Ianto Jones
Ianto was born on 19th August 1983 in Cardiff. (TW: Fragments, From Out of the Rain) Ianto's father, worked in Debenhams. (TW: Children of Earth) Ianto told the team that his father enjoyed taking Ianto to the cinema, (TW: From Out of the Rain) though his sister, Rhiannon implied that their relationship was not as strong as he made out. She told Gwen that his father pushed Ianto too hard while on the swings during his childhood and broke his leg. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Five) He was brought up to never speak ill of the dead. (TW: Something Borrowed)
Ianto's father died and Ianto left soon after for university. His sister said he "couldn't wait to leave". This suggests by that time his relationship with his whole family had deteriorated.
He had no criminal record apart from one minor conviction for shoplifting in his teens. An able, but not exceptionally gifted student, Ianto took a series of temporary jobs, eventually ending up a Junior Researcher at Torchwood One. (TW: Fragments)
He was on good, if distant terms with his sister.
Ianto worked as a researcher for Torchwood One, based in Canary Wharf, London. During the Battle of Canary Wharf, as Cybermen looked for reinforcements to fight off the Daleks, Ianto's girlfriend Lisa Hallett was partly converted into a Cyberman. Hoping that the cyber-conversion process could be reversed, Ianto smuggled Lisa into Torchwood Three, hiding her in an unused basement until a "cure" for the partial cyber-conversion could be found. She was still attached to a cyber-conversion unit, which acted as her life support. (TW: Cyberwoman)
Back in his native Cardiff, Ianto tracked down Jack Harkness to try to find work with Torchwood Three. Despite Harkness' initial reluctance, Ianto so impressed Jack during the capture of a stray pteranodon that he was eventually offered a job. (TW: Fragments)
Ianto crying next to Lisa's body. (TW: Cyberwoman) Understaffed and poorly understood, Torchwood Three was an ideal place to hide a partially-converted Cyberwoman. Unfortunately, Lisa's Cyberman conditioning slowly won over her humanity. She laid siege to the Hub from inside and killed several people, including an innocent pizza delivery girl whose body she appropriated, before being killed. (TW: Cyberwoman)
456 Incident:
Ianto and the rest of Torchwood investigated when all the children on Earth started chanting "We are coming". He and Jack wanted to take a child to study. Ianto went to his sister Rhiannon Davies to see if he could use his niece or nephew, but she refused. Later that night, Torchwood was attacked by MI5 agents led by Agent Johnson and blown up - with Jack inside. (TW: Children of Earth: Day One)
That night, Ianto escaped while under attack from Johnson and her men. He contacted his sister and told her to keep a watch on the government. He also found where MI5 was keeping the remains of Jack Harkness, who had now healed himself. Ianto saved him and also found Gwen Cooper and her husband Rhys Williams. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Two)
He and the team headed over to an old Torchwood One warehouse and set up a base. They found out what the 456 were and what their intentions were. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Three) That night, Torchwood came up with a plan to blackmail the government. If the government did not follow their exact orders to counteract the 456, they would release to the public information about what happened in 1965. The next day, Ianto and Jack got into Thames House. There they threatened the 456 Ambassador, telling it to back away from Earth or else they would tell the whole planet about its intentions, inciting the whole of Earth to fight back against the alien. The 456 chose to give them a 'taste of war'. It released a virus into the air. Thames House shut itself down, trapping everyone inside. It sent a Ianto dying in Jack's arms. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Four) high-pitched shriek directly into Clem MacDonald's brain, killing him. Jack and Ianto tried to fight the 456, but their efforts were fruitless. Ianto died from the virus in Jack's arms. Jack also collapsed, and the next day woke up next to Ianto's body with Gwen. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Four)
Ianto's father died and Ianto left soon after for university. His sister said he "couldn't wait to leave". This suggests by that time his relationship with his whole family had deteriorated.
He had no criminal record apart from one minor conviction for shoplifting in his teens. An able, but not exceptionally gifted student, Ianto took a series of temporary jobs, eventually ending up a Junior Researcher at Torchwood One. (TW: Fragments)
He was on good, if distant terms with his sister.
Ianto worked as a researcher for Torchwood One, based in Canary Wharf, London. During the Battle of Canary Wharf, as Cybermen looked for reinforcements to fight off the Daleks, Ianto's girlfriend Lisa Hallett was partly converted into a Cyberman. Hoping that the cyber-conversion process could be reversed, Ianto smuggled Lisa into Torchwood Three, hiding her in an unused basement until a "cure" for the partial cyber-conversion could be found. She was still attached to a cyber-conversion unit, which acted as her life support. (TW: Cyberwoman)
Back in his native Cardiff, Ianto tracked down Jack Harkness to try to find work with Torchwood Three. Despite Harkness' initial reluctance, Ianto so impressed Jack during the capture of a stray pteranodon that he was eventually offered a job. (TW: Fragments)
Ianto crying next to Lisa's body. (TW: Cyberwoman) Understaffed and poorly understood, Torchwood Three was an ideal place to hide a partially-converted Cyberwoman. Unfortunately, Lisa's Cyberman conditioning slowly won over her humanity. She laid siege to the Hub from inside and killed several people, including an innocent pizza delivery girl whose body she appropriated, before being killed. (TW: Cyberwoman)
456 Incident:
Ianto and the rest of Torchwood investigated when all the children on Earth started chanting "We are coming". He and Jack wanted to take a child to study. Ianto went to his sister Rhiannon Davies to see if he could use his niece or nephew, but she refused. Later that night, Torchwood was attacked by MI5 agents led by Agent Johnson and blown up - with Jack inside. (TW: Children of Earth: Day One)
That night, Ianto escaped while under attack from Johnson and her men. He contacted his sister and told her to keep a watch on the government. He also found where MI5 was keeping the remains of Jack Harkness, who had now healed himself. Ianto saved him and also found Gwen Cooper and her husband Rhys Williams. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Two)
He and the team headed over to an old Torchwood One warehouse and set up a base. They found out what the 456 were and what their intentions were. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Three) That night, Torchwood came up with a plan to blackmail the government. If the government did not follow their exact orders to counteract the 456, they would release to the public information about what happened in 1965. The next day, Ianto and Jack got into Thames House. There they threatened the 456 Ambassador, telling it to back away from Earth or else they would tell the whole planet about its intentions, inciting the whole of Earth to fight back against the alien. The 456 chose to give them a 'taste of war'. It released a virus into the air. Thames House shut itself down, trapping everyone inside. It sent a Ianto dying in Jack's arms. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Four) high-pitched shriek directly into Clem MacDonald's brain, killing him. Jack and Ianto tried to fight the 456, but their efforts were fruitless. Ianto died from the virus in Jack's arms. Jack also collapsed, and the next day woke up next to Ianto's body with Gwen. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Four)
GaReth David-Lloyd
Gareth David-Lloyd (born 28 March 1981) is a Welsh actor best known for his role as Ianto Jones in the British science fiction television programme Torchwood.
Born Gareth David Lloyd in Bettws, Newport, Wales, United Kingdom. His first acting role was as a robot in a junior school play. As a teenager, David-Lloyd joined the Gwent Young People's Theatre in Abergavenny and The Dolman Youth Theatre in Newport, where he was a contemporary of the actor Matthew Woodyatt and the singer Nia Lynn. While there, he appeared in several plays, including Macbeth, The Threepenny Opera and Henry V, in which he played the title role. When former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock saw the young David-Lloyd performing at Monmouth Castle, he sent him £250 to use towards his acting career.
Born Gareth David Lloyd in Bettws, Newport, Wales, United Kingdom. His first acting role was as a robot in a junior school play. As a teenager, David-Lloyd joined the Gwent Young People's Theatre in Abergavenny and The Dolman Youth Theatre in Newport, where he was a contemporary of the actor Matthew Woodyatt and the singer Nia Lynn. While there, he appeared in several plays, including Macbeth, The Threepenny Opera and Henry V, in which he played the title role. When former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock saw the young David-Lloyd performing at Monmouth Castle, he sent him £250 to use towards his acting career.