Where you’ve seen her: Gemma Jones

Since Gemma Jones’ first British television credit in 1962, she has collected three nominations from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for her TV work, including for the popular “Duchess of Duke Street,” and has enjoyed a distinguished stage career. In the States, she is known as Madame Pomfrey in two Harry Potter movies and as the title character’s mother in the Bridget Jones movies. Among her favorite film projects: Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility” and David Mamet’s “The Winslow Boy”: “I really enjoyed working with David Mamet, who was very demanding and minimalist, and I learned a lot. He doesn’t like ‘acting.’ I mean, as a theater actor, it’s very tempting to ‘act,’ so it was very challenging to just pare it down and pare it down and pare it down.”

—Michael Ordoña