Cherry Jones
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 21, 1956 (age 69)
- Birthplace
- 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).
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Filmography
Broadway: The Next Generation
Movie · as Self
The Steel Harp
Movie
Fonda
Movie
Untitled The Secret of Secrets Series
TV · as Heide Nagel · 1 ep
National Theatre at Home: The Grapes of Wrath
Movie · as Ma Joad
Obsessed with Light
Movie · as Loïe Fuller (voice)
Extrapolations
TV · as President Elizabeth Burdick · 1 ep
Velma
TV · as Victoria (voice) · 11 eps
Poker Face
TV · as Laura · 1 ep
The Sky Is Everywhere
Movie · as Fiona
Five Days at Memorial
TV · as Susan Mulderick · 8 eps
Becoming Helen Keller
Movie · as Helen Keller (voice)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Movie · as Rachel Grover
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Movie · as Self
Hacks
TV · as Kelly Kilpatrick · 1 ep
Foundation
TV · as Ambassador Quent · 10 eps
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Movie · as Nancy
Defending Jacob
TV · as Joanna Klein · 8 eps
A Rainy Day in New York
Movie · as Mrs. Welles
Motherless Brooklyn
Movie · as Gabby Horowitz
Wine Country
Movie · as Lady Sunshine
Our Friend
Movie · as Faith Pruett
Transparent: Musicale Finale
Movie · as Leslie Mackinaw
Chimerica
TV · as Mel Kincaid · 4 eps
Boy Erased
Movie · as Dr. Muldoon
Succession
TV · as Nan Pierce · 3 eps
The Party
Movie · as Martha
The Handmaid's Tale
TV · as Holly Maddox · 6 eps
I Saw the Light
Movie · as Lillie Williams
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Movie · as Geri Taub
11.22.63
TV · as Marquerite Oswald · 7 eps
Knight of Cups
Movie · as Ruth
Days and Nights
Movie · as Mary
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Movie · as Self
Transparent
TV · as Leslie Mackinaw · 12 eps
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Movie · as Self
Awake
TV · as Dr. Judith Evans · 13 eps
New Year's Eve
Movie · as Mrs Rose Ahern
The Beaver
Movie · as Vice President
Black Mirror
TV · as Susan Taylor · 1 ep
Portlandia
TV · as Bridge Manager / New Mayor · 1 ep
Amelia
Movie · as Eleanor Roosevelt
Mother and Child
Movie · as Sister Joanne
Swimmers
Movie · as Julia Tyler
Deconstructing 'The Village'
Movie · as Self
Ocean's Twelve
Movie · as Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
The Village
Movie · as Mrs. Clack
Clubhouse
TV · 2 eps
Making 'Signs'
Movie · as Self - 'Officer Paski'
Working Shakespeare
TV · 5 eps
Signs
Movie · as Officer Paski
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Movie · as Buggy
Miss America
Movie · as Narrator
What Makes a Family
Movie · as Sandy Cataldi
24
TV · as Allison Taylor · 48 eps
Erin Brockovich
Movie · as Pamela Duncan
The Perfect Storm
Movie · as Edie Bailey
Cora Unashamed
Movie · as Lizbeth Studevant
Murder in a Small Town
Movie · as Mimi Barnes
Cradle Will Rock
Movie · as Hallie Flanagan
The Lady in Question
Movie · as Mimi Barnes
The West Wing
TV · as Barbara Layton · 1 ep
The Horse Whisperer
Movie · as Liz Hammond
Out of the Past
Movie · as Annie Adams Fields (voice)
Julian Po
Movie · as Lucy
Frasier
TV · as Janet (voice) · 1 ep
Housesitter
Movie · as Patty
American Experience
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
Light of Day
Movie · as Cindy Montgomery
The Big Town
Movie · as Ginger McDonald
Alex: The Life of a Child
Movie · as Tina Crawford
Sganarelle
Movie · as Dorimène / Lucinde
O’Malley
Movie · as Secretary