Allison Janney
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1959-11-19
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.
Also Known For
Finding Nemo
May 30, 2003
American Beauty
Sep 15, 1999
The Hours
Dec 27, 2002
Prop 8: The Musical
Dec 03, 2008
Wolf
Jun 17, 1994
Hairspray
Jul 19, 2007
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Jul 23, 1999
10 Things I Hate About You
Mar 30, 1999
The Associate
Oct 25, 1996
Juno
Dec 05, 2007
Six Days Seven Nights
Jun 12, 1998
Over the Hedge
May 17, 2006
Pretty Ugly People
Nov 14, 2008
Primary Colors
Mar 20, 1998
Celebrity
Sep 07, 1998
...First Do No Harm
Feb 16, 1997
Strangers with Candy
Jun 28, 2006
The Chumscrubber
Jun 08, 2005
Margaret
Sep 30, 2011
How to Deal
Jul 18, 2003
Walking and Talking
Jul 17, 1996
The Object of My Affection
Apr 17, 1998
Life During Wartime
Apr 16, 2010
Everything's Going to Be Great
Jun 20, 2025
The Creator
Sep 27, 2023
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Apr 26, 2023
Big Night
Sep 20, 1996
The Help
Aug 09, 2011
Away We Go
Jun 05, 2009
Winter Solstice
Jan 29, 2004
A Thousand Words
Mar 07, 2012
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Feb 07, 2014
Our Very Own
Jun 22, 2005
Liberal Arts
Sep 14, 2012
Struck by Lightning
Jun 19, 2013
Julian Po
Sep 05, 1997
The Oranges
Sep 09, 2011
Touchy Feely
Sep 06, 2013
The Way Way Back
Jun 06, 2013
Trust Me
Apr 20, 2013
Bad Words
Sep 06, 2013
Anita Liberty
Jan 18, 1997
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Jun 19, 2013
Tammy
Jul 02, 2014
Brightest Star
Oct 26, 2013
Days and Nights
Sep 26, 2014
Spy
May 06, 2015
True Love: Making The Creator
Nov 14, 2023
The Rewrite
Jun 15, 2014
Faithful
Apr 03, 1996
Flux
Jan 01, 1996
Dead Funny
May 21, 1994
The DUFF
Feb 20, 2015
Miss You, Love You
Get on Up
Aug 01, 2014
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Sep 27, 2016
Minions & More Volume 2
Nov 08, 2022
Celia
Oct 26, 2012
Minions
Jun 17, 2015
Tallulah
Jun 02, 2016
Another Simple Favor
Mar 07, 2025
Binky Nelson Unpacified
Nov 04, 2015
The Impostors
Oct 02, 1998
David and Lisa
Nov 01, 1998
The Girl on the Train
Oct 05, 2016
The Cowboy Way
Jun 03, 1994
Finding Dory
Jun 16, 2016
Sun Dogs
Jun 18, 2017
Nurse Betty
Aug 30, 2000
Rooftop Kisses
Jun 23, 2002
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
May 05, 2017
The Night Is Young
Jan 24, 2018
I, Tonya
Dec 07, 2017
Private Parts
Mar 07, 1997
Who Shot Pat?
Aug 01, 1989
Piccadilly Jim
Nov 01, 2004
The Addams Family
Oct 10, 2019
Troop Zero
Feb 01, 2019
Bad Education
Sep 08, 2019
The Ice Storm
Sep 27, 1997
Bombshell
Dec 13, 2019
Breaking News in Yuba County
Jan 28, 2021
Miracle on 34th Street
Nov 18, 1994
A Girl Thing
Jan 19, 2001
Heading Home
Apr 08, 1995
Ma
May 29, 2019
Expedition Amelia
Oct 20, 2019
The Heart
Blind Spot
May 02, 1993
Rescuing Desire
May 14, 1996
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
Jun 14, 1997
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Aug 21, 2018
Lazy Susan
Apr 03, 2020
Lou
Sep 23, 2022
Chicken Party
Oct 14, 2003
Love and Distrust
Aug 16, 2010
Backwash
Nov 15, 2010
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Oct 15, 2020
The People We Hate at the Wedding
Nov 17, 2022
It's Still Me!
Jan 01, 2009
To Leslie
Oct 07, 2022
Still Working 9 to 5
Mar 13, 2022
The Roses
Aug 27, 2025
Weeds
Aug 07, 2005
Law & Order
Sep 13, 1990
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Sep 18, 2006
King of the Hill
Jan 12, 1997
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Two and a Half Men
Sep 22, 2003
Human Discoveries
Jul 16, 2019
LateLine
Mar 17, 1998
Frasier
Sep 16, 1993
New York Undercover
Sep 08, 1994
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
Aliens in the Family
Mar 15, 1996
The EcoZone Project
Apr 21, 2007
Mr. Sunshine
Feb 09, 2011
Mom
Sep 23, 2013
The Bonnie Hunt Show
Sep 08, 2008
The West Wing
Sep 22, 1999
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
Comedy Bang! Bang!
Jun 08, 2012
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Aug 02, 2015
Chelsea
May 11, 2016
Intimate Portrait
Nov 14, 1993
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Mar 23, 2015
Frasier
Sep 16, 1993
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Mar 23, 2015
Phineas and Ferb
Aug 17, 2007
Palm Royale
Mar 19, 2024
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Law & Order
Sep 13, 1990
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003
Hollywood Game Night
Jul 11, 2013
Celebrity Poker Showdown
Dec 02, 2003
DuckTales
Aug 12, 2017
Web Therapy
Sep 22, 2008
Masters of Sex
Sep 29, 2013
Who Do You Think You Are?
Mar 05, 2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
The Arsenio Hall Show
Sep 09, 2013
Veep
Apr 22, 2012
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Oct 15, 2000
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
The Kominsky Method
Nov 16, 2018
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
American Dad!
Feb 06, 2005
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Lost
Sep 22, 2004
Celebrity IOU
Apr 13, 2020
The Megan Mullally Show
Sep 18, 2006
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
The Diplomat
Apr 20, 2023
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Web Therapy
Jul 19, 2011
