GEMMA JONES

(Halder’s mother) Gemma Jones is an accomplished and well recognized British actress who has appeared in nearly 70 film and television projects, including her role as ‘Dr. Jean Mullins’ in UK television series “Trial and Retribution.” She was previously seen in a recurring role in “All About George.” Her film credits include the mother of the title role in “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,” as well as such other films as “Shanghai Knights,” “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” “The Winslow Boy” and “Sense and Sensibility.” She began her career in the mid-1960s, and received BAFTA Award nominations for her work in the television film “Duchess of Duke Street” and the miniseries “Play for Today.”

Jones’ stage credits number more than 40, ranging from productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company to “The Cavern” (for which she won the Clarence Derwent Award) to such recent fare as “Everything Is Illuminated” and “On Religion.”