Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee,[2] on September 3, 1976. Shawn Jones, her father, is a minister.[3] The family lived in Tennessee for five years before her father took a job preaching in Texas.[2][3] Jones has one brother named Zach and one sister named Toni, named after their aunt who saved their mother's life by donating blood.[2] At the age of five, she filmed her first commercial.[2][3] At the age of nine, Jones starred in several theater productions in the Actors Theatre of Houston including The Women, Ah, Wilderness!, and Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs.[3] At the age of 12, she was in The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold.[3]
Jones starred as Daphne on the second season of HBO's True Blood in 2009.[5] Jones also has starred in the number of Lifetime movies, like A Teacher's Crime (2008), Dead At 17 (2008), Secrets from Her Past (2011), House (2011), A Sister's Revenge (2013), and The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom (2014) and Saving My Daughter (2021).[6] In late January 2016, Jones was confirmed to be cast as Parker Forsyth on General Hospital.[7][8]
In 2023, Jones directed the Lifetime movieThe Perfect In-Laws which premieres Nov. 30. She starred in an independent film In Flight with co-stars Tiffany Smith and Cristo Fernandez that will be released in 2024.[9] In September 2023, she joined Bold and the Beautiful co-star Katherine Kelly Lang as a model for Impero Couture, a fashion company based in Naples, Italy. Jones and Lang are the stars of the line's 2024 campaign.[10][11] In July, 2024, Jones and Lang also became the main models for Caprese, an italian swimwear company. [12]
Personal life
Jones was married to actor Noah Nelson, the son of actor Craig T. Nelson, from August 17, 2002, to May 2009. She previously dated former B&B co-star Jack Wagner.[2]
On February 1, 2016, Jones married IT infrastructure manager Joel Henricks in a small courthouse wedding.[13] In March 2016, it was announced that Jones and Henricks were expecting a son together,[14] who was born in May 2016.[15] Henricks already has a son from a previous relationship.[16] In September 2019, Jones filed for divorce from Henricks.[17] They share joint custody of their minor child.[18]
Contract role: December 2004 – November 2010 Recurring role: October 2011 to February 2012 Guest role: May 2013; August 2015; February 2016; August, September, December, 2018; March, November 2020; March 2021; March, April, June 2022; December 2023
