Why we love Felicity Jones
Felicity Jones played a bitchy witch – a bwitch, if you will – in the kid's TV show The Worst Witch, as Ethel Harrow, the main foil to bumbling but lovable protagonist Mildred Hubble. We think she was basically the equivalent of that blonde kid from Harry Potter, but with slightly less in the way of out and out evil.
Elsewhere, Felicity Jones's appeared onstage (even touring to Japan to put on The Comedy of Errors) been in over thirteen films (including Ricky Gervais' Cemetary Junction and international love-fest Like Crazy) and was apparently on Radio 4's The Archers for ten whole years, playing Emma Grundy. Perhaps if we'd ever listened to it during that time we'd have known that beforehand.
Felicity Jones studied at Oxford (she read English) and graduated with a 2:1 in 2006, which is pretty impressive. In an attempt to ruin all that learning, though, she spent two months living and working as a chalet girl at a ski resort – which apparently involved scrubbing a lot of toilets and getting pissed at Apres-Ski bars - to prepare for her role in (the appropriately-named) Chalet Girl in 2011.
Unfortunately, Felicity Jones' various roles in period dramas such as Servants, Northanger Abbey and Brideshead Revisited involved absolutely zero trips back through time whatsoever, leaving her hideously unprepared for her appearance in a 2008 episode of Doctor Who. Poor show.
She's recently won no less than three different awards for Breakthrough (or Breakout) actor, so it's clear that she's got great things ahead of her. Keep an eye out.
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