Toby Jones
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 7, 1966 (age 60)
- Place of birth
- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
- Credits
- 161
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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Known for
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002Movie
Dobby (voice)
The Hunger Games
2012Movie
Claudius Templesmith
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011Movie
Dr. Arnim Zola
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010Movie
Dobby (voice)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014Movie
Dr. Arnim Zola
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013Movie
Claudius Templesmith
Filmography
A Sprinkle of History
2027Movie
Walter Anderson
Flavia
2026Movie
Inspector Hewitt
Othello
2026Movie
Iago
The Hack
2025TV
Alan Rusbridger
Mr. Burton
2025Movie
Philip Burton
MobLand
2025TV
Colin Tattersall
The Actor
2025Movie
Lieutenant Murray / Artie Bellman / Cabbie / Arnold
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
2025TV
John Bickford
The Sinking of a Superyacht: How Safe is Your Voyage?
2024Movie
Self – Narrator (voice)
Wander to Wonder
2024Movie
Fumbleton (voice)
Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Impact
2024Movie
Self- Narrator
The Instigators
2024Movie
Attorney Alan Flynn
Nurses Come and Go, But None for Me
2024Movie
Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Real Story
2024Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
2024TV
Alan Bates
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
2023Movie
Self
A Moral Man
2023Movie
Philip
Mercy Road
2023Movie
The Associate
The Long Shadow
2023TV
DCS Dennis Hoban
The Canterville Ghost
2023Movie
The Reverend Chasuble (voice)
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023Movie
Self
Hijack
2023TV
Peter Faber
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023Movie
Basil Shaw
Hidden Treasures of the National Trust
2023TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Tetris
2023Movie
Robert Stein
The Pale Blue Eye
2022Movie
Dr. Daniel Marquis
Empire of Light
2022Movie
Norman
The English
2022TV
Sebold Cusk
The Wonder
2022Movie
Dr. McBrearty
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022TV
Self
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022Movie
Self
A Boy Called Christmas
2021Movie
Father Topo
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021Movie
Sir William Ingram
A Few Miles South
2021Movie
Ted
Infinite
2021Movie
Porter
What If...?
2021TV
Arnim Zola (voice)
Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes
2021Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Danny Boy
2021Movie
Phil Shiner
Wild Tokyo
2021Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Uncle Vanya
2020Movie
Vanya
Archive
2020Movie
Vincent Sinclair
A Wild Year
2020TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
First Cow
2020Movie
Chief Factor
The Last Thing He Wanted
2020Movie
Paul Schuster
My Grandparents' War
2019TV
Self
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019TV
Librarian (voice)
The Edge
2019Movie
Narrator (voice)
Britain's Viking Graveyard
2019Movie
Narrator
Looking for Rembrandt
2019TV
Rembrandt
Don't Forget the Driver
2019TV
Peter Green / Barry Green
Out of Blue
2019Movie
Prof. Ian Strammi
Inside Alton Towers
2018Movie
Narrator
Christopher Robin
2018Movie
Owl (voice)
Zoo
2018Movie
Security Guard Charlie
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
2018Movie
Mr. Eversoll
BBC Horizon: Jupiter Revealed
2018Movie
Normandy Nude
2018Movie
Newman
Journey's End
2017Movie
Mason
Kaleidoscope
2017Movie
Carl
The Snowman
2017Movie
DC Svenson
Atomic Blonde
2017Movie
Eric Gray
The Entertainer
2017Movie
Paul Limp
Happy End
2017Movie
Lawrence Bradshaw
The Witness for the Prosecution
2016TV
John Mayhew
Morgan
2016Movie
Dr. Simon Ziegler
Anthropoid
2016Movie
Jan Zelenka
The Secret Agent
2016TV
Verloc
The Man Who Knew Infinity
2016Movie
Littlewood
Dad's Army
2016Movie
Captain Mainwaring
Capital
2015TV
Roger
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015Movie
Claudius Templesmith (uncredited)
By Our Selves
2015Movie
John Clare
Tale of Tales
2015Movie
King of Highhills
Wayward Pines
2015TV
Dr. Jenkins, David Pilcher
The Last Days Of...
2015TV
narrator
Marvel's Agent Carter
2015TV
Arnim Zola
Serena
2014Movie
Sheriff McDowell
Detectorists
2014TV
Lance Stater
By the Gun
2014Movie
Jerry
Marvellous
2014Movie
Neil Baldwin
The Cask of Amontillado
2014Movie
Montresor
The Dark
2014Movie
Dad
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014Movie
Dr. Arnim Zola
Muppets Most Wanted
2014Movie
Prado Museum Guard #2
Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem
2014Movie
Narrator
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013Movie
Claudius Templesmith
Leave to Remain
2013Movie
Nigel
Murder on the Victorian Railway
2013Movie
Himself - Narrator
The Girl
2012Movie
Alfred Hitchcock
Berberian Sound Studio
2012Movie
Gilderoy
Snow White and the Huntsman
2012Movie
Coll
Titanic
2012TV
John Batley
The Hunger Games
2012Movie
Claudius Templesmith
Red Lights
2012Movie
Paul Shackleton
My Week with Marilyn
2011Movie
Arthur Jacobs
The Adventures of Tintin
2011Movie
Silk (voice)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011Movie
Percy Alleline
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011Movie
Dr. Arnim Zola
Your Highness
2011Movie
Julie
Christopher and His Kind
2011Movie
Gerald Hamilton
The Rite
2011Movie
Father Matthew
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010Movie
Dobby (voice)
Sherlock
2010TV
Culverton Smith
Virginia
2010Movie
Max
Mo
2010Movie
Dr. Mark Glaser
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2010Movie
Hargreaves
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
2009Movie
Bursar
Digital Theatre: Parlour Song
2009Movie
Creation
2009Movie
Thomas Henry Huxley
W.
2008Movie
Karl Rove
Frost/Nixon
2008Movie
Swifty Lazar
City of Ember
2008Movie
Barton Snode
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
2008Movie
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
2008Movie
Self
10 Days to War
2008TV
Francis Brooke
The Man Inside Dame Edna
2008Movie
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
The Old Curiosity Shop
2007Movie
Daniel Qulip
St Trinian's
2007Movie
Schatzmeister
The Mist
2007Movie
Ollie Weeks
Nightwatching
2007Movie
Gerard Dou
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Willesden
2007Movie
Bennett
Amazing Grace
2007Movie
Duke of Clarence
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
The Painted Veil
2006Movie
Mr. Waddington
A Harlot's Progress
2006Movie
William Hogarth
The Sickie
2006Movie
Douglas Knott
Infamous
2006Movie
Truman Capote
Scoop
2006Movie
Joe's Co-Passenger (uncredited)
Elizabeth I
2005TV
Robert Cecil
Mrs. Henderson Presents
2005Movie
Gordon
Doctor Who
2005TV
Dream Lord
Ladies in Lavender
2004Movie
Hedley
Finding Neverland
2004Movie
Smee
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004TV
Self
Coming Up
2003TV
Simon
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002Movie
Dobby (voice)
15 Storeys High
2002TV
Obsessive-compulsive man
In Love and War
2001Movie
Bolo
The Way We Live Now
2001TV
Mr. Squercum
Love or Money
2001Movie
Phil
Hotel Splendide
2000Movie
Kitchen boy
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
2000Movie
Civil servant
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999Movie
English Judge
Simon Magus
1999Movie
Buchholz
EverAfter
1998Movie
Royal Page
Cousin Bette
1998Movie
Gentleman in Cafe des Artistes
Out of Hours
1998TV
Martin Styles
Les Misérables
1998Movie
Doorkeeper
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Dan Peterson
Death of a Salesman
1996Movie
Stanley
The Sanctuary Sparrow
1994Movie
Griffin
Cadfael
1994TV
Griffin
Naked
1993Movie
Man at Tea Bar
Orlando
1992Movie
Second Valet
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Samuel Ratchett
Lovejoy
1986TV
Sgt. Protheroe
Natural World
1983TV
Narrator
Great Performances
1971TV
Vanya
Horizon
1964TV
Narrator
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Bolo
Untitled Roald Dahl Series
TV