ACTOR
Felicity Jones
- Known for
- The Midnight Sky (2020), Like Crazy (2011), On the Basis of Sex (2018), The Aeronauts (2019)
20 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
Felicity Jones is an actor best known for The Midnight Sky, Like Crazy and On the Basis of Sex.
All facts (20)
- #001
One of Felicity Jones's passions is cooking, especially Italian cuisine.
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Before Felicity Jones became a household name, she appeared alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and David Tennant in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" (2003).
- #003
Felicity Jones voiced "Emma Carter" for many years on the long-running BBC radio series "The Archers".
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In Like Crazy (2011), she and Anton Yelchin improvised their dialogue.
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In 2006 she graduated from Wadham College, Oxford, with a 2:1 (upper second-class honours) in English, where she also appeared in several student plays.
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When she finished filming The Midnight Sky (2020), she was seven months pregnant with her son.
- #007
On 30 June 2018, she married her boyfriend of three years, Charles Guard, in a secret ceremony at Sudeley Castle in the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, England. They began dating in 2015 and their engagement was announced in May 2017.
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Felicity Jones's producing partner is her older brother, film editor Alex Jones.
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She is only 16 years younger than Emily Watson, who played her mother in The Theory of Everything (2014).
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In April 2020, she gave birth to her first child, a boy, at the age of 36. The child's father is her husband, Charles Guard.
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She is a big fan of the BBC gangster series Peaky Blinders (2013), which is set in her home city of Birmingham.
- #012
Her family home is in Worcestershire.
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Her uncle is the actor Michael Hadley.
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Felicity Jones and Ellie Kendrick have twice played sisters.
- #015
She has appeared in three films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Theory of Everything (2014), The Brutalist (2024) and Train Dreams (2025).
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From 2006 to 2013 she was in a relationship with the sculptor Ed Fornieles.
- #017
The name Felicity derives from the Latin word felicitas, meaning "luck, good fortune".
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Two years after giving birth to her son, she returned to work to begin filming Dead Shot (2023).
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She is the daughter-in-law of Howard Guard.
- #020
Felicity Jones is the sister-in-law of Thomas Guard.
Continue through the archive
- The Last Letter from Your Loveras Ellie Haworth
- Oh. What. Fun.as Channing
- The Midnight Skyas Sully
- Northanger Abbeyas Catherine Morland
- On the Basis of Sexas Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Like Crazyas Anna
- The Aeronautsas Amelia Wren
- Page Eightas Julianne Worricker
- Chalet Girlas Kim Matthews
- Salting the Battlefieldas Julianne Worricker
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