Allison Janney
Highest Rated: 99% Finding Nemo (2003)
Lowest Rated: 0% Days and Nights (2013)
Birthday: Nov 19, 1959
Birthplace: Dayton, Ohio, USA
After spending almost two decades struggling in regional theater, actress Allison Janney at long last became a household name playing White House press secretary C.J. Gregg on the popular and acclaimed television drama, "The West Wing" (NBC, 1999-2006). Prior to this success, Janney was a New York-based performer looking for her first big break while taking whatever role she could get her hands on. Frustrated to the point of almost quitting for good, she had her first real breakthrough with a stunning Broadway debut in Neil Coward's "Present Laughter" (1996). More Broadway success came her way the following year when she earned a Tony Award nomination for her turn in Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge" (1997). During her high-profile run on "The West Wing" - during which she netted four Emmy Awards - she managed to also find time for several well-regarded supporting turns in independent films like "The Hours" (2002) and "Winter Solstice" (2005). But it was her memorable performance as the caring, but disappointed stepmother of a pregnant teenager in "Juno" (2007) that allowed audiences to see the depth and breadth of Janney's talent in both mediums. She followed this up with her critically-acclaimed role as the matriarch of a multi-generationally dysfunctional family in the Chuck Lorre sitcom "Mom" (CBS 2013- ), in which she starred opposite Anna Faris.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Breaking News in Yuba County | Sue Buttons (Character) | - | 2021 |
| 92% | 86% | A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote | C.J. Cregg (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 10% | 50% | Lazy Susan | Velvet (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 68% | 76% | Troop Zero | Miss Massey (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Troupe Zero | Unknown (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 44% | 69% | The Addams Family | Margaux Needler (Voice) | $673K | 2019 |
| 94% | 83% | Bad Education | Pam Gluckin (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 55% | 64% | Ma | Doctor Brooks (Character) | $45.3M | 2019 |
| 69% | 84% | Bombshell | Susan Estrich (Character) | $31.7M | 2019 |
| 89% | 88% | I, Tonya | LaVona Golden (Character) | $30M | 2017 |
| 16% | 59% | A Happening of Monumental Proportions | Principal Nichols (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 80% | 71% | Sun Dogs | Rose Chipley (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 64% | 60% | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | Dr. Golan (Character) | $87.2M | 2016 |
| 85% | 69% | Tallulah | Unknown (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 44% | 48% | The Girl on the Train | Detective Riley (Character) | $75.2M | 2016 |
| 55% | 49% | Minions | Madge Nelson (Voice) | $336M | 2015 |
| 73% | 66% | The DUFF | Dottie (Character) | $34M | 2015 |
| 95% | 78% | Spy | Elaine Crocker (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 81% | 73% | Mr. Peabody & Sherman | Miss Grunion (Voice) | $111.5M | 2014 |
| 66% | 42% | The Rewrite | Mary Weldon (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 24% | 36% | Tammy | Deb (Character) | $84.5M | 2014 |
| 65% | 61% | Bad Words | Dr. Bernice Deagan (Character) | $7.8M | 2014 |
| 0% | 36% | Days and Nights | Elizabeth (Character) | $6K | 2013 |
| 84% | 84% | The Way, Way Back | Betty (Character) | $21.4M | 2013 |
| 52% | 38% | Trust Me | Meg (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 13% | 24% | Brightest Star | The Astronomer (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 40% | 22% | Touchy Feely | Bronwyn (Character) | $36K | 2013 |
| 0% | 47% | A Thousand Words | Samantha Davis (Character) | $18.4M | 2012 |
| 32% | 52% | Struck by Lightning | Sheryl Phillips (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 71% | 60% | Liberal Arts | Judith (Character) | $241.8K | 2012 |
| 76% | 89% | The Help | Charlotte Phelan (Character) | $169.7M | 2011 |
| 74% | 48% | Margaret | Monica (Character) | $46.5K | 2011 |
| 31% | 32% | The Oranges | Cathy (Character) | $319.4K | 2011 |
| 68% | 48% | Life During Wartime | Trish Maplewood (Character) | $278.8K | 2009 |
| 67% | 74% | Away We Go | Lily (Character) | $9.4M | 2009 |
| 91% | 84% | Hairspray | Prudy Pingleton (Character) | $118.8M | 2007 |
| 94% | 88% | Juno | Bren (Character) | $143.5M | 2007 |
| 75% | 71% | Over the Hedge | Gladys (Voice) | $155M | 2006 |
| 37% | 76% | The Chumscrubber | Mrs. Stiffle (Character) | $49.5K | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Piccadilly Jim | Eugenia Crocker (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Our Very Own | Joan Whitfield (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 52% | 55% | Strangers With Candy | Alice (Character) | $2.1M | 2005 |
| 60% | 43% | Winter Solstice | Molly Ripkin (Character) | $319.2K | 2004 |
| 99% | 86% | Finding Nemo | Peach (Voice) | - | 2003 |
| 27% | 64% | How to Deal | Lydia Martin (Character) | $14.1M | 2003 |
| 80% | 84% | The Hours | Sally Lester (Character) | $41.6M | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | A Girl Thing | Kathy McCormack (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 83% | 45% | Nurse Betty | Lyla Branch (Character) | $25.2M | 2000 |
| 69% | 69% | 10 Things I Hate About You | Ms. Perky (Character) | $38.2M | 1999 |
| 87% | 93% | American Beauty | Barbara Fitts (Character) | $130.1M | 1999 |
| 46% | 75% | Drop Dead Gorgeous | Loretta (Character) | $10.6M | 1999 |
| 36% | 36% | Six Days, Seven Nights | Marjorie (Character) | $74.3M | 1998 |
| 40% | 42% | Celebrity | Evelyn Isaacs (Character) | $5M | 1998 |
| 52% | 51% | The Object of My Affection | Constance Miller (Character) | $29.1M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | David and Lisa | Alix (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 81% | 64% | Primary Colors | Miss Walsh (Character) | $39M | 1998 |
| 62% | 73% | The Impostors | Maxine (Character) | $2.2M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | ...First Do No Harm | Dr. Melanie Abbasac (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Julian Po | Lilah Leech (Character) | $50.7K | 1997 |
| 75% | 68% | Private Parts | Dee Dee (Character) | $41.2M | 1997 |
| 96% | 84% | Big Night | Ann (Character) | $12M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Dead Funny | Jennifer (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heading Home | Unknown (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blind Spot | Doreen (Character) | - | 1993 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 81% | Mom | Bonnie (Character) | 2013-2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2020-2021 2018 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2020 2015-2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2011-2020 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2015-2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Entertainment Studios.TV | Guest | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | DuckTales | Goldie O'Gilt (Guest Voice) | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dish Nation | Guest | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live with Kelly and Ryan | Guest | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter | Guest | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2018 2011-2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2018 2014-2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Guest | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Chew | Guest | 2017 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Entertainment Tonight Canada | Guest | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Access Hollywood Live | Guest | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tavis Smiley | Guest | 2017 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good Morning America | Guest | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 90% | American Dad | Aunt Jesse (Guest Voice) | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 73% | No Score Yet | Nobodies | Allison Janney (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Celebrity Page | Guest | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The View | Guest | 2017 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 91% | Comedy Bang! Bang! | Guest | 2016 |
| 85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Julia (Guest Voice) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Today | Guest | 2016 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | LIVE with Kelly | Guest | 2016 |
| 41% | 61% | Chelsea | Guest | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CBS News Sunday Morning | Guest | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Meredith Vieira Show | Guest | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 34% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I'll Have What Phil's Having | Guest | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live! With Kelly and Michael | Guest | 2013-2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CBS This Morning | Guest | 2014-2015 |
| 84% | 87% | Masters of Sex | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013-2015 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Family Guy | Teen People Editor (Guest Voice) | 2015 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Soup | Unknown (Character) | 2014-2015 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Web Therapy |
Unknown (Guest Voice), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2014 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | Late Show With David Letterman | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Larry King Now | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Queen Latifah Show | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood Game Night | Contestant | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson | Guest | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Arsenio Hall Show | Guest | 2013 |
| 93% | 89% | Veep | Janet Ryland (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 91% | Robot Chicken | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2012 |
| 55% | 80% | The Big C | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gayle King Show | Guest | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Nate Berkus Show | Guest | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 99% | Mr. Sunshine | Crystal (Character) | 2011 |
| 36% | No Score Yet | Glenn Martin, DDS | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | Lost | Mother (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Plain Sight | Allison Pearson (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live With Regis and Kelly | Guest | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Phineas and Ferb | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Early Show | Guest | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bonnie Hunt Show | Guest | 2008 |
| 74% | 92% | Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | Herself (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| 65% | 65% | Two and a Half Men | Beverly (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| 75% | 95% | The West Wing | Press Secretary Claudia Jean "C.J." Cregg (Character) | 1999-2006 |
| 70% | 77% | Weeds | Ms. Greenstein (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | King of the Hill | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Guest | 2002 |
| 93% | 94% | Frasier |
Phyllis (Guest Voice), Susanna (Guest Star) |
2001-2002 |
| 91% | No Score Yet | Homicide: Life on the Street | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lateline | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cosby | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Aliens in the Family | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | New York Undercover | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 |
QUOTES FROM Allison Janney CHARACTERS
Elaine Crocker says: I must have watched this like fifteen times because what the fuck?! I almost put it up on YouTube.
Elaine Crocker says: You might as well cry directly into my mouth.
Charlotte Phelan says: You know, Hilly, if I didn't know any better, I'd say that you've been eatin' too much *pie*.
Charlotte Phelan says: Love and hate are two horns on the same goat, Eugenia. And you need a goat.
Agamemnon says: What sort of creature are you?
Ms. Grunion says: The name's Grunion!
Agamemnon says: I'm in love!
Ms. Grunion says: You haven't seen the last of me, Peabody! You'll make a mistake eventually, and when you do, I'll be there!
Charlotte Phelan says: Your eggs are dyin'. Would it kill you to go on a date?
Charlotte Phelan says: Courage sometimes skips a generation. Thank you for bringin' it back to our family.
Betty says: Where is your eye-patch?
Betty says: She called me a C U Next Tuesday! To my face! Can you believe that?
Charlotte Phelan says: (pushes Hilly off the front porch as she's talking to her) Now, you get your raggedy ass my porch. Get off my property. Go on. Before we get some disgustin' things on our lips!.
Charlotte Phelan says: Now, you get your raggedy ass my porch. Get off my property. Go on. Before we get some disgustin' things on our lips!
Charlotte Phelan says: (Sees Skeeter talking on the phone with Ms. Elaine Stain from New York City as she opens the door) Skeeter, who are you talkin' to in there.
Charlotte Phelan says: [sees Skeeter talking on the phone with Ms. Elaine Stain from New York City as she opens the door] Skeeter, who are you talkin' to in there.
Ricky Fitts says: I'm leaving.
Barbara Fitts says: Okay. Wear a raincoat.
Skeeter Phelan says: I got a job today.
Charlotte Phelan says: Where?
Skeeter Phelan says: The Jackson Journal.
Charlotte Phelan says: Great. You can write my obituary! "Charlotte Phelan, dead. Her daughter still single!"
Charlotte Phelan says: Great. You can write my obituary! 'Charlotte Phelan, dead. Her daughter still single!'
Peach the Starfish says: Find a happy place! Find a happy place!
Johnny Foote says: before we all get one of those disscusting things on our lips
Johnny Foote says: Before we all get one of those disgusting things on our lips!
Charlotte Phelan says: Before we all get one of those disgusting things on our lips!
Prudy Pingleton says: Devil's Child! (sprinkles water on Penny) Devil's Child!
Prudy Pingleton says: Devil's Child! [sprinkles water on Penny] Devil's Child!
Charlotte Phelan says: They say courage skips a generation.
Mr. Blackly says: One of these days their gonna figure out cigarettes will kill you.
Peach the Starfish says: It's a root canal, and from the looks of those x-rays, it's not going to be pretty.
Charlotte Phelan says: â??"Love and hate are two horns on the same goat, Eugenia. And you need a goat."
Charlotte Phelan says: Love and hate are two horns on the same goat, Eugenia. And you need a goat.
Charlotte Phelan says: Get yo raggedy ass off my porch
Charlotte Phelan says: Now, you get your raggedy ass off my porch.
Gladys says: There's a dead white rat on my staircase!
Gladys says: That's the...
Dwayne says: The Depelter Turbo! Prepare for a lot of stinging!
Gladys says: [Repeated line] AAAAAHH!
Gladys says: [repeated line] AAAAAHH!
Prudy Pingleton says: Penny, pray for her. [hands her a rosary] She's gonna need it...[smirks to herself]
Prudy Pingleton says: Penny, pray for her. [hands her a rosary] She's gonna need it. [smirks to herself]
Charlotte Phelan says: (To Hilly) Get your raggedy ass off my porch.
Charlotte Phelan says: [to Hilly] Get your raggedy ass off my porch.
Minny Jackson says: Love and hate are two horns on the same goat.
Charlotte Phelan says: Love and hate are two horns on the same goat.
Charlotte Phelan says: You bring courage back to this family.