Toby Jones

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1966-09-07 (58 years old)

Place of Birth Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Also Known As Тоби Джонс, 토비 존스, Tobias Edward Heslewood Jones OBE, Tobias Edward Heslewood Jones, 托比·琼斯

Toby Jones

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.

Known For

Actor

Mr Burton

as Philip Burton

The Actor

as Lieutenant Murray / Artie Bellman / Cabbie / Arnold

2024
The Instigators

as Attorney Alan Flynn

2024
Wander to Wonder

as Fumbleton

2024
2024
2023
A Moral Man

as Philip

2023
Mercy Road

as The Associate

2023
The Canterville Ghost

as The Reverend Chasuble (voice)

2023
Tetris

as Robert Stein

2023
The Long Shadow

as DCS Dennis Hoban

2022
The Pale Blue Eye

as Dr. Daniel Marquis

2022
Empire of Light

as Norman

2022
The Wonder

as Dr. McBrearty

2022
The English

as Sebold Cusk

2021
A Boy Called Christmas

as Father Topo

2021
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

as Sir William Ingram

2021
Infinite

as Porter

2021
Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021
Danny Boy

as Phil Shiner

2021
Wild Tokyo

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021
What If...?

as Arnim Zola (voice)

2020
Uncle Vanya

as Vanya

2020
Archive

as Vincent Sinclair

2020
The Last Thing He Wanted

as Paul Schuster

2019
First Cow

as Chief Factor

2019
The Edge

as Narrator (voice)

2019
Out of Blue

as Prof. Ian Strammi

2019
2019
2019
Don't Forget the Driver

as Peter Green / Barry Green

2018
2018
Christopher Robin

as Owl (voice)

2018
Zoo

as Security Guard Charlie

2018
2018
Normandy Nude

as Newman

2017
Journey's End

as Mason

2017
Kaleidoscope

as Carl

2017
The Snowman

as DC Svenson

2017
Atomic Blonde

as Eric Gray

2017
The Entertainer

as Paul Limp

2017
Happy End

as Lawrence Bradshaw

2016
Morgan

as Dr. Simon Ziegler

2016
Anthropoid

as Jan Zelenka

2016
2016
Dad's Army

as Captain Mainwaring

2016
2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

as Claudius Templesmith (uncredited)

2015
By Our Selves

as John Clare

2015
Tale of Tales

as King of Highhills

2015
Capital

as Roger

2015
Wayward Pines

as Dr. Jenkins

2015
Wayward Pines

as David Pilcher

2015
2015
Marvel's Agent Carter

as Arnim Zola

2014
Serena

as Sheriff McDowell

2014
By the Gun

as Jerry

2014
Marvellous

as Neil Baldwin

2014
2014
The Dark

as Dad

2014
Muppets Most Wanted

as Prado Museum Guard #2

2014
Detectorists

as Lance Stater

2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

as Claudius Templesmith

2013
2013
Murder on the Victorian Railway

as Himself - Narrator

2012
The Girl

as Alfred Hitchcock

2012
2012
The Hunger Games

as Claudius Templesmith

2012
Red Lights

as Paul Shackleton

2012
Titanic

as John Batley

2011
My Week with Marilyn

as Arthur Jacobs

2011
The Adventures of Tintin

as Silk (voice)

2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

as Percy Alleline

2011
Your Highness

as Julie

2011
Christopher and His Kind

as Gerald Hamilton

2011
The Rite

as Father Matthew

2010
Virginia

as Max

2010
Mo

as Dr. Mark Glaser

2010
2010
Sherlock

as Culverton Smith

2009
Creation

as Thomas Henry Huxley

2008
W.

as Karl Rove

2008
Frost/Nixon

as Swifty Lazar

2008
City of Ember

as Barton Snode

2008
10 Days to War

as Francis Brooke

2007
The Old Curiosity Shop

as Daniel Qulip

2007
St. Trinian's

as Schatzmeister

2007
The Mist

as Ollie Weeks

2007
Nightwatching

as Gerard Dou

2006
The Painted Veil

as Mr. Waddington

2006
A Harlot's Progress

as William Hogarth

2006
The Sickie

as Douglas Knott

2006
Infamous

as Truman Capote

2006
Amazing Grace

as Duke of Clarence

2006
Scoop

as Joe's Co-Passenger (uncredited)

2005
Elizabeth I

as Robert Cecil

2005
Doctor Who

as Dream Lord

2004
2004
2003
Coming Up

as Simon

2002
15 Storeys High

as Obsessive-compulsive man

2001
2001
2000
Hotel Splendide

as Kitchen boy

2000
1999
Simon Magus

as Buchholz

1998
EverAfter

as Royal Page

1998
Cousin Bette

as Gentleman in Cafe des Artistes

1998
Les Misérables

as Doorkeeper

1997
Midsomer Murders

as Dan Peterson

1996
1994
Cadfael

as Griffin

1993
Naked

as Man at Tea Bar

1992
Orlando

as Second Valet

1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Samuel Ratchett

1986
Lovejoy

as Sgt. Protheroe

1983
Natural World

as Narrator

1971
1964
Horizon

as Narrator

Writer

Creator

2019