Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress. In a career spanning across film, television and theatre, Janney is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, six Critics’ Choice Awards, a Golden Globe Award, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards.
Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress. In a career spanning across film, television and theatre, Janney is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, six Critics’ Choice Awards, a Golden Globe Award, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards.
Born in Boston and raised in Dayton, Ohio, Janney expected a scholarship to psychoanalysis at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts bearing in mind her graduation from Kenyon College. After years of minor and uncredited film and television appearances, Janney’s breakthrough came behind the role of C. J. Cregg in the NBC embassy drama The West Wing (1999–2006), for which she expected 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 upon the Showtime grow old drama Masters of Sex. For her portrayal of Bonnie Plunkett, a cynical recovering addict on the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2021), Janney normal six Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won twice for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
Janney made her professional stage debut when the Off-Broadway production Ladies (1989), and followed gone numerous bit parts in various thesame productions, before making her Broadway debut behind the 1996 revival of Present Laughter. She won two Drama Desk Awards and has been nominated for two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Play her work in the Broadway revival of A View from the Bridge (1997), and for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in the indigenous 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), 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). In 2017, for her portrayal of LaVona Golden in the black comedy I, Tonya, Janney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.