Cherry Jones Biography and Filmography

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Actresses who appeared with Cherry Jones on screen:

Julia Roberts
Scarlett Johansson
Sandra Bullock
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Kate Bosworth
Ashley Judd
Diane Lane
Mischa Barton
Sigourney Weaver
Susan Sarandon
Goldie Hawn
Robin Tunney
Joan Cusack
Maggie Smith
Brooke Shields
Whoopie Goldberg

Cherry Jones
Birthday: November 21, 1956
Birth Place: Paris, Tennessee, USA
Height: 0' 0"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Cherry Jones. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

Biography

Well known as a premiere theater actress and an advocate for gay rights, Cherry Jones has also appeared in a number of high profile films. Born and raised in Tennessee, Jones headed north to study drama at Carnegie Mellon University. A founding member of the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA, Jones spent the early years of her professional career performing in a wide range of plays. After she relocated to New York, Jones acted in numerous Broadway productions, including Angels in America, The Night of the Iguana, Our Country's Good, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. Her performance as the lonely heroine in the 1995 production of The Heiress earned Jones several awards, including the Tony. Even as she became a theater star, Jones added TV and films to her repertoire in the 1980s, with supporting roles in the TV docudrama Alex: The Life of a Child (1986) and Paul Schrader's Light of Day (1987). Though drama was her primary forte, Jones also appeared in the hit comedies Housesitter (1992) and A League of Their Own (1992). After several years of stage work, Jones returned to films in the independent black comedy Julian Po (1997), and Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer (1998). Jones brought an air of forceful integrity to her roles as the embattled head of the Federal Theater Project in Tim Robbins' 1930s tapestry Cradle Will Rock (1999) and as one of the chemical contamination victims in Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich (2000). Unabashedly out since her professional debut at age 21, Jones made theater history of sorts when she thanked her same-sex domestic partner from the podium when she won her Tony for The Heiress. Jones added her voice to Out of the Past (1998), a documentary about the struggles of the gay rights movement throughout U.S. history, and co-starred in the TV movie about lesbian parents, What Makes a Family (2001).Continuing to take smaller roles in big movies between her stage work, Jones followed Erin Brockovich with a turn as one of the residents on land forced to come to grips with the tragic effects of The Perfect Storm (2000). Back on summer movie screens two years later in two heavily-hyped releases, Jones was one of the many oddly monikered women populating the eccentric female universe in The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002). In M. Night Shyamalan

Movie Credits

Swimmers (2005)
[ Sarah Paulson ]

Ocean's Twelve (2004)
[ Julia Roberts ][ Catherine Zeta-Jones ][ Mimi Anden ][ Denny Mendez ]

Pilot (2004)
[ Megan Fox ][ Tammy Lynn Michaels ][ Vera Farmiga ][ Leah Pipes ][ Gina Holden ]

The Village (2004)
[ Sigourney Weaver ][ Bryce Dallas Howard ][ Judy Greer ]

Signs (2002)
[ Abigail Breslin ][ Barbara Harris ]

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
[ Sandra Bullock ][ Ashley Judd ][ Maggie Smith ][ Ellen Burstyn ][ Fionnula Flanagan ]

What Makes a Family (2001)
[ Brooke Shields ][ Whoopie Goldberg ][ Anne Meara ]

Cora Unashamed (2000)
[ Ellen Muth ][ CCH Pounder ]

The Perfect Storm (2000)
[ Diane Lane ][ Karen Allen ]

Erin Brockovich (2000)
[ Julia Roberts ][ Sheryl Crow ][ Scarlett Pomers ][ Erin Brockovich-Ellis ][ Marg Helgenberger ]

The Lady in Question (1999)
[ Claire Bloom ][ Barbara Sukova ]

Cradle Will Rock (1999)
[ Susan Sarandon ][ Joan Cusack ][ Emily Watson ][ Gretchen Mol ][ Vanessa Redgrave ]

Murder in a Small Town (1999)
[ Frances Conroy ]

The Horse Whisperer (1998)
[ Scarlett Johansson ][ Kate Bosworth ][ Kristin Scott-Thomas ][ Dianne Wiest ][ Jessalyn Gilsig ]

Julian Po (1997)
[ Robin Tunney ][ Allison Janney ][ Dina Spybey ][ LaTanya Richardson ]

Polio Water (1995)
[ Mischa Barton ]

HouseSitter (1992)
[ Goldie Hawn ][ Dana Delaney ]

The Big Town (1987)
[ Diane Lane ][ Sarah Polley ][ Lolita Davidovich ][ Suzy Amis ][ Lee Grant ]

Light of Day (1987)
[ Gena Rowlands ][ Joan Jett ]

Adam's Apple (1986)

Alex: The Life of a Child (1986)
[ Rachel Blanchard ][ Bonnie Bedelia ]

Trivia

Won Best Actress Tony Award for The Heiress
Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in Drama.
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.
A frequent reader of stories on NPR's Selected Shorts radio program.
Won Broadway's 1995 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of "The Heiress." She was nominated in the same cartegory 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."
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.
Shares a birthday with Björk, Goldie Hawn, Rachel Rogers, Nicollette Sheridan, & Juliet Mills

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