Cherry Jones

Biography

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).

Known for

A Rainy Day in New York

Acting roles

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