weirdsister College. Ms. Jones appeared on an episode of Doctor Who, alongside David Tennant as The Doctor, and on an episode of Girls, opposite Richard E. Grant and Jemima Kirke; and starred in the series Servants and Meadowlands (a.k.a. Cape Wrath).

Among her telefilm credits are Northanger Abbey, based on the Jane Austen novel, directed by Jon Jones; Sir David Hare’s Page Eight and Salting the Battlefield, both opposite Bill Nighy; and The Diary of Anne Frank, in which she portrayed Anne Frank’s sister Margot and was again directed by Mr. Jones.