Born:
October 17, 1983
in
Birmingham
Best Known For:
Like Crazy and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Early-life:
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones was born in Birmingham on October 17, 1983. Felicity began acting at the age of 11 in an after-school workshop run by Central Television. She went on to play the character Ethel Hallow on TV in the The Worst Witch, and Weirdsister College.
Career:
In 2003, Jones appeared in BBC drama Servants, before taking up a place at Wadham College, Oxford, where she appeared in student plays, including the title role in Attis. After graduating, she took the leading role in 2007 TV movie Northanger Abbey. In the same year, she made her stage debut in That Face at the Royal Court Theatre in London. In 2008, she appeared in the films Brideshead Revisited and Flashbacks of a Fool, an episode of Doctor Who, and a revival of Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London. The following year, she starred in five-part TV series The Diary of Anne Frank. More recent work includes the films Cemetery Junction (2010), The Tempest (2010), Like Crazy (2011), Chalet Girl (2011), The Invisible Woman (2013), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Inferno (2016) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).
Quote:
"When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time."
Trivia:
For 10 years, Felicity was the voice of Emma Grundy on Radio 4 soap opera The Archers.