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