Toby Jones
Toby Jones
Biography
Tobias Edward Heslewood Jones OBE (born September 7, 1966) is an English actor. Jones made his film debut in Sally Potter's period drama Orlando in 1992. He appeared in minor roles in films such as Naked (1993), Les Misérables (1998), Ever After (1998), Finding Neverland (2005), and Mrs Henderson Presents (2005). He won critical acclaim for his leading role as Truman Capote in the biopic Infamous (2006). Since then, he has worked as a character actor in films such as Michael Apted's biographical drama Amazing Grace (2006), John Curran's drama The Painted Veil (2006), Oliver Stone's political satire W. (2008), Ron Howard's political drama Frost/Nixon (2008), the Cold War spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn (2011), the psychological drama Berberian Sound Studio (2012), the war comedy Dad's Army (2016), and the war drama Journey's End (2017). He is also known for his vocal performances as Dobby the House elf in the Harry Potter films (2002–2011), Aristides Silk in The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and Owl in Disney's Christopher Robin (2018). He is also known for his performances in blockbuster franchises such as Claudius Templesmith in The Hunger Games (2012) and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), Arnim Zola in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), also voicing the character in the Disney+ television series What If...? (2021), and as Mr. Eversoll in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). Jones's television credits include Doctor Who (2010), Julian Fellowes's Titanic miniseries (2012), the MCU's Agent Carter (2015), and Wayward Pines (2015–2016). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Alfred Hitchcock in the HBO television film The Girl (2012) and won a Best Male Comedy BAFTA for his role in Detectorists (2018). In 2017, he portrayed Culverton Smith in "The Lying Detective", an episode of the BBC crime drama Sherlock. Jones is also known for his work in the theatre. He made his stage debut in 2001 in the comedy play The Play What I Wrote which played in the West End and on Broadway, earning him a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 2020 he was nominated for his second Olivier Award, for Best Actor for his performance in a revival of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya. Description above from the Wikipedia article Toby Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
156
Gender
Male
Birthday
1966-09-07 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Acting

2025

MobLand as Colin Tattersall

2025

The Actor as Lieutenant Murray / Artie Bellman / Cabbie / Arnold

2024

Mr Bates vs The Post Office as Alan Bates

2023

The Long Shadow as DCS Dennis Hoban

2023

Tetris as Robert Stein

2022

The English as Sebold Cusk

2021

What If...? as Arnim Zola (voice)

2021

Infinite as Porter

2019

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as Librarian (voice)

2018

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as Mr. Eversoll

2016

The Secret Agent as Verloc

2015

Marvel's Agent Carter as Arnim Zola

2015

Wayward Pines as Dr. Jenkins

2015

Wayward Pines as David Pilcher

2015

Capital as Roger

2015

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Claudius Templesmith (uncredited)

2014

Detectorists as Lance Stater

2013

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Claudius Templesmith

2012

Honest Trailers as Armin Zola (archive footage)

2012

Titanic as John Batley

2012

The Hunger Games as Claudius Templesmith

2011

Captain America: The First Avenger as Dr. Arnim Zola

2010

Sherlock as Culverton Smith

2008

10 Days to War as Francis Brooke

2005

Doctor Who as Dream Lord

2003

Coming Up as Simon

2002

15 Storeys High as Obsessive-compulsive man

1997

Midsomer Murders as Dan Peterson

1994

Cadfael as Griffin

1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot as Samuel Ratchett

1986

Lovejoy as Sgt. Protheroe

1983

Natural World as Narrator

1971

Great Performances as Vanya

1964

Horizon as Narrator

NaN

The Hack as Not available

2025

Mr. Burton as Philip Burton

2025

A Sprinkle Of History as Walter Anderson

2024

The Instigators as Attorney Alan Flynn

2024

Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Real Story as Self - Narrator (voice)

2024

Wander to Wonder as Fumbleton (voice)

2023

The Canterville Ghost as The Reverend Chasuble (voice)

2023

Mercy Road as The Associate

2023

A Moral Man as Philip

2022

The Pale Blue Eye as Dr. Daniel Marquis

2022

Empire of Light as Norman

2022

The Wonder as Dr. McBrearty

2021

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain as Sir William Ingram

2021

A Boy Called Christmas as Father Topo

2021

Danny Boy as Phil Shiner

2021

Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021

Wild Tokyo as Self - Narrator (voice)

2021

A Few Miles South as Ted

2020

A Wild Year as Not available

2020

Archive as Vincent Sinclair

2020

The Last Thing He Wanted as Paul Schuster

2020

First Cow as Chief Factor

2020

Uncle Vanya as Vanya

2019

Don't Forget the Driver as Peter Green / Barry Green

2019

Looking for Rembrandt as Rembrandt

2019

Out of Blue as Prof. Ian Strammi

2019

The Edge as Narrator (voice)

2018

Christopher Robin as Owl (voice)

2018

Zoo as Security Guard Charlie

2018

Normandy Nude as Newman

2018

BBC Horizon: Jupiter Revealed as Not available

2018

Inside Alton Towers as Narrator

2017

Atomic Blonde as Eric Gray

2017

The Snowman as DC Svenson

2017

Journey's End as Mason

2017

Happy End as Lawrence Bradshaw

2017

Kaleidoscope as Carl

2017

The Entertainer as Paul Limp

2016

The Man Who Knew Infinity as Littlewood

2016

Morgan as Dr. Simon Ziegler

2016

Anthropoid as Jan Zelenka

2016

Dad's Army as Captain Mainwaring

2016

The Witness for the Prosecution as Not available

2015

The Last Days Of... as narrator

2015

Tale of Tales as King of Highhills

2015

By Our Selves as John Clare

2014

Muppets Most Wanted as Prado Museum Guard #2

2014

Serena as Sheriff McDowell

2014

By the Gun as Jerry

2014

Marvellous as Neil Baldwin

2014

The Dark as Dad

2014

The Cask of Amontillado as Montresor

2013

Murder on the Victorian Railway as Himself - Narrator

2013

Leave to Remain as Nigel

2012

Red Lights as Paul Shackleton

2012

Berberian Sound Studio as Gilderoy

2012

The Girl as Alfred Hitchcock

2011

The Adventures of Tintin as Silk (voice)

2011

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Percy Alleline

2011

The Rite as Father Matthew

2011

Your Highness as Julie

2011

My Week with Marilyn as Arthur Jacobs

2011

Christopher and His Kind as Gerald Hamilton

2010

Virginia as Max

2010

Mo as Dr. Mark Glaser

2010

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll as Hargreaves

2009

Creation as Thomas Henry Huxley

2009

Digital Theatre: Parlour Song as Not available

2008

City of Ember as Barton Snode

2008

W. as Karl Rove

2008

Frost/Nixon as Swifty Lazar

2008

Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! as Not available

2007

The Mist as Ollie Weeks

2007

St. Trinian's as Schatzmeister

2007

Nightwatching as Gerard Dou

2007

The Old Curiosity Shop as Daniel Qulip

2006

Scoop as Joe's Co-Passenger (uncredited)

2006

The Painted Veil as Mr. Waddington

2006

Amazing Grace as Duke of Clarence

2006

Infamous as Truman Capote

2006

A Harlot's Progress as William Hogarth

2001

In Love and War as Bolo

1999

Simon Magus as Buchholz

NaN

Flavia de Luce as Not available

2006

The Sickie as Douglas Knott

2005

Elizabeth I as Robert Cecil

2004

Finding Neverland as Smee

2004

Ladies in Lavender as Hedley

2001

Love or Money as Phil

2000

The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz as Civil servant

2000

Hotel Splendide as Kitchen boy

1998

EverAfter as Royal Page

1998

Les Misérables as Doorkeeper

1998

Cousin Bette as Gentleman in Cafe des Artistes

1996

Death of a Salesman as Stanley

1993

Naked as Man at Tea Bar

1992

Orlando as Second Valet

NaN

Detectorists as Not available