Cherry Jones
Acting
1956-11-21 · 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).
Filmography
National Theatre at Home: The Grapes of Wrath
2024 · Movie
Obsessed with Light
2023 · Movie
Extrapolations
2023 · Series
Poker Face
2023 · Series
Velma
2023 · Series
Five Days at Memorial
2022 · Series
The Sky Is Everywhere
2022 · Movie
Becoming Helen Keller
2021 · Movie
Foundation
2021 · Series
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021 · Movie
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021 · Movie
Hacks
2021 · Series
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2020 · Movie
Defending Jacob
2020 · Series
Motherless Brooklyn
2019 · Movie
Transparent: Musicale Finale
2019 · Movie
Our Friend
2019 · Movie
A Rainy Day in New York
2019 · Movie
Wine Country
2019 · Movie
Chimerica
2019 · Series
Boy Erased
2018 · Movie
Succession
2018 · Series
The Party
2017 · Movie
The Handmaid's Tale
2017 · Series
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016 · Movie
11.22.63
2016 · Series
I Saw the Light
2016 · Movie
Knight of Cups
2015 · Movie
Transparent
2014 · Series
Days and Nights
2014 · Movie
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014 · Movie
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013 · Movie
Awake
2012 · Series
New Year's Eve
2011 · Movie
Black Mirror
2011 · Series
The Beaver
2011 · Movie
Portlandia
2011 · Series
Mother and Child
2009 · Movie
Amelia
2009 · Movie
Swimmers
2005 · Movie
Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005 · Movie
Ocean's Twelve
2004 · Movie
Clubhouse
2004 · Series
The Village
2004 · Movie
Working Shakespeare
2003 · Series
Making 'Signs'
2003 · Movie
Signs
2002 · Movie
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002 · Movie
Miss America
2002 · Movie
24
2001 · Series
What Makes a Family
2001 · Movie
Cora Unashamed
2000 · Movie
The Perfect Storm
2000 · Movie
Erin Brockovich
2000 · Movie
The Lady in Question
1999 · Movie
Cradle Will Rock
1999 · Movie
The West Wing
1999 · Series
Murder in a Small Town
1999 · Movie
Out of the Past
1998 · Movie
The Horse Whisperer
1998 · Movie
Julian Po
1997 · Movie
Frasier
1993 · Series
Housesitter
1992 · Movie
American Experience
1988 · Series
The Big Town
1987 · Movie
Light of Day
1987 · Movie
Alex: The Life of a Child
1986 · Movie
Sganarelle
1984 · Movie
O’Malley
1983 · Movie
Fonda
Movie
Broadway: The Next Generation
Movie
Untitled The Secret of Secrets Series
Series
The Steel Harp
Movie