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).
Fotos
Películas (52)

National Theatre at Home: The Grapes of Wrath
2024 · Ma Joad

Obsessed with Light
2023 · Loïe Fuller (voice)

The Sky Is Everywhere
2022 · Fiona

Becoming Helen Keller
2021 · Helen Keller (voice)

The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021 · Rachel Grover

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021 · Self

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2020 · Nancy

Motherless Brooklyn
2019 · Gabby Horowitz

Transparent: Musicale Finale
2019 · Leslie Mackinaw

Our Friend
2019 · Faith Pruett

A Rainy Day in New York
2019 · Mrs. Welles

Wine Country
2019 · Lady Sunshine

Boy Erased
2018 · Dr. Muldoon

The Party
2017 · Martha

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016 · Geri Taub

I Saw the Light
2016 · Lillie Williams

Knight of Cups
2015 · Ruth

Days and Nights
2014 · Mary

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014 · Self

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013 · Self

New Year's Eve
2011 · Mrs Rose Ahern

The Beaver
2011 · Vice President

Mother and Child
2009 · Sister Joanne

Amelia
2009 · Eleanor Roosevelt

Swimmers
2005 · Julia Tyler

Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005 · Self

Ocean's Twelve
2004 · Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell

The Village
2004 · Mrs. Clack
Making 'Signs'
2003 · Self - 'Officer Paski'

Signs
2002 · Officer Paski

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002 · Buggy

Miss America
2002 · Narrator

What Makes a Family
2001 · Sandy Cataldi

Cora Unashamed
2000 · Lizbeth Studevant

The Perfect Storm
2000 · Edie Bailey

Erin Brockovich
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
Series (22)

Extrapolations
2023 · President Elizabeth Burdick

Poker Face
2023 · Laura

Velma
2023 · Victoria (voice)

Five Days at Memorial
2022 · Susan Mulderick

Foundation
2021 · Ambassador Quent

Hacks
2021 · Kelly Kilpatrick

Defending Jacob
2020 · Joanna Klein

Chimerica
2019 · Mel Kincaid

Succession
2018 · Nan Pierce

The Handmaid's Tale
2017 · Holly Maddox

11.22.63
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


