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Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an American actress known for her roles on screen and stage. She has received various accolades for her performances in television and theatre including three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, three Drama Desk Awards and two Obie Awards. She also received a Laurence Olivier Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

Cherry Jones
Jones in 2009
Born	(1956-11-21) November 21, 1956 (age 65) Paris, Tennessee, U.S.
Education	Carnegie Mellon University (BFA)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1980–present
Spouse	Sophie Huber ​ (m. 2015)​
Partner	Mary O'Connor (1986-2004) Sarah Paulson (2004–2009)

Jones started her career in theatre in 1980 when she cofounded the American Repertory Theatre. She made her Broadway debut in the 1987 play Stepping Out. She received her first Tony nomination for her role in Our Country's Good in 1991. She continued working on and off broadway including portraying various roles in Tony Kushner's Angels in America in 1993. and She portrayed Catherine Sloper in the Broadway production of The Heiress in 1995 for which she earned her first Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She received another Tony nomination for A Moon for the Misbegotten in 2000. She won her second Tony Award for originating the role of Sister Aloysius in John Patrick Shanley's Doubt in 2005. In 2014 she received her fifth Tony nomination as Amanda in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, a role for which she reprised in London's West End earning a Laurence Olivier Award nomination in 2017. Her most recent Broadway performance was in The Lifespan of a Fact in 2018.

She is also known for her work on television making her debut in 1987's Alex: The Life of a Child. She continued acting in television in various roles including 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 more Primetime Emmy Awards this time for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her performances 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).

Early life

Jones was born in Paris, Tennessee. Her mother was a high school teacher, and her father owned a flower shop.[1] Her parents were very supportive of her theatrical ambitions, encouraging her interest by sending her to classes with local drama teacher, Ruby Krider.[2] Jones takes great pains to credit her high school speech teacher, Linda Wilson, with her first real preparatory work.[3] She is a 1978 graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. While at CMU, she was one of the earliest actors to work at City Theatre, a fixture of Pittsburgh theatre.[4]

Career

Most of her career has been in theater, beginning in 1980 as a founding member of the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[5]

Her Broadway performances include Lincoln Center's 1995 production of The Heiress and also a 2005 production of John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt at the Walter Kerr Theatre. For both roles, she earned a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play.

Other Broadway credits include Nora Ephron's play Imaginary Friends (with Swoosie Kurtz), the 2000 revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, for which she earned her first Tony nomination.[6] She is considered to be one of the foremost theater actresses in the United States.[7] In 1994, she also appeared in the Broadway run of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika as the Angel, replacing Ellen McLaughlin, who had originated the role.

She has narrated the audiobook adaptations of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series including, Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, Farmer Boy, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, and Little Town on the Prairie. In recent years, Jones has ventured into feature films. Her screen credits include Cradle Will Rock, The Perfect Storm, Signs, Ocean's Twelve, and The Village.[8]

Jones played President Taylor on the Fox series 24, a role for which she won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.[9] She played the role in the seventh season, from January to May 2009, as well as eighth season, which aired from January to May 2010.[10]

In 2012, Jones starred in the NBC drama series Awake as psychiatrist Dr. Judith Evans.

Also in 2012, she portrayed Amanda Wingfield in the Loeb Drama Center's revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie alongside Zachary Quinto, Brian J. Smith and Celia Keenan-Bolger.[11]

In 2014, Cherry Jones was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[12]

In 2015 and 2016 Jones had a recurring role on the Primetime Emmy Award-winning Amazon comedy-drama series Transparent in its second and third seasons. She was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series for her work in the 2015 season.

In 2016, she appeared in "Nosedive", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.[13]

In 2018, Jones played Holly, the feminist mother to June/Offred in The Handmaid's Tale. She won an Emmy for her performance.[14]

In 2019, Jones played the role of a grouchy psychic and tarot card reader in the comedy Wine Country,[15] directed by Amy Poehler.

Personal life

In 1995, when Jones accepted her first Tony Award, she thanked her then-partner, architect Mary O'Connor,[16] with whom she had an 18-year relationship.[17][18]

She started dating actress Sarah Paulson in 2004. When she accepted her Best Actress Tony in 2005 for her work in Doubt, she thanked "Laura Wingfield", the Glass Menagerie character being played in the Broadway revival by Paulson.[19] In 2007, Paulson and Jones declared their love for each other in an interview with Velvetpark at Women's Event 10 for the LGBT Center of New York.[20] Paulson and Jones ended their relationship amicably in 2009.[21]

In mid-2015, Jones married filmmaker Sophie Huber.[22]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Light of Day	Cindy Montgomery
	The Big Town	Ginger McDonald
1992	Housesitter	Patty
1995	Polio Water	Virginia	Short film
1997	Julian Po	Lucy
1998	The Horse Whisperer	Liz Hammond
1999	Cradle Will Rock	Hallie Flanagan
2000	Erin Brockovich	Pamela Duncan
	The Perfect Storm	Edie Bailey
2002	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Buggy Abbott
	Signs	Officer Paski
2004	The Village	Mrs. Clack
	Ocean's Twelve	Molly Star/Mrs. Caldwell
2005	Swimmers	Julia Tyler
2009	Amelia	Eleanor Roosevelt
	Mother and Child	Sister Joanne
2011	The Beaver	Vice President
	New Year's Eve	Mrs. Rose Ahern
2013	Days and Nights	Mary
2015	Knight of Cups	Ruth
	I Saw the Light[23]	Lillie Williams
2016	Whiskey Tango Foxtrot	Geri Taub
2017	The Party	Martha
2018	Boy Erased	Dr. Muldoon
2019	Wine Country	Lady Sunshine
	A Rainy Day in New York	Mrs. Welles
	Motherless Brooklyn	Gabby Horowitz
	Our Friend	Faith Pruett
2021	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Rachel LaValley
2022	The Sky Is Everywhere	Gram Walker

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Alex: The Life of a Child	Tina Crawford	Television film
1987	Spenser: For Hire	Tracy Kincaid	Episode: "Sleepless Dream"
1992	Loving	Frankie	Unknown episodes
1993	Tribeca	Tough Woman	Episode: "The Loft"
1999	Murder in a Small Town	Mimi Barnes	Television film
	The Lady in Question
2000	Cora Unashamed	Lizbeth Studevant
2001	What Makes a Family	Sandy Cataldi
	Frasier	Janet	Episode: "Junior Agent"
2002	American Experience	Narrator	Episode: "Miss America"
2004	The West Wing	Barbara Layton	Episode: "Eppur Si Muove"
2004–2005	Clubhouse	Sister Marie	3 episodes
2008	24: Redemption	President-Elect Allison Taylor	Television film
2009–2010	24	President Allison Taylor	44 episodes
2012	Awake	Dr. Judith Evans	11 episodes
2015–2019	Transparent	Leslie Mackinaw	12 episodes
2016	Mercy Street	Dorothea Dix	2 episodes
	11.22.63	Marguerite Oswald	5 episodes
	Black Mirror	Susan	Episode: "Nosedive"
2017	American Crime	Laurie Ann Hesby	4 episodes
2018	Portlandia	Ms. Mayor	Episode: "Rose Route"
2018–2019	The Handmaid's Tale	Holly Maddox	3 episodes
2019	Chimerica	Mel Kincaid	4 episodes
	Succession	Nan Pierce	2 episodes
2020	Defending Jacob	Joanna Klein	8 episodes
	Close Enough	(voice)	Episode: "Robot Tutor/Golden Gamer"
2022	Five Days at Memorial	Susan Mulderick
TBA	Extrapolations	President Elizabeth Burdick	Upcoming series
TBA	Velma	Victoria	Upcoming TV series

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1983	The Philanthropist	Liz
1984	The Ballad of Soapy Smith	Kitty Chase
1985–1996	The Importance of Being Earnest	Cecily Cardew
1987	Claptrap	Sarah Littlefield
1987	Stepping Out	Lynne
1987	Tartuffe	Dorine	Portland Stage Company (Maine)
1988	Macbeth	Lady Macduff
1991	Our Country's Good	Reverend Johnson/Liz Morden
1991	Light Shining in Buckinghamshire	—
1992	The Baltimore Waltz	Anna
1992	Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)	Constance Ledbelly
1993–1994	Angels in America: Millennium Approaches	Various replacements	Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway
1993–1994	Angels in America: Perestroika	Various replacements
1993	And Baby Makes Seven	Anna
1993	Desdemona	Bianca
1995	The Heiress	Catherine Sloper	Cort Theatre, Broadway
1996	The Night of the Iguana	Hannah Jelkes	Roundabout Theatre Company
1997–1998	Pride's Crossing	Mabel Tidings/Bigelow	Lincoln Center
1999	Tongue of a Bird	Maxine	The Public Theatre
2000	A Moon for the Misbegotten	Josie Hogan	Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway
2001	Major Barbara	Barbara Undershaft	American Airlines Theatre, Broadway
2002–2003	Imaginary Friends	Mary McCarthy	Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway
2003	Flesh and Blood	Mary Stassos	New York Theatre Workshop
2005–2006	Doubt	Sister Aloysius	Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway
2006	Faith Healer	Grace	Booth Theatre, Broadway
2010	Mrs. Warren's Profession	Mrs. Kitty Warren	American Airlines Theatre, Broadway
2013–2014	The Glass Menagerie	Amanda Wingfield	Booth Theatre, Broadway
2014	When We Were Young and Unafraid	Agnes	Manhattan Theatre Club
2017	The Glass Menagerie	Amanda Wingfield	Duke of York's Theatre, West End
2018	The Lifespan of a Fact	Emily	Studio 54, Broadway

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Cherry Jones at the Internet Broadway Database
• Cherry Jones at IMDb
• Cherry Jones at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater (U. Michigan Press, edited by Robin Bernstein) republishes the interview in which Cherry Jones first publicly discussed her sexuality.
• Cherry Jones – Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org
• TonyAwards.com Interview with Cherry Jones

На других языках

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[de] Cherry Jones

Cherry Jones (* 21. November 1956 in Paris, Tennessee) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin. Seit 1983 war sie in mehr als 60 Film- und Fernsehproduktionen zu sehen. Zu ihren bekanntesten Filmen gehören unter anderem Erin Brockovich, The Village – Das Dorf und Ocean’s 12.

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[es] Cherry Jones

Cherry Jones (Paris, Tennessee, Estados Unidos, 21 de noviembre de 1956) es una actriz estadounidense más conocida por su papel de la presidenta Allison Taylor en 24 y como la Sra. Caldwell en Ocean's Twelve.

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[ru] Джонс, Черри

Черри Джонс (англ. Cherry Jones; род. 21 ноября 1956) — американская актриса. Обладательница двух премий «Тони» и трёх премий «Эмми». Джонс добилась наибольшего признания благодаря ролям на бродвейской сцене, хоть наиболее известна по роли президента США Эллисон Тейлор в сериале Fox «24 часа» (2009-10).

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