Cherry Jones with Gabriel Byrne on the poster for the 2000 Broadway revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten

Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is a Tony Award-winning American actress. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 300 × 469 pixelsFull resolution (300 × 469 pixel, file size: 23 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A Moon for the Misbegotten poster This image is of a poster for an event, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 300 × 469 pixelsFull resolution (300 × 469 pixel, file size: 23 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A Moon for the Misbegotten poster This image is of a poster for an event, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either... November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ...

Born in Paris, Tennessee, Jones is known primarily for her stage work, including her Tony-winning lead 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 2005. The replica of the Eiffel tower in Paris, Tennessee. ... The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. ... The Heiress is a 1949 film which tells the story of two young people who want to marry despite the girls fathers objections. ... John Patrick Shanley (born in 1950) is a playwright from the Bronx. ... Doubt book cover Doubt: A Parable is a 2004 play by John Patrick Shanley (ISBN 1-55936-276-6) set in a Bronx Catholic school during the fall of 1964. ... The Walter Kerr Theatre is a Broadway theatre. ...

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. Nora Ephron Nora Ephron (born May 19, 1941 in New York City, New York) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist. ... Swoosie Kurtz (born on September 6, 1944, in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American actress. ... Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. ... Poster for the 2000 Broadway revival A Moon for the Misbegotten is a play by Eugene ONeill. ... Timberlake Wertenbaker ) is a British playwright and translator who was born in New York City and was raised in France. ... Our Countrys Good is a play written in 1988 by British playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker telling the story of Convictism in Australia and Royal Marines sent to Australia in the late 1780s. ...

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, The Village^[2]. For the original 1937 musical, see The Cradle Will Rock. ... The Perfect Storm (ISBN 0-393-04016-X) is a non-fiction book written by Sebastian Junger and published by Little, Brown and Company in 1997. ... Oceans Twelve is a 2004 film that takes place after the events of the 2001 movie Oceans Eleven. ... Signs is a 2002 science fiction/thriller/horror/drama film with religious overtones directed by M. Night Shyamalan starring Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, and Abigail Breslin. ... For other uses of this title see The Village disambiguation page. ...

Jones, who is a lesbian, has long been frank about her sexuality and romantic engagements.^{[citation needed]} In 1995, when Jones accepted her first Tony Award, she thanked 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 partner ^[3]. A lesbian is a woman who is romantically and sexually attracted only to other women. ... Domestic partner or domestic partnership identifies the personal relationship between individuals who are living together and sharing a common domestic life together but are not joined in any type of legal partnership, marriage or civil union. ... The Glass Menagerie is a play by Tennessee Williams. ... Sarah Paulson (b. ...

Filmography

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• 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

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External links

• Jones' page at the Internet Broadway Database
• Cherry Jones at the Internet Movie 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.org
• TonyAwards.com Interview with Cherry Jones

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