Toby Jones (born September 7, 1966) is a British film and television actor.
On June 11, 2021, photos were leaked from the filming of the fifth theatrical Indiana Jones film in Scotland showing Jones on location with Harrison Ford, and he was subsequently confirmed to be part of the cast by the Daily Mail later that day.[1] He previously worked with producer Steven Spielberg on The Adventures of Tintin (with Daniel Craig).
Jones is perhaps best known for his breakthrough role as Truman Capote in the biopic Infamous (also with Daniel Craig), after previously appearing in numerous cinematic supporting roles. Other prominent film roles played by Jones include Dobby the House Elf in the second and seventh films of the Harry Potter movie series (with Julian Glover in the former and Michael Byrne, John Hurt, and Timothy Spall in the latter); and Claudius Templesmith in The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (with Maria Howell and Jeffrey Wright). He has made multiple appearances as Arnim Zola in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with the films Captain America: The First Avenger (directed by Joe Johnston) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (with Alan Dale and Thomas Kretschmann), before returning to the role for a cameo in the live-action series Agent Carter as well as voicing alternate versions of Zola in the animated series What If...? (with Jeffrey Wright).
Additional feature film acting credits for Jones include Orlando, the 1998 film adaptation of Les Misérables (directed by Bille August), Ever After (with Jeroen Krabbe), The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (with Richard Ridings), Hotel Splendide (again with Daniel Craig), Ladies in Lavender (with his father, Freddie Jones), Mrs Henderson Presents (with Richard Dormer), Scoop (with Julian Glover and Margaret Tyzack), The Mist (adapted and directed by Frank Darabont), W. (with Bruce McGill and Jeffrey Wright), Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (with Michael Maloney and Ray Winstone), Your Highness (with Kiran Shah), the 2011 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (also with John Hurt), My Week with Marilyn (with Michael Kitchen and Pip Torrens), Snow White and the Huntsman (also with Ray Winstone), the 2016 film adaptation of Dad's Army (with Catherine Zeta Jones), Atomic Blonde, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Christopher Robin (with Roger Ashton-Griffiths and Oliver Ford Davies), The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (with Olivier Richters), A Boy Called Christmas (with Jim Broadbent), and The Pale Blue Eye (also with Timothy Spall).
Some of the extensive television credits by Jones include guest roles on Doctor Who (as the Dream Lord, a psychic manifestation of The Doctor), Cadfael (with Julian Firth and Sean Pertwee), Agatha Christie's Poirot (in its adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express), and Sherlock; recurring roles on Midsomer Murders (with Nickolas Grace) and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance; and regular roles on Detectorists, Wayward Pines (with Michael McShane), and Don't Forget the Driver (which he also co-created); as well as appearances in the documentary Words of Everest (with Jason Flemyng); the miniseries Out of Hours (with Danny Webb and Philip Whitchurch), Aristocrats (with Julian Fellowes), The Way We Live Now (also with Oliver Ford Davies), Elizabeth I (with Jamie Glover and Ian McDiarmid), Titanic (written by Julian Fellowes), and The Witness for the Prosecution (with David Haig); and the TV movies In Love and War (with John Warnaby), The Old Curiosity Shop, Mo (with David Haig and John Lynch), The Girl (as Alfred Hitchcock), and Marvellous.
Jones is the son of the aforementioned Freddie Jones, who played Birdy Soames in Young Indiana Jones and the Phantom Train of Doom. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for his services to drama.
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- Toby Jones at the Internet Movie Database
- Toby Jones on Wikipedia
- Toby Jones at the TARDIS Data Core
- Toby Jones on the Harry Potter Wiki
- Toby Jones on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki