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Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956, in Paris, Tennessee) is an Tony Award-winning American actress.

Career

Jones is best known for her stage work, including her Tony Award-winning leading performances in Lincoln Center's 1995 production of The Heiress and John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt, which opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre in March of 2005. Other Broadway productions in which Jones has appeared include Nora Ephron's play Imaginary Friends (with Swoosie Kurtz); Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika; and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, for which she earned her first Tony nomination in the role of Liz Morden. She is widely considered to be one of the foremost theater actresses in the United States.

In recent years, Jones has ventured further into the film industry, though she continues to play mostly supporting roles in the movies. Over the last several years, she has appeared in such roles of Hallie Flanagan in Cradle Will Rock, Edie Bailey in The Perfect Storm, Molly Star in Ocean's Twelve, Officer Paski in Signs, and Mrs. Clack in The Village.

Personal life

Jones, who is openly lesbian, has long been frank about her sexuality and romantic engagements. In 1995, when Jones accepted her first Tony Award, she included in her thank-you's her then-partner, architect Mary O'Connor. When she accepted her Best Actress Tony in 2005 for her work in Doubt, she thanked "Laura Wingfield", a character in the then-current Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie, played by actress Sarah Paulson, Jones' current romantic partner.

Filmography

• Swimmers (2005) .... Julia Tyler
• Ocean's Twelve (2004) .... Molly Star/Mrs. Caldwell
• Clubhouse (2004) TV Series .... Sister Marie
• The Village (2004) .... Mrs. Clack
• The West Wing TV Series .... Barbara Layton (2004)
• Signs (2002) .... Officer Paski
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) .... Grandma Buggy Abbott
• What Makes a Family (2001) (TV) .... Sandy Cataldi
• Cora Unashamed (2000) (TV) .... Lizbeth Studevant
• The Perfect Storm (2000) .... Edie Bailey
• Erin Brockovich (2000) .... Pamela Duncan
• The Lady in Question (1999) (TV) .... Mimi Barnes
• Cradle Will Rock (1999) .... Hallie Flanagan
• Murder in a Small Town (1999) (TV) .... Mimi Barnes
• The Horse Whisperer (1998) .... Liz Hammond
• Julian Po (1997) .... Lucy
• Polio Water (1995) .... Virginia
• Loving (1983/I) TV Series .... Frankie (1992)
• HouseSitter (1992) .... Patty
• Spenser: For Hire(1987) TV Series ....Tracy Kincaid
• The Big Town (1987) .... Ginger McDonald
• Light of Day (1987) .... Cindy Montgomery
• Alex: The Life of a Child (1986) (TV) .... Tina Crawford

External links

• Jones' page at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jones' page at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater (U. Michigan Press, edited by Robin Bernstein) republishes the interview in which Cherry Jones first publicly discussed her sexuality.
• Cherry Jones Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing

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