Allison Janney

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Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress. In a career spanning three decades, she is known for her performances across multiple genres of screen and stage. Janney has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and seven Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards. Born in Boston and raised in Dayton, Ohio, Janney received a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art following her graduation from Kenyon College. After years of minor and uncredited film and television appearances, Janney's breakthrough came with the role of C. J. Cregg in the NBC political drama The West Wing (1999–2006), for which she received four Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2014, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Margaret Scully on the Showtime period drama Masters of Sex. For her portrayal of Bonnie Plunkett, a cynical recovering addict on the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2021), Janney received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won twice for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Janney made her professional stage debut with the Off-Broadway production Ladies (1989), and followed with numerous bit parts in various similar productions, before making her Broadway debut with the 1996 revival of Present Laughter. She won two Drama Desk Awards and has been nominated for two Tony Awards: for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of A View from the Bridge (1997), and for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in the original Broadway production of the musical 9 to 5 (2009). Her film roles include Private Parts (1997), Primary Colors (1998), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), American Beauty (1999), Nurse Betty (2000), The Hours (2002), Hairspray (2007), Juno (2007), The Help (2011), The Way, Way Back (2013), Tammy (2014), The Rewrite (2014), Spy (2015), Tallulah (2016), The Girl on the Train (2016), Bad Education (2019) and Bombshell (2019). She voiced roles in Finding Nemo (2003), Over the Hedge (2006), Minions (2015), and The Addams Family (2019). For her performance in the black comedy I, Tonya (2017), Janney won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award, all for Best Supporting Actress.

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  • wc Gender: Female
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1959-11-19
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  • school Known for: Acting
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7.9

Finding Nemo

2003-05-30

8

American Beauty

1999-09-15

7.3

The Hours

2002-12-27

7.2

Prop 8: The Musical

2008-12-03

6.1

Wolf

1994-06-17

6.4

Drop Dead Gorgeous

1999-07-23

6.7

Hairspray

2007-07-19

7.6

10 Things I Hate About You

1999-03-30

6.2

The Associate

1996-10-25

7.1

Juno

2007-12-05

6.1

Six Days Seven Nights

1998-06-12

6.6

Over the Hedge

2006-05-17

4.3

Pretty Ugly People

2008-11-14

6.3

Primary Colors

1998-03-20

6.1

Celebrity

1998-09-07

6.9

...First Do No Harm

1997-02-16

5.6

Strangers with Candy

2006-06-28

6.5

The Chumscrubber

2005-06-08

6.4

Margaret

2011-09-30

5.5

How to Deal

2003-07-18

6

Walking and Talking

1996-07-17

5.8

The Object of My Affection

1998-04-17

6.1

Life During Wartime

2010-04-16

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Everything's Going to Be Great

7.1

The Creator

2023-09-27

8.5

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love

2023-04-26

7

Big Night

1996-09-20

8.3

The Help

2011-08-09

6.7

Away We Go

2009-06-05

6.2

Winter Solstice

2004-01-29

6.1

A Thousand Words

2012-03-07

6.8

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

2014-02-07

5.9

Our Very Own

2005-06-22

6.5

Liberal Arts

2012-09-14

6.2

Struck by Lightning

2013-06-19

6.7

Julian Po

1997-09-05

5.5

The Oranges

2011-09-09

4.7

Touchy Feely

2013-09-06

7.2

The Way Way Back

2013-06-06

5.9

Trust Me

2013-04-20

6.4

Bad Words

2013-09-06

7

Anita Liberty

1997-01-18

6.6

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

2013-06-19

5.4

Tammy

2014-07-02

4.2

Brightest Star

2014-01-31

4.7

Days and Nights

2014-09-26

6.9

Spy

2015-05-06

8

True Love: Making The Creator

2023-11-14

6

The Rewrite

2014-06-15

5.4

Faithful

1996-04-03

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Flux

1996-01-01

5

Dead Funny

1994-05-21

6.8

The DUFF

2015-02-20

0

Miss You, Love You

6.8

Get on Up

2014-08-01

6.9

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

2016-09-27

7.4

Minions & More Volume 2

2022-11-08

5.2

Celia

2012-10-26

6.4

Minions

2015-06-17

6.8

Tallulah

2016-06-02

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A Simple Favor 2

6.2

Binky Nelson Unpacified

2015-11-04

5.9

The Impostors

1998-10-02

5.5

David and Lisa

1998-11-01

6.5

The Girl on the Train

2016-10-05

5.7

The Cowboy Way

1994-06-03

7.1

Finding Dory

2016-06-16

6.6

Sun Dogs

2017-06-18

6

Nurse Betty

2000-08-30

7

Rooftop Kisses

2002-06-23

5.6

A Happening of Monumental Proportions

2017-05-05

7

The Night Is Young

2015-10-29

7.5

I, Tonya

2017-12-08

6.5

Private Parts

1997-03-07

4.8

Who Shot Pat?

1989-08-01

6.3

Piccadilly Jim

2004-11-01

6.7

The Addams Family

2019-10-10

7

Troop Zero

2019-02-01

6.7

Bad Education

2019-09-08

6.9

The Ice Storm

1997-09-27

6.8

Bombshell

2019-12-13

5.7

Breaking News in Yuba County

2021-01-28

6.8

Miracle on 34th Street

1994-11-18

4.2

A Girl Thing

2001-01-19

0

Heading Home

1995-04-08

5.8

Ma

2019-05-29

7.3

Expedition Amelia

2019-10-20

0

The Heart

6

Blind Spot

1993-05-02

3.3

Rescuing Desire

1996-05-14

6

Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing

1997-06-14

5.8

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

2018-08-21

4.7

Lazy Susan

2020-04-03

6.6

Lou

2022-09-23

0

Chicken Party

2003-10-14

3.7

Love and Distrust

2010-08-16

0

Backwash

2010-11-15

8.2

A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote

2020-10-15

6.3

The People We Hate at the Wedding

2022-11-17

0

It's Still Me!

2009-01-01

7

To Leslie

2022-10-07

10

Still Working 9 to 5

2022-03-13

7.5

Weeds

2005-08-07

7.4

Law & Order

1990-09-13

5.8

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

2003-09-08

7.4

Family Guy

1999-01-31

5.5

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003-01-26

6.4

The Daily Show

1996-07-22

7.4

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

2006-09-18

7.4

King of the Hill

1997-01-12

4.5

The View

1997-08-11

7.5

Two and a Half Men

2003-09-22

5.2

Human Discoveries

2019-07-16

0

LateLine

1998-03-17

7.7

Frasier

1993-09-16

7.2

New York Undercover

1994-09-08

6.6

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015-09-08

7.2

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993-09-13

6.3

Aliens in the Family

1996-03-15

0

The EcoZone Project

2007-04-21

6.4

Mr. Sunshine

2011-02-09

7.4

Mom

2013-09-23

4.4

The Bonnie Hunt Show

2008-09-08

8.3

The West Wing

1999-09-22

7.4

Family Guy

1999-01-31

7.4

Family Guy

1999-01-31

6.1

Comedy Bang! Bang!

2012-06-08

5.5

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014-02-25

5.8

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2015-08-02

5.2

Chelsea

2016-05-11

4.5

Intimate Portrait

1993-11-14

5.4

The Late Late Show with James Corden

2015-03-23

7.7

Frasier

1993-09-16

5.4

The Late Late Show with James Corden

2015-03-23

7.9

Phineas and Ferb

2007-08-17

6.6

Palm Royale

2024-03-19

7.2

The Graham Norton Show

2007-02-22

7.4

Law & Order

1990-09-13

5.5

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003-01-26

4.4

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

2014-12-21

6.8

Hollywood Game Night

2013-07-11

0

Celebrity Poker Showdown

2003-12-02

7.8

DuckTales

2017-08-12

7.6

Web Therapy

2008-09-22

7.1

Masters of Sex

2013-09-29

6.6

Who Do You Think You Are?

2010-03-05

5

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009-07-16

5.7

The Arsenio Hall Show

2013-09-09

7.5

Veep

2012-04-22

8

Curb Your Enthusiasm

2000-10-15

7

Saturday Night Live

1975-10-11

7.6

The Kominsky Method

2018-11-16

8.1

The Simpsons

1989-12-17

7

American Dad!

2005-02-06

7

The Oscars

1953-03-19

8

Lost

2004-09-22

6.1

Celebrity IOU

2020-04-13

4.2

The Megan Mullally Show

2006-09-18

5

Tony Awards

1956-04-01

6.8

Golden Globe Awards

1944-01-20

5

Tony Awards

1956-04-01

7.4

The Diplomat

2023-04-20

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