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