Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is a Tony Award-winning American actress.
Won Best Actress Tony Award for The Heiress
Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in Drama.
Out of the closet since the beginning of her professional career in 1980, Cherry has been an outspoken advocate for gay rights ever since. She made theatre history on the Tony awards show when she thanked her partner after accepting the 'Best Actress' trophy for "The Heiress." Others have since followed suit.
A frequent reader of stories on NPR's Selected Shorts radio program.
Won Broadway's 1995 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of "The Heiress." She was nominated in the same cartegory two other times: in 1991 for "Our Country's Good," and in 2000 for a revival of 'Eugene ONeill (I)'s "A Moon for the Misbegotten."
She won her 2nd Tony in 2005. She won for Leading Actress in a Play for her role as Sister Aloysius in John Patrick Shanley's hit play Doubt, a parable.
Shares a birthday with Björk, Goldie Hawn, Rachel Rogers (II), Nicollette Sheridan, & Juliet Mills
Jones decided to become an actress after seeing Colleen Dewhurst's portrayal of Josie Hogan in the 1972 production of "A Moon for the Misbegotten", a role she would later play in 2001, for which she received a Tony nomination.
