Allison Janney

Acting · 4.1 popularity

Age

Movies

109

Born: November 19, 1959
From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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.

Works

109 films

Minions & Monsters

20266.4

Finding Nemo

20037.8

The Creator

20237.0

American Beauty

19998.0

Over the Hedge

20066.6

The Help

20118.2

10 Things I Hate About You

19997.6

Finding Dory

20167.0

Minions

20156.4

Another Simple Favor

20255.8

The Dog Stars

2026

The Roses

20256.6

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

20166.8

I, Tonya

20177.5

The Addams Family

20196.6

Juno

20077.1

Spy

20156.8

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

20146.7

Minions & More 2

20227.4

The Girl on the Train

20166.4

The DUFF

20156.8

Six Days Seven Nights

19986.1

Hairspray

20076.7

20195.8

The Hours

20027.3

The Ice Storm

19976.9

Bombshell

20196.8

A Thousand Words

20126.1

Miracle on 34th Street

19946.8

Lou

20226.5

Nurse Betty

20006.1

Get On Up

20146.8

Celebrity

19986.0

The Way Way Back

20137.1

To Leslie

20227.0

Drop Dead Gorgeous

19996.5

Private Parts

19976.5

The Rewrite

20146.0

Miss You, Love You

20266.6

Wolf

19946.1

Bad Education

20196.7

Liberal Arts

20126.5

Bad Words

20136.4

Primary Colors

19986.3

Breaking News in Yuba County

20215.9

Big Night

19967.0

The People We Hate at the Wedding

20226.3

The Cowboy Way

19945.7

Not Alone

2027

Tammy

20145.3

Away We Go

20096.7

Margaret

20116.4

Troop Zero

20197.0

Fonda

2026

The Oranges

20115.5

The Object of My Affection

19985.8

Rescuing Desire

19963.8

The Associate

19966.3

How to Deal

20035.5

Everything's Going to Be Great

20255.9

Trust Me

20135.8

The Impostors

19985.9

Strangers with Candy

20065.7

Pretty Ugly People

20084.3

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

20185.4

Tallulah

20166.7

Expedition Amelia

20196.7

Struck by Lightning

20136.2

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

20136.6

Heading Home

199510.0

The Chumscrubber

20056.5

Winter Solstice

20045.9

The Night Is Young

20186.9

The Heart

2026

Binky Nelson Unpacified

20156.2

Love and Distrust

20103.8

A Happening of Monumental Proportions

20175.3

Sun Dogs

20176.5

Auto Motives

20006.0

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love

20238.3

Faithful

19965.5

David and Lisa

19986.0

...First Do No Harm

19976.9

Blind Spot

19936.2

The Debtors

19994.3

Julian Po

19976.5

Our Very Own

20056.2

Life During Wartime

20105.9

You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of "Hairspray"

20076.0

Piccadilly Jim

20046.6

Prop 8: The Musical

20086.9

Rooftop Kisses

20027.5

Who Shot Pat?

19894.6

Days and Nights

20144.5

Touchy Feely

20134.7

Walking and Talking

19966.1

Lazy Susan

20204.5

A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote

20207.9

Dead Funny

19946.0

Brightest Star

20134.3

Still Working 9 to 5

202210.0

It's 'Hairspray'!

2007

True Love: Making The Creator

20236.3

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

19976.3

Anita Liberty

19978.0

Chicken Party

20038.0

Celia

20125.2

It's Still Me!

2009

Flux

19969.0