Annie Jones (actor)


Annie Jones is an Australian actress, known for her roles as Jess Campbell in Sons and Daughters and as Jane Harris in the soap opera Neighbours. She has won two Logie Awards.

Biography

Jones' parents were Hungarian immigrants who met when in Adelaide, and married after her father found employment as an opal miner. She has three older sisters. The family spent many years in Coober Pedy.

Career

Working under the name Annie Jones, she undertook some modelling, and began acting aged 17 in the role of Chrissie in the film drama Run Chrissie Run!. She then appeared in television roles The Henderson Kids, and Sons and Daughters as Jesse Campbell.
Having auditioned for the role of Charlene Mitchell, at age 19, she landed the role of Jane Harris in Neighbours, for which she received a Logie Award for Most Popular Actress in 1989.
In 1990, she played an opal miner's daughter in an episode of The Flying Doctors. Jones played the title role in the drama Jackaroo, which won her a second Logie Award for Most Popular Actress in a Telemovie or Mini-series in 1991. She also starred as Eva Kovac in the historical mini-series Snowy.
In comedy, she co-starred in the Australian sitcom Newlyweds and guest starred in The Adventures of Lano & Woodley. In children's TV, she played the mother in Pig's Breakfast and appeared in the Mortified episode "Mother in the Nude". Jones has also guest starred in many Australian series including Wentworth, City Homicide, Stingers, Blue Heelers, Marshall Law, Good Guys, Bad Guys and Halifax f.p..
In 2010, she was cast in the television movie ', which tells of the biggest criminal investigation in the history of the state of Victoria. She appeared in the 2014 Australian show Worst Year of My Life Again. In March 2015, she appeared in a documentary special, ', celebrating the show's 30th anniversary. In April 2018, she reprised the role of Jane Harris in Neighbours. In 2019 Jones starred as Colleen Cotterill in Secret Bridemaids' Business. On 27 June 2020, it was announced that Jones had reprised the Neighbours role as a permanent cast member.