Allison Janney
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.
167 acting credits
Acting · 167
Law & Order
1990
The Simpsons
1989
Family Guy
1999
The Daily Show
1996
American Dad!
2005
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Two and a Half Men
2003
Lost
2004
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
Frasier
1993
The West Wing
1999
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
King of the Hill
1997
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Phineas and Ferb
2007
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The View
1997
Mom
2013
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Weeds
2005
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Masters of Sex
2013
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Tony Awards
1956
Veep
2012
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
DuckTales
2017
The Diplomat
2023
New York Undercover
1994
The Soup
2004
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Oscars
1953
Comedy Bang! Bang!
2012
Finding Nemo
2003
People's Choice Awards
1975
In Plain Sight
2008
Chelsea
2016
10 Things I Hate About You
1999
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
2006
Palm Royale
2024
The Creator
2023
The Bonnie Hunt Show
2008
The Help
2011
Hollywood Game Night
2013
American Beauty
1999
Minions & Monsters
2026
Over the Hedge
2006
The Kominsky Method
2018
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016
Minions
2015
Web Therapy
2008
Spy
2015
The Megan Mullally Show
2006
Web Therapy
2011
Celebrity IOU
2020
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
Finding Dory
2016
The Girl on the Train
2016
Mr. Sunshine
2011
Another Simple Favor
2025
The Arsenio Hall Show
2013
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
1995
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
2014
The Dog Stars
2026
LateLine
1998
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
2022
I, Tonya
2017
Juno
2007
Ma
2019
The Roses
2025
Minions & More 2
2022
The Ice Storm
1997
Bombshell
2019
Hairspray
2007
A Thousand Words
2012
The Addams Family
2019
The DUFF
2015
Celebrity Poker Showdown
2003
Aliens in the Family
1996
Six Days Seven Nights
1998
Human Discoveries
2019
The Hours
2002
Wolf
1994
Lou
2022
Tammy
2014
Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999
The Way Way Back
2013
Margaret
2011
Miracle on 34th Street
1994
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
The Object of My Affection
1998
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021
Nurse Betty
2000
Bad Education
2019
Get On Up
2014
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
Primary Colors
1998
The Rewrite
2014
The People We Hate at the Wedding
2022
Celebrity
1998
Private Parts
1997
Troop Zero
2019
The Cowboy Way
1994
Big Night
1996
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
2020
The Associate
1996
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
2017
The Oranges
2011
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
2023
Bad Words
2013
A Girl Thing
2001
Away We Go
2009
Liberal Arts
2012
Strangers with Candy
2006
Faithful
1996
To Leslie
2022
Love and Distrust
2010
The Chumscrubber
2005
Miss You, Love You
2026
Trust Me
2013
Dead Funny
1994
Sun Dogs
2017
How to Deal
2003
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
1997
Struck by Lightning
2013
Tallulah
2016
Life During Wartime
2010
True Love: Making The Creator
2023
The Impostors
1998
Days and Nights
2014
Lazy Susan
2020
Pretty Ugly People
2008
The Night Is Young
2018
Blind Spot
1993
Touchy Feely
2013
Prop 8: The Musical
2008
...First Do No Harm
1997
Piccadilly Jim
2004
Winter Solstice
2004
Still Working 9 to 5
2022
Walking and Talking
1996
Rescuing Desire
1996
The EcoZone Project
2007
Julian Po
1997
David and Lisa
1998
Binky Nelson Unpacified
2015
Anita Liberty
1997
Fonda
—
The Debtors
1999
Expedition Amelia
2019
Who Shot Pat?
1989
Auto Motives
2000
Chicken Party
2003
Celia
2012
Our Very Own
2005
Heading Home
1995
The Heart
—
Rooftop Kisses
2002
Brightest Star
2013
Flux
1996
It's Still Me!
2009