Creator / Allison Janney

Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American film, television and theater actor best known for her role as White House Press Secretary/Chief of Staff Claudia Jean "C.J." Cregg on the critically acclaimed Aaron Sorkin drama The West Wing. As the "Queen of the West Wing", she appeared in more episodes than any other character in show history, missing only one.

Janney brought home four Emmy awards for her work on the show. Nominated almost every year - for Supporting Actress in 2000 and 2001, winning both, and Lead Actress in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2006, winning in 2002 and 2004 - she brought home more Emmys than any other member of the cast, none of whom won more than once. She also won two Screen Actors' Guild awards (2001 and 2002) and was nominated for four Golden Globes for the role.

Since The West Wing's finale, she has been very active in theatre, starring in the hit musical 9 to 5 on Broadway and earning a Tony nomination in the process. She has also been a semi-regular on the silver screen throughout her career. Her other television credits include Lost, Guiding Light, Weeds, Law & Order, In Plain Sight, Phineas and Ferb, DuckTales (2017), and Frasier. Film credits include 10 Things I Hate About You, American Beauty, Juno, Hairspray (2007), Finding Nemo, Primary Colors, Struck by Lighting, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an Academy Award-winning turn in 2017's I, Tonya as figure skater Tonya Harding's infamously abusive mother, and The Creator.

Janney also starred on the Chuck Lorre sitcom Mom as Bonnie Plunkett and the Showtime drama Masters of Sex as Margaret Scully, and won Emmys for both roles in 2014, leaving her just one shy of Cloris Leachman and Julia Louis-Dreyfus's records of eight wins as a performer. On receiving the latter, she thanked the crew member who gave her some bourbon before a sex scene.

An honest six feet tall, she is indubitably a Statuesque Stunner.

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Filmography:

Television

• Law & Order (1992, 1994) as Nora, Ann Madsen
• Guiding Light (1993-1995) as Ginger
• The West Wing (1999-2006, 2020) as Claudia Jean "C.J." Cregg
• Phineas and Ferb (2008-2013) as Charlene Doofenshmirtz
• Lost (2010) as "Mother"
• In Plain Sight (2010) as Allison Pearson
• Masters of Sex (2013-2015) as Margaret Scully
• Mom (2013-2021) as Bonnie Plunkett
• DuckTales (2018-2020) as Goldie O'Gilt

Films

• 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) as Ms. Perky
• Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) as Loretta
• American Beauty (1999) as Barbara Fitts
• The Hours (2002) as Sally Lester
• Finding Nemo (2003) as Peach
  • Finding Dory (2016)
• Over the Hedge (2006) as Gladys Sharp
• Hairspray (2007) as Prudy Pingleton
• Juno as Brenda MacGuff
• The Help (2011) as Charlotte Phelan
• Struck by Lighting (2012) as Sheryl Phillips
• Liberal Arts (2012) as Prof. Judith Fairfield
• The Way, Way Back (2012) as Betty Thompson
• Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) as Mrs. Grunion
• The Rewrite (2014) as Prof. Mary Weldon
• Get On Up (2014) as Kathy
• The DUFF (2015) as Dottie Piper
• Spy (2015) as Elaine Crocker
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) as Dr. Nancy Golan / Mr. Barron
• The Girl on the Train (2016) as Det. Riley
• I, Tonya (2017) as LaVona Golden
• Troop Zero (2019) as Ms. Massey
• Ma (2019) as Dr. Brooks
• Bad Education (2019) as Pamela Gluckin
• The Addams Family (2019) as Margaux Needler
• Bombshell (2019) as Susan Estrich
• To Leslie (2022) as Nancy
• The Creator (2023) as Col. Howell