Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

110

Gender

Female

Birthday

1942-12-04 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Marylebone, London, England, UK

Also Known As

Jennifer R. Jones
جما جونز

Gemma Jones

Biography

Jennifer Gemma Jones (born 4 December 1942) is an English character actress on both stage and screen. Her film appearances include Sense and Sensibility (1995), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), the Harry Potter series (2002–11), and Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010). For her role in the BBC television film Marvellous (2014), she won the 2015 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Known For

7.7%

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Nov 13, 2002

8.1%

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Jul 12, 2011

7.7%

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Jul 15, 2009

6.7%

Bridget Jones's Diary

Apr 13, 2001

7.3%

Rocketman

May 17, 2019

6.4%

Bridget Jones's Baby

Sep 14, 2016

6.2%

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Nov 10, 2004

6.1%

Shanghai Knights

Feb 6, 2003

8.2%

The Crown

Nov 4, 2016

7.4%

Sense and Sensibility

Dec 13, 1995

7.8%

Merlin

Sep 20, 2008

7.8%

God's Own Country

Aug 31, 2017

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Acting

2025		I, Jack Wright
2025		Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy as Pamela Jones

2024		Disclaimer as Helen
2024		Apocalypse Slough: A Murder, They Hope Mystery as Brenda
2024		Blue as Anna
2024		Wicked Little Letters as Victoria Swan

2023

The Reckoning as Agnes Savile

2022

Emily as Aunt Branwell

2021		Benediction as Hester Gatty (Older)
2021		Finding Alice as Minnie

2020

Ammonite as Molly Anning

2019		Rocketman as Ivy
2019		Gentleman Jack as Aunt Anne Lister

2018		Patrick as Celia
2018		You, Me and Him as Sue Miller

2017		Diana and I as Mrs McDonald
2017		God's Own Country as Deidre Saxby
2017		Gypsy's Kiss as Judith
2017		Carnage: Swallowing the Past as Davina

2016		The Crown as Penelope Carter
2016		Bridget Jones's Baby as Mum

2015		Capital as Petunia
2015		Unforgotten as Claire Slater
2015		Teacup Travels as Great Aunt Lizzie

2014		Radiator as Maria
2014		Marvellous as Mary

2013		Lucan as Dowager Countess of Lucan
2013		Lucan as Dowager Countess
2013		Atlantis as Campe
2013		The Lady Vanishes as Rose Floodporter

2012		Last Tango in Halifax as Muriel
2012		13 Steps Down as Olive
2012		Thirteen Steps Down as Olive

2011		Death in Paradise as Sister Anne
2011		Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Poppy Pomfrey
2011		Hysteria as Lady St. John-Smythe
2011		Forget Me Not as Lizzie Fisher

2010		Whistle and I'll Come to You as Alice Parkin
2010		You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger as Helena Shepridge
2010		The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister as Aunt Lister

2009

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Poppy Pomfrey

2008		Good as Mother
2008		Merlin as The Cailleach
2008		Ballet Shoes as Dr. Jakes

2007		The Contractor as Mrs. Day
2007		Who Killed Mrs De Ropp? as Mrs De Ropp

2005		Fragile as Mrs. Folder
2005		All About George as Kay

2004

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as Mum

2003		Kiss of Life as Sonia
2003		Shanghai Knights as Queen Victoria

2002		Bootleg as Mrs. Bubby
2002		Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Poppy Pomfrey
2002		Spooks as Connie James

2001		Don't Tempt Me as Nancy
2001		Judge John Deed as Professor Moriarty
2001		Bridget Jones's Diary as Bridget's Mum

2000		Longitude as Elizabeth Harrison
2000		Longitude as Elizabeth Harrison

1999		Cotton Mary as Mrs Freda Davids
1999		Captain Jack as Eunice Pickles
1999		The Winslow Boy as Grace Winslow
1999		The Theory of Flight as Anne

1998

All Revved Up as Mrs. Wiggins

1997		Trial & Retribution as Dr. Jean Mullins
1997		Wilde as Lady Queensberry
1997		Midsomer Murders as Maisie Gooch
1997		Jane Eyre as Mrs. Fairfax

1996		Valley Girls as Beryl
1996		Wilderness as Jane Garth
1996		Wilderness as Jane Garth

1995		Sense and Sensibility as Mrs. Dashwood
1995		Feast of July as Mrs. Wainwright

1994

Faith as Jane Moreton

1993		The Return of the Borrowers as Miss Menzies
1993		Tender Loving Care as Nicky Dobbs

1992		After the Dance as Joan Scott-Fowler
1992		The Borrowers as Miss Menzies

1991

Devices and Desires as Alice Mair

1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot as Miss Williams

1988		On the Black Hill as Mary Jones
1988		Paperhouse as Dr. Sarah Nicols
1988		The Importance of Being Earnest as Miss Prism
1988		The Storyteller

1987		The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Mrs. Peveril
1987		Inspector Morse as Anne Staveley

1981

Very Like a Whale as Lady Mellor

1980

The Merchant of Venice as Portia

1978

The BBC Television Shakespeare

1976

The Duchess of Duke Street as Louisa Trotter

1975		Dial a Deadly Number as Helen Curry
1975		The Way of the World as Millamant

1974		Footsteps as Mollie
1974		Fall of Eagles as Princess Vicky
1974		The Importance of Being Earnest as Gwendolen Fairfax

1973

Thriller as Helen Curry

1971		A Ghost Story for Christmas as Alice Parkin
1971		The Cherry Orchard as Varya
1971		The Devils as Madeleine de Brou
1971		The Man in the Sidecar as Edith

1970		The Lie as Anna Firth
1970		Play for Today as Anna Firth
1970		Shadows of Fear as Judith
1970		The Spoils of Poynton as Fleda Vetch

1967

Rainbow City as Mary Steele

1965

Treasure Island as Mrs. Taylor

1964		The Life and Death of Lovely Karen Gilhooley as Grusha
1964		The Wednesday Play as Clarice

1963

The Human Jungle as Pamela Phillips

1959

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