Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 21, 1956
Place of Birth
Paris, Tennessee, USA
Credits
72 titles
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
National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath
Ma Joad
Obsessed with Light
Loïe Fuller (voice)
Extrapolations
President Elizabeth Burdick
Poker Face
Laura
Velma
Victoria (voice)
Five Days at Memorial
Susan Mulderick
The Sky Is Everywhere
Fiona
Becoming Helen Keller
Helen Keller (voice)
Foundation
Ambassador Quent
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Rachel Grover
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
Hacks
Kelly Kilpatrick
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Nancy
Defending Jacob
Joanna Klein
Motherless Brooklyn
Gabby Horowitz
Transparent: Musicale Finale
Leslie Mackinaw
Our Friend
Faith Pruett
A Rainy Day in New York
Mrs. Welles
Wine Country
Lady Sunshine
Chimerica
Mel Kincaid
Boy Erased
Dr. Muldoon
Succession
Nan Pierce
The Party
Martha
The Handmaid's Tale
Holly Maddox
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Geri Taub
11.22.63
Marquerite Oswald
I Saw the Light
Lillie Williams
Knight of Cups
Ruth
Transparent
Leslie Mackinaw
Days and Nights
Mary
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Self
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Herself
Awake
Dr. Judith Evans
New Year's Eve
Mrs Rose Ahern
Black Mirror
Susan Taylor
The Beaver
Vice President
Portlandia
Bridge Manager / New Mayor
Mother and Child
Sister Joanne
Amelia
Eleanor Roosevelt
Swimmers
Julia Tyler
Deconstructing 'The Village'
Self
Ocean's Twelve
Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
Clubhouse
The Village
Mrs. Clack
Working Shakespeare
Making 'Signs'
Self - 'Officer Paski'
Signs
Officer Paski
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Buggy
Miss America
Narrator
24
Allison Taylor