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
Two and a Half Men
The Daily Show
American Dad!
Lost
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Saturday Night Live
Phineas and Ferb
The Graham Norton Show
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Frasier
Frasier
Curb Your Enthusiasm
King of the Hill
The West Wing
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Mom
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Weeds
Golden Globe Awards
The Roses
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
Tony Awards
The View
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Diplomat
The Diplomat
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
DuckTales
Finding Nemo
Veep
Palm Royale
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Comedy Bang! Bang!
10 Things I Hate About You
Intimate Portrait
The Soup
Miracle on 34th Street
Masters of Sex
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
In Plain Sight
The Help
The Creator
Chelsea
New York Undercover
The Oscars
Over the Hedge
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Julian Po
American Beauty
Breaking News in Yuba County
Ma
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Juno
The Bonnie Hunt Show
Spy
Finding Dory
Another Simple Favor
The Megan Mullally Show
The Arsenio Hall Show
Expedition Amelia
Lazy Susan
Hairspray
The Kominsky Method
Web Therapy
The Addams Family
How to Deal
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
The Hours
Hollywood Game Night
Who Do You Think You Are?
Minions & More Volume 2
Liberal Arts
Web Therapy
Six Days Seven Nights
The Girl on the Train
Minions
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Bombshell
Lou
Troop Zero
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Wolf
Flux
Tallulah
Celebrity
Sun Dogs
The DUFF
I, Tonya
Celebrity IOU
Brightest Star
Trust Me
The Chumscrubber
Winter Solstice
The Way Way Back
The Ice Storm
Bad Words
The Associate
The Oranges
Blind Spot
Touchy Feely
LateLine
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Piccadilly Jim
The Impostors
Celia
Primary Colors
Chicken Party
Faithful
A Thousand Words
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
Mr. Sunshine
Everything's Going to Be Great
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Heading Home
Private Parts
Celebrity Poker Showdown
Tammy
The Cowboy Way
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
The Object of My Affection
Life During Wartime
Aliens in the Family
Human Discoveries
The People We Hate at the Wedding
Away We Go
Rescuing Desire
Get on Up
Love and Distrust
To Leslie
Binky Nelson Unpacified
The Night Is Young
...First Do No Harm
Days and Nights
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
David and Lisa
Struck by Lightning
Who Shot Pat?
True Love: Making The Creator
Our Very Own
Nurse Betty
It's Still Me!
Walking and Talking
Margaret
Miss You, Love You
The Heart
Bad Education
A Girl Thing
The Rewrite
Strangers with Candy
Pretty Ugly People
The 52nd Annual Emmy Awards
Big Night
The EcoZone Project
Still Working 9 to 5
Prop 8: The Musical
Dead Funny
Anita Liberty
Auto Motives
Rooftop Kisses
