
Allison Janney
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Biography
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.
Known For

Saturday Night Live

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Family Guy

Tony Awards

The Oscars

Frasier

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Daily Show

The Simpsons

Veep

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Golden Globe Awards

Masters of Sex

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Lost

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

American Dad!

The Graham Norton Show

DuckTales

King of the Hill

The Diplomat

Hollywood Game Night

Phineas and Ferb

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Web Therapy

The Kominsky Method

Two and a Half Men

Chelsea

LateLine

Who Do You Think You Are?

Weeds

Minions & More Volume 2

The Associate

Finding Dory

Wolf

The Hours

Another Simple Favor

Private Parts

Strangers with Candy

Ma

Miracle on 34th Street

Hairspray

10 Things I Hate About You

Over the Hedge

The Addams Family

Law & Order

American Beauty

The Help

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Finding Nemo

Six Days Seven Nights

Tammy

Liberal Arts

The Girl on the Train

The Way Way Back

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

Juno

Spy

Bad Words

A Thousand Words

Bombshell

Troop Zero

Minions

The Creator

Palm Royale

The West Wing

I, Tonya

The People We Hate at the Wedding

Bad Education

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Tallulah

Mom

Lou

Breaking News in Yuba County
Production Credits
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