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).
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Movies (52)
National Theatre at Home: The Grapes of Wrath
2024 · Ma Joad
Obsessed with Light
2023 · Loïe Fuller (voice)
El cielo está en cualquier lugar
2022 · Fiona
Becoming Helen Keller
2021 · Helen Keller (voice)
Los ojos de Tammy Faye
2021 · Rachel Grover
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021 · Self
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2020 · Nancy
Huérfanos de Brooklyn
2019 · Gabby Horowitz
Transparent: Musicale Finale
2019 · Leslie Mackinaw
El amigo
2019 · Faith Pruett
A Rainy Day in New York
2019 · Mrs. Welles
Entre vino y vinagre
2019 · Lady Sunshine
Corazón borrado
2018 · Dr. Muldoon
The Party
2017 · Martha
Reporteras en Guerra
2016 · Geri Taub
I Saw the Light
2016 · Lillie Williams
Caballero de copas
2015 · Ruth
Days and Nights
2014 · Mary
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014 · Self
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013 · Self
Año Nuevo
2011 · Mrs Rose Ahern
Mi otro yo
2011 · Vice President
Amor de madres
2009 · Sister Joanne
Amelia
2009 · Eleanor Roosevelt
Swimmers
2005 · Julia Tyler
Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005 · Self
La Nueva Gran Estafa
2004 · Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
La aldea
2004 · Mrs. Clack
Making 'Signs'
2003 · Self - 'Officer Paski'
Señales
2002 · Officer Paski
Divinos secretos del clan Yaya
2002 · Buggy
Miss America
2002 · Narrator
Una Verdadera Familia
2001 · Sandy Cataldi
Cora Unashamed
2000 · Lizbeth Studevant
Una Tormenta Perfecta
2000 · Edie Bailey
Erin Brockovich, una mujer audaz
2000 · Pamela Duncan
The Lady in Question
1999 · Mimi Barnes
Cradle Will Rock
1999 · Hallie Flanagan
Murder in a Small Town
1999 · Mimi Barnes
Out of the Past
1998 · Annie Adams Fields (voice)
The Horse Whisperer
1998 · Liz Hammond
Julian Po
1997 · Lucy
Housesitter
1992 · Patty
The Big Town
1987 · Ginger McDonald
Light of Day
1987 · Cindy Montgomery
Alex: The Life of a Child
1986 · Tina Crawford
Sganarelle
1984 · Dorimène / Lucinde
O’Malley
1983 · Secretary
Broadway: The Next Generation
· Self
The Steel Harp
Fonda
24: Redemption
· President-Elect Allison Taylor
TV shows (22)
Extrapolaciones
2023 · President Elizabeth Burdick
Poker Face
2023 · Laura
Vilma
2023 · Victoria (voice)
Después del huracán Katrina
2022 · Susan Mulderick
Fundación
2021 · Ambassador Quent
Hacks
2021 · Kelly Kilpatrick
Defending Jacob
2020 · Joanna Klein
Chimerica
2019 · Mel Kincaid
Succession
2018 · Nan Pierce
El Cuento de La Criada
2017 · Holly Maddox
22.11.63
2016 · Marquerite Oswald
Transparent
2014 · Leslie Mackinaw
Awake
2012 · Dr. Judith Evans
Black Mirror
2011 · Susan Taylor
Portlandia
2011 · Bridge Manager / New Mayor
Clubhouse
2004
Working Shakespeare
2003
24
2001 · Allison Taylor
The West Wing
1999 · Barbara Layton
Frasier
1993 · Janet (voice)
American Experience
1988 · Narrator (voice)
Untitled The Secret of Secrets Series
· Heide Nagel