Name
Cherry Jones
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1956-11-21 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, Tennessee, USA
Biography
Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an American actress. Having started her career in theatre as a founding member of the American Repertory Theatre in 1980, she then transitioned into film and television. Celebrated for her dynamic roles on stage and screen, she has received various accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for an Olivier Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Jones made her Broadway debut in the 1987 play Stepping Out. She went on to receive two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play for The Heiress in 1995 and Doubt in 2005. Her other Tony-nominated roles were in Our Country's Good in 1991, A Moon for the Misbegotten in 2000, and The Glass Menagerie in 2014. Her most recent Broadway performance was in The Lifespan of a Fact in 2018.
She is also known for her work on television with breakthrough roles as Barbara Layton in The West Wing and President Allison Taylor in 24 the latter of which won her the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2009. She received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Transparent in 2015 and earned two Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her roles in the Hulu drama series The Handmaid's Tale in 2019 and the HBO drama series Succession in 2020.
Her film appearances include The Horse Whisperer (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), Signs (2002), The Village (2004), Amelia (2009), The Beaver (2011), A Rainy Day in New York (2019), and The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021).
Known For
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- 2004 Ocean's Twelve as Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
- 2000 Erin Brockovich as Pamela Duncan
- 1998 The Horse Whisperer as Liz Hammond
- 1987 Light of Day as Cindy Montgomery
- 2000 The Perfect Storm as Edie Bailey
- 2002 Signs as Officer Paski
- 1992 Housesitter as Patty
- 2021 Becoming Helen Keller as Helen Keller (voice)
- 2004 The Village as Mrs. Clack
- 2009 Amelia as Eleanor Roosevelt
- 2002 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood as Buggy
- 2009 Mother and Child as Sister Joanne
- 2001 What Makes a Family as Sandy Cataldi
- 1997 Julian Po as Lucy
- 1998 Out of the Past as Annie Adams Fields (voice)
- 1999 Murder in a Small Town as Mimi Barnes
- 2013 Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me as Self
- 2005 Swimmers as Julia Tyler
- 2014 Days and Nights as Mary
- 2014 Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey as Self
- 2000 Cora Unashamed as Lizbeth Studevant
- Soon Broadway: The Next Generation as Self
- 2016 I Saw the Light as Lillie Williams
- 2011 New Year's Eve as Mrs Rose Ahern
- 1999 Cradle Will Rock as Hallie Flanagan
- 2015 Knight of Cups as Ruth
- 2017 The Party as Martha
- 1999 The Lady in Question as Mimi Barnes
- 2018 Boy Erased as Dr. Muldoon
- 2019 A Rainy Day in New York as Mrs. Welles
- 2019 Motherless Brooklyn as Gabby Horowitz
- 2019 Wine Country as Lady Sunshine
- 2011 The Beaver as Vice President
- 2019 Our Friend as Faith Pruett
- 2019 Transparent: Musicale Finale as Leslie Mackinaw
- 2021 The Eyes of Tammy Faye as Rachel Grover
- 2002 Miss America as Narrator
- 2003 Making 'Signs' as Self - 'Officer Paski'
- 2005 Deconstructing 'The Village' as Self
- 2020 Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens as Nancy
- 1987 The Big Town as Ginger McDonald
- 2022 The Sky Is Everywhere as Fiona
- 2021 Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
- 2024 National Theatre at Home: The Grapes of Wrath as Ma Joad
- 2023 Obsessed with Light as Loïe Fuller (voice)
- 1983 O’Malley as Secretary
- 1984 Sganarelle as Dorimène / Lucinde
- 1986 Alex: The Life of a Child as Tina Crawford
- 2016 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot as Geri Taub
- Soon The Steel Harp
- Soon Fonda
- 2008 24 Heures chrono : Redemption as President-elect Allison Taylor
- 2014 Transparent ( 12 episodes ) as Leslie Mackinaw
- 2004 Clubhouse ( 2 episodes )
- 2022 Five Days at Memorial ( 8 episodes ) as Susan Mulderick
- 2023 Extrapolations ( 1 episode ) as President Elizabeth Burdick
- 2012 Awake ( 13 episodes ) as Dr. Judith Evans
- 1999 The West Wing ( 1 episode ) as Barbara Layton
- 2011 Black Mirror ( 1 episode ) as Susan Taylor
- 1993 Frasier ( 1 episode ) as Janet (voice)
- 2001 24 ( 48 episodes ) as Allison Taylor
- 1988 American Experience ( 1 episode ) as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 The Handmaid's Tale ( 6 episodes ) as Holly Maddox
- 2011 Portlandia ( 1 episode ) as Bridge Manager / New Mayor
- 2019 Chimerica ( 4 episodes ) as Mel Kincaid
- 2018 Succession ( 3 episodes ) as Nan Pierce
- 2023 Velma ( 11 episodes ) as Victoria (voice)
- 2020 Defending Jacob ( 8 episodes ) as Joanna Klein
- 2023 Poker Face ( 1 episode ) as Laura
- 2003 Working Shakespeare ( 5 episodes )
- 2021 Foundation ( 7 episodes ) as Ambassador Quent
- 2016 11.22.63 ( 7 episodes ) as Marquerite Oswald
- 2021 Hacks ( 1 episode ) as Kelly Kilpatrick
- Soon Untitled The Secret of Secrets Series ( 1 episode ) as Heide Nagel
