Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
November 21, 1956
Place of Birth:
Paris, Tennessee, USA
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Cherry Jones
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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath | Ma Joad |
| 2023 | Obsessed with Light | Loïe Fuller (voice) |
| 2022 | The Sky Is Everywhere | Fiona |
| 2021 | Becoming Helen Keller | Helen Keller (voice) |
| 2021 | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Rachel Grover |
| 2021 | Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self |
| 2020 | Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens | Nancy |
| 2019 | A Rainy Day in New York | Mrs. Welles |
| 2019 | Motherless Brooklyn | Gabby Horowitz |
| 2019 | Wine Country | Lady Sunshine |
| 2019 | Our Friend | Faith Pruett |
| 2019 | Transparent: Musicale Finale | Leslie Mackinaw |
| 2018 | Boy Erased | Dr. Muldoon |
| 2017 | Broadway: The Next Generation | Self |
| 2017 | The Party | Martha |
| 2016 | I Saw the Light | Lillie Williams |
| 2016 | Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | Geri Taub |
| 2015 | Knight of Cups | Ruth |
| 2014 | Days and Nights | Mary |
| 2014 | Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey | Self |
| 2013 | Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me | Herself |
| 2011 | New Year's Eve | Mrs Rose Ahern |
| 2011 | The Beaver | Vice President |
| 2009 | Amelia | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 2009 | Mother and Child | Sister Joanne |
| 2008 | 24: Redemption | Allison Taylor |
| 2005 | Swimmers | Julia Tyler |
| 2005 | Deconstructing 'The Village' | Self |
| 2004 | Ocean's Twelve | Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell |
| 2004 | The Village | Mrs. Clack |
| 2003 | Making 'Signs' | Self - 'Officer Paski' |
| 2002 | Signs | Officer Paski |
| 2002 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Buggy Abbott |
| 2002 | Miss America | Narrator |
| 2001 | What Makes a Family | Sandy Cataldi |
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | Pamela Duncan |
| 2000 | The Perfect Storm | Edie Bailey |
| 2000 | Cora Unashamed | Lizbeth Studevant |
| 1999 | Murder in a Small Town | Mimi Barnes |
| 1999 | Cradle Will Rock | Hallie Flanagan |
| 1999 | The Lady in Question | Mimi Barnes |
| 1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Liz Hammond |
| 1998 | Out of the Past | Annie Adams Fields (voice) |
| 1997 | Julian Po | Lucy |
| 1992 | Housesitter | Patty |
| 1987 | Light of Day | Cindy Montgomery |
| 1987 | The Big Town | Ginger McDonald |
| 1986 | Alex: The Life of a Child | Tina Crawford |
| 1984 | Sganarelle | Dorimène / Lucinde |
| 1983 | O’Malley | Secretary |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Extrapolations | President Elizabeth Burdick |
| 2023 | Velma | Victoria (voice) |
| 2023 | Poker Face | Laura |
| 2022 | Five Days at Memorial | Susan Mulderick |
| 2021 | Foundation | Ambassador Quent |
| 2020 | Defending Jacob | Joanna Klein |
| 2019 | Chimerica | Mel Kincaid |
| 2018 | Succession | Nan Pierce |
| 2017 | The Handmaid's Tale | Holly Maddox |
| 2016 | 11.22.63 | Marquerite Oswald |
| 2014 | Transparent | Leslie Mackinaw |
| 2012 | Awake | Dr. Judith Evans |
| 2011 | Black Mirror | Susan Taylor |
| 2011 | Portlandia | Bridge Manager / New Mayor |
| 2004 | Clubhouse | |
| 2003 | Working Shakespeare | |
| 2001 | 24 | Allison Taylor |
| 1999 | The West Wing | Barbara Layton |
| 1993 | Frasier | Janet (voice) |
| 1988 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) |