FELICITY JONES

Felicity Jones was born in Birmingham in 1983. She is a British actress who began performing when she was just a child. At the age of 12, she appeared in Treasure Seakers (1996). She has also worked on television as well as on the radio.

She has acted in a great number of films, such as Northanger Abbey (2007), The Tempest (2010), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).

Her extraordinary performances have led her to be nominated to and win many awards. In 2012 she won the Empire Award for Like Crazy, where she plays Anna, an English girl who falls madly in love with an American. However, they see themselves forced to be apart as she is denied re-entry in the USA for having stayed in the country after her visa had expired. In spite of the difficulties of keeping a relationship in the distance, they eventually find a way to get together again.

In 2014, she was nominated to the Oscar, to a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, among other awards, for Best Actress for her outstanding performance in The Theory of Everything. There, she portrays Jane Hawking, Stephen Hawking's wife. She was offered the part immediately after she auditioned. The very Jane Hawking helped Jones prepare for the role. Mrs Hawking was so wowed by the portrayal afterwards that she confessed she sometimes felt it was her very self on the screen.

In 2016, Felicity Jones played the role of Conor's mother, who is terminally ill in A Monster Calls. The film received positive reviews as the topic, the performances, the visualy effects and the directing were exceptional. An emotional and extremely moving story, especially for anyone who has lost a beloved one to cancer.

More recently, she starred in On the Basis of Sex (2018), an Americal legal drama based on the biography of American attorney Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In spite of her outstanding brain, Ruth faces discrimination in Harvard just for the fact of being a woman. That is what makes her begin to fight sexist laws in her country. As film critic Helen O'Hara states "this is a vastly inspiring account of the fight for equality".

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