Emilia Jones | |
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![]() Jones at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in March 2022 | |
Born | Emilia Annis I. Jones [1] 23 February 2002 Westminster, London, England |
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Years active | 2010–present |
Parent | Aled Jones (father) |
Emilia Annis I. Jones [1] (born 23 February 2002) is a British actress. She is best known for her lead role as Ruby Rossi in the Academy Award-winning film CODA (2021) for which she received a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Actress. She is also known for playing Kinsey Locke in the Netflix series Locke & Key (2020–2022).
Jones began her career as a child actress in West End theatre and in Doctor Who (2013) and Utopia (2013–2014). Her earlier films include Brimstone (2016), Ghostland & Two for Joy (both in 2018), and Horrible Histories (2019).
Jones was born in London to Welsh singer and presenter Aled Jones and his wife, English circus performer Claire Fossett. She grew up in Barnes with her younger brother Lucas. [2] She attended an improv class run by an agent, through whom Jones was cast in One Day. [3]
Jones' acting career began in 2010, at the age of eight, when she appeared as Jasmine in the film One Day . [4] She portrayed Alice in the Channel 4 drama Utopia , [5] and later that year played the young Queen of Years Merry Gejelh in the British television series Doctor Who episode "The Rings of Akhaten" (2013). [6] The Boston Standard lauded her for "carr[ying] off her scenes with aplomb" and for "really sell[ing] Merry’s mixture of naivety, knowledge and childlike fear," [7] while the website Zap2It praised Jones' performance as "spot on." [8] She had a small role in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011). [4]
In 2011, Jones made her theatrical debut playing the princess Young Fiona in the original production of Shrek the Musical at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. [4] [9] In 2013, she appeared in Rebecca Lenkiewicz's stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw as nine-year-old Flora, alternating between two other girls each night. After her performance on press night, she said, "I don’t find it scary, I just find it so much fun... I love every bit of it." [2] [10]
In December 2018, it was announced that Jones was cast as Kinsey Locke, one of the main characters in the Netflix fantasy drama series Locke & Key (2020–2022). [11] The first season was released on 7 February 2020. [12] It was her first main role in a television series. She was attracted to the part because of the prospect of playing two versions of the same character: Kinsey before and after she removes her fear. [13]
In 2021, Jones starred in the Apple TV+ comedy-drama film CODA as Ruby Rossi, the only hearing member of her family who dreams of going to Berklee. For the part, she spent nine months (during production of Locke & Key) learning American Sign Language, while also learning how to operate a professional fishing trawler. Principal photography ran from September 2019 to January 2020. The film premiered on 28 January 2021 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was bought by Apple Original Films for $25 million. It premiered on Apple TV+ on 13 August 2021 and received positive reviews; Jones and co-star Troy Kotsur were critically acclaimed and received several accolades. [14] The film won the award for Best Picture at the 94th Academy Awards, the first Sundance-premiered film to do so.
Jones' upcoming films are Cat Person and Winner , [15] [16] both directed by Susanna Fogel, Fairyland by Andrew Durham, [17] and Charlie Harper by Tom Dean and Mac Eldridge. [18] [19]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | English Girl | |
One Day | Jasmine | ||
2014 | What We Did on Our Holiday | Lottie | |
2015 | Youth | Frances | |
High-Rise | Vicky | ||
2016 | Brimstone | Joanna | |
2018 | Ghostland | Young Beth | |
Patrick | Vikki | ||
Two for Joy | Violet | ||
2019 | Nuclear | Emma | |
Horrible Histories | Orla | ||
2021 | CODA | Ruby Rossi | |
2023 | Cat Person | Margot | |
Fairyland | Alysia Abbott | ||
2024 | Winner [20] | Reality Winner | |
Year | Show | Role | Notes |
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2011 | House of Anubis | Young Sarah Frobisher-Smythe | 8 episodes |
2013 | Doctor Who | Merry Gejelh | Episode: "The Rings of Akhaten" |
2013–2014 | Utopia | Alice Ward | 8 episodes |
2014 | Residue | Charlotte Jones | Episode: Series 1, Episode 1 |
2015 | Wolf Hall | Anne Cromwell | Episode: "Three Card Trick" |
2020–2022 | Locke & Key | Kinsey Locke | Main role; 28 episodes |
TBA | Untitled task force project | Maeve | Upcoming miniseries [21] |
Year | Artist(s) | Title |
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2020 | JC Stewart | "I Need You to Hate Me" [22] |
Title | Album details |
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Horrible Histories (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
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CODA (Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film) |
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Song | Main artist(s) | Writer(s) | Album | Year |
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"The Long Song" [23] | Emilia Jones (feat. The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales) | Murray Gold | Doctor Who: Series 7 (Original Television Soundtrack) | 2013 |
Song | Main artist(s) | Writer(s) | Album | Year |
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"Psycho" [24] | Liam Jessup (as justliam) | Liam Jessup | N/A | 2021 |
Song | Main artist(s) | Writer(s) | Album | Year |
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"Through the Phone" | Wild Youth | Conor O’Donohoe Ed Drewett Emilia Jones Pete Hammerton [25] [26] | Forever Girl - EP | 2020 |
Year | Show | Role | Theatre |
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2011–2012 | Shrek The Musical | Young Fiona | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane |
2013 | Turn of the Screw | Flora | Almeida Theatre |
2014 | Far Away | Joan | Young Vic |
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