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Cherry Jones
🎂 Nov 21, 1956 (69)
Paris, Tennessee, USA
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.
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Signs
2002
Ocean's Twelve
2004
The Perfect Storm
2000
Erin Brockovich
2000
The Village
2004
The Horse Whisperer
1998
Boy Erased
2018
New Year's Eve
2011
Knight of Cups
2015
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016
Our Friend
2019
The Beaver
2011
The Party
2017
Motherless Brooklyn
2019
Mother and Child
2009
Housesitter
1992
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2021
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
2002
I Saw the Light
2016
Amelia
2009
Wine Country
2019
Light of Day
1987
Cradle Will Rock
1999
The Big Town
1987
Days and Nights
2014
Julian Po
1997
The Sky Is Everywhere
2022
Alex: The Life of a Child
1986
Swimmers
2005
A Rainy Day in New York
2019
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Cherry Jones
1956-11-21 · Paris, Tennessee, USA
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).