She has also presented BBC Radio Wales' drive-time news programme, Good Evening Wales. document.write( '' ); JOANNA PAGE. BBC Wales news presenter, Jennifer Jones, was born and raised in Bangor. After a decade working as a TV, theatre and radio actor, she began her journalistic career at BBC Radio Cymru in 2009. [31] Crowther of The New York Times was unenthused by her performance, writing: "Mr. Olivier gives the film its closest contact with the book, while Miss Jones' soft, seraphic portrait of Carrie takes it furthest away. ALEX JONES may now be seen as the wholesome host of The One Show, however long before she replaced Christine Lampard she accepted a very racy assignment. Jones is among the youngest actresses to receive an Academy Award, having won on her 25th birthday. [22] It was a commercial failure, grossing only $1.5 million in rentals against a $4 million budget. She made her final film appearance in The Towering Inferno (1974). While Walker found steady work in radio programs, Jones worked part-time modeling hats for the Powers Agency, as well as posing for Harper's Bazaar while looking for possible acting jobs. "[46] Next, she starred as a schoolteacher in Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955), opposite Robert Stack,[47] followed by a lead role opposite Gregory Peck in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, a drama about a World War II veteran. Jennifer was born and brought up in Bangor, she attended Ysgol Tryfan and was also a member of Ysgol Glanaethwy. The team of three presenters will also include current presenter Lucy Owen and BBC Wales’ political editor Nick Servini. [1] She was also averse to discussing critical analysis of her work. googletag.enableServices(); [42] The film was a box-office flop and was critically panned upon release, leading even Bogart to distance himself from it. She has also recently presented Duke of Edinburgh Gold Awards at St James' Palace and Buckingham Palace – giving motivational speeches to young people from Wales. //-->. [11] When she learned of auditions for the lead role in Claudia, Rose Franken's hit play, in the summer of 1941, she presented herself to David O. Selznick's New York office but fled in tears after what she thought was a bad reading. googletag.defineSlot('/21632628658/bangor-aye-side-middle', [300, 250], 'div-gpt-ad-1541509444267-0').addService(googletag.pubads()); [41] Also in 1953, Jones re-teamed with director John Huston to star in his film Beat the Devil (1953), an adventure comedy co-starring Humphrey Bogart. "[34] In their review, Variety deemed the film a "sordid drama [with] neither Jennifer Jones nor Charlton Heston gaining any sympathy in their characters. [16] For her performance in Since You Went Away, she was nominated for her second Academy Award, this time for Best Supporting Actress. Jennifer Jones is a Canadian curler. Jennifer was educated through the medium of Welsh.Jennifer took a gap year before going to University and travelled to France and Japan where she stayed with a Japanese family and taught their children in English. She landed two small roles, first in a 1939 John Wayne Western titled New Frontier, which she filmed in the summer of 1939 for Republic Pictures. Already a familiar face on the Wales Today programme, Jennifer … Jennifer has many tv programmes to her credit. Jennifer Jones passed away on December 17, 2009, three months away from what would have been her 91st birthday on March 2, 2010. Over the next ten years she worked constantly for many, Other than acting, broadcast journalism was the only career.