Cherry Jones

Known for ActingBorn 1956-11-21 (age 69)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).Read more

Movies & web series

Miss America

O’Malley

Succession

Defending Jacob

Black Mirror

The Handmaid's Tale

The West Wing

Obsessed with Light

Becoming Helen Keller

11.22.63

Foundation

24

Five Days at Memorial

Poker Face

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

Frasier

Hacks

Erin Brockovich

Our Friend

Cora Unashamed

Boy Erased

Awake

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

Portlandia

Alex: The Life of a Child

Transparent: Musicale Finale

Motherless Brooklyn

The Horse Whisperer

Swimmers

Signs

Mother and Child

A Rainy Day in New York

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Ocean's Twelve

The Village

The Party

Transparent

Cradle Will Rock

The Perfect Storm

The Beaver

American Experience

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Julian Po

Making 'Signs'

I Saw the Light

Extrapolations

What Makes a Family

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood