Felicity Jones

Felicity Jones was in a relationship with Internet artist, and sculptor, Ed Fornieles for around ten years after the couple first met at Oxford in 2003. After a 10 year long relationship, the couple broke-up in late 2014.

She started dating director Charles Guard in 2015 and the couple got engaged in 2017. On June 30, 2018, the couple got married in a private ceremony at Sudeley Castle in the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire in England.

Felicity Rose Hadley Jones was born on 17 October 1983 in Birmingham. Her father, Gareth Jones, worked as a journalist, while her mother, Julia Hadley, was into print advertising. Her parents separated when she was three years old after which her brother and she were brought up by their mother in Bournville, West Midlands.

She attended Kings Norton Girls' School after which she studied at King Edward VI Handsworth School, to attain A-levels. After a gap-year she studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, and passed out with an upper second in 2006.

When Jones was a child, her mother often took her brother and her to movies and theatre which slowly developed her passion for acting. She started taking acting lessons at the age of 11 when she enrolled with a drama club at the Custard Factory.

While studying in college she participated in several dramas including ‘Attis’ in 2005 in which she played the title role. She also played a part in Shakespeare's ‘Comedy of Errors’ for the Oxford University Dramatic Society summer tour to Japan.

Felicity Jones made her acting debut in 1996 with the television family film ‘The Treasure Seekers’.

From 1998 to 1999, she appeared as Ethel Hallow in the British-Canadian television series ‘The Worst Witch’. She later reprised her role in the sequel ‘Weirdsister College’ in 2001.

In 2003, she bagged the role of Grace May in the BBC drama ‘Servants’. In the same year, she took on the role of Emma Grundy in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera ‘The Archers’. She went on the play the role until 2009.

She played the main role Catherine Morland in the ITV adaptation of Jane Austen's ‘Northanger Abbey’ in 2007. In the same year, she forayed into stage drama with Polly Stenham's ‘That Face at the Royal Court Theatre’.

In 2008, she made an appearance in the films ‘Brideshead Revisited’ and ‘Flashbacks of a Fool’. She featured in the episode ‘The Unicorn and the Wasp’ in the ‘Doctor Who’ series and played the role of Robina Redmond. In Enid Bagnold's ‘The Chalk Garden’ played at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London role, Jones was seen in the role of Laurel.

Felicity Jones is the niece of British actor Micheal Hadley.

As a child, she was a big fan of BBC gangster series ‘Peaky Blinders’.