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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 21, 1956
Place of Birth
Paris, Tennessee, USA
Also Known As
- 체리 존스
- چری جونز
- شيري جونز
Cherry Jones
2.1 Popularity
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
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Ma Joad
National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath
2024
8.0
Loïe Fuller (voice)
Obsessed with Light
2023
6.0
President Elizabeth Burdick
Extrapolations
2023
7.6
Laura
Poker Face
2023
3.4
Victoria (voice)
Velma
2023
7.6
Susan Mulderick
Five Days at Memorial
2022
5.7
Fiona
The Sky Is Everywhere
2022
8.0
Helen Keller (voice)
Becoming Helen Keller
2021
6.5
Rachel Grover
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021
0.0
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
Credits
National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath
as Ma Joad
2024
0.0
Obsessed with Light
as Loïe Fuller (voice)
2023
8.0
Extrapolations
as President Elizabeth Burdick
2023
6.0
Poker Face
as Laura
2023
7.6
Velma
as Victoria (voice)
2023
3.4
Five Days at Memorial
as Susan Mulderick
2022
7.6
The Sky Is Everywhere
as Fiona
2022
5.7
Becoming Helen Keller
as Helen Keller (voice)
2021
8.0
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
as Rachel Grover
2021
6.5
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
2021
0.0
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
as Nancy
2020
0.0
Defending Jacob
as Joanna Klein
2020
8.3
Motherless Brooklyn
as Gabby Horowitz
2019
6.7
Transparent: Musicale Finale
as Leslie Mackinaw
2019
6.7
Our Friend
as Faith Pruett
2019
7.2
A Rainy Day in New York
as Mrs. Welles
2019
6.5
Wine Country
as Lady Sunshine
2019
5.5
Chimerica
as Mel Kincaid
2019
5.7
Boy Erased
as Dr. Muldoon
2018
7.0
Succession
as Nan Pierce
2018
8.3
Broadway: The Next Generation
as Self
2017
10.0
The Party
as Martha
2017
6.4
The Handmaid's Tale
as Holly Maddox
2017
8.2
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
as Geri Taub
2016
6.3
11.22.63
as Marquerite Oswald
2016
7.8
I Saw the Light
as Lillie Williams
2016
6.3
Knight of Cups
as Ruth
2015
5.7
Transparent
as Leslie Mackinaw
2014
6.4
Days and Nights
as Mary
2014
4.5
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
as Self
2014
7.0
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
as Herself
2013
7.5
Awake
as Dr. Judith Evans
2012
7.0
New Year's Eve
as Mrs Rose Ahern
2011
5.9
Black Mirror
as Susan Taylor
2011
8.3
The Beaver
as Vice President
2011
6.4
Portlandia
as Bridge Manager / New Mayor
2011
6.9
Mother and Child
as Sister Joanne
2009
6.6
Amelia
as Eleanor Roosevelt
2009
5.7
24: Redemption
as Allison Taylor
2008
0.0
Swimmers
as Julia Tyler
2005
7.3
Deconstructing 'The Village'
as Self
2005
4.7
Ocean's Twelve
as Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
2004
6.6
Clubhouse
2004
3.5
The Village
as Mrs. Clack
2004
6.5
Working Shakespeare
2003
0.0
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Making 'Signs'
as Self - 'Officer Paski'
2003
5.8
Signs
as Officer Paski
2002
6.7
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
as Buggy Abbott
2002
6.1
Miss America
as Narrator
2002
0.0
24
as Allison Taylor
2001
7.8
What Makes a Family
as Sandy Cataldi
2001
6.5
Cora Unashamed
as Lizbeth Studevant
2000
6.5
The Perfect Storm
as Edie Bailey
2000
6.5
Erin Brockovich
as Pamela Duncan
2000
7.4
The Lady in Question
as Mimi Barnes
1999
4.0
Cradle Will Rock
as Hallie Flanagan
1999
6.5
The West Wing
as Barbara Layton
1999
8.3
Murder in a Small Town
as Mimi Barnes
1999
5.2
Out of the Past
as Annie Adams Fields (voice)
1998
0.8
The Horse Whisperer
as Liz Hammond
1998
6.9
Julian Po
as Lucy
1997
6.5
Frasier
as Janet (voice)
1993
7.7
Housesitter
as Patty
1992
6.1
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
7.4
The Big Town
as Ginger McDonald
1987
5.5
Light of Day
as Cindy Montgomery
1987
5.5
Alex: The Life of a Child
as Tina Crawford
1986
6.4
Sganarelle
as Dorimène / Lucinde
1984
0.0
O’Malley
as Secretary
1983
0.0