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Toby Jones

Acting 59 years old Hammersmith, London, England, UK ★ 3.5
Born: September 7, 1966

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.

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Filmography

Acting Credits (156)

Flavia
Flavia Inspector Hewitt 2026
Othello
Othello Iago 2026
The Hack
The Hack Alan Rusbridger 2025
Mr. Burton
Mr. Burton Philip Burton 2025
MobLand
MobLand Colin Tattersall 2025
The Actor
The Actor Lieutenant Murray / Artie Bellman / Cabbie / Arnold 2025
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story John Bickford 2025
Wander to Wonder
Wander to Wonder Fumbleton (voice) 2024
Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Impact
Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Impact Self- Narrator 2024
The Instigators
The Instigators Attorney Alan Flynn 2024
Nurses Come and Go, But None for Me
Nurses Come and Go, But None for Me 2024
Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Real Story
Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Real Story Self - Narrator (voice) 2024
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Mr Bates vs The Post Office Alan Bates 2024
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford Self 2023
A Moral Man
A Moral Man Philip 2023
Mercy Road
Mercy Road The Associate 2023
The Long Shadow
The Long Shadow DCS Dennis Hoban 2023
The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost The Reverend Chasuble (voice) 2023
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Self 2023
Hijack
Hijack Peter Faber 2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Basil Shaw 2023
Tetris
Tetris Robert Stein 2023
The Pale Blue Eye
The Pale Blue Eye Dr. Daniel Marquis 2022
Empire of Light
Empire of Light Norman 2022
The English
The English Sebold Cusk 2022
The Wonder
The Wonder Dr. McBrearty 2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg Self 2022
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts Self 2022
A Boy Called Christmas
A Boy Called Christmas Father Topo 2021
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain Sir William Ingram 2021
A Few Miles South
A Few Miles South Ted 2021
Infinite
Infinite Porter 2021
What If...?
What If...? Arnim Zola (voice) 2021
Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes
Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes Self - Narrator (voice) 2021
Danny Boy
Danny Boy Phil Shiner 2021
Wild Tokyo
Wild Tokyo Self - Narrator (voice) 2021
Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya Vanya 2020
Archive
Archive Vincent Sinclair 2020
A Wild Year
A Wild Year Self - Narrator (voice) 2020
First Cow
First Cow Chief Factor 2020
The Last Thing He Wanted
The Last Thing He Wanted Paul Schuster 2020
My Grandparents' War
My Grandparents' War Self 2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Librarian (voice) 2019
The Edge
The Edge Narrator (voice) 2019
Britain's Viking Graveyard
Britain's Viking Graveyard Narrator 2019
Looking for Rembrandt
Looking for Rembrandt Rembrandt 2019
Don't Forget the Driver
Don't Forget the Driver Peter Green / Barry Green 2019
Out of Blue
Out of Blue Prof. Ian Strammi 2019
Inside Alton Towers
Inside Alton Towers Narrator 2018
Christopher Robin
Christopher Robin Owl (voice) 2018
Zoo
Zoo Security Guard Charlie 2018
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Mr. Eversoll 2018
BBC Horizon: Jupiter Revealed
BBC Horizon: Jupiter Revealed 2018
Normandy Nude
Normandy Nude Newman 2018
Journey's End
Journey's End Mason 2017
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope Carl 2017
The Snowman
The Snowman DC Svenson 2017
Atomic Blonde
Atomic Blonde Eric Gray 2017
The Entertainer
The Entertainer Paul Limp 2017
Happy End
Happy End Lawrence Bradshaw 2017
The Witness for the Prosecution
The Witness for the Prosecution John Mayhew 2016
Morgan
Morgan Dr. Simon Ziegler 2016
Anthropoid
Anthropoid Jan Zelenka 2016
The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent Verloc 2016
The Man Who Knew Infinity
The Man Who Knew Infinity Littlewood 2016
Dad's Army
Dad's Army Captain Mainwaring 2016
Capital
Capital Roger 2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Claudius Templesmith (uncredited) 2015
By Our Selves
By Our Selves John Clare 2015
Tale of Tales
Tale of Tales King of Highhills 2015
Wayward Pines
Wayward Pines Dr. Jenkins 2015
Wayward Pines
Wayward Pines David Pilcher 2015
The Last Days Of...
The Last Days Of... narrator 2015
Marvel's Agent Carter
Marvel's Agent Carter Arnim Zola 2015
Serena
Serena Sheriff McDowell 2014
Detectorists
Detectorists Lance Stater 2014
By the Gun
By the Gun Jerry 2014
Marvellous
Marvellous Neil Baldwin 2014
The Cask of Amontillado
The Cask of Amontillado Montresor 2014
The Dark
The Dark Dad 2014
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Dr. Arnim Zola 2014
Muppets Most Wanted
Muppets Most Wanted Prado Museum Guard #2 2014
Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem
Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem Narrator 2014
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Claudius Templesmith 2013
Leave to Remain
Leave to Remain Nigel 2013
Murder on the Victorian Railway
Murder on the Victorian Railway Himself - Narrator 2013
The Girl
The Girl Alfred Hitchcock 2012
Berberian Sound Studio
Berberian Sound Studio Gilderoy 2012
Snow White and the Huntsman
Snow White and the Huntsman Coll 2012
Titanic
Titanic John Batley 2012
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games Claudius Templesmith 2012
Red Lights
Red Lights Paul Shackleton 2012
My Week with Marilyn
My Week with Marilyn Arthur Jacobs 2011
The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin Silk (voice) 2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Percy Alleline 2011
Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain America: The First Avenger Dr. Arnim Zola 2011
Your Highness
Your Highness Julie 2011
Christopher and His Kind
Christopher and His Kind Gerald Hamilton 2011
The Rite
The Rite Father Matthew 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Dobby (voice) 2010
Sherlock
Sherlock Culverton Smith 2010
Virginia
Virginia Max 2010
Mo
Mo Dr. Mark Glaser 2010
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Hargreaves 2010
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold Bursar 2009
Digital Theatre: Parlour Song
Digital Theatre: Parlour Song 2009
Creation
Creation Thomas Henry Huxley 2009
W.
W. Karl Rove 2008
Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon Swifty Lazar 2008
City of Ember
City of Ember Barton Snode 2008
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! 2008
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist' Self 2008
10 Days to War
10 Days to War Francis Brooke 2008
The Man Inside Dame Edna
The Man Inside Dame Edna Narrator (UK version) (voice) 2008
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop Daniel Qulip 2007
St Trinian's
St Trinian's Schatzmeister 2007
The Mist
The Mist Ollie Weeks 2007
Nightwatching
Nightwatching Gerard Dou 2007
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden Bennett 2007
The Graham Norton Show
The Graham Norton Show Self 2007
The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil Mr. Waddington 2006
A Harlot's Progress
A Harlot's Progress William Hogarth 2006
The Sickie
The Sickie Douglas Knott 2006
Infamous
Infamous Truman Capote 2006
Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace Duke of Clarence 2006
Scoop
Scoop Joe's Co-Passenger (uncredited) 2006
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I Robert Cecil 2005
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Mrs. Henderson Presents Gordon 2005
Doctor Who
Doctor Who Dream Lord 2005
Ladies in Lavender
Ladies in Lavender Hedley 2004
Finding Neverland
Finding Neverland Smee 2004
Coming Up
Coming Up Simon 2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Dobby (voice) 2002
15 Storeys High
15 Storeys High Obsessive-compulsive man 2002
In Love and War
In Love and War Bolo 2001
Love or Money
Love or Money Phil 2001
Hotel Splendide
Hotel Splendide Kitchen boy 2000
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz Civil servant 2000
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc English Judge 1999
Simon Magus
Simon Magus Buchholz 1999
EverAfter
EverAfter Royal Page 1998
Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette Gentleman in Cafe des Artistes 1998
Les Misérables
Les Misérables Doorkeeper 1998
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders Dan Peterson 1997
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman Stanley 1996
The Sanctuary Sparrow
The Sanctuary Sparrow Griffin 1994
Cadfael
Cadfael Griffin 1994
Naked
Naked Man at Tea Bar 1993
Orlando
Orlando Second Valet 1992
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Agatha Christie's Poirot Samuel Ratchett 1989
Lovejoy
Lovejoy Sgt. Protheroe 1986
Natural World
Natural World Narrator 1983
Great Performances
Great Performances Vanya 1971
Horizon
Horizon Narrator 1964
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame Bolo 1951
A Sprinkle of History
A Sprinkle of History Walter Anderson

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