Cherry Jones
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
All Movies (52)
- National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath2024 · as Ma Joad
- Obsessed with Light2023 · as Loïe Fuller (voice)
- The Sky Is Everywhere2022 · as Fiona
- Becoming Helen Keller2021 · as Helen Keller (voice)
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye2021 · as Rachel Grover
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age2021 · as Self
- Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens2020 · as Nancy
- Motherless Brooklyn2019 · as Gabby Horowitz
- Transparent: Musicale Finale2019 · as Leslie Mackinaw
- Our Friend2019 · as Faith Pruett
- A Rainy Day in New York2019 · as Mrs. Welles
- Wine Country2019 · as Lady Sunshine
- Boy Erased2018 · as Dr. Muldoon
- The Party2017 · as Martha
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot2016 · as Geri Taub
- I Saw the Light2016 · as Lillie Williams
- Knight of Cups2015 · as Ruth
- Days and Nights2014 · as Mary
- Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey2014 · as Self
- Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me2013 · as Herself
- New Year's Eve2011 · as Mrs Rose Ahern
- The Beaver2011 · as Vice President
- Mother and Child2009 · as Sister Joanne
- Amelia2009 · as Eleanor Roosevelt
- 24: Redemption2008 · as President-Elect Allison Taylor
- Swimmers2005 · as Julia Tyler
- Deconstructing 'The Village'2005 · as Self
- Ocean's Twelve2004 · as Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
- The Village2004 · as Mrs. Clack
- Making 'Signs'2003 · as Self - 'Officer Paski'
- Signs2002 · as Officer Paski
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood2002 · as Buggy
- Miss America2002 · as Narrator
- What Makes a Family2001 · as Sandy Cataldi
- Cora Unashamed2000 · as Lizbeth Studevant
- The Perfect Storm2000 · as Edie Bailey
- Erin Brockovich2000 · as Pamela Duncan
- The Lady in Question1999 · as Mimi Barnes
- Cradle Will Rock1999 · as Hallie Flanagan
- Murder in a Small Town1999 · as Mimi Barnes
- Out of the Past1998 · as Annie Adams Fields (voice)
- The Horse Whisperer1998 · as Liz Hammond
- Julian Po1997 · as Lucy
- Housesitter1992 · as Patty
- The Big Town1987 · as Ginger McDonald
- Light of Day1987 · as Cindy Montgomery
- Alex: The Life of a Child1986 · as Tina Crawford
- Sganarelle1984 · as Dorimène / Lucinde
- O’Malley1983 · as Secretary
- Broadway: The Next Generation— · as Self
- The Steel Harp—
- Fonda—
All TV Shows (21)
- Extrapolations2023 · as President Elizabeth Burdick
- Poker Face2023 · as Laura
- Velma2023 · as Victoria (voice)
- Five Days at Memorial2022 · as Susan Mulderick
- Foundation2021 · as Ambassador Quent
- Hacks2021 · as Kelly Kilpatrick
- Defending Jacob2020 · as Joanna Klein
- Chimerica2019 · as Mel Kincaid
- Succession2018 · as Nan Pierce
- The Handmaid's Tale2017 · as Holly Maddox
- 11.22.632016 · as Marquerite Oswald
- Transparent2014 · as Leslie Mackinaw
- Awake2012 · as Dr. Judith Evans
- Black Mirror2011 · as Susan Taylor
- Portlandia2011 · as Bridge Manager / New Mayor
- Clubhouse2004
- Working Shakespeare2003
- 242001 · as Allison Taylor
- The West Wing1999 · as Barbara Layton
- Frasier1993 · as Janet (voice)
- American Experience1988 · as Narrator (voice)