The Mixed Beauty Julia Jones

Julia Jones was born on January 23, 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), Westworld (2016) and Wind River (2017) and Cold Pursuit (2019)

Studied at The Boston Ballet School from the age of 4.
Modelled for Levis, The Gap, Esprit, and L'Oreal.
Graduated from Columbia University with a degree in English.
Her father had a gym locker next to the gym locker of Maura Tierney's father.
 
Westworld (TV Series)
Kohana
- The Passenger (2018) ... Kohana
- Kiksuya (2018) ... Kohana
 
She is part English, Native American (Choctaw and Chickasaw) and African-American.

[On growing up in Jamaica Plain, Boston] One of the great things about growing up there was that it's so ethnically diverse, you didn't really pay attention to race. My dad is part Choctaw, Chickasaw and African American. I didn't realize the significance of not being white until I moved to LA.


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