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Toby Jones

Born 1966-09-07
📍 Hammersmith, London, England, UK

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 157

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