Cherry Jones
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1956-11-21 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, Tennessee, USA
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).
Acting
(2024)
(2023)
Obsessed with Light
as Loïe Fuller (voice)
(2022)
The Sky Is Everywhere
as Fiona
(2021)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
as Rachel Grover
(2021)
(2021)
Becoming Helen Keller
as Helen Keller (voice)
(2020)
(2019)
Motherless Brooklyn
as Gabby Horowitz
(2019)
Our Friend
as Faith Pruett
(2019)
Wine Country
as Lady Sunshine
(2019)
Transparent: Musicale Finale
as Leslie Mackinaw
(2019)
A Rainy Day in New York
as Mrs. Welles
(2018)
Boy Erased
as Dr. Muldoon
(2017)
The Party
as Martha
(2017)
(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)
(2013)
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
as Herself
(2011)
New Year's Eve
as Mrs Rose Ahern
(2011)
The Beaver
as Vice President
(2009)
Amelia
as Eleanor Roosevelt
(2009)
Mother and Child
as Sister Joanne
(2008)
24: Redemption
as Allison Taylor
(2005)
Deconstructing 'The Village'
as Self
(2005)
Swimmers
as Julia Tyler
(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)
Erin Brockovich
as Pamela Duncan
(2000)
The Perfect Storm
as Edie Bailey
(2000)
Cora Unashamed
as Lizbeth Studevant
(1999)
Cradle Will Rock
as Hallie Flanagan
(1999)
Murder in a Small Town
as Mimi Barnes
(1999)
The Lady in Question
as Mimi Barnes
(1998)
The Horse Whisperer
as Liz Hammond
(1998)
Out of the Past
as Annie Adams Fields (voice)
(1997)
Julian Po
as Lucy
(1992)
Housesitter
as Patty
(1987)
Light of Day
as Cindy Montgomery
(1987)
The Big Town
as Ginger McDonald
(1986)
Alex: The Life of a Child
as Tina Crawford
(1984)
Sganarelle
as Dorimène / Lucinde
(1983)
O’Malley
as Secretary