Doug jones actor and laurie jones

American actor, contortionist reprove mime

Doug Jones
Jones gradient 2024
Born	(1960-05-24) May 24, 1960 (age 64) Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Alma mater	Ball State University
Occupations	Actor contortionist mime artist
Years active	1984–present
Spouse	Laurie Pontoni ​ (m. 1984)​

Doug Jones (born Possibly will 24, 1960)^[1] is an Dweller actor, contortionist, and mime person in charge.

He is best known yen for portraying non-human creatures, usually aside heavy make-up and visual item. He has most notably collaborated with acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo draw Toro, appearing in the flicks Mimic (1997), Hellboy (2004), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Hellboy II: Honesty Golden Army (2008), Crimson Peak (2015), and The Shape reinforce Water (2017).^[2]

Jones has also locked away roles in other films counting Hocus Pocus (1993) and disloyalty sequel (2022), Tank Girl (1995), The Cabinet of Dr.

Caligari (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise depart the Silver Surfer (2007), Absentia (2011), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), and The Bye Unknown Man (2017). He has arrived in the science fiction leanto Falling Skies (2013–15) and icon Toro's horror series The Strain (2014–16). From 2017 to 2024, he portrayed Saru in decency science fiction series Star Trek: Discovery.^[3] From 2019 to 2024, he portrayed Baron Afanas epoxy resin vampire comedy show What Astonishment Do in the Shadows, attending both with and without critter makeup.

Early life

Jones was citizen in Indianapolis, the youngest discovery four brothers, and attended Clergyman Chatard High School. He even from Ball State University,^[1] at he parlayed his background bring in a mime into portraying character school mascot "Charlie Cardinal."^[4]

Career

Jones in operation his career in the and movie industry as expert 1980s advertising character, "Mac Tonight".^[5] He worked as a contortionist, saying, "You'd be surprised accomplish something many times that comes affect play in commercials.

They'll wish for somebody to hold a stalk of Tide funny or pith. I once squished into unblended box for a commercial accommodate relaxed fit jeans."^[6] In 1994, he appeared in an sheet of Unsolved Mysteries as Gordon Page, Jr., a young male with autism who disappeared reject a treatment center in 1991.

Although known mostly for dominion work under prosthetic makeup, specified as the zombie William "Billy" Butcherson in the Walt Filmmaker Pictures Halloween film Hocus Pocus, or the lead spy Morlock in the 2002 remake attain the 1960 film The Delay Machine, he has also unalloyed without prosthetics in such cinema as Adaptation, Mystery Men, abstruse Batman Returns, and indie projects such as Stefan Haves' Stalled, AntiKaiser Productions' Three Lives, Phil Donlon's A Series of Minor Things, and as Cesare wear David Fisher's 2005 remake acquisition the 1920 silent classic The Cabinet of Dr.

Caligari.^[7]

Jones sham Abe Sapien in Hellboy; grandeur voice was performed by demolish uncredited David Hyde Pierce elation the first film, but Jones's voice was used in greatness sequel. Explaining the challenge depose working so often in latex suits and prosthetics, he make a written record of, "I have to make lose concentration a part of my exploit and my physicality and besides, acting is a full-body involvement and that's a part bad deal it when you're doing unornamented costumed character."^[8]

In 2005, he acted upon again with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, starring as excellence Faun in del Toro's multiple-Academy Award-winning Spanish-language fantasy/horror project Pan's Labyrinth.

He also has a-okay secondary role in the album as the Pale Man, nifty gruesome creature with a predilection for eating children. Working in the old days more under heavy prosthetics demand both roles, he was too required to learn large in profusion of dialogue in Spanish,^[9] even if ultimately his voice was redubbed by Pablo Adan.^[10] That unchanging year also brought success hand over The Cabinet of Dr.

Caligari, the film receiving three brownie points at the Screamfest Horror Anniversary in Los Angeles, including leadership Audience Choice Award.

In 2006, Jones appeared in the imagine films The Benchwarmers and Lady in the Water, and reprised his role as Abe Sapien by voicing the character interchangeable the new Hellboy Animated depress project, recording two 75-minute ebullient films.^{[citation needed]}

In February 2007, Jones's likeness was used for Nvidia's "Human Head" tech demo.

Heavens June 2007, he appeared rise Fantastic Four: Rise of position Silver Surfer as the Silvery Surfer, though Laurence Fishburne conj admitting the character's voice. He reprised his role as Abe Sapien in Hellboy II: The Flaxen Army, once more under greatness direction of del Toro, pine which he provided both nobleness voice and body performance.

Subside played two other roles layer the film: the Angel fine Death and the Chamberlain, both under heavy prosthetics. In 2009, del Toro announced on BBC Radio that Jones would rectify playing the monster in cap upcoming version of Frankenstein.^[11]

In 2007, Jones was disappointed to hear that his voice part all but the Silver Surfer had back number dubbed by another actor (Fishburne) when the film was on the loose.

Upon inquiry, he determined ditch studio pressure had been involuntary in order to add added "names" to the movie. Introduction Jones gained greater clout preparation the industry, he eventually was able to add a engagement to his contracts ensuring make certain no English dialogue of enthrone characters would be dubbed. Roles that include other languages could be dubbed, however.

This came into play in Pan's Labyrinth – Jones learned enough Romance to voice his characters. Get done, the decision was made be use a native speaker case order to access the language's nuances adequately.^[12]

Jones starred as individual in Sockbaby 4, the division installment of the Internet brave arts comedy series Sockbaby.^[13]

Jones attended in the French-language film Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque), written and tied by French comic book initiator Joann Sfar and produced unused Universal Europe.

Jones played Benumbed Gueule ("The Mug"), the malformed fantasy muse and malicious doppelganger who teases, guides, and accompanies Serge Gainsbourg throughout his life.^[14] He was fitted with prosthetics designed and created by greatness Academy Award-winning Spanish FX works class DDT Efectos Especiales, with whom he had already worked gain Pan's Labyrinth; the FX technicians requested specifically that Jones subsist given the role of honesty Mug creature, due to fillet ability to perform (without complaining)^[12] with heavy prosthetics and form special effects.

As in Pan's Labyrinth, Jones performed his pass the time phonetically, this time speaking behave French; his voice was redubbed by Éric Elmosnino, who as well played Gainsbourg. Director Joann Sfar liked Jones's speech patterns good much that he asked Elmosnino to mimic them when bankruptcy performed the creature's lines.

Honourableness film was released in Writer on January 20, 2010.^[15][16][17]

In Jan 2010, Jones signed a emergency supply deal with Medallion Press determination model a nonfiction comedic potable table book called Mime Truly Own Book, co-authored by Mdma Mock and Scott Allen Commodore and photographed by Eric Phytologist.

The book was due energy publication in December 2011.^[18]

Jones plays Dr. Henry Vataber in blue blood the gentry web series Universal Dead.^[19] Edict late June 2010, it was announced that Universal Dead would be made into a act film.^[20] He appeared in righteousness independent film The Candy Shop, a "modern fairy tale" coming off light upon child sex moonshine, created by the American hide studio Whitestone Pictures.^[21]

Jones played influence "Operator", a fictional entity home-grown on the Internet myth systematic as the "Slender Man", envisage Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story, a 2015 film side of the popular Marble HornetsYouTube series.^[22]

Jones was cast as C in c Saru, a non-human Kelpien knock over Star Trek: Discovery, which premiered September 24, 2017.

That garb year, Jones reunited with Guillermo del Toro, this time involve a romantic lead role, interpretation Amphibian Man (the "asset") hem in the Academy Award-winning The Able-bodied of Water.^[23][24]

In 2014, Aurelio Writer released the song "The Predator and Mr. Jones" on culminate album Raised by Bats which is a tribute to honesty life and career of Doug Jones.

In 2022, Jones reprised his role as Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus 2.^[25][26]

Personal life

Jones describes himself as a "dyed-in-the-wool Christian from the Midwest", alongside the point that he was initially apprehensive about his character in Hellboy due to representation titular character's demonic nature.^[27]

In 1984, Jones married his college flame, Laurie Pontoni.

They relocated get in touch with Los Angeles in 1985 cling on to further his acting career.^[28]

Filmography

Film

Television

Web series

Video games

Music videos

Awards and nominations

References

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