Cherry Jones

Cherry Jones

Birthday: 1956-11-21

Place of birth: Paris, Tennessee, USA

Also known as: 체리 존스, چری جونز, شيري جونز

imdb_id: nm0427728

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).

Played in movies:

Broadway: The Next Generation

Score: 10.0

Obsessed with Light

Score: 8.0

Becoming Helen Keller

Score: 8.0

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

Score: 7.5

Erin Brockovich

Score: 7.4

Swimmers

Score: 7.3

Our Friend

Score: 7.2

Alex: The Life of a Child

Score: 7.1

Boy Erased

Score: 7.0

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

Score: 7.0

The Horse Whisperer

Score: 6.9

Signs

Score: 6.7

Motherless Brooklyn

Score: 6.7

Transparent: Musicale Finale

Score: 6.7

Mother and Child

Score: 6.6

Ocean's Twelve

Score: 6.6

Cradle Will Rock

Score: 6.5

Cora Unashamed

Score: 6.5

Julian Po

Score: 6.5

What Makes a Family

Score: 6.5

The Village

Score: 6.5

A Rainy Day in New York

Score: 6.5

The Perfect Storm

Score: 6.5

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Score: 6.5

The Beaver

Score: 6.4

The Party

Score: 6.3

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Score: 6.3

I Saw the Light

Score: 6.3

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Score: 6.1

Housesitter

Score: 6.1

New Year's Eve

Score: 5.9

Making 'Signs'

Score: 5.8

Knight of Cups

Score: 5.7

The Sky Is Everywhere

Score: 5.7

Amelia

Score: 5.7

The Big Town

Score: 5.5

Light of Day

Score: 5.5

Wine Country

Score: 5.5

Murder in a Small Town

Score: 5.2

Deconstructing 'The Village'

Score: 4.7

Days and Nights

Score: 4.5

The Lady in Question

Score: 4.0

Out of the Past

Score: 0.8

Sganarelle

Score: 0.0

O’Malley

Score: 0.0

24: Redemption

Score: 0.0

National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath

Score: 0.0

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Score: 0.0

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Score: 0.0

Miss America

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Succession

Score: 8.3

The West Wing

Score: 8.3

Black Mirror

Score: 8.3

Defending Jacob

Score: 8.3

The Handmaid's Tale

Score: 8.2

Foundation

Score: 7.8

24

Score: 7.8

11.22.63

Score: 7.8

Frasier

Score: 7.7

Five Days at Memorial

Score: 7.6

Poker Face

Score: 7.6

American Experience

Score: 7.4

Awake

Score: 7.0

Portlandia

Score: 6.9

Transparent

Score: 6.4

Extrapolations

Score: 6.0

Chimerica

Score: 5.7

Clubhouse

Score: 3.5

Velma

Score: 3.4

Working Shakespeare

Score: 0.0