Allison Janney
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
169
Gender
Female
Birthday
1959-11-19 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Allison Janney
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
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
Law & Order
Law & Order
Lost
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
American Dad!
The Daily Show
Two and a Half Men
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Golden Globe Awards
Saturday Night Live
The West Wing
The Graham Norton Show
Frasier
Frasier
King of the Hill
The View
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Mom
Phineas and Ferb
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Weeds
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
DuckTales
Finding Nemo
Veep
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Masters of Sex
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Intimate Portrait
The Megan Mullally Show
The Soup
The Oscars
The Diplomat
The Diplomat
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
People's Choice Awards
People's Choice Awards
The Help
Chelsea
10 Things I Hate About You
In Plain Sight
Sun Dogs
Comedy Bang! Bang!
Juno
American Beauty
Lou
The Roses
The Creator
Palm Royale
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
New York Undercover
Celebrity
Piccadilly Jim
A Thousand Words
Over the Hedge
Finding Dory
Tallulah
Trust Me
Web Therapy
Bad Words
Brightest Star
Celia
The Bonnie Hunt Show
Hollywood Game Night
Spy
The Kominsky Method
Web Therapy
Who Do You Think You Are?
Strangers with Candy
Celebrity IOU
Bombshell
Flux
Minions
The Cowboy Way
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
The Addams Family
To Leslie
Our Very Own
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Ma
Nurse Betty
Another Simple Favor
The Chumscrubber
Rescuing Desire
The Ice Storm
I, Tonya
It's Still Me!
Six Days Seven Nights
Miss You, Love You
The Girl on the Train
Blind Spot
Private Parts
LateLine
The Night Is Young
Winter Solstice
David and Lisa
Chicken Party
Wolf
Heading Home
The Arsenio Hall Show
The DUFF
Hairspray
Struck by Lightning
Miracle on 34th Street
Drop Dead Gorgeous
The Associate
The Hours
Binky Nelson Unpacified
The Impostors
Human Discoveries
Minions & More 2
Bad Education
Everything's Going to Be Great
Mr. Sunshine
Tammy
The Way Way Back
The Heart
Get On Up
Celebrity Poker Showdown
Breaking News in Yuba County
Pretty Ugly People
Rooftop Kisses
The Object of My Affection
Margaret
Big Night
Aliens in the Family
Away We Go
Liberal Arts
Primary Colors
The Rewrite
The People We Hate at the Wedding
Troop Zero
The Oranges
How to Deal
A Girl Thing
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
Faithful
Prop 8: The Musical
Days and Nights
Love and Distrust
Julian Po
Life During Wartime
The EcoZone Project
Expedition Amelia
Touchy Feely
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Fonda
...First Do No Harm
True Love: Making The Creator
Walking and Talking
Still Working 9 to 5
Lazy Susan
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Anita Liberty
Auto Motives
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
Who Shot Pat?
Dead Funny
