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Playing the son of two wealthy New Yorkers, Jones learns kung fu in a mystical Asian city and then transforms into the Iron Fist, a superpowered martial arts master. It’s the latest show in Marvel’s TV universe, following the critically acclaimed “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones” and “Luke Cage.”

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Finn Jones can’t be sure if the memory is real or just a vivid, long-ago dream. In his recollection, he’s a child, young enough to be riding in a stroller. His mother is pushing him and chatting with a neighbor when Jones stares up to the sky and sees something gliding through the clouds.

That path has just delivered him to his first starring TV role, as Danny Rand in “Iron Fist,” a new superhero series that premiered on Netflix last week. Playing the son of two wealthy New Yorkers, Jones learns kung fu in a mystical Asian city and then transforms into the Iron Fist, a superpowered martial arts master. It’s the latest show in Marvel’s TV universe, following the critically acclaimed “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones” and “Luke Cage.” The part was one of the more sought-after roles in Hollywood, and landing it takes Jones’ star to new heights.

Viewers may recognize him from another high-profile series: HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” where he played Loras Tyrell — the heir to Highgarden who was persecuted for his homosexuality and killed off last season.

As incredible as it sounds, Jones was forced to support himself with odd jobs while appearing regularly on that global hit series. Until quite recently, he could be spotted working at a bar in the Shepherd’s Bush hood of his native London.

Jones, who grew up in Croydon, a congested London suburb, spent the first two years of his life in foster care before being adopted. His mother is a caregiver for children, his father a private investigator — though Jones seems reluctant to spill more. “He’s kind of top secret,” he says mysteriously, before changing the subject.

As a boy, Jones was a good student and rarely got in trouble. But he often felt like an outsider, in part because he was adopted. “You never really feel like you fit in,” he says. “I’ve always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.”

For Jones, like so many young misfits, the theater proved to be his salvation. Once he figured out that “actor” — the word he’d heard from his mother — meant a performer and not an acrobat (as he initially believed), he began attending classes at a local nonprofit theater workshop.

He later attended a London drama school, but left early after landing an agent. A part on British soap opera “Hollyoaks” soon followed, and he began his work on the first season of “Game of Thrones” in 2011, but other acting work eluded him. He’d been auditioning twice a week for four or five years, and wondered if he’d ever land a big break. Then, on his final day filming “GoT,” he got an email from his agent about “Iron Fist.”

The character of Danny Rand appeals to Jones for reasons beyond the profile and paycheck — it resonates with his own background. As a 10-year-old, Rand is orphaned when a plane carrying him and his parents crashes in Asia. He’s taken in by a secret order and taught to harness a mystical, chi-like power. Some years later, Rand returns to New York only to find that he’s presumed dead and that his family’s company has been taken over by an unscrupulous boss. Rand sets out to prove who he is and take back his life.

Jones is also an amateur DJ and one of his favorite aspects of Gotham is the energetic music scene. “New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off,” Jones says. “I go to friends’ parties and local spots around the area. Places I can go to, have a dance and forget about being an actor and the attention.”

The biggest challenge for a martial arts character is, of course, learning all the fight choreography. And unlike Daredevil, Iron Fist doesn’t wear a mask, so there’s nowhere to hide; Jones must perform everything himself.

Aggrieved fans also cried foul when Jones, a white man, was cast as the lead. (In the Marvel comic upon which the series is based, the character is also white, but some comic book fans hoped this might be a chance for the franchise to cast its first Asian-American leading man.)

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