TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything, Like Crazy) today received the fourth annual “IMDb STARmeter Award” at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). This annual award recognizes the stars who are fan favorites on IMDbPro’s STARmeter chart, which is determined by the actual search behavior of IMDb’s more than 250 million unique monthly visitors worldwide. Col Needham, IMDb’s founder and CEO, presented the award to Felicity this morning at a private event in Toronto.
Last year’s IMDb STARmeter Award winner, Brie Larson, was honored by IMDb in Toronto in September 2015 for her work in Room, the very first award she received for her acclaimed performance for which she went on receive significant industry accolades, culminating in her Best Actress Academy Award. Miles Teller, the 2014 recipient of IMDb’s award in Toronto, was honored for his work in Whiplash. And Olivia Wilde received the inaugural IMDb STARmeter Award in Toronto in 2013 for her work in Rush and Third Person.
"Thank you so much to IMDb and especially to the fans who made this possible," said Felicity Jones. "IMDb is such an invaluable resource for everyone who goes to see films and everyone who works in film. It is a real privilege to receive this award."
“On behalf of IMDb’s hundreds of millions of customers all over the world, I was delighted to present Felicity with the IMDb STARmeter Award which recognizes those special stars who are fan favorites as determined by IMDbPro’s STARmeter chart,” said Col Needham, IMDb’s founder and CEO. “As someone who has keenly followed Felicity’s career since I first saw her on screen in 2008’s Flashbacks of a Fool, I believe she has given one of her most moving performances in A Monster Calls, which has its world premiere today at TIFF and has already earned a spot on my personal top 10 films of 2016 list.”
Felicity’s IMDb STARmeter award win reflects intense fan interest in her upcoming lead roles in three films hitting the big screen later this year -- Disney/Lucas’ Star Wars: Rogue One, directed by Gareth Edwards, in theaters worldwide on December 16, 2016; Ron Howard’s Inferno opposite Tom Hanks, in theaters October 28, 2016; and J.A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls opposite Liam Neeson, in theaters in limited release December 23, 2016 (opening wide on January 6, 2017).
About Felicity Jones
Felicity Jones is best known for her Academy Award, BAFTA, SAG and Golden Globe-nominated starring role opposite Eddie Redmayne in James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything. Inspired by Jane Hawking’s memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, the movie details the love story between Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge cosmology student, and Jane Wilde, the arts student he fell in love with at University in the 1960s. Soon after, Jones landed the hotly-contested lead roles in three films hitting the big screen later this year -- Disney/Lucas’ Star Wars: Rogue One, directed by Gareth Edwards, in theaters worldwide on December 16, 2016; Ron Howard’s Inferno opposite Tom Hanks, in theaters October 28, 2016; and J.A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls opposite Liam Neeson, in theaters in limited release December 23, 2016 (opening wide on January 6, 2017).
Jones’s past film credits include: The Invisible Woman, the story of Charles Dickens’s secret mistress, in which she stars with Ralph Fiennes, who also directed; Rupert Goold’s drama True Story opposite Jonah Hill and James Franco; Breath In, which reteamed her with director Drake Doremus; and Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone.
American audiences first took notice of Jones in 2011 as the star of Drake Doremus’ Like Crazy, in which she appeared opposite Anton Yelchin. The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim, earning the Grand Jury prize for American Dramatic Film and Jones a Special Jury Award for acting. She also was named Breakthrough Actor at the Gotham Awards and Breakthrough Performance by the National Board of Review.
Prior, Jones was seen in films including David Hare’s Page 8; Julie Taymor’s film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, also starring Dame Helen Mirren; Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s Cemetery Junction alongside a stellar cast including Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson and Matthew Goode; and Brideshead Revisited. Her extensive TV credits include the critically acclaimed BBC adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank; a guest-starring role on HBO’s hit series Girls; and Jane Austen’s Northhanger Abbey.
A veteran of the stage, Jones recently earned rave reviews in Michael Grandage’s production of ‘Luise Miller’. Additional theater credits include ‘That Face’ at the Royal Court and Enid Bagnold’s ‘The Chalk Garden,’ which earned her an Outstanding Newcomer nomination at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
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