Cherry Jones 1956 68
Cherry Jones 1956 68
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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2024 National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath as Ma Joad
2023 Obsessed with Light as Loïe Fuller (voice)
2022 The Sky Is Everywhere as Fiona
2021 Becoming Helen Keller as Helen Keller (voice)
2021 The Eyes of Tammy Faye as Rachel Grover
2021 Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2020 Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens as Nancy
2019 Motherless Brooklyn as Gabby Horowitz
2019 Transparent: Musicale Finale as Leslie Mackinaw
2019 Our Friend as Faith Pruett
2019 A Rainy Day in New York as Mrs. Welles
2019 Wine Country as Lady Sunshine
2018 Boy Erased as Dr. Muldoon
2017 Broadway: The Next Generation as Self
2017 The Party as Martha
2016 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot as Geri Taub
2016 I Saw the Light as Lillie Williams
2015 Knight of Cups as Ruth
2014 Days and Nights as Mary
2014 Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey as Self
2013 Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me as Herself
2011 New Year's Eve as Mrs Rose Ahern
2011 The Beaver as Vice President
2009 Mother and Child as Sister Joanne
2009 Amelia as Eleanor Roosevelt
2008 24: Redemption as Allison Taylor
2005 Swimmers as Julia Tyler
2005 Deconstructing 'The Village' as Self
2004 Ocean's Twelve as Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
2004 The Village as Mrs. Clack
2003 Making 'Signs' as Self - 'Officer Paski'
2002 Signs as Officer Paski
2002 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood as Buggy Abbott
2002 Miss America as Narrator
2001 What Makes a Family as Sandy Cataldi
2000 Cora Unashamed as Lizbeth Studevant
2000 The Perfect Storm as Edie Bailey
2000 Erin Brockovich as Pamela Duncan
1999 The Lady in Question as Mimi Barnes
1999 Cradle Will Rock as Hallie Flanagan
1999 Murder in a Small Town as Mimi Barnes
1998 Out of the Past as Annie Adams Fields (voice)
1998 The Horse Whisperer as Liz Hammond
1997 Julian Po as Lucy
1992 Housesitter as Patty
1987 The Big Town as Ginger McDonald
1987 Light of Day as Cindy Montgomery
1986 Alex: The Life of a Child as Tina Crawford
1984 Sganarelle as Dorimène / Lucinde
1983 O’Malley as Secretary