Cherry Jones
Acting • Born 1956-11-21
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).
Filmography
70 credits
Ocean's Twelve
Movie • 2004
Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
Erin Brockovich
Movie • 2000
Pamela Duncan
The Horse Whisperer
Movie • 1998
Liz Hammond
Light of Day
Movie • 1987
Cindy Montgomery
The Perfect Storm
Movie • 2000
Edie Bailey
Signs
Movie • 2002
Officer Paski
Housesitter
Movie • 1992
Patty
Becoming Helen Keller
Movie • 2021
Helen Keller (voice)
The Village
Movie • 2004
Mrs. Clack
Amelia
Movie • 2009
Eleanor Roosevelt
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Movie • 2002
Buggy Abbott
Mother and Child
Movie • 2009
Sister Joanne
What Makes a Family
Movie • 2001
Sandy Cataldi
Julian Po
Movie • 1997
Lucy
Out of the Past
Movie • 1998
Annie Adams Fields (voice)
Murder in a Small Town
Movie • 1999
Mimi Barnes
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Movie • 2013
Herself
Swimmers
Movie • 2005
Julia Tyler
Days and Nights
Movie • 2014
Mary
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Movie • 2014
Self
Cora Unashamed
Movie • 2000
Lizbeth Studevant
Broadway: The Next Generation
Movie
Self
I Saw the Light
Movie • 2016
Lillie Williams
New Year's Eve
Movie • 2011
Mrs Rose Ahern
Cradle Will Rock
Movie • 1999
Hallie Flanagan
Knight of Cups
Movie • 2015
Ruth
The Party
Movie • 2017
Martha
The Lady in Question
Movie • 1999
Mimi Barnes
Boy Erased
Movie • 2018
Dr. Muldoon
A Rainy Day in New York
Movie • 2019
Mrs. Welles
Motherless Brooklyn
Movie • 2019
Gabby Horowitz
Wine Country
Movie • 2019
Lady Sunshine
The Beaver
Movie • 2011
Vice President
Our Friend
Movie • 2019
Faith Pruett
Transparent: Musicale Finale
Movie • 2019
Leslie Mackinaw
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Movie • 2021
Rachel Grover
Miss America
Movie • 2002
Narrator
Making 'Signs'
Movie • 2003
Self - 'Officer Paski'
Deconstructing 'The Village'
Movie • 2005
Self
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Movie • 2020
Nancy
The Big Town
Movie • 1987
Ginger McDonald
The Sky Is Everywhere
Movie • 2022
Fiona
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Movie • 2021
Self
National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath
Movie • 2024
Ma Joad
Obsessed with Light
Movie • 2023
Loïe Fuller (voice)
O’Malley
Movie • 1983
Secretary
Sganarelle
Movie • 1984
Dorimène / Lucinde
Alex: The Life of a Child
Movie • 1986
Tina Crawford
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Movie • 2016
Geri Taub
The Steel Harp
Movie
Transparent
TV • 2014
Leslie Mackinaw
Clubhouse
TV • 2004
Five Days at Memorial
TV • 2022
Susan Mulderick
Extrapolations
TV • 2023
President Elizabeth Burdick
Awake
TV • 2012
Dr. Judith Evans
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Barbara Layton
Black Mirror
TV • 2011
Susan Taylor
Frasier
TV • 1993
Janet (voice)
24
TV • 2001
Allison Taylor
American Experience
TV • 1988
Narrator (voice)
The Handmaid's Tale
TV • 2017
Holly Maddox
Portlandia
TV • 2011
Bridge Manager / New Mayor
Chimerica
TV • 2019
Mel Kincaid
Succession
TV • 2018
Nan Pierce
Velma
TV • 2023
Victoria (voice)
Defending Jacob
TV • 2020
Joanna Klein
Poker Face
TV • 2023
Laura
Working Shakespeare
TV • 2003
Foundation
TV • 2021
Ambassador Quent
11.22.63
TV • 2016
Marquerite Oswald