Biographic - Sunday December 11, 2016 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Born in Birmingham, England on October 17, 1983 Felicity Jones began her acting career at the age of 12, appearing in the British TV movie, "The Treasure Seekers" in a cast that included Keira Knightley and Peter Capaldi. By her late teens, she was a veteran of British TV and radio drama. The late 2000s saw her star in a TV adaptation of Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" rack up credits in a number of British TV productions, establish herself on the London stage and appear in such movies as "Bridehead Revisited." Her performance in 2011s "Like Crazy" earned her a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the same year she became the face of Ad campaigns for Burberry and Dolce & Gabanna. Movie roles came thick and fast, and in 2014 she followed "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" with an Oscar-nominated performance in "The Theory of Everything." Having starred opposite Tom Hanks in " Inferno" Felicity now takes the lead in the epic space opera "Rogue: A Star Wars Story"

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