Gemma Jones
Gender: Female
Born: 4th December 1942 (currently 69 years old)
Nationality: England
TV programs: The Duchess of Duke Street, Bootleg, Inspector Morse, The Storyteller, Rainbow City, Wilderness, Fall of Eagles, Spooks, Longitude, The Return of the Borrowers
Movies: Don't Tempt Me, Cotton Mary, Feast of July, Sense and Sensibility, The Devils, Bridget Jones's Diary, Shanghai Knights, The Contractor, On the Black Hill, The Theory of Flight, Captain Jack, Good, The Winslow Boy, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Wilde, Ballet Shoes, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Shakespeare Comedies: The Merchant of Venice, Jane Eyre, The Cherry Orchard (1962 / 1981), The Spoils of Poynton, Wilderness, Fragile, Hysteria, Forget Me Not, Whistle and I'll come to You, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Footsteps
Gemma Jones (born Jennifer Jones; 4 December 1942) is an English character actress on both stage and screen.
Jones was born in London, England, the daughter of Irene (née Isaac) and Griffith Jones, an actor. Her brother, Nicholas Jones, is also an actor. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Jones became known to television viewers after starring in the BBC serial Kenilworth (1967) as Queen Elizabeth I of England and in BBC2's 1970 dramatisation of The Spoils of Poynton.
She was first recognised outside the UK in 1974, after playing the Empress Frederick in the BBC television drama series Fall of Eagles and Louisa Trotter in another BBC drama, The Duchess of Duke Street. In 1980, she played the role of Portia in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of The Merchant of Venice, opposite Warren Mitchell's Shylock.
On stage, in 1986, she played the great soprano Giuseppina Strepponi in After Aida at the Old Vic Theatre.
Jones played Mrs. Dashwood alongside Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson in the Academy Award-winning period drama Sense and Sensibility (1995). Other notable roles include Lady Queensbury in Wilde (1997), Grace Winslow in The Winslow Boy (1999),
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