Celebrity Biographies
Toby Jones
Despite his two decades of enormous activity, and his prestige on the stage in Great Britain, internationally Toby Jones is not well known by the general public. Regardless, he draws attention to the intensity of it as a sidekick, and he did an especially memorable job in Crime Story .
Born on September 7, 1967 in Oxford (Great Britain), Toby Edward Heslewood Jones is the son of Jennifer Heslewood and the renowned actor Freddie Jones , a regular at David Lynch ‘s movies , who was the petty carny who exhibits the protagonist in The Elephant Man. . He has two brothers who are also in show business, Rupert Jones, a filmmaker, and Caspar Jones, an actor.
Thus, it is not surprising that Toby felt the acting vocation from a very young age. He was already in the theater group at his Oxfordshire school, where he met the four members of the popular band Radiohead. In 1986 he enrolled in Drama at the University of Manchester.
When he graduated, he made his film debut playing a valet in Orlando . He also briefly appeared in a bar in Naked. Helpless , by Mike Leigh . He immediately made a career in the British theater, coming to star in the 2001 comedy “The Play What I Wrote”, directed by Kenneth Branagh . For his role he won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Role and when the play ran on Broadway he also earned a Tony nomination.
On the big screen, Toby Jones spent much of his time as a supporting actor, playing the judge in Joan of Arc , the royal page in Ever After , the pirate under Captain Hook in Finding Neverland , and the voice actor for the elf Dobby in the Harry Potter series.
Filmmaker-screenwriter Douglas McGrath was right to offer him the career-changing role of writer Truman Capote in Crime Story . He had the bad luck that it coincided in the billboards with the film about the character starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Oscar for his work. But neither the tape nor Toby Jones’s performance was below par.
Since then they began to give him larger roles, such as Deputy Commissioner Waddington, a neighbor of the protagonists, who befriends the character of Naomi Watts in The Painted Veil . He also shone as a good-natured and plump manager in the terrifying The Mist , as a priest in the no less daunting The Rite , and as a doctor in Captain America: The First Avenger . The very moviegoers will also remember him as Richard Nixon’s representative in The Challenge. Frost vs. Nixon .
Extremely discreet as far as his private life is concerned, bells are ringing for a possible Oscar nomination, for his work as the spymaster Percy Alleline, in The Mole , adaptation of the novel by John le Carré .