Cherry Jones
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 21, 1956 (age 69)
- Place of birth
- Paris, Tennessee, USA
- Credits
- 74
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 at Home: The Grapes of Wrath
2024Movie
Ma Joad
Obsessed with Light
2023Movie
Loïe Fuller (voice)
Extrapolations
2023TV
President Elizabeth Burdick
Poker Face
2023TV
Laura
Velma
2023TV
Victoria (voice)
Five Days at Memorial
2022TV
Susan Mulderick
The Sky Is Everywhere
2022Movie
Fiona
Becoming Helen Keller
2021Movie
Helen Keller (voice)
Foundation
2021TV
Ambassador Quent
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021Movie
Rachel Grover
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021Movie
Self
Hacks
2021TV
Kelly Kilpatrick
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2020Movie
Nancy
Defending Jacob
2020TV
Joanna Klein
Motherless Brooklyn
2019Movie
Gabby Horowitz
Transparent: Musicale Finale
2019Movie
Leslie Mackinaw
Our Friend
2019Movie
Faith Pruett
A Rainy Day in New York
2019Movie
Mrs. Welles
Wine Country
2019Movie
Lady Sunshine
Chimerica
2019TV
Mel Kincaid
Boy Erased
2018Movie
Dr. Muldoon
Succession
2018TV
Nan Pierce
The Party
2017Movie
Martha
The Handmaid's Tale
2017TV
Holly Maddox
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016Movie
Geri Taub
11.22.63
2016TV
Marquerite Oswald
I Saw the Light
2016Movie
Lillie Williams
Knight of Cups
2015Movie
Ruth
Days and Nights
2014Movie
Mary
Transparent
2014TV
Leslie Mackinaw
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014Movie
Self
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013Movie
Self
Awake
2012TV
Dr. Judith Evans
New Year's Eve
2011Movie
Mrs Rose Ahern
Black Mirror
2011TV
Susan Taylor
The Beaver
2011Movie
Vice President
Portlandia
2011TV
Bridge Manager / New Mayor
Mother and Child
2009Movie
Sister Joanne
Amelia
2009Movie
Eleanor Roosevelt
Swimmers
2005Movie
Julia Tyler
Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005Movie
Self
Ocean's Twelve
2004Movie
Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
Clubhouse
2004TV
The Village
2004Movie
Mrs. Clack
Working Shakespeare
2003TV
Making 'Signs'
2003Movie
Self - 'Officer Paski'
Signs
2002Movie
Officer Paski
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002Movie
Buggy
Miss America
2002Movie
Narrator
24
2001TV
Allison Taylor
What Makes a Family
2001Movie
Sandy Cataldi
Cora Unashamed
2000Movie
Lizbeth Studevant
The Perfect Storm
2000Movie
Edie Bailey
Erin Brockovich
2000Movie
Pamela Duncan
The Lady in Question
1999Movie
Mimi Barnes
Cradle Will Rock
1999Movie
Hallie Flanagan
The West Wing
1999TV
Barbara Layton
Murder in a Small Town
1999Movie
Mimi Barnes
Out of the Past
1998Movie
Annie Adams Fields (voice)
The Horse Whisperer
1998Movie
Liz Hammond
Julian Po
1997Movie
Lucy
Frasier
1993TV
Janet (voice)
Housesitter
1992Movie
Patty
American Experience
1988TV
Narrator (voice)
The Big Town
1987Movie
Ginger McDonald
Light of Day
1987Movie
Cindy Montgomery
Alex: The Life of a Child
1986Movie
Tina Crawford
Sganarelle
1984Movie
Dorimène / Lucinde
O’Malley
1983Movie
Secretary
Untitled The Secret of Secrets Series
TV
Heide Nagel
Broadway: The Next Generation
Movie
Self
Fonda
Movie
The Steel Harp
Movie
24 Redemption
Movie
Allison Taylor