Cherry Jones

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Summary

Cherry Jones is an award-winning stage and screen actor known for The Heiress, Doubt, 24, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Her roles often include forceful women in positions of authority, alongside a wide range of dramatic and comic parts. She has publicly identified as gay, and in 1995 thanked her partner in her Tony acceptance speech; she has also spoken about marriage equality and criticized Trump-era politics. In 2019, she described Transparent as helping audiences learn about transgender people and said progressive gains in America had been trampled on.