Cherry Jones
ActingCherry 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
Ocean's Twelve
Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
The Village
Mrs. Clack
Signs
Officer Paski
Erin Brockovich
Pamela Duncan
The Perfect Storm
Edie Bailey
The Horse Whisperer
Liz Hammond
New Year's Eve
Mrs Rose Ahern
Knight of Cups
Ruth
The Party
Martha
Motherless Brooklyn
Gabby Horowitz
Filmography — Acting
Ocean's Twelve
Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
The Village
Mrs. Clack
Signs
Officer Paski
Erin Brockovich
Pamela Duncan
The Perfect Storm
Edie Bailey
The Horse Whisperer
Liz Hammond
New Year's Eve
Mrs Rose Ahern
Knight of Cups
Ruth
The Party
Martha
Motherless Brooklyn
Gabby Horowitz
Boy Erased
Dr. Muldoon
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Geri Taub
Our Friend
Faith Pruett
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Rachel Grover
Amelia
Eleanor Roosevelt
Housesitter
Patty
Wine Country
Lady Sunshine
Mother and Child
Sister Joanne
The Beaver
Vice President
Cradle Will Rock
Hallie Flanagan
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
I Saw the Light
Lillie Williams
The Big Town
Ginger McDonald
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Buggy Abbott
National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath
Ma Joad
The Sky Is Everywhere
Fiona
Broadway: The Next Generation
Self
What Makes a Family
Sandy Cataldi
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Nancy
Out of the Past
Annie Adams Fields (voice)
Julian Po
Lucy
Swimmers
Julia Tyler
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Self
Alex: The Life of a Child
Tina Crawford
Murder in a Small Town
Mimi Barnes
Light of Day
Cindy Montgomery
Days and Nights
Mary
Deconstructing 'The Village'
Self
Cora Unashamed
Lizbeth Studevant
Transparent: Musicale Finale
Leslie Mackinaw
The Lady in Question
Mimi Barnes
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Herself
Fonda
Making 'Signs'
Self - 'Officer Paski'
Miss America
Narrator
Obsessed with Light
Loïe Fuller (voice)
Becoming Helen Keller
Helen Keller (voice)
The Steel Harp
O’Malley
Secretary
A Rainy Day in New York
Mrs. Welles
Sganarelle
Dorimène / Lucinde