Gemma Jones
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.
Early life
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.
Career
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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ALBUMS
- When Love Speaks released: 2003
When Love Speaks
Released 2003- Be Not Afraid, the Isle Is Full of Noises
- Live With Me and Be My Love
- As an Imperfect Actor on the Stage
- My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
- Why Is My Verse So Barren of New Pride
- Who Will Believe My Verse in Time to Come
- That You Were Once Unkind Befriends Me Now
- How Oft, When Thou, My Music
- When, in Disgrace With Fortune and Men's Eyes
- Being Your Slave, What Should I Do but Tend
- Tired With All These, for Restful Death
- When I Consider Everything That Grows
- Let Those Who Are in Favour With Their Stars
- They That Have Power to Hurt and Will Do None
- Those Lips That Love's Own Hand Did Make
- Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
- Th'Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame
- Thine Eyes I Love, and They, as Pitying Me
- I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need
- When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
- Is It They Will Thy Image Should Keep Open
- Mine Eye and Heart Are at a Mortal War
- No More Be Grieved at That Which Thou Hast Done
- O Never Say That I Was False of Heart
- Look in Thy Glass and Tell the Face Thou Viewest
- Some Glory in Their Birth, Some in Their Skill
- How Heavy Do I Journey on the Way
- Since Brass, nor Stone, nor Earth, nor Boundless Sea
- Like as the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore
- The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strained
- Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force; Be It Not Said
- Since I Left You, Mine Eye Is in My Mind
- Be Wise as Thou Art Cruel; Do Not Press
- Is It for Fear to Wet a Widow's Eye
- So Is It Not With Me as With That Muse
- Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws
- The Willow Song
- When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth
- When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time
- What Potions Have I Drunk of Siren Tears
- Nor Marble nor the Gilded Monuments
- Sin of Self-Love Possesseth All Mine Eye
- Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- Music to Hear, Why Hears't Thou Music Sadly
- When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow
- No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead
- In Faith I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes
- Why Didst Thou Promise Such a Beauteous Day
- Not From the Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck
- My Love Is as a Fever, Longing Still
- The Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep
- Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day
- Our Revels Now Are Ended
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by Jimmy Jones
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by Jimmy Jones
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by Jimmy Jones
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by Jimmy Jones
Handy Man
by: Jimmy JonesHey 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
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