CHERRY JONES (Edie Bailey) is currently starring on Broadway with Gabriel Byrne in Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten," for which she recently was nominated for a Tony Award. Her other Broadway appearances include "The Heiress," for which she won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Awards; "Our Country's Good," for which she received a Tony nomination; "The Night of the Iguana"; "Angels in America"; "Macbeth"; and "Stepping Out." Her regional and Off-Broadway credits include "Pride's Crossing" (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards), "The Baltimore Waltz" (Obie Award), "The Good Person of Setzuan" (Joseph Jefferson Award), "I Am a Camera," "The Seagull," "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "Goodnight Desdemona/Good Morning Juliet."

She recently appeared as Hallie Flanagan in Tim Robbins' "Cradle Will Rock" and with Julia Roberts in Stephen Soderbergh's "Erin Brockovich." Other film credits include "The Horse Whisperer," directed by Robert Redford.

Jones trained at Carnegie-Mellon University and is a founding member of the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she has performed in over two dozen productions, including "As You Like It," "Twelfth Night," "The Three Sisters," "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" and the premieres of both Christopher Durang's "Baby With the Bathwater" and Larry Gelbart's "Mastergate."

Next season she will be seen on television in the PBS Masterpiece Theater adaptation of Langston Hughes' "Cora Unashamed" and will return opposite Gene Wilder as Mimi, the character she has previously portrayed in A&E's "Murder in a Small Town" and "The Lady in Question."