CJ
Cherry Jones
ActorBorn November 21, 1956 (68 years)
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).
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
Filmography
| 2023 | Obsessed with Light · as Loïe Fuller (voice) |
| 2023 | Extrapolations (TV Series) · as President Elizabeth Burdick |
| 2023 | Poker Face (TV Series) · as Laura |
| 2023 | Velma (TV Series) · as Victoria (voice) |
| 2022 | Five Days at Memorial (TV Series) · as Susan Mulderick |
| 2022 | The Sky Is Everywhere · as Fiona |
| 2021 | Becoming Helen Keller · as Helen Keller (voice) |
| 2021 | Foundation (2021) (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2021 | The Eyes of Tammy Faye · as Rachel Grover |
| 2020 | Close Enough (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2020 | Defending Jacob (TV Series) · as Joanna Klein |
| 2019 | Motherless Brooklyn · as Gabby Horowitz |
| 2019 | Transparent: Musicale Finale · as Leslie Mackinaw |
| 2019 | Our Friend · as Faith Pruett |
| 2019 | A Rainy Day in New York · as Mrs. Welles |
| 2019 | Wine Country · as Lady Sunshine |
| 2019 | Chimerica (TV Series) · as Mel Kincaid |
| 2018 | Boy Erased · as Dr. Muldoon |
| 2018 | Succession (TV Series) · as Nan Pierce |
| 2017 | The Party · as Martha |
| 2017 | The Handmaid's Tale (TV Series) · as Holly Maddox |
| 2016 | Whiskey Tango Foxtrot · as Geri Taub |
| 2016 | 11.22.63 (TV Series) · as Marquerite Oswald |
| 2016 | Mercy Street (TV Series) · as Dorothea Dix |
| 2015 | I Saw the Light · as Lillie Williams |
| 2015 | Knight of Cups · as Ruth |
| 2015 | American Crime (TV Series) · as Laurie Ann Hesby |
| 2014 | Days and Nights · as Mary |
| 2014 | Transparent (TV Series) · as Leslie Mackinaw |
| 2012 | Awake (TV Series) · as Dr. Judith Evans |
| 2011 | New Year's Eve · as Mrs Rose Ahern |
| 2011 | Black Mirror (TV Series) · as Susan Taylor |
| 2011 | The 65th Annual Tony Awards · as Mrs. Kitty Warren |
| 2011 | The Beaver · as Vice President |
| 2011 | Portlandia (TV Series) · as Bridge Manager / New Mayor |
| 2009 | Mother and Child · as Sister Joanne |
| 2009 | Amelia · as Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 2008 | 24: Redemption · as President Elect Allison Taylor |
| 2005 | Swimmers · as Julia Tyler |
| 2004 | Ocean's Twelve · as Molly Star / Mrs. Caldwell |
| 2004 | Clubhouse (TV Series) |
| 2004 | The Village · as Mrs. Clack |
| 2002 | Signs · as Officer Paski |
| 2002 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood · as Buggy Abbott |
| 2002 | Miss America · as Narrator |
| 2001 | 24 (TV Series) · as President Allison Taylor |
| 2001 | What Makes a Family · as Sandy Cataldi |
| 2001 | Jazz (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2000 | Cora Unashamed · as Lizbeth Studevant |
| 2000 | The Perfect Storm · as Edie Bailey |
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich · as Pamela Duncan |
| 1999 | The Lady in Question · as Mimi Barnes |
| 1999 | Cradle Will Rock · as Hallie Flanagan |
| 1999 | The West Wing (TV Series) · as Barbara Layton |
| 1999 | Murder in a Small Town · as Mimi |
| 1998 | The Horse Whisperer · as Liz Hammond |
| 1998 | Out of the Past · as Annie Adams Fields (voice) |
| 1997 | Julian Po · as Lucy |
| 1993 | Frasier (TV Series) · as Janet (voice) |
| 1993 | Tribeca (TV Series) · as Tough Woman |
| 1992 | HouseSitter · as Patty |
| 1988 | American Experience (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1987 | The Big Town · as Ginger Mcdonald |
| 1987 | Light of Day · as Cindy Montgomery |
| 1986 | Alex: The Life of a Child · as Tina Crawford |
| 1985 | Spenser: For Hire (TV Series) · as Tracy Kincaid |
| 1983 | Loving (TV Series) · as Frankie |
| 1983 | Frontline (TV Series) · as Cast |