Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning American actress.
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 L...
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Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning American actress.
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...
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