09/10/2025
“Acting enriches my life. I’ve learned sign language, how to cook at the Ritz, all these things I’d never normally do.”
At just 22, Emilia Jones has already lived many lives on screen. From her Oscar-winning breakout in CODA, where at 17 she carried the weight of Ruby Rossi’s voice and silence, to her transformative new roles in HBO’s Task, A24’s Tony and Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, she has become an actor defined by curiosity, grit and range.
“I was always role-playing as a kid,” she recalls. “I think I was always an old soul, and I matured quickly. I was grateful for people who didn’t treat me like a kid, because I learned so much from that.” That early seriousness shows: she throws herself into every detail of her work – dialects in Philadelphia bars, hauling nets on fishing boats, even cutting a mullet and tattooing Maeve, her Task character, into existence.
If CODA was her turning point, today is her expansion. She’s tackling thrillers, biopics, dramas and experiments, each role reshaping her sense of what’s possible. “I’m always looking for challenges, something I haven’t done before.” Even as her schedule spins, Jones remains grounded by curiosity.
“I want to still be here in ten years,” she continues, smiling. “Still messing my hair up, still playing characters that push me.”
For now, she is exactly where she belongs: in motion, immersed, alive to the next challenge.
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