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Cherry Jones is an American actress. A five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, she has twice won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play: for the 1995 revival of The Heiress and for the 2005 original production of Doubt. She has also won two Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2009 for her role as Allison Taylor on the FOX television series 24, and then winning Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2019 for her performance in The Handmaid's Tale. She has also won three Drama Desk Awards.
Jones made her Broadway debut in the 1987 original Broadway production of Stepping Out. Other stage credits include Pride's Crossing (1997–98) and The Glass Menagerie (2013–14). Her film appearances include The Horse Whisperer (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), The Village (2004), Amelia (2009), and The Beaver (2011). In 2012, she played Dr. Judith Evans on the NBC drama Awake.
Born
Wednesday, 21 November 1956
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Extrapolations | President Elizabeth Burdick | 2023 |
Poker Face | Laura | 2023 |
Velma | Victoria | 2023 |
Five Days at Memorial | Susan Mulderick | 2022 |
The Sky Is Everywhere | Fiona | 2022 |
Robert Brustein: A Celebration | Self | 2021 |
The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Rachel Grover | 2021 |
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021 |
Our Friend | Faith Pruett | 2021 |
Close Enough | (voice) | 2020 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Extrapolations | President Elizabeth Burdick | 2023 |
Poker Face | Laura | 2023 |
Velma | Victoria | 2023 |
Five Days at Memorial | Susan Mulderick | 2022 |
The Sky Is Everywhere | Fiona | 2022 |
Robert Brustein: A Celebration | Self | 2021 |
The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Rachel Grover | 2021 |
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021 |
Our Friend | Faith Pruett | 2021 |
Close Enough | (voice) | 2020 |
Defending Jacob | Joanna Klein | 2020 |
Motherless Brooklyn | Gabby Horowitz | 2019 |
2019 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Self - Winner | 2019 |
A Rainy Day in New York | Gatsby's Mother / Mrs. Welles | 2019 |
Wine Country | Lady Sunshine | 2019 |
Chimerica | Mel Kincaid | 2019 |
Boy Erased | Dr. Muldoon | 2018 |
Succession | Nan Pierce | 2018 |
The Party | Martha | 2017 |
The Handmaid's Tale | Holly Maddox | 2017 |
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | Geri Taub | 2016 |
11.22.63 | Marguerite Oswald / Marquerite Oswald | 2016 |
I Saw the Light | Lillie Williams | 2016 |
Mercy Street | Dorothea Dix | 2016 |
Knight of Cups | Ruth | 2015 |
American Crime | Laurie Ann Hesby | 2015 |
Days and Nights | Mary | 2014 |
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey | Self | 2014 |
The 68th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 2014 |
Transparent | Leslie Mackinaw | 2014 |
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me | Herself / Self | 2013 |
The Broadway.com Show | Self | 2013 |
Awake | Dr. Judith Evans | 2012 |
New Year's Eve | Mrs. Rose Ahern (segment "Ahern Party") / Mrs Rose Ahern | 2011 |
Black Mirror | Susan | 2011 |
The Beaver | Vice President | 2011 |
Portlandia | Bridge Manager / New Mayor | 2011 |
Show People with Paul Wontorek | Self | 2010 |
Mother and Child | Sister Joanne | 2009 |
Amelia | Eleanor Roosevelt | 2009 |
24: Redemption | President Elect Allison Taylor / President-Elect Allison Taylor | 2008 |
The 59th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Winner | 2005 |
Swimmers | Julia Tyler | 2005 |
Ocean's Twelve | Mrs. Caldwell / Molly Star | 2004 |
Clubhouse | Sister Marie | 2004 |
The Village | Mrs. Clack | 2004 |
Making 'Signs' | Herself - 'Officer Paski' / Self - 'Officer Paski' | 2003 |
Signs | Officer Paski | 2002 |
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Buggy / Grandma 'Buggy' Abbott | 2002 |
24 | President Allison Taylor | 2001 |
What Makes a Family | Sandy Cataldi | 2001 |
Jazz | (voice) | 2001 |
Cora Unashamed | Lizbeth Studevant | 2000 |
The Perfect Storm | Edie Bailey | 2000 |
The 54th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 2000 |
Erin Brockovich | Pamela Duncan | 2000 |
The Lady in Question | Mimi Barnes | 1999 |
Cradle Will Rock | Hallie Flanagan | 1999 |
The West Wing | Barbara Layton | 1999 |
Murder in a Small Town | Mimi | 1999 |
The Horse Whisperer | Liz Hammond | 1998 |
Out of the Past | Annie Adams Fields | 1998 |
Julian Po | Lucy | 1997 |
Theater Talk | Self - Guest | 1996 |
The West | Self | 1996 |
The 49th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Winner | 1995 |
Frasier | Janet | 1993 |
Tribeca | Tough Woman | 1993 |
HouseSitter | Patty | 1992 |
In the Life | Self | 1992 |
The 45th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1991 |
Edinburgh Nights | Self | 1989 |
American Experience | Narrator | 1988 |
The Big Town | Ginger McDonald | 1987 |
Light of Day | Cindy Montgomery | 1987 |
American Masters | 1986 | |
Alex: The Life of a Child | Tina Crawford | 1986 |
Spenser: For Hire | Tracy Kincaid | 1985 |
Loving | Frankie | 1983 |
Frontline | (voice) | 1983 |
Working in the Theatre | Self | 1976 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2023 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
2020 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Won |
2019 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Won |
2018 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
2009 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Won |