Cherry Jones
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).
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
Extrapolations
Poker Face
Velma
Five Days at Memorial
The Sky Is Everywhere
Becoming Helen Keller
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Defending Jacob
Motherless Brooklyn
Transparent: Musicale Finale
Our Friend
A Rainy Day in New York
Wine Country
Chimerica
Boy Erased
Succession
The Party
The Handmaid's Tale
11.22.63
I Saw the Light
Knight of Cups
American Crime
Transparent
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Awake
New Year's Eve
Black Mirror
The Beaver
Portlandia
Mother and Child
Amelia
Swimmers
Deconstructing 'The Village'
Ocean's Twelve
Clubhouse
The Village
Signs
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Miss America
24
What Makes a Family
Cora Unashamed
The Perfect Storm
Erin Brockovich
The Lady in Question
Cradle Will Rock
The West Wing
Murder in a Small Town
Out of the Past
The Horse Whisperer
Julian Po
Frasier
Housesitter
American Experience
The Big Town
Light of Day