Acting credits
70
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Cherry Jones
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 49Series: 21
TMDB ID: 1956
IMDb ID: nm0427728
Known for: Acting
Born: November 21, 1956
Age: 69
Place of birth: Paris, Tennessee, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1983 - 2024
Years active: 42
Average TMDB rating: 6.67
Wikidata: Q239046
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).
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Cherry Jones.
National Theatre at Home: The Grapes of Wrath
as Ma Joad
2024 Movie
Obsessed with Light
as Loïe Fuller (voice)
2023 Movie
The Sky Is Everywhere
as Fiona
2022 Movie
Becoming Helen Keller
as Helen Keller (voice)
2021 Movie
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
as Rachel Grover
2021 Movie
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
2021 Movie
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
as Nancy
2020 Movie
Motherless Brooklyn
as Gabby Horowitz
2019 Movie
Transparent: Musicale Finale
as Leslie Mackinaw
2019 Movie
Our Friend
as Faith Pruett
2019 Movie
A Rainy Day in New York
as Mrs. Welles
2019 Movie
Wine Country
as Lady Sunshine
2019 Movie
Boy Erased
as Dr. Muldoon
2018 Movie
The Party
as Martha
2017 Movie
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
as Geri Taub
2016 Movie
I Saw the Light
as Lillie Williams
2016 Movie
Knight of Cups
as Ruth
2015 Movie
Days and Nights
as Mary
2014 Movie
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
as Self
2014 Movie
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
as Self
2013 Movie
New Year's Eve
as Mrs Rose Ahern
2011 Movie
The Beaver
as Vice President
2011 Movie
Mother and Child
as Sister Joanne
2009 Movie
Amelia
as Eleanor Roosevelt
2009 Movie
Series
Series credits linked with Cherry Jones.
Extrapolations
as President Elizabeth Burdick • 1 eps
2023 Series
Poker Face
as Laura • 1 eps
2023 Series
Velma
as Victoria (voice) • 11 eps
2023 Series
Five Days at Memorial
as Susan Mulderick • 8 eps
2022 Series
Foundation
as Ambassador Quent • 7 eps
2021 Series
Hacks
as Kelly Kilpatrick • 1 eps
2021 Series
Defending Jacob
as Joanna Klein • 8 eps
2020 Series
Chimerica
as Mel Kincaid • 4 eps
2019 Series
Succession
as Nan Pierce • 3 eps
2018 Series
The Handmaid's Tale
as Holly Maddox • 6 eps
2017 Series
11.22.63
as Marquerite Oswald • 7 eps
2016 Series
Transparent
as Leslie Mackinaw • 12 eps
2014 Series
Awake
as Dr. Judith Evans • 13 eps
2012 Series
Black Mirror
as Susan Taylor • 1 eps
2011 Series
Portlandia
as Bridge Manager / New Mayor • 1 eps
2011 Series
Clubhouse
2 eps
2004 Series
Working Shakespeare
5 eps
2003 Series
24
as Allison Taylor • 48 eps
2001 Series
The West Wing
as Barbara Layton • 1 eps
1999 Series
Frasier
as Janet (voice) • 1 eps
1993 Series
American Experience
as Narrator (voice) • 1 eps
1988 Series