Allison Janney
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
166
Gender
Female
Birthday
1959-11-19 (65 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
Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy
The Simpsons
Law & Order
Law & Order
The Daily Show
American Dad!
Two and a Half Men
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Lost
The Graham Norton Show
The Diplomat
The Diplomat
Frasier
Frasier
Saturday Night Live
King of the Hill
Phineas and Ferb
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The West Wing
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Mom
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The View
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Weeds
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
DuckTales
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Masters of Sex
Veep
The Megan Mullally Show
Intimate Portrait
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Finding Nemo
Palm Royale
Comedy Bang! Bang!
10 Things I Hate About You
New York Undercover
Chelsea
In Plain Sight
The Help
The Bonnie Hunt Show
The Oscars
Another Simple Favor
The Creator
Finding Dory
Celebrity IOU
The Addams Family
Web Therapy
American Beauty
Over the Hedge
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The Roses
The Kominsky Method
Minions & More Volume 2
Walking and Talking
The Arsenio Hall Show
Hollywood Game Night
Miracle on 34th Street
Who Do You Think You Are?
Minions
Ma
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Spy
Juno
Hairspray
The Ice Storm
Wolf
Six Days Seven Nights
The Associate
Web Therapy
I, Tonya
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
A Thousand Words
Nurse Betty
The Way Way Back
The Girl on the Train
Aliens in the Family
The Hours
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
The DUFF
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Celebrity Poker Showdown
Days and Nights
Bombshell
Mr. Sunshine
LateLine
Primary Colors
Everything's Going to Be Great
True Love: Making The Creator
Blind Spot
Life During Wartime
Winter Solstice
Lou
Get on Up
Troop Zero
Tammy
How to Deal
Brightest Star
Struck by Lightning
...First Do No Harm
Still Working 9 to 5
A Girl Thing
The Impostors
The Object of My Affection
Lazy Susan
The Chumscrubber
Human Discoveries
Liberal Arts
It's Still Me!
Away We Go
Expedition Amelia
The Rewrite
Touchy Feely
Trust Me
Piccadilly Jim
Anita Liberty
Faithful
Breaking News in Yuba County
Julian Po
Celebrity
Margaret
Celia
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
The People We Hate at the Wedding
Love and Distrust
Tallulah
Backwash
Binky Nelson Unpacified
Our Very Own
Strangers with Candy
Flux
Private Parts
Bad Words
David and Lisa
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Miss You, Love You
Bad Education
The Night Is Young
Heading Home
To Leslie
Big Night
Pretty Ugly People
Dead Funny
Chicken Party
Who Shot Pat?
The EcoZone Project
The Oranges
Rescuing Desire
The Cowboy Way
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
Sun Dogs
Rooftop Kisses
The Heart
Prop 8: The Musical
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
