1956-11-21 ( 68 years old ) in Paris, Tennessee, USA
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).
Movies
National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath
2024-12-06
Obsessed with Light
2023-11-21
The Sky Is Everywhere
2022-02-11
Becoming Helen Keller
2021-10-19
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021-09-17
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021-08-14
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2020-12-01
Motherless Brooklyn
2019-10-31
Transparent: Musicale Finale
2019-09-27
Our Friend
2019-09-04
A Rainy Day in New York
2019-07-26
Wine Country
2019-05-08
Boy Erased
2018-09-24
Broadway: The Next Generation
2017-11-16
The Party
2017-07-27
I Saw the Light
2016-02-05
Knight of Cups
2015-09-10
Days and Nights
2014-09-26
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014-06-15
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013-04-09
New Year's Eve
2011-12-08
The Beaver
2011-05-05
Mother and Child
2009-11-07
Amelia
2009-10-22
Swimmers
2005-01-22
Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005-01-11
Ocean's Twelve
2004-12-09
The Village
2004-07-30
Making 'Signs'
2003-01-07
Signs
2002-08-02
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002-06-07
Miss America
2002-01-27
What Makes a Family
2001-01-22
Cora Unashamed
2000-10-24
The Perfect Storm
2000-06-29
Erin Brockovich
2000-03-17
The Lady in Question
1999-12-12
Cradle Will Rock
1999-12-10
Murder in a Small Town
1999-01-10
Out of the Past
1998-07-31
The Horse Whisperer
1998-02-01
Julian Po
1997-09-05
Housesitter
1992-06-12
The Big Town
1987-09-25
Light of Day
1987-02-06
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