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.
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Acting History
2025
I, Jack Wright as Rose Wright
2025Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy as Pamela Jones
2024Disclaimer as Helen
2024Apocalypse Slough: A Murder, They Hope Mystery as Brenda
2024Blue as Anna
2024Wicked Little Letters as Victoria Swan
2023The Reckoning as Agnes Savile
2022Emily as Aunt Branwell
2021Benediction as Hester Gatty (Older)
2021Finding Alice as Minnie
2020Ammonite as Molly Anning
2019Rocketman as Ivy
2019Gentleman Jack as Aunt Anne Lister
2018Patrick as Celia
2018You, Me and Him as Sue Miller
2017Diana and I as Mrs McDonald
2017God's Own Country as Deidre Saxby
2017Gypsy's Kiss as Judith
2017Carnage: Swallowing the Past as Davina
2016The Crown as Penelope Carter
2016Bridget Jones's Baby as Mum
2015Capital as Petunia
2015Unforgotten as Claire Slater
2015Teacup Travels as Great Aunt Lizzie
2014Radiator as Maria
2014Marvellous as Mary
2013Lucan as Dowager Countess of Lucan
2013Lucan as Dowager Countess
2013Atlantis as Campe
2013The Lady Vanishes as Rose Floodporter
2012Last Tango in Halifax as Muriel
201213 Steps Down as Olive
2012Thirteen Steps Down as Olive
2011Death in Paradise as Sister Anne
2011Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Poppy Pomfrey
2011Hysteria as Lady St. John-Smythe
2011Forget Me Not as Lizzie Fisher
2010Whistle and I'll Come to You as Alice Parkin
2010You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger as Helena Shepridge
2010The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister as Aunt Lister
2009Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Poppy Pomfrey
2009Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility as Self
2008Good as Mother
2008Merlin as The Cailleach
2008Ballet Shoes as Dr. Jakes
2007The Contractor as Mrs. Day
2007Who Killed Mrs De Ropp? as Mrs De Ropp
2005Fragile as Mrs. Folder
2005All About George as Kay
2004Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as Mum
2003Kiss of Life as Sonia
2003Shanghai Knights as Queen Victoria
2002Bootleg as Mrs. Bubby
2002Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Poppy Pomfrey
2002Spooks as Connie James
2001Don't Tempt Me as Nancy
2001Judge John Deed as Professor Moriarty
2001Bridget Jones's Diary as Bridget's Mum
2000Longitude as Elizabeth Harrison
2000Longitude as Elizabeth Harrison
1999Cotton Mary as Mrs Freda Davids
1999Captain Jack as Eunice Pickles
1999The Winslow Boy as Grace Winslow
1999The Theory of Flight as Anne
1998All Revved Up as Mrs. Wiggins
1997The Phoenix and the Carpet as Mrs Biddle
1997The Phoenix and the Carpet as Mrs. Bibble
1997Trial & Retribution as Dr. Jean Mullins
1997Wilde as Lady Queensberry
1997Midsomer Murders as Maisie Gooch
1997Jane Eyre as Mrs. Fairfax
1996Valley Girls as Beryl
1996Wilderness as Jane Garth
1996Wilderness as Jane Garth
1995Sense and Sensibility as Mrs. Dashwood
1995Feast of July as Mrs. Wainwright
1994Faith as Jane Moreton
1993The Return of the Borrowers as Miss Menzies
1993Tender Loving Care as Nicky Dobbs
1992After the Dance as Joan Scott-Fowler
1992The Borrowers as Miss Menzies
1991Performance as Joan Scott-Fowler
1991Devices and Desires as Alice Mair
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot as Miss Williams
1988On the Black Hill as Mary Jones
1988Paperhouse as Dr. Sarah Nicols
1988The Importance of Being Earnest as Miss Prism
1988The Storyteller as Queen
1987The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Mrs. Peveril
1987Inspector Morse as Anne Staveley
1985Theatre Night as Miss Prism
1981Very Like a Whale as Lady Mellor
1980The Merchant of Venice as Portia
1976The Duchess of Duke Street as Louisa Trotter
1975Dial a Deadly Number as Helen Curry
1975The Way of the World as Millamant
1974Churchill's People as Margaret Paston
1974Footsteps as Mollie
1974Fall of Eagles as Princess Vicky
1974The Importance of Being Earnest as Gwendolen Fairfax
1973Thriller as Helen Curry
1971A Ghost Story for Christmas as Alice Parkin
1971The Cherry Orchard as Varya
1971The Devils as Madeleine de Brou
1971The Man in the Sidecar as Edith
1970The Lie as Anna Firth
1970Play for Today as Anna Firth
1970Shadows of Fear as Judith
1970The Spoils of Poynton as Fleda Vetch
1967Rainbow City as Mary Steele
1965BBC Play of the Month as Varya
1965BBC Play of the Month as Gwendolen Fairfax
1965Treasure Island as Mrs. Taylor
1964The Life and Death of Lovely Karen Gilhooley as Grusha
1964The Wednesday Play as Clarice
1964Theatre 625 as Victoire / Lucille Desmoulins
1964Theatre 625 as Nina Zarechnaya
1963The Human Jungle as Pamela Phillips
1959No Hiding Place