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Gemma Jones (born December 4, 1942) is an English character actress on both stage and screen. Image File history File links Ambox_emblem_question. ... Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... is the 338th day of the year (339th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... is the 338th day of the year (339th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A character actor is an actor, especially in motion pictures, who predominantly performs in similar roles throughout the course of a career. ...

Jones was born Jennifer Jones in London, England to Irene (Isaac) and Griffith Jones, an actor.^[1] Her brother, Nicholas Jones is also an actor. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.^[2] This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Griffith Jones (born Harold Jones) (November 19, 1909 - January 30, 2007) was an English film, stage and television actor. ... Nicholas Jones (born on 3 April 1946 in London, England) is an English character actor. ... RADAs theatre in London The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in Bloomsbury, London, is considered to be one of the most prestigious drama schools in the world. ...

She was first recognised outside the UK in 1974, after playing the Empress Frederick in the BBC television drama series Fall of Eagles and Louisa Trotter in another BBC drama, The Duchess of Duke Street. She later played Mrs Dashwood alongside Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson in the Academy Award-winning period drama Sense and Sensibility (1995). For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Fall Of Eagles is a British television drama made by the BBC in 1974. ... The Duchess Of Duke Street is a British television drama series transmitted by the BBC. The programme lasted for two series, shown between 1976 and 1977. ... Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a five time Academy Award-nominated Emmy Award-nominated BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award winning English actress. ... Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born February 21, 1946) is an acclaimed, award-winning English film, television and stage actor. ... Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is an Emmy-, BAFTA- and Academy Award-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Jane Austens novel Sense and Sensibility (1811) was adapted into a 1995 film by Emma Thompson, for which she received general acclaim as well as a 1996 Academy Award. ...

Other notable roles include Lady Queensbury in Wilde (1997), Grace Winslow in The Winslow Boy (1999), Pam Jones in Bridget Jones' Diary (2001) and Poppy Pomfrey in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), also alongside Alan Rickman. She is currently onscreen as Connie James in series six of the BBC1 drama Spooks. The Winslow Boy is an English 1946 play by Terence Rattigan based on an actual incident in the Edwardian era, which took place at the Royal Naval College, Osborne House. ... Bridget Joness Diary is a novel by Helen Fielding. ... Madam Poppy Pomfrey is a magical healer in the Harry Potter series of books. ... Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second fantasy adventure film in the popular Harry Potter films series, based on the novel by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. ... Connie James is a fictional British spy in the BBC series Spooks, played by Gemma Jones. ... For the music band, see The Spooks. ...

Filmography

Television

• Fall of Eagles (1974)
• The Duchess of Duke Street (1976–1977)
• The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997)
• Spooks (2007)
• Ballet Shoes (2007)
• Bootleg 2002

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Film

• The Devils (1971)
• Paperhouse (1988)
• Sense and Sensibility (1995)
• Feast of July (1995)
• Wilde (1997)
• The Theory of Flight (1998)
• The Winslow Boy (1999)
• Cotton Mary (1999)
• Don't Tempt Me (2001)
• Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
• Shanghai Knights (2003)
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
• Fragile (film) (2005)
• The Contractor (2007)

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References

External links

• Gemma Jones at the Internet Movie Database