Cherry Jones wins second Tony Award
June 5, 2005
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Jones, winning her second best actress Tony, was honored for her fierce, yet often funny portrait of a determined, unrelenting nun.
John Patrick Shanley's drama, "Doubt," set in a parochial school in the Bronx, was named best play at the 2005 Tony Awards |
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Cherry Jones' acceptance speech after winning the Tony Award for best actress in a play: "Thank you so much. "Kathleen Turner (competing Tony nominee as leading lady), you are a genius in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?" and your cast mustn't be missed. "John Patrick Shanley (author of 'Doubt'), you have written a great American play that is going to be performed around the world. And you and Doug Hughes (Tony winner as best drama director) are the reason I am standing here right now. "Doug Hughes, you are a blessing, and every actor in New York wants to work with you, so pace yourself, please.... "Mr. O'Byrne (Brian O'Byrne, her costar and nominee for best actor), I stand in awe of you every night. Lucky, lucky me. Linda Wilson and Jewel Walker, I thank you for your care as my greatest teachers. "And to my beloved family in Tennessee, I am so proud to belong to you. And Laura Wingfield, I share this with you. "Thank you so much. Thank you, American Theater Wing." |
Look at Cherry: Queen of stage
Nomination for Tony
is fourth for her
Cherry Jones, the pride of Paris, Tennessee, has done it again.
For the fourth time, she’s been nominated for a Tony Award for being among Broadway’s best.
This time, she’s up again as a candidate for best leading lady, the same category in which she was awarded the Tony in 1995 for her title role in the drama, "The Heiress."
Winners will be announced on television June 5.
Jones’s first nomination came in 1991 for her role as a snaggle-toothed convict in "Our Country’s Good." She was nominated again in 2000 for her portrayal of the magic heroine in the reprisal of Eugene O’Neill’s "A Moon for the Misbegotten."
The span of years proves that she's a real trouper, one of the enduring stars of Broadway. The Tony is merely the top of a heap of honors she has garnered in her acting career. For example, her current play, "Doubt," by John Patrick Shanley, won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for drama, making it a top contender for a Tony as best play of the year. Jones won the Outer Circle Award from out-of-town media critics as best leading lady of the year.
In her acceptance speech at the 1995 Tony ceremony she paid tribute to her hometown roots and to her high school speech teacher, Ruby Krider. "Miss Ruby" would have taken glowing pride in probably the best description ever given of Jones's talent, phrased by a New York drama critic who said of Jones, "She can act with her cheekbones."
Reprinted from the PARIS POST-INTELLIGENCER
Paris, Tennessee
Wednesday, May 11, 2005, Edition
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