[2] She has stated that her mother is of English descent,[2] and that her father "is part Choctaw, Chickasaw, and African-American".

[3] She was raised in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, and frequented the first JP Licks ice cream store, which was close to her home.

Jones appeared in a number of independent films before being cast in the Quentin Tarantino-produced biker remake Hell Ride, which premiered at Sundance in 2008.

In 2009, she appeared in the Culture Clash play Palestine, New Mexico, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.

[10] In 2015, she played the female lead opposite Adam Sandler in The Ridiculous 6 and Gab on the Netflix series Longmire.