Cherry Jones is an American actress of the stage and screen. She has received various accolades including a Critics' Choice Movie Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards as well as nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Laurence Olivier Award.
Jones is known for her dynamic and intense roles on Broadway and earned two Tony Awards, three Drama Desk Awards, two Drama Critics Circle Awards, two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. She won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play for playing Catherine Sloper, a lonely woman looking for love in the revival of the Ruth and Augustus Goetz play The Heiress (1995) and for originating the role of Sister Aloysius, a suspecting nun in the John Patrick Shanley play ' (2005). She was TonyâÂÂnominated for the Timberlake Wertenbaker play Our Country's Good (1991), the Eugene O'Neill revival A Moon for the Misbegotten (2000), and the Tennessee Williams revival The Glass Menagerie (2013). For the later, she reprised her role on the West End earning a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress nomination.
On television, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for playing Allison Taylor in the Fox action series 24 (2009âÂÂ2010). She won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayals of Holly Maddox, the mother of the central character and outspoken feminist in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017âÂÂ2025) and Nan Pierce, the head of a news conglomerate in the HBO drama series Succession (2019âÂÂ2023). She played Leslie Mackinaw, an academic in the Amazon Prime Video dramedy series Transparent (2015âÂÂ2019), earning nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.