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).
Acted in
Extrapolations
2023
as President Elizabeth Burdick
Poker Face
2023
as Laura
Velma
2023
as Victoria (voice)
Five Days at Memorial
2022
as Susan Mulderick
The Sky Is Everywhere
2022
as Fiona
Becoming Helen Keller
2021
as Helen Keller (voice)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021
as Rachel Grover
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
as Self
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2020
as Nancy
Defending Jacob
2020
as Joanna Klein
Motherless Brooklyn
2019
as Gabby Horowitz
Transparent: Musicale Finale
2019
as Leslie Mackinaw
Our Friend
2019
as Faith Pruett
A Rainy Day in New York
2019
as Mrs. Welles
Wine Country
2019
as Lady Sunshine
Chimerica
2019
as Mel Kincaid
Boy Erased
2018
as Dr. Muldoon
Succession
2018
as Nan Pierce
Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
as Self
The Party
2017
as Martha
The Handmaid's Tale
2017
as Holly Maddox
11.22.63
2016
as Marquerite Oswald
I Saw the Light
2016
as Lillie Williams
Knight of Cups
2015
as Ruth
American Crime
2015
as Laurie Ann Hesby
Days and Nights
2014
as Mary
Transparent
2014
as Leslie Mackinaw
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
2014
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
2013
as Herself
Awake
2012
as Dr. Judith Evans
New Year's Eve
2011
as Mrs Rose Ahern
Black Mirror
2011
as Susan Taylor
The Beaver
2011
as Vice President
Portlandia
2011
as Bridge Manager / New Mayor
Mother and Child
2009
as Sister Joanne
Amelia
2009
as Eleanor Roosevelt
24: Redemption
2008
as President-Elect Allison Taylor
Swimmers
2005
as Julia Tyler
Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005
as Self
Ocean's Twelve
2004
as Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell
Clubhouse
2004
The Village
2004
as Mrs. Clack
Making 'Signs'
2003
as Self - 'Officer Paski'
Signs
2002
as Officer Paski
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002
as Buggy Abbott
Miss America
2002
as Narrator
24
2001
as President Allison Taylor
24
2001
as Allison Taylor
What Makes a Family
2001
as Sandy Cataldi
Cora Unashamed
2000
as Lizbeth Studevant
The Perfect Storm
2000
as Edie Bailey
Erin Brockovich
2000
as Pamela Duncan
The Lady in Question
1999
as Mimi Barnes
Cradle Will Rock
1999
as Hallie Flanagan
The West Wing
1999
as Barbara Layton
Murder in a Small Town
1999
as Mimi
Out of the Past
1998
as Annie Adams Fields (voice)
The Horse Whisperer
1998
as Liz Hammond
Julian Po
1997
as Lucy
Frasier
1993
as Janet (voice)
Housesitter
1992
as Patty
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
The Big Town
1987
as Ginger McDonald
Light of Day
1987
as Cindy Montgomery