Toby Jones

Born: 1966-09-07 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2026

Flavia as Inspector Hewitt
Othello as Iago

2025

MobLand as Colin Tattersall
The Hack as Alan Rusbridger
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story as John Bickford
The Actor as Lieutenant Murray / Artie Bellman / Cabbie / Arnold
Mr. Burton as Philip Burton

2021

What If...? as Arnim Zola (voice)
Infinite as Porter
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain as Sir William Ingram
A Boy Called Christmas as Father Topo
Danny Boy as Phil Shiner
Wild Tokyo as Self - Narrator (voice)
Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes as Self - Narrator (voice)
A Few Miles South as Ted

2020

Archive as Vincent Sinclair
The Last Thing He Wanted as Paul Schuster
First Cow as Chief Factor
Uncle Vanya as Vanya
A Wild Year as Self - Narrator (voice)

2019

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as Librarian (voice)
My Grandparents' War as Self
Out of Blue as Prof. Ian Strammi
Don't Forget the Driver as Peter Green / Barry Green
Britain's Viking Graveyard as Narrator
The Edge as Narrator (voice)
Looking for Rembrandt as Rembrandt

2018

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as Mr. Eversoll
Christopher Robin as Owl (voice)
Zoo as Security Guard Charlie
Normandy Nude as Newman
BBC Horizon: Jupiter Revealed
Inside Alton Towers as Narrator

2017

Atomic Blonde as Eric Gray
The Snowman as DC Svenson
Journey's End as Mason
Happy End as Lawrence Bradshaw
Kaleidoscope as Carl
The Entertainer as Paul Limp

2016

Anthropoid as Jan Zelenka
Morgan as Dr. Simon Ziegler
The Man Who Knew Infinity as Littlewood
The Witness for the Prosecution as John Mayhew
The Secret Agent as Verloc
Dad's Army as Captain Mainwaring

2015

Marvel's Agent Carter as Arnim Zola
Wayward Pines as Dr. Jenkins
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Claudius Templesmith (uncredited)
Tale of Tales as King of Highhills
Capital as Roger
The Last Days Of... as narrator
By Our Selves as John Clare

2014

Captain America: The Winter Soldier as Dr. Arnim Zola
Detectorists as Lance Stater
Serena as Sheriff McDowell
Muppets Most Wanted as Prado Museum Guard #2
By the Gun as Jerry
Marvellous as Neil Baldwin
Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem as Narrator
The Cask of Amontillado as Montresor
The Dark as Dad

2013

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Claudius Templesmith
Leave to Remain as Nigel
Murder on the Victorian Railway as Himself - Narrator

2012

The Hunger Games as Claudius Templesmith
Snow White and the Huntsman as Coll
Red Lights as Paul Shackleton
Titanic as John Batley
The Girl as Alfred Hitchcock
Berberian Sound Studio as Gilderoy

2011

Captain America: The First Avenger as Dr. Arnim Zola
The Adventures of Tintin as Silk (voice)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Percy Alleline
The Rite as Father Matthew
Your Highness as Julie
My Week with Marilyn as Arthur Jacobs
Christopher and His Kind as Gerald Hamilton

2010

Sherlock as Culverton Smith
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Dobby (voice)
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll as Hargreaves
Virginia as Max
Mo as Dr. Mark Glaser

2009

Creation as Thomas Henry Huxley
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold as Bursar
Digital Theatre: Parlour Song

2008

City of Ember as Barton Snode
Frost/Nixon as Swifty Lazar
W. as Karl Rove
10 Days to War as Francis Brooke
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist' as Self
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
The Man Inside Dame Edna as Narrator (UK version) (voice)

2007

The Graham Norton Show as Self
The Mist as Ollie Weeks
St Trinian's as Schatzmeister
Nightwatching as Gerard Dou
The Old Curiosity Shop as Daniel Qulip
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden as Bennett

2006

The Painted Veil as Mr. Waddington
Scoop as Joe's Co-Passenger (uncredited)
Amazing Grace as Duke of Clarence
Infamous as Truman Capote
A Harlot's Progress as William Hogarth
The Sickie as Douglas Knott

2005

Doctor Who as Dream Lord
Elizabeth I as Robert Cecil
Mrs. Henderson Presents as Gordon

2004

Finding Neverland as Smee
Ladies in Lavender as Hedley

2003

Coming Up as Simon

2002

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Dobby (voice)
15 Storeys High as Obsessive-compulsive man

2001

The Way We Live Now as Mr. Squercum
In Love and War as Bolo
Love or Money as Phil

2000

Hotel Splendide as Kitchen boy
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz as Civil servant

1999

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc as English Judge
Simon Magus as Buchholz

1998

EverAfter as Royal Page
Les Misérables as Doorkeeper
Cousin Bette as Gentleman in Cafe des Artistes

1997

Midsomer Murders as Dan Peterson

1996

Death of a Salesman as Stanley

1994

Cadfael as Griffin
The Sanctuary Sparrow as Griffin

1993

Naked as Man at Tea Bar

1992

Orlando as Second Valet

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

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Bolo