Acting

Cherry Jones

Titles: 55movies20TV shows

Career: Active from 1984 to 2024, busiest in 2008 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 24
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: Defending Jacob
80/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 49 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Cherry Jones Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Physical Comedy
1.1, average 2.5
Violence
3.3, average 4.3
Fantasy
0.8, average 1.8
Situational Comedy
1.8, average 2.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 7
Social Commentary 4
Redemption 3
Melancholy 3
Historical Drama 3
Political Thriller 3
African Conflict 3
Thought-Provoking 3
Political Intrigue 3
Contemporary 2
Class Struggle 2
Showbiz 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

31

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2020s

6 titles · average score 66

Poster for National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath

as Ma Joad

Poster for Extrapolations

TV show · as President Elizabeth Burdick

Poster for Five Days at Memorial

TV show · as Susan Mulderick

Poster for The Sky Is Everywhere

as Fiona

Poster for Defending Jacob

TV show · as Joanna Klein

Poster for Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

as Nancy

2010s

13 titles · average score 71

Poster for Motherless Brooklyn

as Gabby Horowitz

Poster for Our Friend

as Faith Pruett

Poster for Succession

TV show · as Nan Pierce

Poster for Boy Erased

as Dr. Muldoon

Poster for The Handmaid's Tale

TV show · as Holly Maddox

Poster for 11.22.63

TV show · as Marquerite Oswald

Poster for Knight of Cups

as Ruth

Poster for Days and Nights

as Mary

Poster for Transparent

TV show · as Leslie Mackinaw

Poster for Awake

TV show · as Dr. Judith Evans

Poster for Black Mirror

TV show · as Susan Taylor

Poster for The Beaver

as Vice President

All 13 titles from the 2010s

2000s

7 titles · average score 68

Poster for Mother and Child

as Sister Joanne

Poster for Amelia

as Eleanor Roosevelt

Poster for The Village

as Mrs. Clack

Poster for What Makes a Family

as Sandy Cataldi

Poster for 24

TV show · as Allison Taylor

Poster for Erin Brockovich

as Pamela Duncan

Poster for The Perfect Storm

as Edie Bailey

1990s

3 titles · average score 71

Poster for The West Wing

TV show · as Barbara Layton

Poster for The Horse Whisperer

as Liz Hammond

Poster for Julian Po

as Lucy

1980s

2 titles · average score 66

Poster for American Experience

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Poster for Light of Day

as Cindy Montgomery

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