Character actor Doug Jones will be signing autographs at Texas Frightmare Weekendl at the Irving Convention Center Friday, Saturday and Sunday May 17-19th. Jones is highly regarded for playing major characters under heavy makeup and prosthetics. A frequent collaborator with Guillermo Del Toro, you’ve seen him in The Shape Of Water, Hellboy, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, What We Do In The Shadows and many others in his 30-year-long film career.
The youngest of four brothers, Doug Jones was born on May 24, 1960, in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in the city’s Northeastside. After attending Bishop Chatard High School, he headed off to Ball State University, where he graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications and a minor in Theatre.
He learned mime at school, joining a troupe and doing the whole white-face thing, and has also worked as a contortionist.
Although known mostly for his work under prosthetics, he has also performed as ‘himself’ in such highly-rated films as Adaptation. (2002) with Nicolas Cage and indie projects such as Phil Donlon’s A Series of Small Things (2005).
But it is his sensitive and elegant performance as Abe Sapien in Hellboy (2004), which stormed to the top of the U.S. box office in the spring of 2004, that has brought him an even higher profile and much praise from audiences and critics alike.
