Cherry Jones
Also Known As: 체리 존스, چری جونز
Biography: Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an American actress. Having started her career in theatre as a founding member of the American Repertory Theatre in 1980, she then transitioned into film and television. Celebrated for her dynamic roles on stage and screen, she has received various accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for an Olivier Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Jones made her Broadway debut in the 1987 play Stepping Out. She went on to receive two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play for The Heiress in 1995 and Doubt in 2005. Her other Tony-nominated roles were in Our Country's Good in 1991, A Moon for the Misbegotten in 2000, and The Glass Menagerie in 2014. Her most recent Broadway performance was in The Lifespan of a Fact in 2018. She is also known for her work on television with breakthrough roles as Barbara Layton in The West Wing and President Allison Taylor in 24 the latter of which won her the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2009. She received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Transparent in 2015 and earned two Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her roles in the Hulu drama series The Handmaid's Tale in 2019 and the HBO drama series Succession in 2020. Her film appearances include The Horse Whisperer (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), Signs (2002), The Village (2004), Amelia (2009), The Beaver (2011), A Rainy Day in New York (2019), and The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, Tennessee, USA
Birthday: November 21, 1956
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Gender: Female
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Ocean's Twelve
Overview: Danny Ocean reunites with his old flame and the rest of his merry band of thieves in carrying out three huge heists in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-09
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Erin Brockovich
Overview: A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-17
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The Horse Whisperer
Overview: The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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Light of Day
Overview: Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-06
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The Perfect Storm
Overview: In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-29
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Signs
Overview: A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Genres: Drama Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-02
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Housesitter
Overview: After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as his wife. Gwen's ruse is so effective that by the time Newton learns of his "marriage," the entire town feels like they know him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-12
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Becoming Helen Keller
Overview: The life and legacy of Helen Keller, including how she used her celebrity to advocate for human rights and social justice for women, the poor and people with disabilities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-19
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The Village
Overview: When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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Amelia
Overview: A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-22
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Overview: A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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Mother and Child
Overview: The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for adoption. Elizabeth was an adopted child and is now a successful lawyer, but her personal life lacks warmth. Lucy and her husband have failed to conceive and now hope to adopt a baby to make their family complete.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-07
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What Makes a Family
Overview: Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy's parents to snatch the girl from Janine's care. But then, and despite having the laws against her, Janine decides to fight in order to regain custody of her daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-22
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Julian Po
Overview: Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out in frustration, that he is there to kill himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Out of the Past
Overview: In 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school. The story of her ensuing battle with school authorities in interspersed with looks back at the diary of Michael Wigglesworth, a 17th-century Puritan cleric, at the 30-year love affair of Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Adams Fields, at Henry Gerber's attempt after World War I to establish a gay-rights organization, at Bayard Rustin's role in the civil rights movement, and at Barbara Gittings' taking on of the American Psychiatric Association's position that homosexuality is illness. One person comments, "To create a place for ourselves in the present, we have to find ourselves in the past."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-31
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Murder in a Small Town
Overview: A widowed theatre director moves to a small Connecticut town where he gets involved in solving the murder of a millionaire, who was the most despised man in town.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-10
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Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Overview: Broadway legend Elaine Stritch remains in the spotlight at eighty-seven years old. Join the uncompromising Tony and Emmy Award-winner both on and off stage in this revealing documentary. With interviews from Tina Fey, Nathan Lane, Hal Prince and others, ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME blends rare archival footage and intimate cinema vérité to reach beyond Stritch’s brassy exterior, revealing a multi-dimensional portrait of a complex woman and an inspiring artist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-09
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Swimmers
Overview: After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-22
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Days and Nights
Overview: Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull", set in rural New England.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-26
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Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Overview: Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain is an icon of American theater. Since first walking on stage in 1954, Holbrook has performed his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! for millions on and off Broadway, in all fifty states, in twenty countries, before five U.S. presidents and behind the Iron Curtain. Countless actors and Twain scholars have been influenced by Holbrook's work and his Tony and Emmy Award-winning masterpiece.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-15
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Cora Unashamed
Overview: From the short story by Langston Hughes.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-24
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Broadway: The Next Generation
Overview: A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-16
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I Saw the Light
Overview: Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-05
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New Year's Eve
Overview: The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-08
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Cradle Will Rock
Overview: A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-10
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Knight of Cups
Overview: Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily pain, and every encounter brings him closer to finding his place in the world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-10
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The Party
Overview: Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-27
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The Lady in Question
Overview: In 1938, Jewish-rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is suspected. But was it the Nazis, or was it someone else? Det. Tony Rossini investigates, along with Larry "Cash" Carter, a theatre director connected to Mrs. Sachs and her family.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-12
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Boy Erased
Overview: Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-24
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A Rainy Day in New York
Overview: Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-26
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Motherless Brooklyn
Overview: New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-31
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Wine Country
Overview: A group of friends head to the land of oaky Chardonnays and big, bold Cabernet Sauvignons for one member of the squad’s 50th birthday party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-08
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The Beaver
Overview: Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter pushes for his parents to get a divorce.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-05
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Our Friend
Overview: After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-04
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Transparent: Musicale Finale
Overview: When the Pfeffermans face a life-changing loss, they begin a journey hilarious and melancholy, brazen and bold. As they face this new transition, they confront grief and come together to celebrate connection, joy, and transformation.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-27
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Overview: From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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Miss America
Overview: Tracking the country’s oldest beauty contest—from its inception in 1921 as a local seaside pageant to its heyday as one of the country’s most popular events—Miss America paints a vivid picture of an institution that has come to reveal much about a changing nation. The pageant is about commercialism and sexual politics, about big business and small towns. But beyond the symbolism lies a human story—at once moving, inspiring, infuriating, funny, and poignant. Combining rare archival footage, with a host of intimate interviews with distinguished commentators including Gloria Steinem, Margaret Cho, Isaac Mizrahi, former contestants and behind–the–scenes footage and photographs, the film reveals why some women took part in the fledgling event and why others briefly rejected it - how the pageant became a battle ground and a barometer for the changing position of women in society.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-27
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Making 'Signs'
Overview: Nearly every possible aspect of fimmaking used to produce the motion picture Signs (2002) is closely examined here. This serves as a good companion to the film, normally where a commentary track would. Though it does feature a portion of promotional value, it is still very informative and interesting to watch director M. Night Shyamalan at work.
Genres: Documentary Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-07
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Deconstructing 'The Village'
Overview: In this making-of documentary, we see movie snippets, shots from the set, and interviews. We get notes from the crew and cast. We learn about the movie's genesis and development, the choice of time period and setting, finding a location and creating the sets, the flick's visual design and cinematography, working with the actors and bonding on the set, the costumes, problems with the weather, shooting in the woods, casting, the actors' "boot camp", editing and storyboards, audio design, the score, and the movie's creatures.
Genres: Documentary Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-11
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Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Overview: Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a celebration of the lives lost to AIDS told in free-verse monologues with a blues, jazz and rock score.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-01
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The Big Town
Overview: It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-25
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The Sky Is Everywhere
Overview: Lennie is a teen musical prodigy grieving the death of her sister when she finds herself caught between a new guy at school and her sister's devastated boyfriend. Through her vivid imagination and conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love and first loss.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-11
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Overview: Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-14
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National Theatre Live: The Grapes of Wrath
Overview: Forced to travel West in search of a promised land, the Joad family embark on an epic journey across America in the hope of finding work and a new life in California. Their story is one of false hopes, wrong turns and broken dreams, but also a hymn to human kindness and a tribute to the endurance of the human spirit.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-06
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Obsessed with Light
Overview: Loïe Fuller, stage name of Marie Louise Fuller: the American actress and dancer trained in burlesque, circuses and variety shows who, in the 1890s, signed by the Folies Bergère of Paris, became a star. She was portrayed by Toulouse-Lautrec, loved by the symbolists, the inspiration for Art Nouveau, in her shows she combined dance, spirals of fabric and light, reflected from behind or from below through the glass floor that she had created. She transformed into the "Fairy of Light", was taken up (especially in her Serpentine Dance) by Georges Méliès and Alice Guy and influenced René Clair's early films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-21
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24: Redemption
Overview: Jack Bauer confronts African general/aspiring dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-23
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