Allison Janney

Allison Janney

Birthday: 1959-11-19

Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Also known as: 앨리슨 제니, 艾莉森·珍妮, Allison Brooks Janney, الیسون جنی

imdb_id: nm0005049

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.

Played in movies:

Still Working 9 to 5

Score: 10.0

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love

Score: 8.4

The Help

Score: 8.2

American Beauty

Score: 8.0

True Love: Making The Creator

Score: 8.0

A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote

Score: 8.0

Finding Nemo

Score: 7.8

10 Things I Hate About You

Score: 7.6

I, Tonya

Score: 7.5

Minions & More Volume 2

Score: 7.4

Expedition Amelia

Score: 7.3

The Hours

Score: 7.3

Prop 8: The Musical

Score: 7.2

The Way Way Back

Score: 7.1

The Creator

Score: 7.1

Juno

Score: 7.1

Finding Dory

Score: 7.0

To Leslie

Score: 7.0

Rooftop Kisses

Score: 7.0

Anita Liberty

Score: 7.0

Big Night

Score: 6.9

Troop Zero

Score: 6.9

The Ice Storm

Score: 6.9

The Night Is Young

Score: 6.9

...First Do No Harm

Score: 6.9

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Score: 6.8

Spy

Score: 6.8

Bombshell

Score: 6.8

Get on Up

Score: 6.8

The DUFF

Score: 6.8

Miracle on 34th Street

Score: 6.8

Bad Education

Score: 6.7

Tallulah

Score: 6.7

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

Score: 6.7

Hairspray

Score: 6.7

Away We Go

Score: 6.7

The Addams Family

Score: 6.6

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

Score: 6.6

Julian Po

Score: 6.6

Sun Dogs

Score: 6.6

Over the Hedge

Score: 6.6

Lou

Score: 6.5

The Chumscrubber

Score: 6.5

Private Parts

Score: 6.5

Liberal Arts

Score: 6.4

The Girl on the Train

Score: 6.4

Minions

Score: 6.4

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Score: 6.4

Bad Words

Score: 6.4

Piccadilly Jim

Score: 6.3

Margaret

Score: 6.3

Primary Colors

Score: 6.3

The People We Hate at the Wedding

Score: 6.3

Another Simple Favor

Score: 6.3

The Associate

Score: 6.3

Struck by Lightning

Score: 6.2

Binky Nelson Unpacified

Score: 6.2

Winter Solstice

Score: 6.2

Walking and Talking

Score: 6.1

Wolf

Score: 6.1

A Thousand Words

Score: 6.1

Six Days Seven Nights

Score: 6.1

Nurse Betty

Score: 6.0

Celebrity

Score: 6.0

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

Score: 6.0

Blind Spot

Score: 6.0

The Rewrite

Score: 6.0

Life During Wartime

Score: 6.0

Our Very Own

Score: 5.9

Ma

Score: 5.8

The Impostors

Score: 5.8

Breaking News in Yuba County

Score: 5.8

Trust Me

Score: 5.8

The Object of My Affection

Score: 5.8

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

Score: 5.7

The Cowboy Way

Score: 5.7

Faithful

Score: 5.6

Strangers with Candy

Score: 5.6

David and Lisa

Score: 5.6

The Oranges

Score: 5.5

How to Deal

Score: 5.5

A Happening of Monumental Proportions

Score: 5.4

Tammy

Score: 5.3

Celia

Score: 5.2

Dead Funny

Score: 5.0

Who Shot Pat?

Score: 4.8

Lazy Susan

Score: 4.7

Days and Nights

Score: 4.7

Touchy Feely

Score: 4.7

Pretty Ugly People

Score: 4.3

A Girl Thing

Score: 4.2

Brightest Star

Score: 4.2

Love and Distrust

Score: 3.9

Rescuing Desire

Score: 3.3

The Roses

Score: 0.0

It's Still Me!

Score: 0.0

Backwash

Score: 0.0

Chicken Party

Score: 0.0

The Heart

Score: 0.0

Heading Home

Score: 0.0

Miss You, Love You

Score: 0.0

Flux

Score: 0.0

Everything's Going to Be Great

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The West Wing

Score: 8.3

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Score: 8.0

Lost

Score: 7.9

Phineas and Ferb

Score: 7.9

DuckTales

Score: 7.8

Frasier

Score: 7.7

Frasier

Score: 7.7

The Kominsky Method

Score: 7.5

The Diplomat

Score: 7.5

Web Therapy

Score: 7.5

Weeds

Score: 7.5

Two and a Half Men

Score: 7.5

Veep

Score: 7.4

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Family Guy

Score: 7.4

Family Guy

Score: 7.4

Family Guy

Score: 7.4

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Score: 7.4

King of the Hill

Score: 7.3

Mom

Score: 7.3

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Score: 7.1

New York Undercover

Score: 7.1

Masters of Sex

Score: 7.1

American Dad!

Score: 7.0

Saturday Night Live

Score: 6.9

The Oscars

Score: 6.9

Golden Globe Awards

Score: 6.8

Hollywood Game Night

Score: 6.7

Who Do You Think You Are?

Score: 6.6

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Score: 6.4

The Daily Show

Score: 6.4

Palm Royale

Score: 6.3

Mr. Sunshine

Score: 6.3

Aliens in the Family

Score: 6.3

Comedy Bang! Bang!

Score: 6.2

Celebrity IOU

Score: 6.1

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Score: 5.7

The Arsenio Hall Show

Score: 5.7

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Score: 5.7

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Score: 5.5

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Score: 5.5

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Score: 5.3

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Score: 5.3

Chelsea

Score: 5.2

Human Discoveries

Score: 5.2

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.1

Tony Awards

Score: 4.6

Tony Awards

Score: 4.6

Tony Awards

Score: 4.6

Intimate Portrait

Score: 4.5

The View

Score: 4.5

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Score: 4.4

The Bonnie Hunt Show

Score: 4.4

The Megan Mullally Show

Score: 4.2

Celebrity Poker Showdown

Score: 0.0

The EcoZone Project

Score: 0.0

LateLine

Score: 0.0