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.
105 movies · 61 shows
Minions & Monsters
2026·6.4
Miss You, Love You
2026·6.5
The Roses
2025·6.7
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025·5.9
Another Simple Favor
2025·5.8
True Love: Making The Creator
2023·6.3
The Creator
2023·7.0
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
2023·8.3
The People We Hate at the Wedding
2022·6.3
Minions & More 2
2022·7.4
To Leslie
2022·7.0
Lou
2022·6.5
Still Working 9 to 5
2022·10.0
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021·5.9
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
2020·7.9
Lazy Susan
2020·4.5
Bombshell
2019·6.8
Expedition Amelia
2019·6.7
The Addams Family
2019·6.6
Bad Education
2019·6.7
Ma
2019·5.8
Troop Zero
2019·7.0
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018·5.4
The Night Is Young
2018·6.9
I, Tonya
2017·7.5
Sun Dogs
2017·6.6
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
2017·5.3
The Girl on the Train
2016·6.4
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016·6.8
Finding Dory
2016·7.0
Tallulah
2016·6.7
Binky Nelson Unpacified
2015·6.2
Minions
2015·6.4
Spy
2015·6.8
The DUFF
2015·6.8
Days and Nights
2014·4.5
Get On Up
2014·6.8
Tammy
2014·5.3
The Rewrite
2014·6.0
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
2014·6.7
Brightest Star
2013·4.3
Touchy Feely
2013·4.7
Bad Words
2013·6.4
Struck by Lightning
2013·6.2
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013·6.6
The Way Way Back
2013·7.1
Trust Me
2013·5.8
Celia
2012·5.2
Liberal Arts
2012·6.5
A Thousand Words
2012·6.1
Margaret
2011·6.4
The Oranges
2011·5.5
The Help
2011·8.2
Love and Distrust
2010·3.8
Life During Wartime
2010·5.9
Away We Go
2009·6.7
It's Still Me!
2009·0.0
Prop 8: The Musical
2008·6.9
Pretty Ugly People
2008·4.3
Juno
2007·7.1
You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of "Hairspray"
2007·6.0
It's 'Hairspray'!
2007·0.0
Hairspray
2007·6.7
Strangers with Candy
2006·5.7
Over the Hedge
2006·6.6
Our Very Own
2005·6.2
The Chumscrubber
2005·6.5
Piccadilly Jim
2004·6.6
Winter Solstice
2004·5.9
Chicken Party
2003·8.0
How to Deal
2003·5.5
Finding Nemo
2003·7.8
The Hours
2002·7.3
Rooftop Kisses
2002·7.5
Nurse Betty
2000·6.1
Auto Motives
2000·6.0
American Beauty
1999·8.0
The Debtors
1999·4.3
Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999·6.5
10 Things I Hate About You
1999·7.6
David and Lisa
1998·6.0
The Impostors
1998·5.9
Celebrity
1998·6.0
Six Days Seven Nights
1998·6.1
The Object of My Affection
1998·5.8
Primary Colors
1998·6.3
The Ice Storm
1997·6.9
Julian Po
1997·6.5
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
1997·6.3
Private Parts
1997·6.5
...First Do No Harm
1997·6.9
Anita Liberty
1997·8.0
The Associate
1996·6.3
Big Night
1996·7.0
Walking and Talking
1996·6.1
Rescuing Desire
1996·3.8
Faithful
1996·5.5
Flux
1996·9.0
Heading Home
1995·10.0
Miracle on 34th Street
1994·6.8
Wolf
1994·6.1
The Cowboy Way
1994·5.7
Dead Funny
1994·6.0
Blind Spot
1993·6.2
Who Shot Pat?
1989·4.6