Cherry Jones Wins Tony for "Doubt"

Cherry Jones won the 2005 Tony Award for Lead Actress in a Play in "Doubt". Other nominees included Laura Linney (Sight Unseen), Mary-Louise Parker (Reckless), Phylicia Rashad (Gem of the Ocean), and Kathleen Turner (Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).

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[JoshFi]

I really wish that John Patrick Shanley had cast Cherry Jones in the film version. Don't get me wrong I love Meryl Streep but Cherry Jones is in my mind the only person who could master that role!

[roccoh21]

Maybe you could learn to be open minded. Meryl Streep was brilliant too and this is not a role that only one actor could play.

[MDSCFALNM]

@roccoh21 Meryl was hardly brilliant. She had some superb moments, especially in her final scene with Amy Adams (whose performance I thought was truly remarkable), but much of the performance was mere bluster.  I'm a Meryl fan, but it was hardly a deeply nuanced work. Nor was it poor by any means. It served its purpose, but rarely approached brilliance.

[xenafan234]

Thanks for posting this, I love Cherry Jones.

[cuestaantonio]

WOW!