Cathy Jones Biography
Cathy Jones is a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer. She is most recognized for her 28-year stint on the Canadian television series This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Jones departed the show in 2021.
How old is Cathy Jones? – Age
She is 68 years old as of April 6, 2023. She was born in 1955 in St. John’s, Canada. Her real name is Catherine Frederica Jones.
Cathy Jones Family
She was 17 when her older brother, comedian Andy Jones, recommended her to the Newfoundland Traveling Theatre Company.
Cathy Jones Husband – Children
Jones married Paul Hannon, an American-born painter, in 1996, and they had a daughter named Eleanor. The pair was divorced in 2000. After 2004, Jones had a long-term relationship with musician and artist Tom Wilson. They’ve since separated. Mara, Jones’ first daughter, was born in Newfoundland in 1981.
Cathy Jones Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $15 million.
Cathy Jones This Hour Has 22 Minutes
This Hour Has 22 Minutes was a new television series that Jones, comic Rick Mercer, and former CODCO co-stars Mary Walsh and Greg Thomey created in 1992. Jones played a number of unique characters on the show, and she is known for playing both men and women often at the extreme edges of gender identity. Mrs. Enid, Babe Bennett, Joe Crow, and one of her personal favorites, “Love Murphy,” who played a love interest with her female character in the short film Outport Lesbian, are just a few of the show’s well-known characters. Jones left the show in 2021.
Cathy Jones Career
She is Newfoundland’s comic gift to the remainder of Canada, routinely spearing the foundation, legislators and holy relics. The most youthful of a multi-skilled family — sibling Andy Jones is an entertainer and essayist, and another sibling, Mike Jones, is a prominent producer — Cathy Jones is perhaps of the most amusing lady on Canadian TV.
In 1973 she joined the Codco satire group in Toronto, whose unique individuals included Mary Walsh, Diane Olsen, Tommy Sexton, Greg Malone and Paul Sametz. Their most memorable creation, Cod on a Stick, One more Fun Food Show, was performed at Toronto’s incredible Venue Old fashioned Muraille. It ultimately returned them to St John’s, where Andy Jones and Robert Delight went along with them and they kept on performing together until 1976. For the following 10 years, Cathy Jones and the others cooperated in different mixes until they officially pulled together for the CODCO TV series, which appeared in 1988 and ran for five seasons on CBC-television. The Codco series arrangement included Cathy, her sibling Andy, Greg Malone, Tommy Sexton, and Mary Walsh. Taped in Halifax and delivered by Salter Road Movies, it was an unfit hit in the extraordinary custom of Canadian sketch comedies, for example, “The Wayne and Shuster Show” and SCTV.
She has showed up in a few movies coordinated by her sibling Mike Jones: The Experience of Faustus Bidgood (1986), Secret Country (1992) and the short Congrats (2000); and in the dark satire Youthful Triffie (2007), coordinated by Mary Walsh. In 2002 she had her own TV extraordinary, Cathy Jones Gets an Exceptional, and she has composed for Only for Giggles (2005), The Halifax Parody Unique (2005-05) and The Winnipeg Satire Celebration (2006).
Cathy Jones has shared more than 10 Gemini Grants including: in 2003 for best outfit execution in a parody program during the current Hour; sequentially from 1995 to 2000 for best writing in a satire series during the current Hour; in 1995, 1996 and 1997 for best execution in a satire series during the current Hour; in 1994 for best execution in a parody series for Codco; and in 1992, 1993 and 1994 for best writing in a satire series for Codco. By 2011, This Hour had won or been selected for many Gemini Grants.
In 2000, Cathy Jones got a privileged specialist of letters degree from Commemoration College in Newfoundland.