Meet the Hollywood star who is proud to wear Oxfam

telegraph.co.uk:

Oxfam’s Second Hand September initiative, an annual campaign to encourage people to choose pre-worn fashion over new. Given that the UK sends 13 million items of used clothing per week to landfill, it’s fair to say encouragement is needed.Born in Birmingham to a journalist father and advertising executive mother, and raised in Bournville, Jones’s love affair with pre-loved clothing started early. ‘I remember sitting underneath rails of clothes when I was a little girl.

My mother used to volunteer at a second-hand store when we were growing up, the Settlement shop, in Birmingham. She would always find great bargains, and I’ve inherited that interest from her.

I love the mystery of second-hand shopping, and the narrative behind the clothes. You never quite know what you’re going to get.’An actor since the age of 12 (her first role was in the 1996 TV film The Treasure Seekers, alongside Keira Knightley), the narrative behind the clothes is particularly relevant to her profession, clothing being such an essential part of building any character.

And what characters Jones has played, her 26-year career resulting in a CV that any actor would envy. As well as a 10-year stint playing Emma Grundy in The Archers, she has appeared in costume dramas (2008’s Brideshead Revisited), comedies (2011’s Chalet Girl), sci-fi (2016’s Rogue One) and biographical dramas, earning Oscar, Golden Globe and Bafta nominations for her performance as Jane Hawking in 2014’s The Theory of Everything.