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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Toby Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (15)

• 2024Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Impact — Self- Narrator
• 2024Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Real Story — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2024The Sinking of a Superyacht: How Safe is Your Voyage? — Self – Narrator (voice)
• Hidden Treasures of the National Trust — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2023The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny — Self
• 2023Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford — Self
• 2022Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts — Self
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self
• 2021Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2021Wild Tokyo — Self - Narrator (voice)
• A Wild Year — Self - Narrator (voice)
• My Grandparents' War — Self
• 2013Murder on the Victorian Railway — Himself - Narrator
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self