Toby Jones
Toby Jones | |
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Jones in October 2003 | |
Born |
Toby Edward Heslewood Jones 7 September 1966 Hammersmith, London, England |
Education |
University of Manchester (1986–1989) L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (1989–1991) |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1992–present |
Spouse(s) | Karen Jones |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) |
Freddie Jones Jennifer Heslewood |
Toby Edward Heslewood Jones[1] (born 7 September 1966)[1] is an English actor.
After appearing in supporting roles in films between 1992 and 2005, Jones made his breakthrough as Truman Capote in the biopic Infamous (2006). Since then, his films have included The Mist (2007), W. (2008), Frost/Nixon (2008), Your Highness (2011), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Berberian Sound Studio (2012), The Hunger Games (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Tale of Tales (2015), Dad's Army (2016), and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). He also provided the voice of Dobby in the Harry Potter films, Aristides Silk in The Adventures of Tintin (2011), and Owl in Disney's Christopher Robin (2018).
Jones' television credits include the 2012 Titanic miniseries, Agent Carter, Wayward Pines and Doctor Who. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Alfred Hitchcock in The Girl (2012) and won a Best Male Comedy BAFTA for his role in Detectorists (2018). In 2017, he portrayed Culverton Smith in "The Lying Detective", an episode of the BBC crime drama Sherlock.
Early life
Jones was born in Hammersmith, London,[1] the son of actors Jennifer (née Heslewood) and Freddie Jones. He has two brothers: Rupert, a director, and Casper, also an actor.[2] He attended Christ Church Cathedral School and Abingdon School in Oxfordshire in the 1980s. He studied drama at the University of Manchester from 1986 to 1989, and at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris from 1989 to 1991.
Career
Film and television
Jones has appeared in more than 20 films since his first acting role in the 1992 film Orlando. He voiced Dobby in two Harry Potter films: Chamber of Secrets (2002) and The Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010). He played Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury in the HBO/Channel 4 production Elizabeth I. In 2006, he portrayed Truman Capote in the biopic Infamous. He appeared in the film adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist in 2007. In 2008, he portrayed Karl Rove in Oliver Stone's W and Hollywood agent Swifty Lazar in Frost/Nixon. He appeared alongside his father in the 2004 film Ladies in Lavender.[3]
Jones appeared in the 2010 episode "Amy's Choice", of Doctor Who, as the Dream Lord, and in the Big Finish Productions series' Dark Eyes (audio drama) as Kotris. He also played the role of Samuel Ratchett in Agatha Christie's Poirot TV Series 12 episode "Murder on the Orient Express". In 2011, he played the role of the British spy master Percy Alleline in the adaptation of John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Arnim Zola in Captain America: The First Avenger, a role which he reprised in the sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier three years later as well as in a cameo in the TV series Agent Carter the following year. In 2012, he had a leading role in the ITV mini-series Titanic, starred as one of the seven dwarves in Snow White and the Huntsman, played Dr. Paul Shackleton in Red Lights, and Max in Virginia. He also portrayed film director Alfred Hitchcock in the HBO television film The Girl, a role that earned him his first Golden Globe Award nomination, as well as his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
He appears in the music video for Gomez's song "Whippin' Picadilly".[4]
He played Neil Baldwin in the BBC drama Marvellous in 2014.[5][6][7][8][9][10] Sam Wollaston, in The Guardian, praised Jones's "lovely, very human, performance",[11] one that earned him his second British Academy Television Award nomination. From 2014, he appeared in the BBC Four television series Detectorists,[12] for which he received a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance in 2016 before winning the award in 2018.
In 2015, Jones played the part of Roger Yount, a banker, in the three-part BBCs series Capital based on John Lanchester's novel of the same name.[13] Discussing working with Jones on Capital, writer Peter Bowker said, "I think Toby is a genius and thought that long before I worked with him. He always wants to know a character's needs, and what's beneath those needs. Then he takes all that material and somehow embeds it into the character and physically inhabits the character, so that you never think he's playing the character. It's fascinating to watch him close up. He carries the emotional complexities in every tiny gesture that his character makes so that you immediately can see what his character is like. A character like Roger is full of contradictions, a city banker with an air of entitlement but also a little insecurity picking away at him. Toby can portray that in his walk alone. That's what's great about him, he can portray cold he can portray warm and he can portray both of those things at once."[14]
He plays Captain Mainwaring in the film Dad's Army, released in February 2016. In July the same year he starred as the eponymous agent Verloc in the BBC's The Secret Agent, a 3-part television adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel.[15]
In 2017, he portrayed Culverton Smith in "The Lying Detective", an episode of the BBC crime drama Sherlock. He played the malevolent industrialist "Gunnar Eversoll" in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the fifth installment of the Jurassic Park series.[16]
Radio
In 2003 Jones played the part of Lord Brideshead in BBC Radio adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Jones voiced the title character of the 2005 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Oblomov. He also read the 2009 Radio 4 adaptation of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany. He played Inspector Goole in 2010 BBC Radio adaptation of An Inspector Calls. Since 2013 Jones has been the voice of the lead character, Joey Oldman in the BBC Radio 4 series The Corrupted an adaptation of the G. F. Newman novel Crime and Punishment. On 2 December 2012 he played Napoleon Bonaparte in Anthony Burgess's Napoleon Rising on Radio 3.
Theatre
In 2001, he starred in the London West End comedy The Play What I Wrote, 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.
In 2009, he returned to the stage in Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre,[17] Parlour Song at the Almeida Theatre,[18] and The First Domino at Brighton Festival Fringe.[19] In 2011, he played JMW Turner in The Painter at the Arcola Theatre. Jones starred as Stanley in the 2018 revival of The Birthday Party at The Harold Pinter Theatre.[20]
Filmography
Film
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1993 | Lovejoy | Sgt. Protheroe | Episode: "Pig in a Poke" |
1994 | Cadfael | Griffin | Episode: "The Sanctuary Sparrow" |
1995 | Performance | Wart | Episode: "Henry IV" |
1996 | Death of a Salesman | Waiter | Television film |
1998 | Out of Hours | Martin Styles | |
1999 | Underground | Beast | Television film |
Aristocrats | Ste Fox | 4 episodes | |
1999–2000 | Midsomer Murders | Dan Peterson | 4 episodes |
2001 | The Way We Live Now | Squercum | Episode #1.4 |
Victoria & Albert | Edward Oxford | 2 episodes | |
In Love and War | Bolo | Television film | |
Love or Money | Phil | Television film | |
2002 | 15 Storeys High | Obsessive-compulsive man | Episode: "Ice Queen" |
2005 | Coming Up | Simon | Episode: "Loving Ludmilla" |
2005 | Elizabeth | Robert Cecil | 2 episodes |
2006 | A Harlot's Progress | William Hogarth | Television film |
2007 | The Old Curiosity Shop | Daniel Quilp | Television film |
The Last Detective | Bennett | Episode: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden" | |
2010 | Mo | Dr Mark Glaser | Television film |
Doctor Who | The Dream Lord | Episode: "Amy's Choice" | |
Agatha Christie's Poirot | Samuel Ratchett/Lanfranco Cassetti | Episode: "Murder on the Orient Express" | |
2011 | Christopher and His Kind | Gerald Hamilton | Television film |
2012 | Titanic | John Batley | 4 episodes |
The Girl | Alfred Hitchcock | Television film Nominated – British Academy Television Award for Best Actor Nominated – Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Movie/Miniseries Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Miniseries or Television Film Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | |
2013 | Murder on the Victorian Railway | Narrator | Voice Television film |
Words of Everest | Jan Morris | Television documentary | |
2014 | Marvellous | Neil Baldwin | Television film Nominated – Royal Television Society Programme Award for Best Actor Nominated – British Academy Television Award for Best Actor |
2014–2017 | Detectorists | Lance Stater | 19 episodes British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance |
2015–2016 | Wayward Pines | David Pilcher/Dr. Jenkins | 15 episodes Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television |
2015 | Agent Carter | Arnim Zola | Episode: "Valediction" |
Capital | Roger Yount | 3 episodes | |
The Last Days Of... | Narrator | Voice 4 episodes | |
2016 | The Secret Agent | Anton Verloc | 3 episodes |
The Witness for the Prosecution | John Mayhew | 2 episodes | |
Civil | Otis O'Dell | Pilot | |
2017 | Sherlock | Culverton Smith[24] | Episode: "The Lying Detective" |
See also
References
- 1 2 3 Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.; at ancestry.com
- ↑ Braun, Liz (10 October 2006). "'Infamous' shows another look at Capote". Toronto Sun. Archived from the original on 19 February 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ "Toby Jones Biography (1964?-)". Filmreference.com. Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
- ↑ "Gomez – Whippin' Piccadilly". YouTube. 28 February 2009. Archived from the original on 20 December 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
- ↑ "Toby Jones on playing Neil Baldwin in Marvellous". BBC News. 24 September 2014. Archived from the original on 25 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ Simon, Jane (25 September 2014). "Marvellous – Toby Jones is outstanding portraying extraordinary life of Stoke City kit man Neil Baldwin". Daily Mirror. Archived from the original on 25 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ Dickson, E Jane (25 September 2014). "Neil Baldwin: "Prince Edward is the best royal I've met – I just knocked on his door"". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 28 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ Jeffries, Stuart (21 September 2014). "Toby Jones: totally Stoked". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ Collin, Robbie (23 September 2014). "Toby Jones interview: 'Every character has a special need'". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 23 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ Walsh, John (13 September 2014). "Quiet genius of Toby Jones: From The Hunger Games to Truman Capote, Hollywood can't get enough of British acting's most versatile talent". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ Wollaston, Sam (26 September 2014). "Marvellous; Your Home in their Hands review – two Neil Baldwins meet real Lou Macari and real Gary Lineker". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 27 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ Rupert Hawksley (2 October 2014). "Detectorists, BBC Four, review: 'first-rate writing'". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
- ↑ "BBC One: Capital". BBC Online. Archived from the original on 25 November 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ↑ "Adapting 'Capital' for BBC One". BBC Online. 23 November 2015. Archived from the original on 28 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
- ↑ "The Secret Agent: Episode 1: Credits". BBC Online. Archived from the original on 14 July 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ↑ Kroll, Justin (7 November 2016). "Toby Jones and Rafe Spall in Talks to Join Sequel to 'Jurassic World' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.
- ↑ Cavendish, Dominic (9 January 2009). "Toby Jones takes the lead in Tom Stoppard's classic Every Good Boy Deserves Favour". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
- ↑ "Parlour Song - The Cast". Almeida Theatre. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
- ↑ Emily-Ann Elliott (5 May 2009). "Bomb survivor writes Brighton play". The Argus (Brighton). Archived from the original on 9 October 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jan/18/the-birthday-party-review-harold-pinter-jones-wanamaker-mangan-mackie
- ↑ "Toby Jones to play evil scientist in 'Captain America' (exclusive)". Heatvisionblog.com. Archived from the original on 10 May 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
- ↑ Fernandez, Jay A.; Kit, Borys (27 January 2009). "Daniel Craig to star in "Tintin"". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 31 January 2009. Retrieved 9 September 2009.
- ↑ Valby, Karen (24 May 2011). "'The Hunger Games' finds its voice: Toby Jones cast as Claudius Templesmith". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
- ↑ "Culverton Smith Is Sherlock's "Darkest" Villain Yet". denofgeek.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
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