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 Doubt (2005). She was Tony–nominated 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 (2009–2010). 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 (2017–2025) and Nan Pierce, the head of a news conglomerate in the HBO drama series Succession (2019–2023). She played Leslie Mackinaw, an academic in the Amazon Prime Video dramedy series Transparent (2015–2019), 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.
Major associations Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Critics' Choice Television Awards 2016 Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series Transparent
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 2009 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series 24 (episode: "Day 7: 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.") 2018Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series The Handmaid's Tale (episode: "Baggage") 2019 The Handmaid's Tale (episode: "Holly") 2020 Succession (episode: "Tern Haven") 2023 Succession (episode: "The Munsters") 2025 The Handmaid's Tale (episode: "Exile") 2026Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Hacks (episode: "Montecito") https://deadline.com/lists/daytime-emmy-nominations-2026/
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2015 Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series Transparent
Laurence Olivier Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2017 Best Actress The Glass Menagerie
Tony Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 1991Best Actress in a Play Our Country's Good 1995 The Heiress 2000 A Moon for the Misbegotten 2005 Doubt 2014 The Glass Menagerie
Theatre awards Organizations Year Category Work Result Drama Desk Awards 1995Outstanding Actress in a PlayThe Heiress 1998 Pride's Crossing 2005 Doubt 2006 Faith Healer Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle 1996Lead Performance The Heiress 2006 Doubt Obie Award 1992Outstanding Performance The Baltimore Waltz 2005 Doubt Outer Critics Circle Awards 2014 Outstanding Actress in a Play The Glass Menagerie '
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Work Result GLAAD Media Awards 2004 Vito Russo Award Herself Satellite Awards 2009 Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film 24
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