Cherry Jones was born on November 21,1956 and is an American actress.
19 Facts About Cherry Jones
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Cherry Jones went on to receive two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play for The Heiress in 1995 and Doubt in 2005.
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Cherry Jones is 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.
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Cherry Jones 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.
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Cherry Jones's mother was a high school teacher, and her father owned a flower shop.
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Cherry Jones's parents were very supportive of her theatrical ambitions, encouraging her interest by sending her to classes with local drama teacher, Ruby Krider.
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Cherry Jones takes great pains to credit her high school speech teacher, Linda Wilson, with her first real preparatory work.
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Cherry Jones is a 1978 graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.
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Cherry Jones is considered to be one of the foremost theater actresses in the United States.
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Cherry Jones 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.
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Cherry 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.
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Cherry Jones played the role in the seventh season, from January to May 2009, as well as eighth season, which aired from January to May 2010.
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In 2012, Cherry Jones starred in the NBC drama series Awake as psychiatrist Dr Judith Evans.
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In 2014, Cherry Jones was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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In 2015 and 2016 Cherry Jones had a recurring role on the Primetime Emmy Award-winning Amazon comedy-drama series Transparent in its second and third seasons.
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Cherry Jones was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series for her work in the 2015 season.
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In 2019, Cherry Jones played the role of a grouchy psychic and tarot card reader in the comedy Wine Country, directed by Amy Poehler.
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In 1995, when Cherry Jones accepted her first Tony Award, she thanked her then-partner, architect Mary O'Connor, with whom she had an 18-year relationship.
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In 2007, Paulson and Cherry Jones declared their love for each other in an interview with Velvetpark at Women's Event 10 for the LGBT Center of New York.