Toby Jones

Acting · 3.5 popularity

Age

Movies

119

Born: September 7, 1966
From: Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Biography

Tobias Edward Heslewood Jones OBE (born September 7, 1966) is an English actor. Jones made his film debut in Sally Potter's period drama Orlando in 1992. He appeared in minor roles in films such as Naked (1993), Les Misérables (1998), Ever After (1998), Finding Neverland (2005), and Mrs Henderson Presents (2005). He won critical acclaim for his leading role as Truman Capote in the biopic Infamous (2006). Since then, he has worked as a character actor in films such as Michael Apted's biographical drama Amazing Grace (2006), John Curran's drama The Painted Veil (2006), Oliver Stone's political satire W. (2008), Ron Howard's political drama Frost/Nixon (2008), the Cold War spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn (2011), the psychological drama Berberian Sound Studio (2012), the war comedy Dad's Army (2016), and the war drama Journey's End (2017). He is also known for his vocal performances as Dobby the House elf in the Harry Potter films (2002–2011), Aristides Silk in The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and Owl in Disney's Christopher Robin (2018). He is also known for his performances in blockbuster franchises such as Claudius Templesmith in The Hunger Games (2012) and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), Arnim Zola in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), also voicing the character in the Disney+ television series What If...? (2021), and as Mr. Eversoll in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). Jones's television credits include Doctor Who (2010), Julian Fellowes's Titanic miniseries (2012), the MCU's Agent Carter (2015), and Wayward Pines (2015–2016). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Alfred Hitchcock in the HBO television film 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. Jones is also known for his work in the theatre. He made his stage debut in 2001 in the comedy play The Play What I Wrote which played in the West End and on Broadway, earning him a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 2020 he was nominated for his second Olivier Award, for Best Actor for his performance in a revival of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya. Description above from the Wikipedia article Toby Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

119 films

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

20027.7

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

20107.7

Captain America: The First Avenger

20117.0

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

20147.7

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

20137.4

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

20186.5

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

20236.5

The Mist

20077.0

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

20156.9

The Adventures of Tintin

20116.9

The Hunger Games

20127.2

Atomic Blonde

20176.4

Infinite

20216.6

Snow White and the Huntsman

20126.0

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

20116.6

The Snowman

20175.2

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

19996.4

City of Ember

20086.4

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

20227.3

The Rite

20116.1

EverAfter

19987.5

The Wonder

20226.6

Tetris

20237.7

The Instigators

20246.1

Christopher Robin

20187.3

Red Lights

20126.2

The Pale Blue Eye

20226.8

Finding Neverland

20047.3

Anthropoid

20167.1

Archive

20206.4

The Painted Veil

20067.3

Your Highness

20115.3

Flavia

20265.6

The Man Who Knew Infinity

20167.2

Les Misérables

19987.2

Happy End

20176.2

First Cow

20207.0

Empire of Light

20226.6

Scoop

20066.6

Frost/Nixon

20087.3

Morgan

20165.8

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

20216.9

The Canterville Ghost

20236.7

Muppets Most Wanted

20146.3

The Last Thing He Wanted

20204.9

St Trinian's

20075.9

A Boy Called Christmas

20217.3

Tale of Tales

20156.4

My Week with Marilyn

20116.7

Naked

19937.3

Ladies in Lavender

20046.5

Dad's Army

20165.0

Journey's End

20176.3

20086.1

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford

20237.7

Orlando

19926.9

Serena

20145.6

Mr. Burton

20256.8

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold

20095.6

Creation

20096.4

Infamous

20066.5

Amazing Grace

20066.9

Nightwatching

20076.2

Othello

20263.4

Mrs. Henderson Presents

20056.7

Zoo

20186.7

The Girl

20126.1

Cousin Bette

19985.5

By the Gun

20144.2

Christopher and His Kind

20116.3

Marvellous

20147.1

Uncle Vanya

20207.4

BBC Horizon: Jupiter Revealed

20188.4

The Actor

20256.1

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

20106.3

Berberian Sound Studio

20126.1

Danny Boy

20216.8

Virginia

20105.2

The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz

20006.8

Normandy Nude

20185.6

Wander to Wonder

20247.2

Out of Blue

20195.1

Kaleidoscope

20175.6

Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes

20216.0

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

20088.2

Wild Tokyo

2021

The Old Curiosity Shop

20075.0

The Sanctuary Sparrow

1994

The Dark

2014

Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!

20086.7

The Man Inside Dame Edna

20087.0

By Our Selves

20155.5

Hotel Splendide

20005.7

Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem

20147.5

Murder on the Victorian Railway

20137.0

The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

20236.6

The Sinking of a Superyacht: How Safe is Your Voyage?

20247.0

Digital Theatre: Parlour Song

2009

Death of a Salesman

19966.2

Simon Magus

19997.4

20105.7

Britain's Viking Graveyard

2019

A Harlot's Progress

20064.7

The Edge

20197.1

A Sprinkle of History

2026

Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Real Story

20248.3

The Entertainer

2017

A Few Miles South

20217.0

Love or Money

20018.0

In Love and War

20017.2

Inside Alton Towers

20187.0

Leave to Remain

20136.4

Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Impact

2024

A Moral Man

2023

Mercy Road

20236.1

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden

20074.5

The Cask of Amontillado

2014

Nurses Come and Go, But None for Me

2024

The Sickie

20067.0