Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an American actress who is most noted for her work on Broadway. She has won two Tony Awards, three Drama Desk Awards and an Emmy Award.Jones made her Broadway debut in the 1987 original Broadway Production of Stepping Out. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she has twice won Best Actress in a Play, for the 1995 revival of The Heiress and the 2005 original production of Doubt. On television, she starred as Allison Taylor on the FOX series 24 (2008-10), for which she won the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama series. Her films include The Horse Whisperer (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), The Village (2004) and Amelia (2009).
Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play, GLAAD Media Vito Russo Award, Obie Award for Performance, Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Productio...
Nominations
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress
Movies
I Saw the Light, Signs, The Village, Cradle Will Rock, The Perfect Storm, Erin Brockovich, The Beaver, The Horse Whisperer, Ocean's Twelve, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, 24: Redemption, New Year's Eve, Housesitter, Mother and Child, Julian Po, Light of Day, What Makes a Family, The Big Tow...
TV Shows
11.22.63, Awake, 24, Adam's Apple
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Fact
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She was awarded the 1999 Back Stage Garland Award for Performance for "Tongue of a Bird" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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She was awarded the 2006 Back Stage Garland Award for Performance in a Play for "Doubt" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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She was awarded the 1996 Drama Logue Award for Performance for "The Heiress" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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She was awarded the 2006 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Lead Performance for "Doubt" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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She was awarded the 1996 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Lead Performance in the play, "The Heiress" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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In a partnership with actress Sarah Paulson (2004-2009).
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Appearing in Nora Ephron's "Imaginary Friends", at the Globe Theatres in San Diego. [August 2002]
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Can be seen in the television movie 24 (2008), as well as the upcoming seventh season of 24 (2001), portraying the first female President of the United States, "Allison Taylor". [November 2008]
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Appearing on Broadway in the 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama. She is playing a nun in John Patrick Shanley's play "Doubt, a parable". [March 2005]
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She was nominated for a 1994 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Night of the Iguana" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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She was awarded the 1992 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Good Person of Setzuan" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Jones decided to become an actress after seeing Colleen Dewhurst's portrayal of Josie Hogan in the 1972 production of "A Moon for the Misbegotten", a role she would later play in 2001, for which she received a Tony nomination.
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She won her 2nd Tony in 2005. She won for Leading Actress in a Play for her role as "Sister Aloysius" in John Patrick Shanley's hit play, "Doubt, a parable".
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Won Broadway's 1995 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of "The Heiress." She was nominated in the same category two other times: in 1991 for "Our Country's Good," and in 2000 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten.".
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A frequent reader of stories on NPR's Selected Shorts radio program.
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Out of the closet since the beginning of her professional career in 1980, Cherry has been an outspoken advocate for gay rights ever since. She made theatre history on the Tony awards show when she thanked her partner after accepting the 'Best Actress' trophy for "The Heiress." Others have since followed suit.
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Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in Drama.
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