Cherry Jones

Born: 1956-11-21 in Paris, Tennessee, USA

Known For: Acting

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).

Filmography

2024

National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath as Ma Joad

2023

Poker Face as Laura
Velma as Victoria (voice)
Extrapolations as President Elizabeth Burdick
Obsessed with Light as Loïe Fuller (voice)

2019

Our Friend as Faith Pruett
Wine Country as Lady Sunshine
Motherless Brooklyn as Gabby Horowitz
Chimerica as Mel Kincaid
A Rainy Day in New York as Mrs. Welles
Transparent: Musicale Finale as Leslie Mackinaw

2018

Succession as Nan Pierce
Boy Erased as Dr. Muldoon

2017

The Handmaid's Tale as Holly Maddox
The Party as Martha
Broadway: The Next Generation as Self

2016

11.22.63 as Marquerite Oswald
I Saw the Light as Lillie Williams
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot as Geri Taub

2015

Knight of Cups as Ruth

2014

Transparent as Leslie Mackinaw
Days and Nights as Mary
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey as Self

2013

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me as Herself

2012

Awake as Dr. Judith Evans

2011

Black Mirror as Susan Taylor
Portlandia as Bridge Manager / New Mayor
New Year's Eve as Mrs Rose Ahern
The Beaver as Vice President

2009

Mother and Child as Sister Joanne
Amelia as Eleanor Roosevelt

2008

24: Redemption as Allison Taylor

2005

Deconstructing 'The Village' as Self
Swimmers as Julia Tyler

2004

Ocean's Twelve as Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
The Village as Mrs. Clack
Clubhouse

2003

Working Shakespeare
Making 'Signs' as Self - 'Officer Paski'

2002

Signs as Officer Paski
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood as Buggy Abbott
Miss America as Narrator

2001

24 as Allison Taylor
What Makes a Family as Sandy Cataldi

2000

The Perfect Storm as Edie Bailey
Erin Brockovich as Pamela Duncan
Cora Unashamed as Lizbeth Studevant

1999

The West Wing as Barbara Layton
Cradle Will Rock as Hallie Flanagan
Murder in a Small Town as Mimi Barnes
The Lady in Question as Mimi Barnes

1998

The Horse Whisperer as Liz Hammond
Out of the Past as Annie Adams Fields (voice)

1997

Julian Po as Lucy

1993

Frasier as Janet (voice)

1992

Housesitter as Patty

1988

American Experience as Narrator (voice)

1987

Light of Day as Cindy Montgomery
The Big Town as Ginger McDonald

1986

Alex: The Life of a Child as Tina Crawford

1984

Sganarelle as Dorimène / Lucinde

1983

O’Malley as Secretary