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Jennifer Gemma Jones; 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) and Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010). For her role in the BBC TV film Marvellous (2014), she won the 2015 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Jones was born in Marylebone, the daughter of Irene (née Isaac) (1911-1985) and Griffith Jones, an actor (1909-2007). Her brother, Nicholas Jones, is also an actor. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Gemma Jones appeared at Nottingham Playhouse in 1965, as Anya, in The Cherry Orchard. Jones became known to television viewers after starring in the BBC serial Kenilworth (1967) as Queen Elizabeth I and in BBC2's 1970 dramatisation of The Spoils of Poynton.
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 Trotter in another BBC drama, The Duchess of Duke Street. In 1980, she played the role of Portia in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of The Merchant of Venice, opposite Warren Mitchell's Shylock. In 1966, played the great soprano Giuseppina Strepponi in After Aida at the Old Vic Theatre. Jones played Mrs. Dashwood alongside Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson in the Academy Award-winning period drama Sense and Sensibility (1995).
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Actors: Herbert Wilcox (producer), John Boxer (actor), David Lean (editor), Paul Czinner (director), Laurence Hanray (actor), Griffith Jones (actor), Sybil Grove (actress), Joe Strassner (costume designer), Elisabeth Bergner (actress), Victor Rietti (actor), Lyn Harding (actor), Gilbert Davis (actor), Hugh Sinclair (actor), Bruno Barnabe (actor), Frederick Ashton (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Hey girls, gather round
Listen to what I'm putting down
Hey babe, I'm your handy man
I'm not the kind to use a pencil or rule
I'm handy with love and I'm no fool
I fix broken hearts, I know that I truly can
If your broken heart should need repair
Then I'm the man to see
I whisper sweet things, you tell all your friends
They'll come runnin' to me
Here is the main thing I want to say
I'm busy 24 hours a day
I fix broken hearts, I know that I truly can
Come, come, come
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Come, come, come
Yeah, yeah, yeah
They'll come runnin' to me
(Fade)
That's me