However, this is just the latest achievement in an ever more impressive CV.
She has also earned nominations for BAFTAs, Critics Choice Awards, and Golden Globes.
She has certainly come a long way from her beginnings in suburban Birmingham, U.K.
Here’s a closer look at her transformation from a promising Birmingham talent to an award-winning Hollywood star.
They divorced when she was 3 years old.
“Looking back on my own childhood, it felt limitless,” she said toThe Guardianin 2025.
“Summer holidays away from school felt like they went on forever.
Anything before the smartphone was a utopia because we weren’t recording every minute of our experiences.”
“If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing now.”
She learned the plays of Harold Pinter and the method of Stanislavski.
She even learned circus skills like juggling.
As she toldThe Lady, “That is where it started.”
“I look back on that period really fondly,” she toldEllein 2021.
“I made some incredibly close friends, it was great fun.”
Afterwards, she joked that Ethel really was an “awful character” (viaDaily Mail).
Instead, she chose to study English at Oxford University.
“It didn’t feel right to go straight into acting,” she said toTime Outin 2013.
Another reason she decided to pursue academic studies was family tradition.
As one of her fellow students recalled to theCherwell, she was in countless productions at the university.
All in all, she has no regrets.
“I loved it.
I met my best friends there, who I’m still really close to,” she told Stylist.
“I’m so lucky that I had that experience.”
She landed the leading role in the ITV adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” in 2007.
This was followed by an eight episode stint on Channel 4’s “Meadowlands.”
It was so much fun."
Luckily, she had done some dry slope skiing as a child with her father and brother.
When she got the part, she started getting into skateboarding, too.
“I’d always been a bit of a skater girl growing up,” she said.
“I loved revisiting that and looking at old ’90s skate movies.”
That year, she attended her first BAFTA Awards ceremony a big event for any actor breaking into Hollywood.
For her first major red carpet appearance, Jones found a vintage 1950s black tulle dress.
She would then go on to wear one ofthe most stunning red carpet looksin 2015.
She also worked with Jane herself.
“It was a gradual process of getting to know each other.”
Jane later told Jones that she had perfectly captured her voice.
The performance earned Jones her first Oscar nod in the best actress category back in 2015.
She found out early in the morning while lounging in her pyjamas.
And, as it turns out, turning down these roles proved to be a major turning point.
Johnson went on to win the role, which skyrocketed her to Hollywood stardom.
For Jones, her focus was always on choosing good projects, regardless of the hype surrounding them.
she toldThe Telegraphof one of her decisions to turn down a role.
“But, each time, I would ask myself: Is it going to be any good?
Do I have a sense that the film will work, or resonate with the public?
Do I really want to be playing this part every single day for months?
She added, “There’s a certain amount of patience required to wait for the right thing.”
“I couldn’t believe what an amazing part it was,” Jones said toStarWars.com.
“Most of the female roles in franchises at that time were supporting roles.”
“It was absolutely extraordinary,” she said toBBC’s Radio 1.
This is a strange, strange life,'” she laughed.
“It’s so important that someone with her beliefs stays on the Supreme Court.
We feel continually let down by our leaders, but she’s someone we can trust.”
She taught us all so much.
I will miss her deeply" (perEntertainment Weekly).
The pair married in 2018 in a private ceremony in Gloucestershire, England.
The pair welcomed their first child, a son, during the COVID-19 lockdown.
In 2022, the pair welcomed a daughter.
Motherhood was quite the adjustment for Jones.
Or, as she put it toThe Times, “Parenting is just a rollercoaster of fatigue.”
As she explained toThe Times, she was a “highly strung child” who took life very seriously.
“You want to achieve certain things and you’re quite determined,” she recalled.
In fact, her anxiety was so bad, it sometimes manifested physically.
Over the years, Jones found that her anxiety began to improve.
She added, “That definitely got better as I’ve got older.
And I think you just don’t sweat the small things so much, do you?”
In fact, she feels it’s her duty to do so especially as someone in the public eye.
But that’s long gone," she said toThe Guardian.
Instead, she keeps herself firmly grounded in the real world: “I’m a constant news-checker.
you’re able to’t not be, now.
There’s such chaos in the world.
It seems to be our duty to be informed, to be abreast of things.”
She’s also not afraid of using her platform to speak out.
When asked about the current political landscape, she said bluntly, “It’s a tragedy.”
It was a demanding role.
For Jones, capturing all of this authentically was hugely important.
