What is Toby Jones doing today? Wife, Father, Daughter, Brother

Known for movies

Short Info

Spouse	Karen Jones
Mark	Short stature
Fact	Has two daughters - Madeleine and Holly.

Toby Jones is an English actor who has appeared in numerous films and television series. He is best known for his roles in The Hunger Games, Captain America: The First Avenger, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Jones was born in Hammersmith, London, on 7 September 1966, the son of actors Jennifer and Freddie Jones. He has two older sisters, Sally and Catherine. His father is Welsh and his mother is English. He was educated at Christ’s Hospital and St Paul’s School in London.

Jones made his film debut in the 1989 film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches. He went on to appear in such films as The Remains of the Day (1993), The Innocent (1994), and Infamous (2006). On television, he has appeared in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992), The Missing (2003), and Sherlock (2010).

In 2012, Jones played the role of Claudius Templesmith in The Hunger Games. He reprised the role in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014).

In 2014, Jones appeared in the film Godzilla. In 2015, he appeared in the film Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Jones has been married to Karen Jones since 2000. They have two children.

General Info

Full Name	Toby Jones
Height	1.65 m
Profession	Voice Actor
Education	L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, University of Manchester, Abingdon School
Nationality	British

Family

Spouse	Karen Jones
Children	Madeleine Jones, Holly Jones
Parents	Freddie Jones, Jennie Heslewood
Siblings	Casper Jones, Rupert Jones

Accomplishments

Awards	British Independent Film Award for Best Actor, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominations	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie, British Academy Television Award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, Gold...
Movies	Captain America: The First Avenger, The Hunger Games, Tale of Tales, Dad's Army, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Infamous, The Girl, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Morgan, Berberian Sound Studio, Anthropoid, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Snow White and th...
TV Shows	The Witness for the Prosecution, The Secret Agent, Wayward Pines, Capital, Titanic, Elizabeth I, Numbertime, Detectorists, Midsomer Murders, Out of Hours

Social profile links

IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0429363

Marks

#	Marks / Signs
1	Short stature

Quotes

#	Quote
1	The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his own image and publicizing himself. Just a very strong sense of himself as the character of Hitchcock.
2	I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.
3	I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with are charming. But Joe's a particularly charming man, and he showed me lots of designs and, rather memorably, welcomed me to the Marvel Universe.
4	I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'
5	I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.
6	When I told people I was going to be doing the movie and the voice of Dobby, they were kind of awestruck, the people who knew about Harry Potter. I felt rather guilty that I didn't really understand the scale of the job I was about to take on. Now, I am well aware of what I'm doing, and actually, it feels a very serious acting responsibility.
7	They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.
8	There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.
9	The script for Infamous (2006) was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good... I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'
10	I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read _'In Cold Blood'_ because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.
11	It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.
12	You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that person, but it's based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.
13	I think it will be, as always, interesting to compare different portrayals of Hitchcock. I'm very honored that I'm playing the same part as Anthony Hopkins.
14	I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.
15	I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?
16	Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I find very interesting is why certain physical things have come about. How can he be light on his feet when he is so big? How can his weight vary so much? Where does this rather beautiful voice come from?
17	Every now and then, they ask me to come in and improvise with Stanley Tucci for an afternoon. They fly me off to America, I improvise for an afternoon - it's not the hardest, most taxing job.
18	Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, 'Well, I have to do that.'
19	If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the age she is.
20	I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There's no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.
21	I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.
22	There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.
23	It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.
24	I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.
25	I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.
26	All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors.
27	You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.
28	They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.
29	I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.
30	Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character.
31	When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.
32	But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.
33	Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.
34	I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.
35	Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants.
36	It's one of those jobs where you go, 'Oh no, I've got to play 'Alfred Hitchcock'. I have to play him even though I know what this is going to involve.'
37	The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you don't want to do that. You're an actor playing Hitchcock, so it's about how much of that you're going to do.
38	There's something in the rhythm and roll of it that is connected to the way Hitchcock thinks and moves. Then there is everything he ingested - the cigar smoking and drinking that's imprinted on his voice.
39	There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.
40	I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds (1968) - that he'd tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film.
41	I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.
42	It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.
43	It's Toby Jones playing Alfred Hitchcock, not Alfred Hitchcock. We all felt that his silhouette was crucial, so his nose and lips were crucial as well. We had to build it out a bit to get the silhouette. But, with my nose being so small within the proportion of my face, the first nose was too big. I felt like a nose on parade.

Facts

#	Fact
1	Has two daughters - Madeleine and Holly.
2	Has twice played a famous public figure within a year of a more recognized actor playing the same part in another film. In 2006 he appeared in Infamous (2006) as Truman Capote, a role for which Philip Seymour Hoffman had recently won an Oscar. He later appeared in The Girl (2012) as Alfred Hitchcock, the same year that Anthony Hopkins played the part in Hitchcock (2012).
3	Played Truman Capote in Infamous, then went on to play Swifty Lazar, Truman Capote's agent, in Frost/Nixon.
4	Son of Freddie Jones and Jennie Heslewood.
5	Brother of Rupert Jones and Casper Jones.
6	In 2011, filmed two movies for release in 2012 in which he plays a character named "Claudius": The Hunger Games (2012) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012).
7	Toby went to Abingdon School with fellow actor, Tom Hollander, and both were contemporaries of the band, Radiohead. They were both born in Oxford and only two weeks apart from each other. Not only that but both are 5 foot 5 inches in height.
8	His wife Karen is a criminal barrister.
9	He won the London Film Critics Circle "Best British Actor" for his portrayal of Truman Capote.
10	He was awarded the 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role of 2001 for his performance in "The Play What I Wrote" at the Wyndham Theatre, London.
11	Starred on Broadway with Sean Foley & Hamish McColl in "The Play What I Wrote". [2003]
12	Performs with Hamish McColl as "The Right Size".

Pictures

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Movies

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Untitled Jurassic World Sequel	2018	pre-production
The Canterville Ghost	2017	pre-production	The Reverend Chasuble
Zoo	2017	post-production	Security Guard Charlie
The Snowman	2017	post-production	Gert Rafto
The Coldest City	2017	post-production	Gray
Civil	2017	TV Movie pre-production	Otis O'Dell
The Entertainer	2016	completed	Paul Limp
Journey's End		filming	Mason
Sherlock	2017	TV Series	Culverton Smith
The Witness for the Prosecution	2016	TV Movie	Mayhew
Kaleidoscope	2016/II		Carl
Morgan	2016		Dr. Simon Ziegler
The Secret Agent	2016	TV Series	Verloc
Wayward Pines	2015-2016	TV Series	Dr. Jenkins David Pilcher
Anthropoid	2016		Uncle Hajský
Alice Through the Looking Glass	2016		Wilkins (uncredited)
The Complete Walk: Henry IV Part 1	2016	Short	Falstaff
Dad's Army	2016		George Mainwaring
Detectorists	2014-2015	TV Series	Lance
Capital	2015	TV Mini-Series	Roger
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	2015		Claudius Templesmith (uncredited)
The Man Who Knew Infinity	2015		Littlewood
By Our Selves	2015		John Clare
Tale of Tales	2015		King of Highhills
The Last Days Of ...	2015	TV Series documentary	Narrator
Agent Carter	2015	TV Series	Dr. Arnim Zola
Serena	2014/I		Sheriff McDowell
By the Gun	2014		Jerry
Marvellous	2014	TV Movie	Neil Baldwin
The Dark	2014	Short	Dad
The Cask of Amontillado	2014/I	Short	Montresor
Captain America: The Winter Soldier	2014		Dr. Arnim Zola
Muppets Most Wanted	2014		Prado Museum Guard #2
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	2013		Claudius Templesmith
Leave to Remain	2013		Nigel
Words of Everest	2013	Documentary	Jan Morris
Murder on the Victorian Railway	2013	TV Movie documentary	Narrator
Hardwire	2013	Short	Max
Sea Change	2012	Short
The Girl	2012	TV Movie	Alfred Hitchcock
Berberian Sound Studio	2012		Gilderoy
Snow White and the Huntsman	2012		Coll
Titanic	2012	TV Mini-Series	John Batley
The Hunger Games	2012		Claudius Templesmith
Red Lights	2012		Paul Shackleton
The Adventures of Tintin	2011		Silk (voice)
My Week with Marilyn	2011		Arthur Jacobs
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	2011		Percy Alleline
Captain America: The First Avenger	2011		Dr. Arnim Zola
Your Highness	2011		Julie
Christopher and His Kind	2011	TV Movie	Gerald Hamilton
The Rite	2011		Father Matthew
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I	2010	Video Game	Dobby (voice)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1	2010		Dobby (voice)
God in America	2010	TV Series	George Whitefield
Virginia	2010		Max
Agatha Christie's Poirot	2010	TV Series	Samuel Ratchett
Doctor Who	2010	TV Series	Dream Lord
Mo	2010	TV Movie	Dr Mark Glaser
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll	2010		Hargreaves
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold	2009		Bursar
Creation	2009/I		Thomas Huxley
Masterpiece Classic	2009	TV Series	Quilp
W.	2008/I		Karl Rove
Frost/Nixon	2008		Swifty Lazar
City of Ember	2008		Barton Snode
The Old Curiosity Shop	2007	TV Movie	Daniel Quilp
St. Trinian's	2007		Bursar
The Mist	2007		Ollie Weeks
Nightwatching	2007		Gerard Dou
The Last Detective	2007	TV Series	Bennett
The Painted Veil	2006		Waddington
A Harlot's Progress	2006	TV Movie	William Hogarth
The Sickie	2006	Short	Douglas Knott
Amazing Grace	2006		Duke of Clarence
Infamous	2006		Truman Capote
Scoop	2006		Joe's Co-Passenger (uncredited)
Elizabeth I	2005	TV Mini-Series	Robert Cecil
Mrs Henderson Presents	2005		Gordon
Coming Up	2005	TV Series	Simon
Finding Neverland	2004		'Smee'
Ladies in Lavender	2004		Hedley
15 Storeys High	2002	TV Series	Obsessive-compulsive man
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	2002		Dobby the House Elf (voice)
Love or Money	2001	TV Movie	Phil
The Way We Live Now	2001	TV Mini-Series	Squercum
In Love and War	2001	TV Movie	Bolo
Victoria & Albert	2001	TV Movie	Edward Oxford
Hotel Splendide	2000		Kitchen boy
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz	2000		Civil servant
Midsomer Murders	1999-2000	TV Series	Dan Peterson
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc	1999		English Judge
Underground	1999	TV Movie	Beast
Aristocrats	1999	TV Mini-Series	Ste Fox
Simon Magus	1999		Buchholz
Ever After: A Cinderella Story	1998		Royal Page
Cousin Bette	1998		Gentleman in Café des Artistes
Out of Hours	1998	TV Mini-Series	Martin Styles
Les Misérables	1998		Doorkeeper
Death of a Salesman	1996	TV Movie	Waiter (uncredited)
Performance	1995	TV Series	Wart
Mystery!: Cadfael	1994	TV Series	Griffin
Dropping the Baby	1993	Short	Babyman
Lovejoy	1993	TV Series	Sgt. Protheroe
Naked	1993		Men at Tea Bar
Orlando	1992		Second Valet

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'	2008	Video documentary short special thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
BAFTA Televsion Awards 2016	2016	TV Special	Himself
Dad's Army: Women of Walmington	2016	Video documentary short	Himself
Dad's Army: Legacy	2016	Video documentary short	Himself
The Graham Norton Show	2016	TV Series	Himself
Natural World	2014	TV Series documentary	Himself - Narrator
The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards	2013	TV Special	Himself - Nominee: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
70th Golden Globe Awards	2013	TV Special	Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Mini-Series or TV-Movie
Daybreak	2012	TV Series	Himself
Doctor Who Confidential	2010	TV Series documentary	Himself
Discovering Secrets	2009	Video documentary short	Himself
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'	2008	Video documentary short	Himself
Breakfast	2007-2008	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Man Inside Dame Edna	2008	TV Movie documentary	Narrator (UK version, voice)
Up Close with Carrie Keagan	2007	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Film '72	2006-2007	TV Series	Himself
Charlie Rose	2006	TV Series	Himself - Guest

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Dangerous Dynasty: The Bush Legacy	2009	Video documentary short	Himself - Karl Rove (uncredited)
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!	2008	Documentary	Gerard Dou (uncredited)
Mrs Henderson Presents: Making Of	2006	Video documentary short	Gordon (uncredited)
My Week with Marilyn: The Untold Story of an American Icon	2011	Video documentary short	Arthur Jacobs (uncredited)

Awards

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2015	Golden FIPA	Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming	Fiction: Actor	Marvellous (2014)
2015	Broadcasting Press Guild Award	Broadcasting Press Guild Awards	Best Actor	Marvellous (2014)
2015	Golden Nymph	Monte-Carlo TV Festival	Outstanding Actor in a Television Film	Marvellous (2014)
2013	Evening Standard British Film Award	Evening Standard British Film Awards	Best Actor	Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
2013	International Fantasy Film Award	Fantasporto	Best Actor	Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
2013	ALFS Award	London Critics Circle Film Awards	British Actor of the Year	Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
2012	British Independent Film Award	British Independent Film Awards	Best Actor	Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
2012	COFCA Award	Central Ohio Film Critics Association	Best Ensemble	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
2007	ALFS Award	London Critics Circle Film Awards	British Actor of the Year	Infamous (2006)
2006	Capri European Talent Award	Capri, Hollywood		Infamous (2006)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2016	BAFTA TV Award	BAFTA Awards	Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme	Detectorists (2014)
2016	Saturn Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Best Supporting Actor on Television	Wayward Pines (2015)
2015	BAFTA TV Award	BAFTA Awards	Best Leading Actor	Marvellous (2014)
2014	Chlotrudis Award	Chlotrudis Awards	Best Actor	Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
2013	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television	The Girl (2012)
2013	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	The Girl (2012)
2013	BAFTA TV Award	BAFTA Awards	Best Leading Actor	The Girl (2012)
2013	Critics' Choice TV Award	Critics Choice Television Awards	Best Actor in a Movie/Miniseries	The Girl (2012)
2013	Gold Derby TV Award	Gold Derby Awards	TV Movie/Mini Lead Actor	The Girl (2012)
2013	OFTA Television Award	Online Film & Television Association	Best Actor in a Motion Picture or Miniseries	The Girl (2012)
2009	ALFS Award	London Critics Circle Film Awards	British Supporting Actor of the Year	Frost/Nixon (2008)
2009	Actor	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Frost/Nixon (2008)
2008	ALFS Award	London Critics Circle Film Awards	British Supporting Actor of the Year	The Painted Veil (2006)
2003	Critics Choice Award	Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Best Digital Acting Performance	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)