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.

Filmography

• 2025Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy — Pamela Jones
• I, Jack Wright — Rose Wright
• 2024Apocalypse Slough: A Murder, They Hope Mystery — Brenda
• 2024Blue — Anna
• Disclaimer — Helen
• 2024Wicked Little Letters — Victoria Swan
• The Reckoning — Agnes Savile
• 2022Emily — Aunt Branwell
• 2021Benediction — Hester Gatty (Older)
• Finding Alice — Minnie Walsh
• 2020Ammonite — Molly Anning
• Gentleman Jack — Aunt Anne Lister
• 2019Rocketman — Ivy
• 2018Patrick — Celia
• 2018You, Me and Him — Sue Miller
• 2017Carnage: Swallowing the Past — Davina
• 2017Diana and I — Mrs McDonald
• 2017God's Own Country — Deidre Saxby
• 2017Gypsy's Kiss — Judith
• 2016Bridget Jones's Baby — Mum
• The Crown — Penelope Carter
• Capital — Petunia
• Teacup Travels — Great Aunt Lizzie
• Unforgotten — Claire Slater
• 2014Marvellous — Mary
• 2014Radiator — Maria
• Atlantis — Campe
• 2013Lucan — Dowager Countess
• Lucan — Dowager Countess of Lucan
• 2013The Lady Vanishes — Rose Floodporter
• 201213 Steps Down — Olive
• 13 Steps Down — Olive
• Last Tango in Halifax — Muriel
• Death in Paradise — Sister Anne
• 2011Forget Me Not — Lizzie Fisher
• 2011Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 — Poppy Pomfrey
• 2011Hysteria — Lady St. John-Smythe
• 2010The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister — Aunt Lister
• 2010Whistle and I'll Come to You — Alice Parkin
• 2010You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger — Helena Shepridge
• 2009Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — Poppy Pomfrey
• 2008Ballet Shoes — Dr. Jakes
• 2008Good — Mother
• Merlin — The Cailleach
• 2007The Contractor — Mrs. Day
• 2007Who Killed Mrs De Ropp? — Mrs De Ropp
• All About George — Kay
• 2005Fragile — Mrs. Folder
• 2004Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason — Mum
• 2004The Phoenix and the Carpet — Mrs. Bibble
• 2003Kiss of Life — Sonia
• 2003Shanghai Knights — Queen Victoria
• Bootleg — Mrs. Bubby
• 2002Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — Poppy Pomfrey
• Spooks — Connie James
• 2001Bridget Jones's Diary — Bridget's Mum
• 2001Don't Tempt Me — Nancy
• Judge John Deed — Professor Moriarty
• 2000Longitude — Elizabeth Harrison
• Longitude — Elizabeth Harrison
• An Evil Streak — Beatrice Kyle
• 1999Captain Jack — Eunice Pickles
• 1999Cotton Mary — Mrs Freda Davids
• 1999The Theory of Flight — Anne
• 1999The Winslow Boy — Grace Winslow
• 1998All Revved Up — Mrs. Wiggins
• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman — Julia Hampson
• 1997Jane Eyre — Mrs. Fairfax
• Midsomer Murders — Maisie Gooch
• The Phoenix and the Carpet — Mrs Biddle
• Trial & Retribution — Dr Jean Mullins
• 1997Wilde — Lady Queensberry
• 1996Valley Girls — Beryl
• 1996Wilderness — Jane Garth
• Wilderness — Jane Garth
• 1995Feast of July — Mrs. Wainwright
• 1995Sense and Sensibility — Mrs. Dashwood
• Faith — Jane Moreton
• 1993Tender Loving Care — Nicky Dobbs
• The Return of the Borrowers — Miss Menzies
• 1992After the Dance — Joan Scott-Fowler
• The Borrowers — Miss Menzies
• Devices and Desires — Alice Mair
• Performance — Joan Scott-Fowler
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Miss Williams
• Chelworth — Virginia Hincham
• The Jim Henson Hour — The Queen (archive footage)
• 1988On the Black Hill — Mary Jones
• 1988Paperhouse — Dr. Sarah Nicols
• 1988The Importance of Being Earnest — Miss Prism
• The Storyteller — Queen
• Inspector Morse — Anne Staveley
• The Ruth Rendell Mysteries — Mrs. Peveril
• Theatre Night — Miss Prism
• 1981Very Like a Whale — Lady Mellor
• 1980The Merchant of Venice — Portia
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Portia
• The Duchess of Duke Street — Louise Trotter
• 1975Dial a Deadly Number — Helen Curry
• 1975The Way of the World — Millamant
• Churchill's People — Margaret Paston
• Dial M for Murder — Sophie Lamasse
• Fall of Eagles — Princess Vicky
• 1974Footsteps — Mollie
• 1974The Importance of Being Earnest — Gwendolen Fairfax
• Thriller — Helen Curry
• A Ghost Story for Christmas — Alice Parkin
• 1971The Cherry Orchard — Varya
• 1971The Devils — Madeleine de Brou
• 1971The Man in the Sidecar — Edith
• Play for Today — Anna Firth
• Shadows of Fear — Judith
• 1970The Lie — Anna Firth
• The Spoils of Poynton — Fleda Vetch
• Boy Meets Girl — Lucinda
• Kenilworth — Queen Elizabeth I
• Rainbow City — Mary Steele
• BBC Play of the Month — Varya, Gwendolen Fairfax
• 1965Treasure Island — Mrs. Taylor
• 1964The Life and Death of Lovely Karen Gilhooley — Grusha
• The Wednesday Play — Clarice
• Theatre 625 — Victoire / Lucille Desmoulins, Nina Zarechnaya
• The Human Jungle — Pamela Phillips
• No Hiding Place
• The Bright Side Running Club

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2009Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility — Self