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).

Known For: Acting

Born: Paris, Tennessee, USA, 1956-11-21

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1987	Light of Day	Cindy Montgomery	55
2	1987	The Big Town	Ginger McDonald	54
3	1992	Housesitter	Patty	61
4	1997	Julian Po	Lucy	66
5	1998	The Horse Whisperer	Liz Hammond	69
6	1998	Out of the Past	Annie Adams Fields (voice)	8
7	1999	Murder in a Small Town	Mimi	52
8	1999	Cradle Will Rock	Hallie Flanagan	65
9	1999	The Lady in Question	Mimi Barnes	40
10	2000	Erin Brockovich	Pamela Duncan	74
11	2000	The Perfect Storm	Edie Bailey	65
12	2000	Cora Unashamed	Lizbeth Studevant	65
13	2001	What Makes a Family	Sandy Cataldi	65
14	2002	Miss America	Narrator	0
15	2002	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Buggy Abbott	61
16	2002	Signs	Officer Paski	67
17	2003	Making 'Signs'	Self - 'Officer Paski'	58
18	2004	The Village	Mrs. Clack	65
19	2004	Ocean's Twelve	Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell	66
20	2005	Deconstructing 'The Village'	Self	47
21	2005	Swimmers	Julia Tyler	73
22	2009	Amelia	Eleanor Roosevelt	57
23	2009	Mother and Child	Sister Joanne	66
24	2011	The Beaver	Vice President	64
25	2011	New Year's Eve	Mrs Rose Ahern	59
26	2013	Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me	Herself	75
27	2014	Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey	Self	70
28	2014	Days and Nights	Mary	47
29	2015	Knight of Cups	Ruth	57
30	2016	I Saw the Light	Lillie Williams	63
31	2017	The Party	Martha	64
32	2017	Broadway: The Next Generation	Self	100
33	2018	Boy Erased	Dr. Muldoon	70
34	2019	Wine Country	Lady Sunshine	55
35	2019	A Rainy Day in New York	Mrs. Welles	65
36	2019	Our Friend	Faith Pruett	72
37	2019	Transparent: Musicale Finale	Leslie Mackinaw	67
38	2019	Motherless Brooklyn	Gabby Horowitz	67
39	2020	Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens	Nancy	0
40	2021	Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age	Self	0
41	2021	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Rachel Grover	65
42	2021	Becoming Helen Keller	Helen Keller (voice)	80
43	2022	The Sky Is Everywhere	Fiona	58
44	2023	Obsessed with Light	Loïe Fuller (voice)	80
45	2024	National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath	Ma Joad	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1988	American Experience	Narrator (voice)	75
2	1993	Frasier	Janet (voice)	77
3	1999	The West Wing	Barbara Layton	82
4	2001	24	Allison Taylor	78
5	2004	Clubhouse		35
6	2008	24 Redemption		0
7	2011	Portlandia	Bridge Manager / New Mayor	69
8	2011	Black Mirror	Susan Taylor	83
9	2012	Awake	Dr. Judith Evans	70
10	2014	Transparent	Leslie Mackinaw	64
11	2016	11.22.63	Marquerite Oswald	78
12	2017	The Handmaid's Tale	Holly Maddox	82
13	2018	Succession	Nan Pierce	83
14	2019	Chimerica	Mel Kincaid	57
15	2020	Defending Jacob	Joanna Klein	83
16	2022	Five Days at Memorial	Susan Mulderick	77
17	2023	Velma	Victoria (voice)	35
18	2023	Poker Face	Laura	77
19	2023	Extrapolations	President Elizabeth Burdick	60