English actor Toby Jones was born in London on September 7, 1967. He grew up in an artistic family: his father is an actor named Freddie Jones, his brother Rupert Jones is a director and his second brother Kasper Jones is an actor.
Jones was lucky to have friends from childhood. At Abingdon School in Oxfordshire, where he studied, studied actor Tom Hollander and future musicians from the band Radiohead.
From 1986 to 1989, Jones studied at the University of Manchester, mastering dramatic art. Mostly
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English actor Toby Jones was born in London on September 7, 1967. He grew up in an artistic family: his father is an actor named Freddie Jones, his brother Rupert Jones is a director and his second brother Kasper Jones is an actor.
Jones was lucky to have friends from childhood. At Abingdon School in Oxfordshire, where he studied, studied actor Tom Hollander and future musicians from the band Radiohead.
From 1986 to 1989, Jones studied at the University of Manchester, mastering dramatic art.
Mostly in the cinema, Toby appears either in episodic roles or supporting roles.
In the theater, he successfully plays in popular productions. In 2001, Jones played Arthur in the comedy play The Play What I Wrote, for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor. Subsequently, in 2003, this performance was staged at the Broadway theater and nominated for the Tony Award.
Toby Jones has more than twenty roles in various films, starting with his first role in Orlando. In addition, the actor is often invited to voiceover: for example, his voice says Dobby - a home elf in the films about Harry Potter.
In 2005, Jones also played the role of Oblomov in the BBC 4 radio version of the novel. In 2006, in the biographical film about the writer “Bad Glory” (Infamous, 2006), the actor played the role of Truman Capote. Then there was the role of Sir Robert Cecil, the first Earl of Salisbury, one of the members of the Council of Queen Elizabeth I.
In 2007, the film directed by Frank Darabont “Mgla” was released, where Daniel plays one of the main roles, Ollie Weeks.
In 2011 – one of the main roles in the animated film “The Adventures of Tintin the Unicorn Mystery”. Famous films where the actor was filmed: "Rite",
picture "Brave peppers" What Happened to Virginia?, The First Avenger.