Cherry Jones

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

Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an American actress. A five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, she has twice won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play: for the 1995 revival of The Heiress and for the 2005 original production of Doubt. She has also won two Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2009 for her role as Allison Taylor on the FOX television series 24, and then winning Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2019 for her performance in The Handmaid's Tale. She has also won three Drama Desk Awards. Jones made her Broadway debut in the 1987 original Broadway production of Stepping Out. Other stage credits include Pride's Crossing (1997–98) and The Glass Menagerie (2013–14). Her film appearances include The Horse Whisperer (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), Signs (2002), The Village (2004), Amelia (2009), and The Beaver (2011). In 2012, she played Dr. Judith Evans on the NBC drama Awake.

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 prominent 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

Jones is a lesbian.[16] In 1995, when Jones accepted her first Tony Award, she thanked her then-partner, architect Mary O'Connor,[17] with whom she had an 18-year relationship.[16][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 her girlfriend, filmmaker Sophie Huber.[22]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Light of Day	Cindy Montgomery
1987	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
1999	The Lady in Question	Mimi Barnes
2000	Erin Brockovich	Pamela Duncan
2000	The Perfect Storm	Edie Bailey
2002	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Buggy Abbott
2002	Signs	Officer Paski
2004	The Village	Mrs. Clack
2004	Ocean's Twelve	Molly Star/Mrs. Caldwell
2005	Swimmers	Julia Tyler
2009	Amelia	Eleanor Roosevelt
2009	Mother and Child	Sister Joanne
2011	The Beaver	Vice President
2011	New Year's Eve	Mrs. Rose Ahern
2013	Days and Nights	Mary
2015	Knight of Cups	Ruth
2015	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
TBA	The Eyes of Tammy Faye	Rachel	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Alex: The Life of a Child	Tina Crawford	Television movie
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	Television movie
2000	Cora Unashamed	Lizbeth Studevant	Television movie
2001	What Makes a Family	Sandy Cataldi	Television movie
2001	Frasier	Janet	Episode: "Junior Agent"
2002	The American Experience	Narrator	Episode: "Miss America"
2004	The West Wing	Barbara Layton	Episode: "Eppur Si Muove"
2004–05	Clubhouse	Sister Marie	3 episodes
2008	24: Redemption	President-Elect Allison Taylor	Television movie
2009–10	24	President Allison Taylor	44 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2012	Awake	Dr. Judith Evans	11 episodes
2015–19	Transparent	Leslie Mackinaw	12 episodes Nominated—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
2016	Mercy Street	Dorothea Dix	2 episodes
2016	11.22.63	Marguerite Oswald	5 episodes
2016	Black Mirror	Susan	Episode: "Nosedive"
2017	American Crime	Laurie Ann Hesby	4 episodes
2018	Portlandia	Ms. Mayor	Episode: "Rose Route"
2018–19	The Handmaid's Tale	Holly Maddox	3 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2019) Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2018)
2019	Chimerica	Mel Kincaid	4 episodes
2019	Succession	Nan Pierce	2 episodes Pending—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
2020	Defending Jacob	Joanna Klein	8 episodes
2020	Close Enough	(voice)	Episode: "Robot Tutor/Golden Gamer"

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	The Philanthropist	Liz
1984	The Ballad of Soapy Smith	Kitty Chase
1985–96	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	Nominated—Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
1991	Light Shining in Buckinghamshire	N/A
1992	The Baltimore Waltz	Anna
1992	Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)	Constance Ledbelly
1993–94	Angels in America: Millennium Approaches	Various replacements
1993–94	Angels in America: Perestroika	Various replacements
1993	And Baby Makes Seven	Anna
1993	Desdemona	Bianca
1995	The Heiress	Catherine Sloper	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
1996	The Night of the Iguana	Hannah Jelkes
1997–98	Pride's Crossing	Mabel Tidings/Bigelow	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Play
1999	Tongue of a Bird	Maxine
2000	A Moon for the Misbegotten	Josie Hogan	Nominated—Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
2001	Major Barbara	Barbara Undershaft
2002–03	Imaginary Friends	Mary McCarthy
2003	Flesh and Blood	Mary Stassos
2005–06	Doubt	Sister Aloysius	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
2006	Faith Healer	Grace	Nominated—Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
2010	Mrs. Warren's Profession	Mrs. Kitty Warren
2013–14	The Glass Menagerie	Amanda Wingfield	Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Play Nominated—Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
2014	When We Were Young and Unafraid	Agnes
2017	The Glass Menagerie	Amanda Wingfield	Nominated—Olivier Award for Best Actress
2018	The Lifespan of a Fact	Emily

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
1991	Tony Awards	Best Actress in a Play	Our Country's Good	Nominated
1995	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Actress in a Play	The Heiress	Won
1995	Tony Awards	Best Actress in a Play	The Heiress	Won
1998	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Actress in a Play	Pride's Crossing	Won
2000	Tony Awards	Best Actress in a Play	A Moon for the Misbegotten	Nominated
2004	GLAAD Media Awards	Vito Russo Award	Herself	Won
2005	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Actress in a Play	Doubt	Won
2005	Tony Awards	Best Actress in a Play	Doubt	Won
2006	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Actress in a Play	Faith Healer	Nominated
2009	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series	24	Won
2009	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	24	Nominated
2014	Outer Critics Circle Awards	Outstanding Actress in a Play	The Glass Menagerie	Won
2014	Tony Awards	Best Actress in a Play	The Glass Menagerie	Nominated
2016	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series	Transparent	Nominated
2016	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series	Transparent	Nominated
2017	Laurence Olivier Awards	Olivier Award for Best Actress	The Glass Menagerie	Nominated
2018	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series	The Handmaid's Tale	Nominated
2019	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series	The Handmaid's Tale	Won
2020	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series	Succession	Pending

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References

"Cherry Jones Biography (1956–)". Retrieved May 5, 2015.
http://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/jones_c_A.pdf
Chinoy, Helen Krich; Jenkins, Linda Walsh (May 26, 2018). "Women in American Theatre". Theatre Communications Grou – via Google Books.
Conner, Lynne (2007). Pittsburgh In Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater. University of Pittsburgh Press. pg. 247. ISBN 978-0-8229-4330-3. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
Hartigan, Patti (May 11, 2017). "Cherry Jones returns to the city where she launched her career". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on September 3, 2018. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
Internet Broadway Database Cherry Jones at the Internet Broadway Database
Brantley, Ben (February 14, 2013). "'The Glass Menagerie,' at Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA". New York Times. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
Cherry Jones on IMDb
Joyce Eng (September 20, 2009). "Kristin Chenoweth, Jon Cryer Win First Emmys". TVGuide.com. Retrieved September 20, 2009.
"Jones moves into 24 Oval Office". Reuters. July 21, 2007. Retrieved July 26, 2008.
Hetrick, Adam. "Zachary Quinto, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Brian J. Smith Join Cherry Jones for A.R.T.'s Glass Menagerie" Archived October 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine playbill.com, October 18, 2012
"Cherry Jones, Ellen Burstyn, Cameron Mackintosh and More Inducted Into Broadway's Theater Hall of Fame". Retrieved April 10, 2013.
"'Black Mirror' Season 3 Trailer: "No One Is This Happy'". Deadline. October 7, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
Dowling, Amber. "'The Handmaid's Tale' Enlists Cherry Jones for Pivotal Season 2 Role (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
"'Wine Country': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
Witchel, Alex. "Cherry Jones, at the Peak of Her Powers". New York Times.
Crews, Chip. "A Benefit of 'Doubt'". Washington Post.
"Cherry Jones: Prop 8 Supporters 'Will Be Ashamed of Themselves'". Queerty. February 11, 2009.
AfterEllen.com Sarah Paulson Archived June 9, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
"Velvetpark – Art Thought Culture". Retrieved May 5, 2015.
"Cherry Jones & Sarah Paulson Call It Quits With 'Happiest Break-Up'". Access Online. October 9, 2009.
Bendix, Trish. "Cherry Jones on getting married and playing a lesbian feminist in Season 2 of "Transparent"". Afterellen.
Stephen L. Betts (November 7, 2014). "Bradley Whitford, Cherry Jones Cast in Upcoming Hank Williams Movie". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 16, 2014.

External links

Cherry Jones at the Internet Broadway Database
Cherry Jones on 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

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[1] "Cherry Jones Biography (1956–)". Retrieved May 5, 2015.

[2] ttp://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/jones_c_A.pdf

[3] Chinoy, Helen Krich; Jenkins, Linda Walsh (May 26, 2018). "Women in American Theatre". Theatre Communications Grou – via Google Books.

[4] Conner, Lynne (2007). Pittsburgh In Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater. University of Pittsburgh Press. pg. 247. ISBN 978-0-8229-4330-3. Retrieved July 15, 2011.

[5] Hartigan, Patti (May 11, 2017). "Cherry Jones returns to the city where she launched her career". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on September 3, 2018. Retrieved September 1, 2018.

[6] Internet Broadway Database Cherry Jones at the Internet Broadway Database

[7] Brantley, Ben (February 14, 2013). "'The Glass Menagerie,' at Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA". New York Times. Retrieved February 17, 2013.

[8] Cherry Jones on IMDb

[9] Joyce Eng (September 20, 2009). "Kristin Chenoweth, Jon Cryer Win First Emmys". TVGuide.com. Retrieved September 20, 2009.

[10] "Jones moves into 24 Oval Office". Reuters. July 21, 2007. Retrieved July 26, 2008.

[11] Hetrick, Adam. "Zachary Quinto, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Brian J. Smith Join Cherry Jones for A.R.T.'s Glass Menagerie" Archived October 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine playbill.com, October 18, 2012

[12] "Cherry Jones, Ellen Burstyn, Cameron Mackintosh and More Inducted Into Broadway's Theater Hall of Fame". Retrieved April 10, 2013.

[13] "'Black Mirror' Season 3 Trailer: "No One Is This Happy'". Deadline. October 7, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.

[14] Dowling, Amber. "'The Handmaid's Tale' Enlists Cherry Jones for Pivotal Season 2 Role (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 25, 2018.

[15] "'Wine Country': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter.

[newyork-16] Witchel, Alex. "Cherry Jones, at the Peak of Her Powers". New York Times.

[17] Crews, Chip. "A Benefit of 'Doubt'". Washington Post.

[18] "Cherry Jones: Prop 8 Supporters 'Will Be Ashamed of Themselves'". Queerty. February 11, 2009.

[auto-19] AfterEllen.com Sarah Paulson Archived June 9, 2005, at the Wayback Machine

[20] "Velvetpark – Art Thought Culture". Retrieved May 5, 2015.

[21] "Cherry Jones & Sarah Paulson Call It Quits With 'Happiest Break-Up'". Access Online. October 9, 2009.

[22] Bendix, Trish. "Cherry Jones on getting married and playing a lesbian feminist in Season 2 of "Transparent"". Afterellen.

[RollingStone2-23] Stephen L. Betts (November 7, 2014). "Bradley Whitford, Cherry Jones Cast in Upcoming Hank Williams Movie". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 16, 2014.