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Cherry Jones
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 transit…
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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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2024
National Theatre at Home: The Grapes of Wrath
Movie Ma Joad
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2023
Obsessed with Light
Movie Loïe Fuller (voice)
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2023
Extrapolations
TV show President Elizabeth Burdick
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2023
Poker Face
TV show Laura
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2023
Velma
TV show Victoria (voice)
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2022
Five Days at Memorial
TV show Susan Mulderick
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2022
The Sky Is Everywhere
Movie Fiona
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2021
Becoming Helen Keller
Movie Helen Keller (voice)
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2021
Foundation
TV show Ambassador Quent
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2021
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Movie Rachel Grover
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2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Movie Self
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2021
Hacks
TV show Kelly Kilpatrick
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2020
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Movie Nancy
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2020
Defending Jacob
TV show Joanna Klein
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2019
Motherless Brooklyn
Movie Gabby Horowitz
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2019
Transparent: Musicale Finale
Movie Leslie Mackinaw
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2019
Our Friend
Movie Faith Pruett
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2019
A Rainy Day in New York
Movie Mrs. Welles
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2019
Wine Country
Movie Lady Sunshine
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2019
Chimerica
TV show Mel Kincaid
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2018
Boy Erased
Movie Dr. Muldoon
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2018
Succession
TV show Nan Pierce
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2017
The Party
Movie Martha
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2017
The Handmaid's Tale
TV show Holly Maddox
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2016
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Movie Geri Taub
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2016
11.22.63
TV show Marquerite Oswald
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2016
I Saw the Light
Movie Lillie Williams
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2015
Knight of Cups
Movie Ruth
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2014
Transparent
TV show Leslie Mackinaw
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2014
Days and Nights
Movie Mary
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2014
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Movie Self
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2013
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Movie Herself
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2012
Awake
TV show Dr. Judith Evans
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2011
New Year's Eve
Movie Mrs Rose Ahern
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2011
Black Mirror
TV show Susan Taylor
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2011
The Beaver
Movie Vice President
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2011
Portlandia
TV show Bridge Manager / New Mayor
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2009
Mother and Child
Movie Sister Joanne
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2009
Amelia
Movie Eleanor Roosevelt
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2005
Swimmers
Movie Julia Tyler
