Felicity Jones

Felicity Rose Hadley Jones born October 17 1983 is a British actress She started her professional acting career as a child appearing in The Treasure Seekers 1996 at age 12 She went on to play Ethel Hallow for one series of the television series The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College On radio she has played the role of Emma Grundy in the BBCs The Archers In 2008 she appeared in the Donmar Warehouse production of The Chalk Garden Since 2006 Jones has appeared in the films Northanger Abbey 2007 Brideshead Revisited 2008 Chéri 2009 The Tempest 2010 The Amazing SpiderMan 2 2014 and True Story 2015 Her performance in the 2011 film Like Crazy was met with critical acclaim garnering her awards including a special jury prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Her performance as Jane Hawking in the 2014 biographical film The Theory of Everything garnered critical acclaim earning her nominations for the Golden Globe Award Screen Actors Guild Award BAFTA Award and Academy Award for Best Actress In 2016 Jones starred in the adventurethriller Inferno costarred in the actionthriller Collide the fantasy drama A Monster Calls and Rogue One A Star Wars Story as Jyn Erso That same year she received the BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year