Early life

Jones was born in Hammersmith, London, the son of actors Jennifer (née Heslewood) and Freddie Jones. He has two brothers: Rupert, a director, and Casper, also an actor. He attended Christ Church Cathedral School and Abingdon School in Oxfordshire in the 1980s. He studied drama at the University of Manchester from 1986 to 1989, and at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris from 1989 to 1991.

Career

Film and television

Jones has appeared in more than 20 films since his first acting role in the 1992 film Orlando. He voiced Dobby in the Harry Potter films. He played Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury HBO/Channel 4 production Elizabeth I. In 2006, he portrayed Truman Capote in the biopic Infamous. He appeared in the film adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist in 2007. In 2008, he portrayed Karl Rove in Oliver Stone's W and Hollywood agent Swifty Lazar in Frost/Nixon. He appeared alongside his father in the 2004 film Ladies in Lavender.

Jones appeared in the 2010 episode "Amy's Choice", of Doctor Who, as the Dream Lord, and in the Big Finish Productions series' Dark Eyes (audio drama) as Kotris. In 2011, he played the role of the British spy master Percy Alleline in the adaptation of John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Arnim Zola in Captain America: The First Avenger, a role which he reprised in the sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier three years later as well as in a cameo in the TV series Agent Carter the following year. In 2012, he had a leading role in the ITV mini-series Titanic, starred as one of the seven dwarves in Snow White and the Huntsman, played Dr. Paul Shackleton in Red Lights, and Max in Virginia. He also portrayed film director Alfred Hitchcock in the HBO television film The Girl, a role that earned him his first Golden Globe Award nomination, as well as his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

He appears in the music video for Gomez's song "Whippin' Picadilly".

He played Neil Baldwin in the BBC drama Marvellous in 2014. Sam Wollaston, in The Guardian, praised Jones's "lovely, very human, performance", one that earned him his second British Academy Television Award nomination. In 2014, he also appeared in the BBC Four television series Detectorists, for which he received a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance in 2016.

In 2015, Jones played the part of Roger Yount, a banker, in the three-part BBCs series Capital based on John Lanchester's novel of the same name. Discussing working with Jones on Capital, writer Peter Bowker said, "I think Toby is a genius and thought that long before I worked with him. He always wants to know a character's needs, and what's beneath those needs. Then he takes all that material and somehow embeds it into the character and physically inhabits the character, so that you never think he's playing the character. It's fascinating to watch him close up. He carries the emotional complexities in every tiny gesture that his character makes so that you immediately can see what his character is like. A character like Roger is full of contradictions, a city banker with an air of entitlement but also a little insecurity picking away at him. Toby can portray that in his walk alone. That's what's great about him, he can portray cold he can portray warm and he can portray both of those things at once."

He plays Captain Mainwaring in the film Dad's Army, released in February 2016.

Radio

Jones voiced the title character of the 2005 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Oblomov. He also read the 2009 Radio 4 adaptation of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany. Since 2013 Jones has been the voice of the lead character, Joey Oldman in the BBC Radio 4 series The Corrupted an adaptation of the G. F. Newman novel Crime and Punishment. On 2 December 2012 he played Napoleon Bonaparte in Anthony Burgess's Napoleon Rising on Radio 3.

Theatre

In 2001, he starred in the London West End comedy The Play What I Wrote, directed by Kenneth Branagh. His comic turn as Arthur earned him the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and when the play moved to Broadway in 2003.

In 2009, he returned to the stage in Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre, Parlour Song at the Almeida Theatre, and The First Domino at Brighton Festival Fringe. In 2011, he played JMW Turner in The Painter at the Arcola Theatre.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Orlando	Valet
1993	Naked	Man at tea bar
	Dropping the Baby	Babyman
1994	Cadfael	Griffin
1998	Cousin Bette	Man in Café des Artistes
	Les Misérables	Door keeper
	Ever After	Royal page
1999	Simon Magus	Buchholz
	The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc	English judge
	Midsomer Murders	Dan Peterson	Series 2 Episode 2: "Strangler's Wood"
2000	Hotel Splendide	Kitchen boy
	The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz	Civil servant
2002	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Dobby the house elf	Voice only
	15 Storeys High	Obsessive-compulsive man	Series one, episode 4 (Ice queen)
2004	Ladies in Lavender	Hedley
	Finding Neverland	Smee
2005	Mrs. Henderson Presents	Gordon
2006	A Harlot's Progress	William Hogarth
	Elizabeth I	Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
	Infamous	Truman Capote	London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actor of the Year
	The Sickie	Douglas Knott
	The Painted Veil	Waddington	Nominated - London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Supporting Actor of the Year
2007	Amazing Grace	Duke of Clarence
	Nightwatching	Gerard Dou
	The Mist	Ollie Weeks
	St. Trinian's	Bursar
	The Old Curiosity Shop	Daniel Quilp
2008	City of Ember	Bardon Snode
	W.	Karl Rove
	Frost/Nixon	Swifty Lazar
2009	Creation	Thomas Huxley
	St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold	Bursar
2010	Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll	Hargreaves
	Mo	Dr. Mark Glaser
	Doctor Who	The Dream Lord	Series 5, Episode 7: "Amy's Choice"
	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Samuel Rachett / Cassetti	Series 12, Episode 4: "Murder on the Orient Express"
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1	Dobby the house elf	Voice only
	Virginia	Max
2011	The Rite	Father Matthew
	Your Highness	Julie
	Captain America: The First Avenger	Arnim Zola
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Percy Alleline
	Christopher and His Kind	Gerald Hamilton
	My Week with Marilyn	Arthur P. Jacobs
	The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn	Aristides Silk
2012	The Hunger Games	Claudius Templesmith
	Titanic	John Batley	TV miniseries
	The Girl	Alfred Hitchcock	Nominated - British Academy Television Award for Best Actor Nominated - Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Movie/Miniseries Actor Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Miniseries or Television Film Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
	Red Lights	Dr. Paul Shackleton
	Snow White & the Huntsman	Coll
	Berberian Sound Studio	Gilderoy	BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film London Film Critics' Circle Award for Best British Actor of the Year
2013	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	Claudius Templesmith
	Leave to Remain	Mr. Nigel
	Words of Everest	Jan Morris
2014	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	Arnim Zola
	Serena	Sheriff McDowell
	By the Gun	Jerry
	Detectorists	Lance Stater	TV series; main cast 13 Episodes Nominated - British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance
	Marvellous	Neil Baldwin	Nominated - Royal Television Society Programme Award for Best Actor Nominated - British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
2015	Wayward Pines	David Pilcher/Dr. Jenkins	TV series; main cast Pending - Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television
	Agent Carter	Arnim Zola	Cameo; Season 1 Episode 8: Valediction
	Tale of Tales	King of Highhills
	Capital	Roger Yount	TV adaptation of John Lanchester's novel of the same name
2016	Dad's Army	Captain Mainwaring	Film adaptation of original BBC sitcom.
	The Man Who Knew Infinity	John Littlewood
	Alice Through the Looking Glass	Wilkins	Voice only
	By Our Selves	John Clare	Pre-production
	Morgan		Filming
2017	Sherlock		Filming

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