Cherry Jones

He has managed to establish himself in popular imagination thanks to his chair in the oval room of Casa Blanca, which he occupies thanks to the television series 24 . Her role as President Allison Taylor in seasons 7 and 8 is resolved with enormous aplomb, both in her domestic family problems, intertwined with the powerful position she holds, and when drawing up important peace treaties with leaders from the East. Medium. Few of the fans of the series know that Cherry Jones where she is an authority is in the world of theater.

Cherry Jones was born on November 21, 1956 in Paris, Tennessee, in the United States. Her mother was a teacher, and her father ran a flower shop. We do not know if her name was given to her by some plant preference of her parents -it means “cherry” in English-, but the fact is that what Cherry wanted to do in life is act, so she graduated from the prestigious Carnegie Mellon drama school.

The most interesting part of her acting career has been done by Jones on stage. In theater, she has twice won the Tony for best actress, for works that have also been made into movies: in 1995 she was the spinster protagonist of “The Heiress”, which in the film version by William Wyler gave the Oscar to Olivia de Havilland ; and ten years later she repeated the award with the main role of “Doubt”, a role of a nun that Meryl Streep would play in the cinema under the orders of the same author of the play, John Patrick Shanley . They are two sample buttons of her good theatrical work, which also includes “MacBeth”, “Angeles in America” ​​and “Imaginary Friends”.

In his personal life, Jones confesses his lesbianism, and his sentimental breakup with actress Sarah Paulson , with whom he lived between 2003 and 2009, was highly publicized.

But Jones has not disdained any way to get into the shoes of characters other than herself. So she has done the interesting job of recording audio books with her powerful voice, for example the complete series of “Little House on the Prairie” by Laura Ingalls.

In cinema, she has a discreet but solid career, some prestigious directors came to her to give her small roles. Apart from some early television work, she highlights Light of Day (1987), with Paul Schrader at the beginning . She did Frank Oz ‘s Surprise Wife (1992), and Robert Redford ‘s The Horse Whisperer (1998). Tim Robbins asked him for Down the Curtain (1999) and Steven Soderbergh for Erin Brockovich (2000). The most commercial thing she has done is surely The Perfect Storm (2000) and Ocean’s Twelve (2004), both withGeorge Clooney , and the second repeating with Soderbergh.

He came to the call of the new magician of suspense M. Night Shyamalan twice, for The Forest (2004) and, before, Signals (2002), where he worked with Mel Gibson , an actor with whom he has once again shared a film, under orders by Jodie Foster , thanks to The Beaver (2011).

Her intervention in an episode of The West Wing of the White House was almost a premonition of the role that would make her most popular: that of the President of the United States in 24 , a true iron lady who would have nothing to envy to the very Margaret Thatcher.