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Back StagePres. Allison Taylor"I always tell my agents if a Quaker would do it, I'll do it." -Cherry Jones (on selecting her film roles) to Broadway.com, January 2001◄

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About Cherry Jones as President Allison Taylor
"She's Tough, nothing cuddly about his woman"- Cherry Jones



CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Non-acting careers:Gay Activist


Top movies:Cradle Will Rock,The Village,Davine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood,Oceans 12,Signs


Top TV shows:24

Stage:Over Two Dozen

Cherry Jone's big break: The Heiress Won a Tony

Cherry is best known for:Broadway

Her awards and nominations:4:
4 Tony Nom,2Nomanations,2 Wins,2005 "Doubt",Emmy"Doubt",1998 "Pride's Crossing"
1Emmy Nom for 24,awarded the 1992 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Good Person of Setzuan" She Has also won The Drama Desk Award 3 timetimes,2006 "Faith Healer" 2005 "Doubt" 1995 "The Heiress" and has been Nomanated 4 times.

Upcoming projects:24:"24" And "Mother & Child"



CHERRYTheatre Work JONES PHOTO GALLERY



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DOB: Nov. 21 1956

Cherry's birth place:Paris TN

Eye color:Blue

Height:5'8

Cherry Joane's Family:Father: Jack Jones

Education:Graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

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Charities:Gay Rights

Cherry Jones bio:
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 category two other times: in 1991 for "Our Country's Good," and in 2000 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill'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, 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.
She was awarded the 1992 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Good Person of Setzuan" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
She was nominated for a 1994 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Night of the Iguana" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
Girlfriend of Sarah Paulson since 2003.






MEMORABLE CHERRY JONES QUOTES


  • "I always tell my agents if a Quaker would do it, I'll do it." -Cherry Jones (on selecting her film roles) to Broadway.com, January 2001



  • "Southern Born,Southern Bread, and when I die I'll be Southern Dead"




CHERRY JONES FUN FACTS


  • In Cherry’s Home Town, the Flower & Gift Shop once owned by her Father, now a Coffee shop, has a special Drink on the Menu: Cherry’s Broadway Brew.
  • Her Second Place National Speech Trophy is still on display at the local High school.

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