There are a lot of young talented people in the entertainment business. They try to make a name for themselves among the big artists that audiences and critics love. Every year, young people who show a lot of promise get noticed thanks to different productions that let them show off all their skills. This is exactly what happened to actress Emilia Jones after she played Ruby in the Oscar-winning film CODA, a role that earned her many nominations and awards for Best Breakthrough Performance.
This young actress has always liked acting, and she has been around the arts since she was a baby because her father, Aled Jones, is a singer and TV host and her mother is a circus performer. Jones didn’t get a formal education in acting, but as a child she took a class in improv games. This helped her land her first role, as Jasmine in the 2011 romantic drama film One Day, which starred Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess.
Jones has worked in film, TV, and theater in her short career. She has been the lead in plays like “Shrek” and “Turn of the Screw.” She stands out not only for how well she acts, but also for how hard she works to train for each role, even if that means taking classes in fields that are very different from her own. Jones is one of those young actresses who will definitely change the movie business in a few years. Here’s a look at the best movies and TV shows she’s done so far.
Brimstone
Brimstone is a psychological western set in the 19th century. It follows Liz, a young woman who lives a peaceful life with her family until an evil priest who seems obsessed with her and the supposed sins she committed starts to haunt her, bringing with him all the ghosts she thought she had left behind. This 2018 movie was written and directed by Martin Koolhoven. It was shown for the first time at the Venice International Film Festival, where it was chosen to compete for the Golden Lion. Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Emilia Jones, Kit Harington, and Carice Van Houten all have roles in this play.
CODA
The last movie on this list is CODA, which comes out in 2021 and stars Emilia Jones in her best role to date. This production, which was written and directed by Sian Heder, is a remake of the 2014 film La Famille Bélier. Jones plays Ruby Rossi, the only hearing person in her family who is a teenager. She goes to school and helps out in her family’s struggling fishing business. When she finishes school, she plans to work there. But when she joins the school choir, she realizes that music is what she really loves. She is torn between pursuing a singing career and staying home to help her family.
CODA, which stands for “Child of Deaf Adults,” won a lot of awards, including Oscars for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also got a lot of praise for how the actors, most of whom were deaf, played their parts. Emilia does a great job in the lead role, which required her to learn American Sign Language and take singing lessons. She is joined by Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin, Daniel Durant, Eugenio Derbez, and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo.
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is one of the most famous British TV shows of all time. It has been on the BBC since 1963. The show has given rise to several spin-offs, movies, and other works. The Doctor has been played by many different actors over the course of the show’s many seasons, including William Hartnell, Colin Baker, Christopher Eccleston, and Matt Smith, to name a few. Jones did not play a character who showed up in more than one episode. Instead, she was only in one episode. In the 2013 episode “The Rings of Akhaten,” she played Merry Gejelh, the young Queen of Years who was going to be sacrificed to Akhaten. Jone, who was only 11 years old at the time, got a lot of praise for this small part.
Fairyland
Jones’s newest movie, Fairyland, was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023. Andrew Durham’s first dramatic film is based on Alysia Abbott’s book Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father. It tells the story of Alysia and her father Steve, who decide to move to San Francisco after Alysia’s mother dies in 1973. Throughout the movie, the audience sees how their relationship changes as Steve tries to be a good single dad and deals with his newfound sexuality and as Alysia goes through life and learns to stand on her own two feet. This well-known movie stars Scoot McNairy, Emilia Jones, and Nessa Dougherty, as well as Geena Davis, Cody Fern, Adam Lambert, and Maria Bakalova.
Ghostland
Ghostland is a horror movie from 2018 that stars Crystal Reed, Emilia Jones, Anastasia Phillips, Taylor Hickson, and Mylène Farmer. The movie was directed by Pascal Laugier. It’s about Pauline and her two teenage daughters, Beth and Vera, who get the house of a recently deceased relative. On their first night in the house, some strangers break in and attack them, leaving them both physically and mentally scarred. After 16 years, Beth is well-known as a writer who tells her story. Pauline still lives in the house with Vera, who is still hurting from the attack. When Beth goes back to live with her family, scary things start happening again. Jones plays Beth when she was a teenager in this play.
Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans
The 2019 movie Horrible Histories: The Movie: Rotten Romans is based on the same-named book series by Terry Deary as well as the 2009 TV series and its 2015 revival. Dominic Brigstocke directed it, and Emilia Jones, Sebastian Croft, Nick Frost, Craig Roberts, Kim Cattrall, Kate Nash, and Rupert Graves all play important roles. This play is about Atti, a Roman boy who is good at getting into trouble and upsets Emperor Nero. Because of what he did, he is sent to Britain and forced to join the army without any physical training. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Orla (Jones), a Celtic girl who wants to prove herself as a warrior and ends up becoming friends with Atti, captures him. When Atti goes back to his army, he finds out that the next battle will be against his new friend Orla and her tribe.
Locke & Key
The TV show Locke & Key was based on the same-named comic book by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. It ran on Netflix from 2020 to 2022. This three-season show was made by Carlton Curse, Meredith Averill, and Aron Eli Coleite. It is about Nina and her three kids, who move into their dead father’s old family home. Soon after moving in, the kids find some strange keys that let them do amazing things and may have something to do with how their father died. But they aren’t the only ones who want the keys. A dark entity in the area seems to be following in their footsteps. This show was nominated for Best Fantasy Television Series at the Saturn Awards. It stars Darby Stanchfield, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones, and Jackson Robert Scott. In it, Jones plays Kinsey, the Locke family’s only daughter.
Two For Joy
Two for Joy is a psychological drama about how grief changes people. In it, Jones plays Violet, a teen who becomes the main caretaker for her family when her mother falls into a deep depression while she is still sad about her dad’s death. So, she tries to deal with her problems and keep up with school while taking care of her wild siblings and trying to help her mother. In 2018, Tom Beard made his directorial debut with this movie, which he also wrote the script for. In addition to Jones, the cast includes Samantha Morton, Billie Piper, Bella Ramsey, Badger Skelton, and Daniel Mays. Two For Joy got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, which means that critics loved it.
Utopia
Utopia is a British TV show that began on Channel 4 in 2013. It was directed by Dennis Kelly. Starring in the show were Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Alexandra Roach, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Adeel Akhtar, Paul Higgins, Oliver Woollford, Alistair Petrie, and Neil Maskell. Each part of the show had six episodes. It’s about a group of comic book fans who think that a graphic novel that predicted a lot of bad things that happened in the 20th century has an unpublished sequel. When one of them gets the manuscript, he asks the others to join him in reading it. But now, this group of fans is being watched by a secret group that wants the same manuscript and doesn’t mind killing anyone to get it. Jones plays Alice, a young girl who gets into trouble when Grant, the boy who got the manuscript, hides it in her room.
What We Did on Our Holiday
Doug and Abi just broke up, but they are still having problems with each other. This has a direct effect on their three kids. But they decide to put their problems aside and go to Scotland for Doug’s father Gordie’s birthday. Gordie is in the last stages of a cancer that will kill him, so they want to keep things calm and, hopefully, make up. But what seemed like the perfect vacation to bring the family closer together turns out to be quite the opposite. After a big misunderstanding between the kids and their grandfather, the couple has to put aside their differences and stand together to fight for what they care about most: their kids. What We Did on Our Holiday is a comedy from 2014 that stars David Tennant, Rosamund Pike, Billy Connolly, Emilia Jones, and Celia Imrie. It was written and directed by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin. Jones plays Lottie, the eldest daughter of the main characters, in this play.
