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