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PUTTING HER STAMP ON IT

Felicity Jones has chalked up rather a lot of air miles in her films. She has been a pregnant astronaut who may be mankind’s only hope in The Midnight Sky; a reluctant rebel hero helping destroy the Death Star in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; and the Victorian balloonist on a high-altitude scientific mission in The Aeronauts.

Back on Earth, the English star’s roles have tended towards formidable actual women. Such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she became a justice of the US Supreme Court in On the, and Jane Wilde, the first wife of Stephen Hawking, in , which earned her an Oscar nomination.

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