Actor
Cherry Jones
69 years · Paris, Tennessee, USA · 50 films
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 48
National Theatre at Home: The Grapes of Wrath
2024 · Ma Joad
Obsessed with Light
2023 · Loïe Fuller (voice)
On Kanopy
The Sky Is Everywhere
2022 · Fiona
On Apple TV
Becoming Helen Keller
2021 · Helen Keller (voice)
On Kanopy
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021 · Rachel Grover
On FXNow
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021 · Self
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2020 · Nancy
Motherless Brooklyn
2019 · Gabby Horowitz
Transparent: Musicale Finale
2019 · Leslie Mackinaw
Our Friend
2019 · Faith Pruett
On fuboTV
A Rainy Day in New York
2019 · Mrs. Welles
On Plex
Wine Country
2019 · Lady Sunshine
On Netflix
Boy Erased
2018 · Dr. Muldoon
The Party
2017 · Martha
On The CW
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016 · Geri Taub
On Kanopy
I Saw the Light
2016 · Lillie Williams
Knight of Cups
2015 · Ruth
On Kanopy
Days and Nights
2014 · Mary
On AMC+
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014 · Self
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013 · Self
On AMC+
New Year's Eve
2011 · Mrs Rose Ahern
The Beaver
2011 · Vice President
On Plex
Mother and Child
2009 · Sister Joanne
On The Roku Channel
Amelia
2009 · Eleanor Roosevelt