- His wife Karen Jones is a criminal barrister.
- Has played both Truman Capote in Infamous (2006) and Capote's agent Irving Paul "Swifty" Lazar in Frost/Nixon (2008).
- Married his partner Karen Jones after being together for 25 years.
- He won the London Film Critics Circle "Best British Actor" for his portrayal of Truman Capote in Infamous (2006).
- Has twice played a famous public figure within a year of a more recognized actor playing the same role in another film. In 2006 he appeared in Infamous (2006) as Truman Capote, a role for which Philip Seymour Hoffman had recently won an Oscar. He later appeared in The Girl (2012) as Alfred Hitchcock, the same year that Anthony Hopkins played the role in Hitchcock (2012).
- Jones went to Abingdon School with fellow actor Tom Hollander and both were contemporaries of the band Radiohead. They were both born in Oxford and only two weeks apart from each other. Not only that, but both are 5 foot 5 inches in height.
- Son of Freddie Jones and Jennie Heslewood.
- Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook have appeared together in a number of projects: Finding Neverland (2004), City of Ember (2008), Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010), The Adventures of Tintin (2011), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Detectorists (2014) and Christopher Robin (2018).
- Brother of Rupert Jones and Casper Jones.
- Has two daughters - Madeleine Jones and Holly Jones.
- He WON the BAFTA comedy performance award for Detectorists.
- Starred on Broadway with Sean Foley and Hamish McColl in "The Play What I Wrote". (2003)
- He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2021 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to drama. He is an actor in London, Greater London, England.
- He was awarded the 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role of 2001 for his performance in "The Play What I Wrote" at the Wyndham Theatre, London.
- In 2011, filmed two movies for release in 2012 in which he plays a character named "Claudius": The Hunger Games (2012) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012).
- Performs with Hamish McColl as "The Right Size".
- As of 2021, he has appeared in two films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Finding Neverland (2004) and Frost/Nixon (2008).
- Besides playing the role of Truman Capote, he and Philip Seymour Hoffman both appeared in films adapted from John Le Carre novels. Jones was in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) while Hoffman was in A Most Wanted Man (2014). They co-starred in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). Another interesting fact is that both actors were part of movie franchises whose final films were split in two parts: Jones in the Harry Potter franchise and Hoffman in the Hunger Games franchise.
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