Allison Janney 1959 65
Allison Janney 1959 65
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.
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2025 The Roses as Eleanor
2025 Everything's Going to Be Great as Macy
2025 The Heart
2025 Miss You, Love You
2025 Another Simple Favor as Aunt Linda McLanden
2023 True Love: Making The Creator as Self
2023 The Creator as Colonel Howell
2023 Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love as Self - Guest
2022 The People We Hate at the Wedding as Donna
2022 Minions & More Volume 2 as Madge Nelson (voice)
2022 To Leslie as Nancy
2022 Lou as Lou Executive Producer
2022 Still Working 9 to 5 as Self
2021 Breaking News in Yuba County as Sue Buttons Executive Producer
2020 A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote as C.J. Cregg
2020 Lazy Susan as Velvet
2019 Bombshell as Susan Estrich
2019 Expedition Amelia as Narrator (voice)
2019 The Addams Family as Margaux Needler (voice)
2019 Bad Education as Pam Gluckin
2019 Ma as Doctor Brooks
2019 Troop Zero as Miss Massey
2018 Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
2018 The Night Is Young as Wanda
2017 I, Tonya as LaVona
2017 Sun Dogs as Rose Chipley
2017 A Happening of Monumental Proportions as Principal Nichols
2016 The Girl on the Train as Detective Sgt. Riley
2016 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children as Dr. Golan
2016 Finding Dory as Peach (voice)
2016 Tallulah as Margo
2015 Binky Nelson Unpacified as Madge Nelson (voice)
2015 Minions as Madge Nelson (voice)
2015 Spy as Elaine Crocker
2015 The DUFF as Dottie Piper
2014 Days and Nights as Elizabeth
2014 Get on Up as Kathy
2014 Tammy as Deb
2014 The Rewrite as Mary Weldon
2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman as Ms. Grunion (voice)
2013 Brightest Star as The Astronomer
2013 Touchy Feely as Bronwyn
2013 Bad Words as Dr. Bernice Deagan
2013 Struck by Lightning as Sheryl Phillips
2013 Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy as Narrator (voice)
2013 The Way Way Back as Betty Thompson
2013 Trust Me as Meg
2012 Celia as Celia
2012 Liberal Arts as Professor Judith Fairfield
2012 A Thousand Words as Samantha Davis
2011 Margaret as Monica Patterson
2011 The Oranges as Carol Ostroff
2011 The Help as Charlotte Phelan
2010 Backwash as Self
2010 Love and Distrust as Grechen (segment "Auto Motives")
2010 Life During Wartime as Trish Maplewood
2009 Away We Go as Lily
2009 It's Still Me! as Narrator (voice)
2008 Prop 8: The Musical as Prop 8 Leader's #1 Wife
2008 Pretty Ugly People as Suzanna
2007 Juno as Bren MacGuff
2007 Hairspray as Prudy Pringleton
2006 Strangers with Candy as Alice
2006 Over the Hedge as Gladys (voice)
2005 Our Very Own as Joan Whitfield
2005 The Chumscrubber as Allie Stiffle
2004 Piccadilly Jim as Eugenia Crocker
2004 Winter Solstice as Molly Ripkin
2003 Chicken Party as Barbara Strasser
2003 How to Deal as Lydia Martin
2003 Finding Nemo as Peach (voice)
2002 The Hours as Sally Lester
2002 Rooftop Kisses as Melissa
2001 A Girl Thing as Kathy McCormack
2000 Nurse Betty as Lyla
1999 American Beauty as Barbara Fitts
1999 Drop Dead Gorgeous as Loretta
1999 10 Things I Hate About You as Ms. Perky
1998 David and Lisa as Alix
1998 The Impostors as Maxine (Max)
1998 Celebrity as Evelyn Isaacs
1998 Six Days Seven Nights as Marjorie
1998 The Object of My Affection as Constance Miller
1998 Primary Colors as Miss Walsh
1997 The Ice Storm as Dot Halford
1997 Julian Po as Lilah Leech
1997 Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing as Assistant D.A.
1997 Private Parts as Dee Dee
1997 ...First Do No Harm as Dr. Melanie Abbasac
1997 Anita Liberty as Gynecologist
1996 The Associate as Sandy
1996 Big Night as Ann
1996 Walking and Talking as Gum Puller
1996 Rescuing Desire as Betsy
1996 Faithful as Saleslady
1996 Flux as Heather
1995 Heading Home as Mary Polanski
1994 Miracle on 34th Street as Woman in Christmas Shop
1994 Wolf as Party Guest
1994 The Cowboy Way as NYPD Computer Operator
1994 Dead Funny as Jennifer
1993 Blind Spot as Doreen
1989 Who Shot Pat? as Miss Penny