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Gemma Jones (born December 4, 1942, in London, England) is a character actress on both stage and screen. Her father Griffith Jones and brother Nicholas Jones are also successful actors.

She was first recognised outside the UK in 1974, after playing the Empress Frederick in the BBC television drama series Fall of Eagles and Louisa in another BBC drama The Duchess of Duke Street. She later played Mrs Dashwood alongside Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson in the Academy Award-winning period drama, Sense and Sensibility (1995).

Other notable roles include Lady Queensbury in Wilde (1997), Grace Winslow in The Winslow Boy (1999), Pam Jones in Bridget Jones' Diary (2001) and Poppy Pomfrey in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).

Selected filmography

Television

• Fall of Eagles (1974)
• The Duchess of Duke Street (1976–1977)
• The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997)

Film

• The Devils (1971)
• Paperhouse (1988)
• Sense and Sensibility (1995)
• Feast of July (1995)
• Wilde (1997)
• The Theory of Flight (1998)
• The Winslow Boy (1999)
• Cotton Mary (1999)
• Don't Tempt Me (2001)
• Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
• Shanghai Knights (2003)
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

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