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.
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Primarily2025 A Sprinkle Of History as Walter Anderson
2025 Flavia de Luce
2025 Mr. Burton as Philip Burton
2025 The Actor as Lieutenant Murray / Artie Bellman / Cabbie / Arnold
2024 Wander to Wonder as Fumbleton (voice)
2024 Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Impact as Self- Narrator
2024 The Instigators as Attorney Alan Flynn
2024 Snow White as The Prince
2024 Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Real Story as Self - Narrator (voice)
2023 Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford as Self
2023 A Moral Man as Philip
2023 Mercy Road as The Associate
2023 The Canterville Ghost as The Reverend Chasuble (voice)
2023 The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny as Self
2023 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny as Basil Shaw
2023 Tetris as Robert Stein
2022 The Pale Blue Eye as Dr. Daniel Marquis
2022 Empire of Light as Norman
2022 The Wonder as Dr. McBrearty
2022 Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Self
2021 A Boy Called Christmas as Father Topo
2021 The Electrical Life of Louis Wain as Sir William Ingram
2021 A Few Miles South as Ted
2021 Infinite as Porter
2021 Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021 Danny Boy as Phil Shiner
2021 Wild Tokyo as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020 Uncle Vanya as Vanya
2020 Archive as Vincent Sinclair
2020 First Cow as Chief Factor
2020 The Last Thing He Wanted as Paul Schuster
2019 The Edge as Narrator (voice)
2019 Britain's Viking Graveyard as Narrator
2019 Out of Blue as Prof. Ian Strammi
2018 Inside Alton Towers as Narrator
2018 Christopher Robin as Owl (voice)
2018 Zoo as Security Guard Charlie
2018 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as Mr. Eversoll
2018 BBC Horizon: Jupiter Revealed
2018 Normandy Nude as Newman
2017 Journey's End as Mason
2017 Kaleidoscope as Carl
2017 The Snowman as DC Svenson
2017 Atomic Blonde as Eric Gray
2017 The Entertainer as Paul Limp
2017 Happy End as Lawrence Bradshaw
2016 The Witness for the Prosecution
2016 Morgan as Dr. Simon Ziegler
2016 Anthropoid as Jan Zelenka
2016 The Man Who Knew Infinity as Littlewood
2016 Dad's Army as Captain Mainwaring
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Claudius Templesmith (uncredited)
2015 By Our Selves as John Clare
2015 Tale of Tales as King of Highhills
2014 Serena as Sheriff McDowell
2014 By the Gun as Jerry
2014 Marvellous as Neil Baldwin
2014 The Cask of Amontillado as Montresor
2014 The Dark as Dad
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier as Dr. Arnim Zola
2014 Muppets Most Wanted as Prado Museum Guard #2
2014 Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem as Narrator
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Claudius Templesmith
2013 Leave to Remain as Nigel
2013 Murder on the Victorian Railway as Himself - Narrator
2012 The Girl as Alfred Hitchcock
2012 Berberian Sound Studio as Gilderoy
2012 Snow White and the Huntsman as Coll
2012 The Hunger Games as Claudius Templesmith
2012 Red Lights as Paul Shackleton
2011 My Week with Marilyn as Arthur Jacobs
2011 The Adventures of Tintin as Silk (voice)
2011 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Percy Alleline
2011 Captain America: The First Avenger as Dr. Arnim Zola
2011 Your Highness as Julie
2011 Christopher and His Kind as Gerald Hamilton
2011 The Rite as Father Matthew
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Dobby (voice)
2010 Virginia as Max
2010 Mo as Dr. Mark Glaser
2010 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll as Hargreaves
2009 St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold as Bursar
2009 Digital Theatre: Parlour Song
2009 Creation as Thomas Henry Huxley
2008 W. as Karl Rove
2008 Frost/Nixon as Swifty Lazar
2008 City of Ember as Barton Snode
2008 When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist' as Self Thanks
2007 The Old Curiosity Shop as Daniel Qulip
2007 St. Trinian's as Schatzmeister
2007 Nightwatching as Gerard Dou
2007 The Mist as Ollie Weeks
2006 The Painted Veil as Mr. Waddington
2006 A Harlot's Progress as William Hogarth
2006 The Sickie as Douglas Knott
2006 Infamous as Truman Capote
2006 Amazing Grace as Duke of Clarence
2006 Scoop as Joe's Co-Passenger (uncredited)
2005 Mrs. Henderson Presents as Gordon
2004 Ladies in Lavender as Hedley
2004 Finding Neverland as Smee
2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Dobby (voice)
2001 In Love and War as Bolo
2001 Love or Money as Phil
2000 Hotel Splendide as Kitchen boy
2000 The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz as Civil servant
1999 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc as English Judge
1999 Simon Magus as Buchholz
1998 EverAfter as Royal Page
1998 Cousin Bette as Gentleman in Cafe des Artistes
1998 Les Misérables as Doorkeeper
1996 Death of a Salesman as Stanley
1993 Naked as Man at Tea Bar
1992 Orlando as Second Valet