Actress Felicity Jones breaks bread at Toklas, slips into Dukes for cocktails and adores the city's dinosaurs

I've lived in east, north and west London.

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Home is...

The only place for me to live next is south. These days I live west, and it's been my home for the past 10 years. I enjoy being able to jump on the overground and go to Portobello Market and being close to Heathrow. I do a lot of travel for work and it helps being close, and being able to fly away. And come back.

Where was your first flat in London?

When I first moved here I had a flat in Bethnal Green that I shared with two friends, and that was a full-on twentysomething experience. We were next to some great pubs and, being close to Brick Lane and Shoreditch, we would go out there all the time. I remember going to Vyner Street for the gallery openings. It was a really exciting place to be living in your early twenties as I was auditioning for TV shows and absolutely loved living in that part of the city.

What was your first job?

My very first job in London was when I was 12, in Ruislip. I did a TV period drama called The Treasure Seekers. That was the beginning of my love affair with London; ever since that moment I knew one day I wanted to live in the Big Smoke.

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