Celebrity Biographies
Felicity Jones
Although she has become known to the general public with “The Theory of Everything”, the success of Felicity Jones (Bournville, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 1983) began in 2011 with “Like Crazy”, one of the jewels of North American independent cinema. . She is one of the most promising actresses on the international scene and she handles herself perfectly within the romantic drama. However, we know little about her private life, since she does not lavish herself before the media
Felicity Jones began to study theater at a very young age thanks to the support of her uncle, the also actor Michael Hadley . At age 11 she got a job on The Worst Witch , a British television series inspired by a children’s novel. But it didn’t take long for Felicity to realize that television required dedication and sacrifice that she couldn’t yet give. Therefore, she took a two-year break in which she did not want anything to do with the cameras. In 2001 she returned with another series, Weirdsister College , although her recognition in the medium came with the telefilm Northanger Abbey , based on Jane Austen ‘s novel of the same name .
His big screen debut came with Flashbacks for a Fool , a British film directed by Baillie Walsh and starring Daniel Craig . She later appeared in Brideshead Revisited , Chéri and SoulBoy among others. Her first break came in 2011 with her lead role in Like Crazy , which earned her best actress recognition at the Sundance Film Festival. This work, directed by the young Drake Doremus, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Film at the same festival and has the value of being one of the first films shot entirely with an SLR camera. In it, Felicity Jones played a young British woman in love with an American; a role that she would reprise in Breathe In , the work of the same director.
Since then, it’s not uncommon to see Felicity Jones as a lead actress: she has been in Cheerful Weather for the Wedding and The Invisible Woman ; the latter directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes . However, her coming-out to the general public has taken place with her performance in The Theory of Everything , in which she has played the first wife of the famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. Thanks to this film, she was nominated for the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs and the Oscars, although the great work of Julianne Moore in Always Alice deprived her of the three awards.
Perfectly English accented, cheerful and loving, or harsh and aloof when her characters need it, Felicity Jones is one of the most promising British actresses of her generation. Like few others, she dominates the field of romantic drama and has shown it in her most popular films.