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Allison Janney
🎂 Nov 19, 1959 (66)
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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.
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66
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Oscars
50
Movies
26
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Movies
Finding Nemo
2003
The Creator
2023
American Beauty
1999
The Help
2011
10 Things I Hate About You
1999
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016
Spy
2015
Juno
2007
Ma
2019
Over the Hedge
2006
The Roses
2025
Finding Dory
2016
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
2014
Minions
2015
I, Tonya
2017
Bombshell
2019
Minions & Monsters
2026
The Addams Family
2019
The Girl on the Train
2016
The Ice Storm
1997
Hairspray
2007
Six Days Seven Nights
1998
Minions & More 2
2022
Another Simple Favor
2025
The DUFF
2015
The Hours
2002
Miracle on 34th Street
1994
Lou
2022
Wolf
1994
Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999
Celebrity
1998
Tammy
2014
Walking and Talking
1996
A Thousand Words
2012
Get On Up
2014
Margaret
2011
Primary Colors
1998
The Way Way Back
2013
Private Parts
1997
Nurse Betty
2000
Away We Go
2009
To Leslie
2022
Strangers with Candy
2006
Big Night
1996
Liberal Arts
2012
The Associate
1996
Bad Education
2019
The Cowboy Way
1994
Tallulah
2016
Faithful
1996
TV Shows
Mom
2013
The West Wing
1999
Palm Royale
2024
Mr. Sunshine
2011
Masters of Sex
2013
DuckTales
2017
The Diplomat
2023
A Girl Thing
2001
Web Therapy
2008
Human Discoveries
2019
Phineas and Ferb
2007
Web Therapy
2011
In Plain Sight
2008
Weeds
2005
Law & Order
1990
Family Guy
1999
King of the Hill
1997
Two and a Half Men
2003
Frasier
1993
New York Undercover
1994
Aliens in the Family
1996
Veep
2012
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
The Simpsons
1989
American Dad!
2005
Lost
2004
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Allison Janney
1959-11-19 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.