Cherry Jones Biography

Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an American actress and recipient of the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress " Drama Series and the 1995 and 2005 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. Most recently, she starred as Dr. Evans on NBC series Awake.

Career

Jones may be best known for her role as President Allison Taylor on the Fox series 24, for which she won an Emmy. However, most of her career has been in the theatre on Broadway, including her Tony-winning lead performances in Lincoln Center's 1995 production of The Heiress and John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt, a role which earned her the 2005 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play. The play opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre in March 2005.

Other Broadway credits include Nora Ephron's play Imaginary Friends (with Swoosie Kurtz); Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, 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. She is considered to be one of the foremost theater actresses in the United States.

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.

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. She played the role in the seventh season as well as eighth season, which began airing in January 2010 and concluded in May 2010.

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

Cherry Jones is currently portraying Amanda Wingfield in the Loeb Drama Center's revival of Tennessee William's "The Glass Menagerie" alongside Zachary Quinto, Brian J. Smith and Celia Keenan-Bolger.

Personal life

Jones was born in Paris, Tennessee, to a high school teacher mother and a flower shop owner father. 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.

In 1995, when Jones accepted her first Tony Award, she thanked her then partner, architect Mary O'Connor. 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 Jones's girlfriend, actress Sarah Paulson. The pair had attended the awards together and kissed right after Jones won. 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.

Paulson and Jones ended their relationship amicably in 2009.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Alex: The Life of a Child	Tina Crawford	TV movie
1987	Light of Day	Cindy Montgomery
1987	The Big Town	Ginger McDonald
1987	Spenser: For Hire	Tracy Kincaid	Episode: "Sleepless Dream"
1992	HouseSitter	Patty
1995	Polio Water	Virginia	Short film
1997	Julian Po	Lucy
1998	The Horse Whisperer	Liz Hammond
1999	Murder in a Small Town	Mimi	TV movie
1999	Cradle Will Rock	Hallie Flanagan	Nominated-Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress
1999	The Lady in Question	Mimi Barnes
2000	Erin Brockovich	Pamela Duncan
2000	The Perfect Storm	Edie Bailey
2000	Cora Unashamed	Lizbeth Studevant	TV movie
2001	What Makes a Family	Sandy Cataldi	TV movie
2000	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Buggy Abbott
2002	Signs	Officer Paski
2004	The West Wing	Barbara Layton	Episode: "Eppur Si Muove"
2004	The Village	Mrs. Clack
2004-2005	Clubhouse	Sister Marie	3 episodes
2004	Ocean's Twelve	Molly Star/Mrs. Caldwell
2005	Swimmers	Julia Tyler
2008-2010	24	President Allison Taylor	43 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Nominated-Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2009	Amelia	Eleanor Roosevelt
2010	Mother and Child	Sister Joanne
2011	The Beaver	Vice President
2011	New Year's Eve	Mrs. Rose Ahern
2012	Awake	Dr. Judith Evans	13 episodes
2013	Days and Nights		Post-production