Gemma Jones

Gemma Jones

Birthday: 1942-12-04

Place of Birth: Marylebone, London, England, UK

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.

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Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against expectations. As a New Year's resolution, Bridg...

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a...

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Don't Tempt Me
Don't Tempt Me

Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer....

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Fragile
Fragile

Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for childre...

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Shanghai Knights
Shanghai Knights

When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their...

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The Devils
The Devils

Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-c...

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just a...

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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, ...

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Paperhouse
Paperhouse

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can ...

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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to...

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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 year...

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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...

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Forget Me Not
Forget Me Not

The film follows Will Fletcher, a musician, and Eve Fisher, who works in a pub where he is performin...

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Cotton Mary
Cotton Mary

A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past....

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Gypsy's Kiss
Gypsy's Kiss

An elderly widow reasserts her own sense of independence with an unconventional yearly pilgrimage to...

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Longitude
Longitude

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20...

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Who Killed Mrs De Ropp?
Who Killed Mrs De Ropp?

On a train journey, Saki meets Mrs De Ropp, an oppressive aunt and guardian to an unruly brood. Insp...

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Captain Jack
Captain Jack

Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determi...

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Hysteria
Hysteria

Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ...

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The Theory of Flight
The Theory of Flight

A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a pub...

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The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard

Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the...

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The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes

Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes fr...

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The Contractor
The Contractor

Former CIA Operative James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all...

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Footsteps
Footsteps

Gemma Jones stars as a woman suffering from hyperacusis, which affects the muscles of the ears. As a...

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Very Like a Whale
Very Like a Whale

Theme of a powerful and respected man tearing his life to pieces....

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Feast of July
Feast of July

After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three...

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Ballet Shoes
Ballet Shoes

An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy ...

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Marvellous
Marvellous

Dramatisation of the true story of the life of Neil "Nello" Baldwin. Born with a mild learning disa...

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Whistle and I'll Come to You
Whistle and I'll Come to You

After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home, elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a ...

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Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed...

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Radiator
Radiator

A moving, blackly comic drama about the strains in coping with ageing parents....

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Wicked Little Letters
Wicked Little Letters

When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of ...

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The Lie
The Lie

Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Fra...

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All Revved Up
All Revved Up

A lovely school teacher finds herself the victim of a scam artist - a garage owner who delights in r...

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The Way of the World
The Way of the World

In order for Millamant and Mirabell to get married and receive Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell must...

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Blue
Blue

After her daughter has passed away, a mother senses an ethereal poltergeist-like energy around her a...

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Bridget Jones's Baby
Bridget Jones's Baby

After breaking up, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomet...

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Tender Loving Care
Tender Loving Care

Night nurse Elaine Dobbs may be overworked and underpaid, but she has created a very special atmosph...

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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and for...

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The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest

Adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde....

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The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy

Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learn...

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After the Dance
After the Dance

David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a youn...

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God's Own Country
God's Own Country

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, u...

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Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Carnage: Swallowing the Past

It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past....

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Wilde
Wilde

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of hi...

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Kiss of Life
Kiss of Life

Helen lives in London with her father and her kids. John, her husband, is an aid-worker in Eastern E...

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Diana and I
Diana and I

In the week that follows Princess Diana's tragic death on 31 August 1997, four separate stories unfo...

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You, Me and Him
You, Me and Him

Despite their age difference, Lesbian couple Olivia and Alex are very much in love. But as the quest...

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Good
Good

When John Halder's latest novel is enlisted by powerful political figures in the Nazi party to push ...

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Patrick
Patrick

A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog....

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The Life and Death of Lovely Karen Gilhooley
The Life and Death of Lovely Karen Gilhooley

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Lucan
Lucan

Drama about infamous aristocrat Lord Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974 after being accused...

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Treasure Island
Treasure Island

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel....

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Rocketman
Rocketman

The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through hi...

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The Man in the Sidecar
The Man in the Sidecar

Examines the relationship between Edith, a famous and successful novelist, and her writer husband, a...

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The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to te...

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The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is f...

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Ammonite
Ammonite

In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by...

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13 Steps Down
13 Steps Down

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On the Black Hill
On the Black Hill

The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, ...

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Benediction
Benediction

Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for...

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Valley Girls
Valley Girls

Two Welsh women win a trip to Hollywood....

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Wilderness
Wilderness

In the light of the moon, seduction and pleasure are never what they seem. And neither is Alice Whit...

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Emily
Emily

The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice an...

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Dial a Deadly Number
Dial a Deadly Number

A young woman tormented by murderous dreams decides to call a psychiatrist for help but accidentally...

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Apocalypse Slough: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
Apocalypse Slough: A Murder, They Hope Mystery

Gemma is delighted to be recruited by the Serious Crimes Agency, but sadly they don't want Terry bec...

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The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Phoenix and the Carpet

Four Edwardian children find a strange egg in their newly-arrived Persian carpet. It hatches into a ...

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Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility
Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility

Documentary on the locations of the 1995 film 'Sense and Sensibility'....

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