Toby Jones

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Toby Jones
Born	September 7, 1967 (1967-09-07) (age 40) Oxford, England
Awards won Laurence Olivier Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role 2002 The Play What I Wrote

Toby Jones (born September 7, 1967) is a British film and theatre actor.

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Jones was born in Oxford, England, the son of Jennifer (née Heslewood) and famed character actor Freddie Jones, with whom he appeared in the film Ladies in Lavender.^[1] His brothers are Rupert Jones, a director, and Casper Jones, who is also an actor. He attended Abingdon School in Oxfordshire in the early 1980s, alongside Tom Hollander and the members of Radiohead.

[edit] Career

Jones has appeared in more than twenty films since his first role in 1992 in the film adaptation of Orlando. He voiced Dobby, the house-elf, in the Harry Potter films and played Oblomov in the 2005 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the novels. He also appeared as Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, one of Queen Elizabeth I's councilmen in the HBO/Channel 4 production Elizabeth I. In 2006 he portrayed Truman Capote in the biopic Infamous. He most recently appeared in the film adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist.

Aside from a successful film career, Jones is well known for his work on the stage. In 2001, he starred in the London West End comedy The Play What I Wrote, which was directed by Kenneth Branagh. His comic turn as Arthur earned him the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and when the play moved to Broadway in 2003, he was nominated for a Tony Award.

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[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Toby Jones at the Internet Movie Database