Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an Emmy
Award- and Tony Award-winning American actress.
Career
Jones is most well known for her role as President
Allison Taylor on the
Fox series
24, for which she won an Emmy.
However, she also has
done extensive stage work, 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 also 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 the film industry, in
which she has played mostly supporting roles. Her screen credits
include
Cradle Will Rock,
The Perfect Storm,
Ocean's Twelve,
Signs, and
The Village.
Jones also played
President Allison Taylor on
the
seventh season of the Fox series
24, a role for which she won
an
Emmy for
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Jones will
reprise her role as President Allison Taylor during the 2010
season, currently in planning stages. Filming is slated to begin on
May 1, 2009.
On September 20, 2009, Cherry won an Emmy Award for
24.
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.
In 1995, when Jones accepted her first Tony Award, she thanked her
then-lover, 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, thus making
it clear that Paulson was not secretive about the relationship. 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
References
- Internet Broadway Database
- Cherry Jones Biography (1956-)
- AfterEllen.com Sarah Paulson
- velvetparkmedia.com
- Jones, Paulson Have 'Happiest Break Up'
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