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Cherry Jones
Jones at 24's season 7 finale screening, 2009

Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is a Tony Award and Emmy 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.[1] She is considered to be one of the foremost theater actresses in the United States.[citation needed]

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.[2]

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.[3]

Personal life

Jones was born in Paris, Tennessee, to a high school teacher mother and a flower shop owner father.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]

On September 20, 2009, Cherry won an Emmy Award for 24. [7]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Internet Broadway Database Cherry Jones at the Internet Broadway Database
  2. ^ Cherry Jones at IMDb
  3. ^ "Jones moves into 24 Oval Office". Reuters. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
  4. ^ Cherry Jones Biography (1956-)
  5. ^ AfterEllen.com Sarah Paulson
  6. ^ velvetparkmedia.com
  7. ^ Joyce Eng (20 September 2009). "Kristin Chenoweth, Jon Cryer Win First Emmys". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
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