Cherry Jones
Acting
Born: November 21, 1956 (age 69) · Paris, Tennessee, USA
Highest Rated
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
Ocean's Twelve
2004
Signs
2002
Black Mirror
2011
The Village
2004
Erin Brockovich
2000
The Handmaid's Tale
2017
The Perfect Storm
2000
A Rainy Day in New York
2019
New Year's Eve
2011
24
2001
11.22.63
2016
Foundation
2021
Photos (3)
Movies (43)
Ocean's Twelve
Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
The Village
Mrs. Clack
Signs
Officer Paski
Erin Brockovich
Pamela Duncan
The Perfect Storm
Edie Bailey
The Horse Whisperer
Liz Hammond
Boy Erased
Dr. Muldoon
The Beaver
Vice President
Motherless Brooklyn
Gabby Horowitz
The Sky Is Everywhere
Fiona
New Year's Eve
Mrs Rose Ahern
Our Friend
Faith Pruett
Housesitter
Patty
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Geri Taub
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Rachel Grover
Knight of Cups
Ruth
National Theatre at Home: The Grapes of Wrath
Ma Joad
Wine Country
Lady Sunshine
Mother and Child
Sister Joanne
Amelia
Eleanor Roosevelt
I Saw the Light
Lillie Williams
Cradle Will Rock
Hallie Flanagan
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Buggy
The Big Town
Ginger McDonald
The Party
Martha
Light of Day
Cindy Montgomery
Sganarelle
Dorimène / Lucinde
Julian Po
Lucy
What Makes a Family
Sandy Cataldi
Murder in a Small Town
Mimi Barnes
Swimmers
Julia Tyler
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Nancy
Days and Nights
Mary
Obsessed with Light
Loïe Fuller (voice)
Transparent: Musicale Finale
Leslie Mackinaw
Out of the Past
Annie Adams Fields (voice)
Miss America
Narrator
Cora Unashamed
Lizbeth Studevant
O’Malley
Secretary
The Lady in Question
Mimi Barnes
Alex: The Life of a Child
Tina Crawford
Becoming Helen Keller
Helen Keller (voice)
A Rainy Day in New York
Mrs. Welles
TV Shows (21)
Frasier
Janet (voice) · 1 eps
24
Allison Taylor · 48 eps
The West Wing
Barbara Layton · 1 eps
Black Mirror
Susan Taylor · 1 eps
The Handmaid's Tale
Holly Maddox · 6 eps
Succession
Nan Pierce · 3 eps
Hacks
Kelly Kilpatrick · 1 eps
American Experience
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
Foundation
Ambassador Quent · 7 eps
Portlandia
Bridge Manager / New Mayor · 1 eps
Poker Face
Laura · 1 eps
Transparent
Leslie Mackinaw · 12 eps
Velma
Victoria (voice) · 11 eps
Extrapolations
President Elizabeth Burdick · 1 eps
Defending Jacob
Joanna Klein · 8 eps
11.22.63
Marquerite Oswald · 7 eps
Awake
Dr. Judith Evans · 13 eps
Five Days at Memorial
Susan Mulderick · 8 eps
Chimerica
Mel Kincaid · 4 eps
Clubhouse
2 eps
Working Shakespeare
5 eps
